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Henry
@left_pad
is there a word for the equivalent of an anti-library (your unread books) but for people.. like people you want to get to read about or understand better? anti-people sounds bad haha
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@Mappletons
I call them 'Lighthouse People' in my system. As in, you want to go explore the things they're shining light on. Guidance in darkness. There's the classic light = ideas / knowledge / information metaphor again 😄 Inescapable
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Henry
@left_pad
that's so good! I guess this even relates to what I just read surprisingly (though rather than shine on things, they also can shine themselves, which relates to embodiment of ideas)
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Henry
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medieval paintings were "as if it's beings all contained their own source of light" "...you feel that if their luminosity, were extinguished, what is in the picture would not just cease to be visible, but would cease to exist altogether"
Early twelfth-century miniatures, however, continue in the tradition of the icon used in the eastern Christian Church. Following this tradition, the painter neither paints nor suggests any light that strikes the object and then is reflected by it. The world is represented as if its beings all contained their own source of light. Light is immanent in this world of medieval things, and they reach the eye of the beholder as sources of their own luminosity. You feel that if this, their luminosity, were extinguished, what is in the picture would not just cease to be visible, but would cease to exist altogether. Light here is not used as a function but coincides with the Bildwelt - the painted realities.
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Henry
@left_pad
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@Mappletons
"In the Vineyard of the Text" via Illich, which explores how art of reading has changed to due technology (printing press and now computers) I shared a few more here
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Henry
@left_pad
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on (monastic) reading as mumbling
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page 54 of in the vineyard of the text. "By reading, the page is literally embodied, incorporated. The modern reader conceives of the page as a plate that inks the mind, and of the mind as a screen onto which the page is projected and from which, at a flip, it can fade. For the monastic reader, whom Hugh addresses, reading is a much less phantasmagoric and much more carnal activity: the reader understands the lines by moving to their beat, remembers them by recapturing their rhythm, and thinks of them in terms of putting them into his mouth and chewing. No wonder that pre-university monasteries are described to us in various sources as the dwelling places of mumblers and munchers.”"
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Henry
@left_pad
and on oral reading (memorization, in community) to scholastic (silent) reading
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Bret Victor
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By the way, have you read much along this thread (that I just made up)? I think you might be into it. I'm thinking of Ong in particular (or at least as a starting point).
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