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cybernetics

Apollo and Daphne

Symmetry, anti-symmetry, and the orbit of desire If art has any enduring value, it lies in the way it makes structure visible. Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne does not just illustrate a myth. It renders a relational geometry: two frames locked in a shared field, unable to close without erasing themselves. The sculpture holds a single […]

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culture

Femme Fatale

The “femme fatale”, a dangerous, panther-like beauty in which all of man’s desires and fears are realised in one gorgeous, dark and explosive bundle of alluring seduction and imminent volcano-like fury. This is the fantasy of woman upon which an unwitting, gullible and endlessly-amorous male identity anchors itself – in language, image, technology, culture and […]

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art culture Philosophy Psychology

Apollo and Daphne

If art is worth anything at all, it is most certainly in its ability to be employed as metaphor and instruction through which to understand ourselves, our minds and any cultural environment in which we may find ourselves embedded…