Week 1
For the first week, I classified the category by analyzing the similarities and differences of these 3d models in different ways.
After discussing in my group, I decided to choose the topic of virtual and reality.
-Find the purpose of this website: why people buy theses fake models?
-Zoom in details of the texture, to compare or to generate.
-Add some true profiles, and make a true or fake catalogue
Week 2
But when I saw the supermarket flyer, I realized the picture on it wasn’t as real as I thought it would be.
References for writing
Foucault, Michel. “Preface.” In Order of Things, An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Vintage Books, 1994.
Page 5
“No gaze is stable, or rather, in the neutral furrow of the gaze piercing at a right angle through the canvas, subject and object, the spectator and the model reverse their roles to infinity.”
“Seen or seeing? The painter is observing a place which, from moment to moment, never ceases to change its content, its form, its face, its identity.”
Page 9
“The mirror provides a metathesis of visibility that affects both the space represented in the picture and its nature as representation; it allows us to see, in the centre if the canvas, what in the painting is of necessity doubly invisible.”
“The image should stand out of the frame.”
Page xvii
“We are all familiar with the disconcerting effect of the proximity of extremes, or, quite simply, with the sudden vicinity of things that have no relation to each other; the mere act of enumeration that heaps them all together has a power of enchantment all its own.”
Page xviii
“The central category of animals “included in the present classification”, with its explicit reference to paradoxes we are familiar with, is indication enough that we shall never succeed in defining a stable relation of contained to container between each of these categories and that which includes them all: if all the animals divided up here can be placed without exception in one of the divisions of this list, then aren’t all the other divisions to be found in that one division too? ”
Page xix
“Utopias afford consolation: although they have no real locality there is nevertheless a fantastic, untroubled region in which they are able to unfold; they open up cities with vast avenues, superbly planted gardens, countries where life is easy, even though the road to them is chimerical.”
Page xx
“So the sick mind continues to infinity, creating groups then dispersing them again, heaping up diverse similarities, destroying those that seem clearest, splitting up things that are identical, superimposing different criteria, frenziedly beginning all over again, becoming more and more disturbed, and teetering finally on the brink of anxiety.”
Page xxi
“On what “table”, according to what grid of identities, similitudes, analogies, have we become accustomed to sort out so many different and similar things? What is this coherence — which, as is immediately apparent, is neither determined by an a priori and necessary concatenation, nor imposed on us by immediately perceptible contents?”
“Order is, at one and the same time, that which is given in things as their inner law, the hidden network that determines the way they confront one another, and also that which has no existence except in the grid created by a glance, an examination, a language; and it is only in the blank spaces of this grid that order manifests itself in depth as though already there, waiting in silence for the moment of its expression.”
The library of bible
Page 114
“The will acknowledge that investors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but contend that that adoption was fortuitous, coincidental, and that books in themselves have no meaning.”
“The philosopher observed that all books, however different from one another they might be, consist of identical elements: the space, the period, the comma, and the twenty-two letters of the alphabet.”
Page 118
“While a library-the thing-is a loaf of bread or a pyramid or something else, and the six words that define it themselves have other definitions.”
“The library is unlimited but periodical. If an eternal traveler should journey in any direction, he would fins after untold centuries that the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder-which, repeated, becomes order: the Order. My solitude is cheered by that elegant hope ”
Library as Infrastructure 2014
“At every stage, the contexts — spatial, political, economic, cultural — in which libraries function have shifted; so they are continuously reinventing themselves and the means by which they provide those vital information services.”
Shannon Matter, ‘Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban
Margins’, Places Journal, 2012
“To these students, a library is simply an interface. Why not a doghouse full of books, too? We need to seriously consider how these little libraries might constructively partner with the big, bulky, bureaucratic institutions. And academic and public librarians need to consider that there are things they might learn from their pop-up counterparts.”
Benedict Anderson, ‘Census, Map, Museum’, Imagined Communities, 2006
One was what could be called a “cosmography,” a formal, symbolic representation of the three worlds of traditional buddhist cosmology. The cosmography was not organized horizontally, like our own maps; rather a series of supraterrestrial heavens and sub terrestrial hells wedged on the visible world along a single vertical axis.