Comments by lande

  • An act of consciousness. Loving is not a belief but an act, as is thinking or hating.

    December 31, 2006

  • Noema is a greek word and is equivalent to meaning. Therefore it is the representation of an experience of a meaning based system through its own self-referential process. Could be considered as the projection of one's experience onto oneself.

    December 31, 2006

  • Partes extra partes means parts outside of one another. Klee refers to this in terms of his understanding of space as sameness. In Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and Mind" he refers to Klee who says that in a forest, he sometimes feels not only that he is looking at the tree but also that the trees are looking back at him. What we have in this space is a sameness of looking at and being looked at.

    December 30, 2006

  • A calligram is a poem (though can also be a phrase or single word) in which the typeface or handwriting forms an important part of the focus. Indeed, it is a visual manifestation of themes presented aurally and textually. Guillaume Apollinaire is a famous calligram writer.

    December 30, 2006