For me, it was great to listen from you two, whose works include
the social, political, ecological and cognitive aspects of both
the haptic, the printed and the verbal gesture, among others.
Thanks.
> but perhaps they are just not tidy enough to be welcome in our
> bourgeois homes??
Making an optimistic statement, YES THEY ARE tidy enough. When the
impure is viewed as the one containing novelty, the untidy as the
exquisitely arranged, and the stained as dyed by wisdom, the
"enough tidy in our bourgeois" maisons looks Kitsch, at least.
I love those little short paths made by pedestrians at the corners
of public gardens and parks. Traces of the flow of the city
scratched on its material path. They can work as subversive
reminders of our unbalanced condition, both in science and through
out our daily life.
Back to the woods,
where the traces are the standard, and not the exception.
Luiz
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University of Western Ontario voice: +1 519 858 3375 (home)
Department of Computer Science fax: +1 519 661 3515 (work)
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