Coastal Biology of Temperate Seas

wolman/debord

acquaviva

On 18 May 1963 Wolman invented ‘Scotch art’, which he explained as follows: ‘using a piece of scotch adhesive tape i tear the print from a page of the newspaper. i obtain an orderly script on the flat surface of a new effective dimension. i discover the becoming of what i call scotch art in the choice of various everyday events, the modes of printing and the quality of the ink, the choice
of impulsions communicated by the action of fixing and tearing.’

techniques of ecstasy

 Reification, the Marxist scholar Tom Bottomore writes, is the “most radical and widespread form of alienation characteristic of modern capitalist society,” the transformation of “human properties, relations and actions into properties, relations and actions of man-produced things which have become independent of man and govern his life

the cowboy philosopher

all this new work

whoever shall come for brick or for stone shall freely have the same for his pains
Commons Journals IV 309


La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?



Hylomorphism
Aristotle -  clay is matter relative to a brick because a brick is made of clay, whereas bricks are matter relative to a brick house.
Aquinas - tiny pieces of brick remain in existence when the house goes out of existence... there can be no fireplace if the surrounding house has been torn down. We might say this pile of bricks once was the chimney, we cannot say that it is the chimney... characterised as a brick it still exists...

http://www.themasonictrowel.com/Articles/General/other_files/an_operative_bricklayer_builds_speculative_wall.htm

6.4 The Knocks

You will notice in the laying of the blocks you always hear the ringing of the trowel. This is music to the Brickie's ears since it indicates bricklayers at work which means money, security, and the good things of life. In like manner the knocks in a speculative lodge when heard outside the door indicate that the speculative masons are at work .... There is a certain rythem to the knocks. In the first degree they always remind me of the pound pound pound of an apprentice .... But by the time they get to the Third Degree they carry the sound of Mozart's Magic Flute .... And have the characteristic of a Master Mason lightly touching the block into its appointed place.

clairefontaine

wall

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C17 brick dimensions: 2" x 45/8" x 93/4"




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