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Comment on OMA, Casa da Música, Part 02 by Daniel Martens

Daniel Martens — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:56:26 +0000

beautiful images, love the architecture

Comment on Rogers, Madrid Airport, Part 02 by iduncant

iduncant — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:02:58 +0000

I love the lines on the roof, great picture!

Comment on Art Doesn’t Help People, People Help People by Zach

Zach — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:55:51 +0000

This is awesome! I love this artists work

Comment on Bad Architecture by Nikos Salingaros

Nikos Salingaros — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:28:30 +0000

Thanks, Brian, for your suggestion.

I would be delighted to meet Slavoj Zizek in public (and private) conversations. Let’s hope that someone out there in the mysterious and magical space of the web is paying attention and has the resources to bring us two together somewhere.

Best regards,
Nikos

Comment on Bad Architecture by Brian Hamilton

Brian Hamilton — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:00:27 +0000

Great to read of this connection between Slavoj and Nikos. I am only on page 229 of my personally signed copy of Living in the end Times so I have not come accross this passage yet. Such serendipity, as I am a subsciber to both Zizek Studies and Gruppo Salingaros on my Facebook page. I feel this is exactly where serious discourse on architecture should go and I hope that Slavoj won’t be hijacked by the Starchitects like Derrida was in the last Century to justify ever more bizarre architectural monuments.
Greetings to you both and I think Zizek in conversation with Salingaros would be a great event. Any suggestions as to who would moderate such a conversation?

Comment on Bad Architecture by Nikos Salingaros

Nikos Salingaros — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:35:17 +0000

An excellent summary by Slavoj Zizek. I could not have written a better one myself. Of course, there exists a fundamental disagreement between my group of architect/philosopher friends, many of them Alexandrians (after Christopher Alexander), and most contemporary architects and academics. We believe that architecture is an extension of human cognition and symbiotic interaction with the environment. The latter group, on the contrary, believe in severing this millennial connection so as to create a hostile inhuman environment that expresses certain human psychoses. Contemporary architects don’t quite put it in this way, but either they are being dishonest, or they are fooling themselves.

Comment on RAKVERE Summer Theater by bercton

bercton — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:44:28 +0000

Brilliant display of timber work!

Comment on God Did Not Create the Universe by Ron Krumpos

Ron Krumpos — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:04:50 +0000

n "The Grand Design" Stephen Hawking postulates that the M-theory may be the Holy Grail of physics...the Grand Unified Theory which Einstein had tried to formulate and later abandoned. It expands on quantum mechanics and string theories. In my e-book on comparative mysticism is a quote by Albert Einstein: “…most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty – which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive form – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all religion.” Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity is probably the best known scientific equation. I revised it to help better understand the relationship between divine Essence (Spirit), matter (mass/energy: visible/dark) and consciousness (fx raised to its greatest power). Unlike the speed of light, which is a constant, there are no exact measurements for consciousness. In this hypothetical formula, basic consciousness may be of insects, to the second power of animals and to the third power the rational mind of humans. The fourth power is suprarational consciousness of mystics, when they intuit the divine essence in perceived matter. This was a convenient analogy, but there cannot be a divine formula.

Comment on Milky Way in the Desert by Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:00:58 +0000

That is a beautiful image.

Comment on Gulf Oil Spill by ralph edward

ralph edward — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:27:30 +0000

I WOULD LIKE TO KHOW WHY THERE WASNT AN OIL TANKER FROM THE USA TO START PUMPING THE OIL FROM THE WATER SURFICE ON THE OIL TANKER TO SAVE ALL THIS OIL FOR THE ECO SYSTEM. WOULD THE 85% OF OIL OFF THE WATER BE PUMPED BACK AS I READ.

RALPH EDWARD