“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Architectural Sectioning and Hyperobjects


St. Paul's Cathedral London

Carl Douglas just pointed out to me that a human perception of a hyperobject was akin to sectioning technique in architectural drawing. That's a great analogy. Since hyperobjects occupy a higher dimensional phase space than is visible to us, we can only experience somewhat constrained slices of them at any one time.

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