Meaning and Pointing
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Meaning and Pointing
In The Image of the City (1960), Lynch identified the crucial role of the sense of place that ‘in itself enhances every human activity that occurs there and encourages the deposit of a memory trace’. This separation of ‘place’ in spirit and idea could, he argued, be differentiated physically and conceptually, as in edge, path, node, district and la... See more
Gillian Darley • How Gaston Bachelard gave the emotions of home a philosophy | Aeon Essays
Andrei Stoica added
There is much disagreement between memetic tribes, but one thing they share is a penchant for constructing maps of reality, and convincing others that these maps show the world how it truly is. Often these maps become realities in themselves, and trap us in rigid, narrow ways of perceiving that keep us lost.
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
Stuart Evans added
it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one’s own unique perspective. It doesn’t matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneously discovering and creating “yourself,”
... See moreare.na • On Motivation
Keely Adler added
This got me thinking that, ultimately, it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one's own unique perspective. It doesn't matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneous... See more
Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
gabriel added
A nodal point could also be a person, it could be a friend, or a place, or just an idea…
The successful navigation of such a city is dependent upon the composition of a mental map, which can be transposed upon its physical layout,
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
because the straight-edged organization of our cities and towns—as well as many aspects of our daily lives—tends to mirror our perceptual maps, urban life may magnify the boundaries that keep us in a state of separateness.
Benjamin Zander • The Art of Possibility
Behavioral “centers” are the things that feel most like reflections of your own self, that seem to connect effortlessly to the underlying wholeness in your life. The most important ones tend to have old roots. If there is too much mess around you to see any structure, you can at least observe the pattern of your own soul, which is axiomatically not... See more
Ribbon Farm • Deep Laziness
Keely Adler added