Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Humans and Rationality

The difference between humans and nature is that humans have the power to shape worlds; to create their own individual and collective realities. The serendipitous, or could it be willful or inevitable combination of the opposable thumb and the complex cognitive mind have pushed human-kind through the membrane

What is the most human of all physical forms? In Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey the monolith represents the rational potential of humanity, its form is distinctively human. Nature does not produce perfectly rationalized orthogonal geometries at greater than the scale that can be held in the hand.


2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick




Double Negative, Michael Heizer