NUMBER SIX???
" This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just
that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where
the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of
sculpture,
so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that
just to associate the two sounds ludicrous."
ZAMM, chapter 14.
Seen in the light of MOQ, why are art and technology divorced? What is their
role today? Is this divorce definitive?
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Horse, I think my suggestion is number six
I vote for it, even if it's not so clear....
Marco.
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Da: Horse
A: moq_focus@moq.org
Data invio: gioved 30 dicembre 1999 22.45
Oggetto: MF CALL FOR VOTES
Sorry for the delay folks, but I've been off with family stuff and got back
later than I'd anticipated.
As this is the case and the votes need to be out for 2 days I'll announce
the new subject late on the 1st of the New Year.
Send you votes in by about midnight GMT of the 1st Jan and assuming the
world doesn't end at midnight on the 31st or every computer in the world (or
more to the point the one I collect my mail from!!!) hasn't melted I'll post
shortly after.
Usual voting protocol:
1) Please use the same subject line as this post when you submit your vote.
2) Please vote for only one of the topics listed below.
#1 Todd (Gem7th@aol.com)
A case study of the "giant" known to us as Las Vegas. Regarding the nature
of this giants "devouring nature". Focusing on (but not limited to) the
geography and energetic needs of this city (giant). Comparative thoughts of
various "giants/cities" will be allowed in order to enrich our case study of
Las Vegas.
#2 Ben Schafer
The fuzzy role of emotion in individual and cultural communication examined
within the Metaphysics of Quality.
#3 Diana
Aside from ZMM and LILA, which other books would you recommend to members of
MOQ.org?
#4 Rocky Hayes
Let's discuss the role that sex plays in Lila.
Is it just a metaphor through which Pirsig pricks our 'ethical' skin, or
something more?
Is the reader to conclude that Lila is a slut/loose woman?
What does Rigel see in Lila's sexuality that causes him to react so
negatively to Phadreus' claim that Lila has quality?
Why is Lila willing to have intercourse with the Captain/Author/Phadreus?
(what's the draw/appeal to him.)
What are we to conclude about the special high quality sexual experience
Lila gives Phadreus - one that she suspects he is actually unaware of? Is he
unaware of it?
How does the physiological experience of an orgasm (arguably an experience
we share across the boundary of dozens of species) fit into the MOQ, or does
that experience fall outside of the MOQ? Is it not transcendental?
#5 David Buchanan
Let's discuss the book's conclusion.
Let's look at the meaning of those final scenes.
Rigel decides to take care of Lila.
The Captain disposes of the doll in a ritual.
Then he's prepared to head out on the Ocean and he's feeling free..." This
divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just
that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where
the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of
sculpture,
so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that
just to associate the two sounds ludicrous."
ZAMM, chapter 14.
Seen in the light of MOQ, why are art and technology divorced? What is their
role today? Is this divorce definitive?
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