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Category: philosophy

Language embodies imagination

March 10, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Language embodies imagination; its diastole and systole, its expansion and constriction. Our proclivity for constricting imagination by turning everything into…

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architecture’s geometric imagination: mathematics and embodiment

February 2, 2019 Robert

The world imagined as a three-dimensional Cartesian grid maps an alien and alienating landscape under one condition: that we take…

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when a metaphor runs wild

January 28, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Be aware: some metaphors are a force of nature. A metaphor, charged with numinous force can spread like wildfire until…

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nothing as something

June 16, 2018 Robert

(or “thoughts about nothing”) For Paul, Jennifer, David and Johnny            How can we say anything about nothing… unless nothing is…

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love, freedom and creation

February 28, 2015 Robert 1 Comment

What if we are so much of creation that the gift of free will, given in love, had consequences for…

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mind and nature

January 2, 2013 Robert Leave a comment

In abstracting we imagine ourselves as outside of nature looking in and Forgetting the “as” we are left alienated and…

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