☛ Berberian Sound Studio by Peter Strickland, United Kingdom, 2012 (IMDb). Still @ 01h 20m. In his Prolegomena (Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können, 1783), Kant wrote of analogies: Such a cognition is one of analogy, and does not signify (as is commonly understood) an imperfect similarity of two […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on January 20, 2014 ― Published in Art, Movies | Tagged: 35mm, analogy, fiction, Foucault, Kant, reality, sound
☛ 50 Watts: “Figure 19.3 The functioning of the eye in many ways can be compared to that of a camera”, illustration by Paul Slick, from Life and Health published by Communications Research Machines in 1972. 50 Watts, previously known as A Journey Round My Skull is Will Schofield’s richly and well curated space about […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on July 13, 2011 ― Published in Art, Technology | Tagged: 50 Watts, analogy, body, camera, eye, metaphor, psychedelic, Will Scofield
Public discourse about crime is saturated with metaphor. Increases in the prevalence of crime are described as crime waves, surges or sprees. A spreading crime problem is a crime epidemic, plaguing a city or infecting a community. Crimes themselves are attacks in which criminals prey on unsuspecting victims. And criminal investigations are hunts where criminals […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on May 25, 2011 ― Published in Communication, Technology | Tagged: analogy, computer, crime, epistemology, knowledge, language, media, metaphor, model
☛ Ross Zietz photostream on Flickr: “Life is Like a Box of Terrible Analogies” (slogan by Lawrence Pernica). © 2011 Ross Zietz …and if somebody asks “What’s a bad analogy?,” one can always answer “A bad analogy is like…”. Ross Zietz is a designer and an art director at Threadless. From what I understand, Lawrence […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on May 19, 2011 ― Published in Communication | Tagged: analogy, epistemology, fiction, humor, metaphor, representation, science