Vitruvius — the Roman architect and engineer of the 1st century BCE — outlined Six Principles of Architecture (architecturae principia sex) in De Architectura (Book I, Chapter 2). These six ideas became the foundation of Western architectural theory. Here’s a structured overview: — Vitruvius’ Six Principles of Architecture Latin Term English Translation Core Meaning Example …
Today, I was working on a call for submissions by a set of eminent curators, to submit an artwork that may be selected in an art festival that will be happening on the west coast of India in December. While researching the cultural elements that will be important for artwork submissions, I looked up caravels …
Feldenkrais method is a somatic method, but different from Yoga Nidra or NSDR
“I don’t want to be a cyborg or haunting alien; I’m barely scraping by in this human form. I can’t follow artists into the imaginary while real war rages across every sector – military, ideological, economic, symbolic. Yet the speculative futurist, whose subject and medium revolves around the very technology that has transformed society for …
hi! there is a reference to immanuel kant’s categorical imperative in jesse armstrong’s mountainhead. was the reference philosophically correct, uttered by the character played by steve carrel. please elucidate. ChatGPT said: In Mountainhead, Randall Garrett—Steve Carell’s character—makes a dramatic declaration: “I take Kant really f‑ing seriously!” This is triggered when his understanding of categorical morality is …
Alf Ludtke, what is the history of everyday life and who are its practitioners
ChatGPT said… Delighted you asked—John Schad is one of the most distinctive practitioners of what we might call literary-critical theory fiction in the UK. His work occupies a liminal space between criticism, fiction, memoir, and performance, making it a rich site for thinking through the potentials of theory fiction—especially in relation to modernism, deconstruction, and …
The curiosity about what is cannibal about cannibal metaphysics led me to go through a book review of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s Cannibal Metaphysics. While going through the book review, it felt like a Brazilian version of post-colonialism. Non-western systems of knowledge have to be given equal valence. This book is not directly linked to …
