Ed Buffaloe

Poet, photographer. Web site at http://unblinkingeye.com. I read A Pattern Language because my partner and I will need to build a house in a few years. Pattern language has become an organizational paradigm.

Many analogues:

• The organization of MarshallMcLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy, "a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms."

ISBN 0802060412 . Also take note of the convergence of multiple media in the personal computer (print, telephone, photography, film, video, music).

• The concept of "significant form" in art (see Langer's Feeling And Form

ISBN 0023675004 ) seems analogous to the "quality without a name." See SignificantForm.

• Science, art, literature, every aspect of human life involves the manipulation of symbols. See Ernst Cassirer's The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

ISBN 0300000375 . Programming as symbol manipulation (SymbolIsm, SoftwareIsArt).

• LifeAsArt.

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