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Serious question. I’d like more responses. I want to get a sense of how people think of materiality. If it’s easier... what’s your 2x2 defining 4 classes of materials?
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If you had to create a modern 5 category exhaustive folksonomy of ALL materials, like the earth-fire-water-wind-ether of the alchemists, what would your 5 base classes be? Should cover all familiar modern materials.
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Natural vs artificial, simple vs complex. Natural + simple (rocks), artificial + simple (bricks, concrete, simply shaped metal), natural + complex (biologically derived materials), artificial and complex (iPhones)
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-Narrative of the thing: past, present, future -Break-ability continuum (same as unity/dispersion/re-unity) -Views from somewhere else: time, parallel-dimension, orientation, distance, repetition, inside, through a filter, etc..