Comments on: Image and Text http://katienbici.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/image-and-text/ Books, Bikes, Food and Photos Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:20:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jonathan Jarrett http://katienbici.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/image-and-text/#comment-46 Jonathan Jarrett Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:18:44 +0000 http://katienbici.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/image-and-text/#comment-46 As a result of the Carnival link I wind up seeing this post, and agree that it's interesting—and the Xu Bing banners are great. The Book from the Ground project seems to be trying to hit what Eliot called the <a href="http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Objective_Correlative.pdf" rel="nofollow">'objective correlative'</a> and though I don't think I've ever believed in it as strongly as he did at the very least there is a case to answer, but I think you are right that it is fundamentally based in shared cultural assumptions which greater awareness of other world semantic systems has taught us to doubt. At bottom then we're hitting questions of whether there is anything unifyingly human other than biological taxonomy. Which is too heavy for this time of day :-) As a result of the Carnival link I wind up seeing this post, and agree that it’s interesting—and the Xu Bing banners are great. The Book from the Ground project seems to be trying to hit what Eliot called the ‘objective correlative’ and though I don’t think I’ve ever believed in it as strongly as he did at the very least there is a case to answer, but I think you are right that it is fundamentally based in shared cultural assumptions which greater awareness of other world semantic systems has taught us to doubt. At bottom then we’re hitting questions of whether there is anything unifyingly human other than biological taxonomy. Which is too heavy for this time of day :-)

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