At the other hand, an anthropologist comparing art of various tribes and societies once decided that his best definition of art was 'things made special'. Maybe TS really goes beyond art when she doesn't want to make anything special. Maybe what she does is closer to tradition or conversation.
I'm also baffled, I listen and there is just nothing there. I also don't understand how her 'candor' is supposed to 'bypass the art thing', since authenticity and simplicity have long been recognized as qualities in art.
One reason why it is hard to explain the flaws of capitalism is that it is an accumulation of thousands of small injustices. There are so many small advantages and disadvantages in life that for most people it seems to average out. 'Yeah, we all have to deal with that.' But it does not average out.
In my part of the city al health facilities are in the ugliest buildings as well. So when people are most vulnerable and most in need of consolation, they are send to the most hopeless, cold, sterile structures, as if their illness is a crime that makes them deserving of even more misery.
It may be a healing center but I find it depressing. I think all modernist flat roofs look depressing. The variation in the facade is just the minimum to avoid the criticism of being boring but it is not designed to actually give maximum joy. Nowhere does this building dance, smile or make a joke.
Ik denk dat Europa en partners bezig zijn met een soort back up systeem voor de NAVO en dat dat tijd en geld kost. Tot die tijd willen de landen Trump en de VS te vriend houden.
Should be obvious that the ornamental variation in the bricks in the houses left and right is more pleasant to look at. Minimalism seems to be the only religion that doesn't offer hope or consolation.
Een alternatief voor testen op een kleine groep mensen is het basisinkomen invoeren voor iedereen, maar te beginnen met een klein bedrag, bijvoorbeeld 50 euro per maand en dat geleidelijk verhogen. Het voordeel is dat je dan veilig de complexiteit van de uitvoering en de effecten kan testen.
I see no proof for the existence of God and life seems too cruel to be created by a loving God, but people do pay to watch hideous horror movies, to cry and scream about things on a 2D plane, so it is possible that God shakes his head while souls line up to experience the horrors of earth up close.
I don't know what is missing, that is why it is called the hard problem. It seems my whole body mind machine, including representations, could, should function without my awareness, yet here I am.
That doesn't explain when a nerve signal becomes a subjective feeling and when a simple map like a robot can have (a representation) becomes consciousness. It looks like all the technical requirements for feeling and representing don't need to produce subjective experience, but we still have it
I didn't know this: sometimes Velazquez signed his paintings with a white piece of paper, signalling that his style and mastery made it clear enough who was the painter
Ik heb niet zo veel met nationale trots en vlaggen. We zijn de VS niet en dat moeten we ook niet willen zijn. Elke keer dat je toegeeft aan de nationalistische trend maak je hem erger. Dit is de VVD methode: proberen extreem rechts met hun middelen te verslaan. Maar je verslaat ze niet, je wordt ze.
'Wonen is duur, daaraan kan geen politieke visie iets veranderen.' Dat is zijn stokpaardje. Maar als je grond en huizen uit de markt haalt blijven alleen bouwkosten en onderhoudskosten over en die zijn niet hoog. Nederland staat vol tweedehandshuizen waarvan de bouwkosten al lang zijn afbetaald.
'Zo kost een bouwprogramma van meer dan 70.000 woningen tenminste 20 miljard euro per jaar. De overheid kan dat niet betalen.' Nou, afschaffen hra levert al tien miljard op. De miljarden stromen ook rijkelijk voor boeren en tata steel. Dus waarom niet voor woningbouw?
Well entirely unnecessary... I think most psychologists agree that joy has a reward function for survival and procreation. But I agree there are emergent forms of joy that are unnecessary and that is great
Het was wel een slachting van onschuldige burgers. Niet goed te praten. Net zoals de misdaden van Israel sinds 1948 niet goed te praten zijn. De ene misdaad maakt de andere niet goed.
explode and the art becomes less about creating deviations but directing them like a gardener, mostly based on intuition because it is impossible to keep track of the explosion of relations between the elements. This is the function of style. But style should manage the explosion, not kill it.
contrast with a rich environment, as a deviation itself, eg a minimalist villa in the chaotic shapes of nature. But even there you quickly get the feeling you have seen everything about the building in a glance. When a building becomes more complex, the possible relations between the elements
This is also why reducing to the essence (abstraction, minimalism) generally has poor results. Minimalism creates more predictability and less surprises, less opportunities for deviation. Even though I'm a believer in quality, there is a quality in quantity. Minimalism itself also works best in
