Aleksey P
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Aleksey P
Increasing ugliness isn’t just an aesthetic issue.
“For two hundred and fifty years, the machine has been replacing Man and destroying the handcraftsman. Pottery is spewed out of molds and presses. Works of art have been replaced by identical gimcracks stamped out on a die. Call it progress, if you wish! The artist is restricted to abstractions, confined to the world of ideas. He must design
... See moreIn Copenhagen on June 7, 1991, NATO passed a resolution declaring they would neither attempt to gain one sided advantage from the changing situation in Europe nor draw new dividing lines in the continent.
“The problems of “art” as architectural aspiration comes down to these:
Art is proudly non-functional and impractical.
Art reveres the new and despises the conventional.
Architectural art sells at a distance.
Architect Peter Calthorpe maintains that many of the follies of his profession would vanish if architects simply decided that what they do is
... See more"The Big Bang may have been a large cosmic rebound (or "Big Bounce"), in which a contracting universe reaches the maximum density allowed by the quanta, then rebounds and begins to expand. In the case of a black hole, it is just the star rather than the entire universe that bounces, but the physics is similar: at extremely high density the quanta
... See more“All things originate from one another, and vanish into one another according to necessity; they give to each other justice and recompense for injustice in conformity with the order of Time.”
Anaximander
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