Thought is for moving

Thought is for moving

We have a brain for one reason, and one reason only, and that is to produce adaptable and complex movements.

Screen, spectrum, pendulum

Screen, spectrum, pendulum

modern physics emerges from this projection of motion first into the viewable spectra

The enchantment of the virtual

The enchantment of the virtual

Mathematical abstraction is not, a la Aristotle, a stripping away of mobile content for stable form, but a kind of condensation of experimental gestures and problems.

Ghastly gestures

Ghastly gestures

Diagrams are in a degree the accomplices of poetic metaphor. But they are a little less impertinent––

Foolish fingers?

Foolish fingers?

The Dialectic. ‘This is a dialectic and I’m going to explain it.’ Grip imaginary six centimetre object between thumb and forefinger.