A LOOK at LANGUAGE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. PREFACE
3. DEDICATION 19
4. VOICES 20
5. NATURE 21
6. SENSES 22
7. SCREENS 24
8. PRESENCE 25
9. SUBJECTS 26
10. TURN 28
11. NUMBERS and the SUN 29
12. CIRCLES 30
13. RENAISSANCE 32
14. INVARIANCES 32
15. GOVERNANCE 35
16. THREATS 36
17. ARCHITECTURE 37
18. INSTRUMENT 37
19. LITERACY 38
20. LEARNING 39
21. FRITZ HALLER 40
22. OBSTACLE
23. The ARCHITECT 43
24. INVARIANCE 47
25. SEDUCTION 50
26. HUMANISM 58
27. INTEGRATION 59
28. THE ARCHITECTURAL SCALARITIES 62
29. THE HUMAN SCALARITIES 65
30. DEDICATION 67
31. THE 20th CENTURY SCALARITY 68
32. OBJECTIVITY
33. DOMAINS 81
34. PREFACE 85
35. The VISUAL 89
36. The EYE 91
37. Being DISTINCTIVE
38. I SEE ALONG THE AXIS OF TIME 94
39. The IMAGE and the PICTURE 95
40. ARCHITECTURE 98
41. SCAFFOLDS of TERMS 100
42. MYTHICAL ENTITIES 102
43. ABSTRACTION 106
44. A LOOK at INFORMATION 110
45. A LOOK at LANGUAGE 112
46. The POWER of NUMBERS
47. I SEE WHAT NUMBERS CAN SHOW 115
48. The CALCULUS 119
49. The FRAMING PROBLEM 121
50. The ANALOGUE and the DIGITAL 123
51. The IMAGE of CLASSIFICATION 125
52. The ANALYTICAL VIEW 128
53. The PHOTOGRAPHIC EYE 132
54. PICTURE ANYTHING 134
55. IMAGE of PRODUCTION 136
56. SEEING EVERYTHING
57. FUNCTION vs EQUATION 141
58. LIBERATION, ROTATION, and the COMPLEX PLANE 147
59. SCREENS 158
60. The AUDITIVE
61. The EAR 161
62. I HEAR THE AXIS OF SPACE 167
63. I SAY WHAT CHARACTERS CAN HEAR 169
64. COMMUNICATION 173
65. SOUND takes SPACE 177
66. Turing Machine 183
67. Von Neumann Architecture 190
68. The Dominance of LOGIC 192
69. The Dominance of ECONOMY 193
70. The Dominance of the VISUAL 194
71. Processing 195
72. Interpreters and Compilers 198
73. The Two Paradigms 201
74. The SOUND of the 1960s 206
75. The SOUND of the 1980s 208
76. The SOUND of the 2000s 209
77. APPENDIX
78. INDEX OF WORDS 213
79. SOURCES FOR IMAGES AND GRAPHICS 224
80. COLOUR CODE 227