The Topological Imagination
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Author |
: Angus Fletcher |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2016-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674968868 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674968867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Topological Imagination by : Angus Fletcher
Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two commonly opposed domains, literature and mathematics, Angus Fletcher maps the imagination’s ever-ramifying contours and dimensions, and along the way compels us to re-envision our human existence on the most unusual sphere ever imagined, Earth. Words and numbers are the twin powers that create value in our world. Poetry and other forms of creative literature stretch our ability to evaluate through the use of metaphors. In this sense, the literary imagination aligns with topology, the branch of mathematics that studies shape and space. Topology grasps the quality of geometries rather than their quantifiable measurements. It envisions how shapes can be bent, twisted, or stretched without losing contact with their original forms—one of the discoveries of the eighteenth-century mathematician Leonhard Euler, whose Polyhedron Theorem demonstrated how shapes preserve “permanence in change,” like an aging though familiar face. The mysterious dimensionality of our existence, Fletcher says, is connected to our inhabiting a world that also inhabits us. Theories of cyclical history reflect circulatory biological patterns; the day-night cycle shapes our adaptive, emergent patterns of thought; the topology of islands shapes the evolution of evolutionary theory. Connecting literature, philosophy, mathematics, and science, The Topological Imagination is an urgent and transformative work, and a profound invitation to thought.
Author |
: Dennis L Sepper |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 845 |
Release |
: 2013-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400765078 |
ISBN-13 |
: 940076507X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Imagination by : Dennis L Sepper
This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances. It shows how this framework was progressively developed by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, and how it is reflected in more recent developments in theorists as different as Peirce, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Bachelard. The conceptual topology of imagination incorporates logic, mathematics, and science as well as production, play, and art. Recognizing this topology can move us past the confusions to a unifying view of imagination for the future.
Author |
: Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA |
Publisher |
: Sydney University Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2020-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781743326947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1743326947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gerald Murnane by : Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work.
Author |
: Angus FLETCHER |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674037014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674037014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Theory for American Poetry by : Angus FLETCHER
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
Author |
: Erika Fischer-Lichte |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2013-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136210273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113621027X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performance and the Politics of Space by : Erika Fischer-Lichte
From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place; it asks under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book approaches this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space in both theatre history and contemporary performance, the volume responds to the so-called spatial turn in cultural and historical studies, and questions a politics of aesthetics that is discussed in continental philosophy. The book visits different levels and linkages between aesthetic theory and geography, art and sociology, architecture and political theory, and geometry and history, shedding new light on theatre, politics, and space, thereby transforming this historically intertwined triad into a transdisciplinary theme.
Author |
: Victoria Coldham-Fussell |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 744 |
Release |
: 2022-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000522105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000522105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Arthurian World by : Victoria Coldham-Fussell
This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes, taking instead a transversal perspective on the Arthurian narrative. Together, its thirty-four chapters explore the continuities that make the material recognizable from one century to another, as well as transformations specific to particular times and places, revealing the astonishing variety of adaptations that have made the Arthurian story popular in large parts of the world. Divided into four parts—The World of Arthur in the British Isles, The European World of Arthur, The Material World of Arthur, and The Transversal World of Arthur — the volume tracks the legend’s movement across temporal, geographical, and material boundaries. Broadly chronological, each part views the unfolding Arthurian story through its own lens, while temporal and geographical overlaps between the sections underscore the proximity of these developments in the legend’s history. Ranging from early Latin chronicles and Welsh poetry to twenty-first century anime and political conspiracies, this comprehensive and illuminating book will be of interest to anyone researching Arthurian literature or tracing the evolution of medievalism through literature, the visual arts, and popular culture.
Author |
: Gabriele Lolli |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2014-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319104348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319104349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Logic to Practice by : Gabriele Lolli
This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly intensive activity in the philosophy of mathematics is underway, due on the one hand to the disillusionment with respect to traditional answers, on the other to exciting new features of present day mathematics. The book explains how the problem of applicability once again plays a central role in the development of mathematics. It examines how new languages different from the logical ones (mostly figural), are recognized as valid and experimented with and how unifying concepts (structure, category, set) are in competition for those who look at this form of unification. It further shows that traditional philosophies, such as constructivism, while still lively, are no longer only philosophies, but guidelines for research. Finally, the book demonstrates that the search for and validation of new axioms is analyzed with a blend of mathematical historical, philosophical, psychological considerations.
Author |
: Miguel Tamen |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2012-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674067950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674067959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books by : Miguel Tamen
This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
Author |
: Matthias Middell |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2019-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110639414 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110639416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spatial Formats under the Global Condition by : Matthias Middell
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness.
Author |
: Lu Pan |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2021-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811596742 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811596743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Image, Imagination and Imaginarium by : Lu Pan
This book explores five cases of monument and public commemorative space related to World War II (WWII) in contemporary China (Mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were built either prior to or right after the end of the War and their physical existence still remains. Through the study on the monuments, the project illustrates past and ongoing controversies and contestations over Chinese nation, sovereignty, modernism and identity. Despite their historical affinities, the three societies in question, namely, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, vary in their own ways of telling, remembering and forgetting WWII. These divergences are not only rooted in their different political circumstances and social experiences, but also in their current competitions, confrontations and integrations. This book will be of great interest to historians, sinologists and analysts of new Asian nationalism.