2008:07:30
Art Criticism
Had to list Oblio's Cap on a resume because my contact saw the last post and got a little worried. Bummer, but understandable. I've let this set without explanation long enough, I guess I can put up the following disclaimer, from Wikipedia
The Swastika is one of the 108 symbols of Lord Vishnu and represents the sun's rays, without which there would be no life.
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2008:03:14
Art
"Tolerance Test" - Robert Link, 2008. Electronic file, created in Adobe Illustrator, modified for web with Adobe Photoshop.
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2008:02:12
Toward A Philosophy of Language
A recent discussion helped clarify some of the foundational observations on which I rest much of my thinking about language.
Words don't mean, people do.
People make noises.
People hear noises they and other people make.
People respond to what they hear.
People gesture.
People see gestures they and other people make.
People respond to what they see.
People make marks.
People see marks they and other people make.
People respond to what they see.
"Language" is, generally, a reified subset of the noise, gestures, and marks people see and hear.
Discussion of "language" which strays too far from the basic observations is suspect.
It is this last piece that sets me apart from the mainstream, for there is nothing controversial about the rest (outside of those circles which have reified the domain so completely that they cannot undo their construction.) Keeping the above in mind means constantly taking conversations about language with a grain of salt, at lest to the extent that such languages rely on traditional distinctions and nomenclature which all presupposes acceptance of the reified domain.
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