#historyofideas

[alejandroroche]

A world in which all were happy, and every individual fully and freely realized his or her potentialities, in which freedom reigned and government that was coercion had disappeared, was the ultimate aim of both liberals and socialists. What distinguishes the various members of the ideological family descended from humanism and the Enlightenment, liberal, socialist, communist or anarchist, is not the gentle anarchy which is the utopia of all of them, but the methods of achieving it.

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848

[garydwilliamsjr]

Photo By Yong Chuan | Unsplash #historyofideas #arenaofvalor #cultofreason #airpollution #goldenretrievers (at Bermuda) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAk0FZXBcA3/?igshid=1diqjnifjqx9a

[amymcools]

Susan B Anthony House (left) and Museum (right), at 17 Madison, Rochester, which I visited exactly two years ago today while following the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, and of many of those associated with him, all over the eastern United States. Read the story at https://ordinaryphilosophy.com/2016/06/07/frederick-douglass-rochester-ny-sites-part-2/ #susanbanthony #rochester #rochesterny #frederickdouglass #womensrights #humanrights #americanhistory #historyofideas (at Susan B. Anthony Museum & House)

[molliebalshawlevel4]

Further Research Into History Of Ideas

Gothic horror shares many characteristics with literary Romanticism, and is generally considered an offshoot of that wider movement. The two genres had their beginnings in 18th century England, and contributed to the rise of poetry and the novel as popular entertainment. Gothic horror and Romanticism informed and influenced one another over the century of their development, and many Romantic writers dabbled in horror or incorporated supernatural elements into their work.

Romanticism developed in the mid-18th century as a reaction against Enlightenment-era Neoclassicism and its emphasis on reason, rationality and order. Early Romanticists drew much of their inspiration from medieval romances such as “Tristan und Isolde” and “Sir Orfeo,” with their basis in Arthurian myth. Gothic fiction also drew inspiration from medieval literature, from the use of castles as a setting, to the presence of magic and supernatural villains. Horace Walpole is credited with inventing the gothic genre in his 1764 novel “The Castle of Otranto.” Walpole sought to combine the newly popular elements of Romantic literature -- fanciful settings, a heroine, outsized love and sorrow -- with ominous, supernatural elements.

[oliviaaaaaaawe]

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My favourite HOI teacher!! Even tho I suck at HOI but yea, John is just awesome. "Anything to say to you? Apart from how wonderful you are?" Awwwwww, John ur always so sweet. #HistoryOfIdeas #history #John #wonderful #exams #final #last #trinity #ending #soon #lovethisoldman (at Trinity college, 715 Swanston Street)

[jaztech]

up to now...

been keeping a drawing board of sorts in evernote. (handy!)

here's the evolution of thinking up to now...

January 2014 - I'm going to do something with unanticipated users! Think ad hoc expansion, "malleable" things, rather than fixed... I'm also trying to stay away from visual output and input. That's par for the course in CS (although apparently novel in architecture) so I want to stretch myself.

Feb 2014 - Evolving idea of prediction or lack thereof to memory. You project the future based on your experience of the past. So how do spaces / buildings remember? 

Here I'm inspired by how stone stairs wear away at the places where people continually walk. Old buildings the paths of past walkers are literally worn into the building.

Started thinking about how to create an installation where participants could walk around and leave footprints. 

March 2014 - After the midterm presentations, I was inspired to do a tiny little study of doors. I figure, if a space anticipate somebody, the door will will reflect that. An example...

Chroma panels

3form.eu

These guys are advertising their material, but the setup makes me thing of walls that *breathe* people in and out of different spaces.

If this is a continual automated thing (breathing pace relates to # & type of people in the room?). Puts some of the agency for entering and exiting on the architecture— it becomes actant in its timing. Cool image.

Also, along with the thread on the memory of objects, I've had the idea rolling around of building blocks, DNA, basic structures that can combine to create larger ones. (especially stochastically). This was from a project I did last year to make DNA playing cards that you could mix and match to change yourself or create new people (designer babies). The idea that was really interesting to me, and is bleeding over into this course is that a collection of people have a collection of building materials but only through social interaction-- share, exchange, gift, lose, steal.

I talked about the footprints idea to my group-- which is mostly digital fabrication folks, and it got shot down for material cost. I'm really reluctant to leave the idea behind, but I'm aware also that you can't swim with an anchor. So this month I'm tossing past ideas to the wind and trying to iterate through different mediums for inspiration. 

Fun stuff like: interactive water-based interfaces (have always wanted to build a fountain (^_^) to foil circuits to "soap operas" to clay blocks (back to the building blocks idea) to...

End of March -- what am I doing????!!! I have an amazing toolkit of techniques but nothing to apply them to. I'm an engineer-- problem driven. But I'm having trouble with this more art-based design thinking of just inspire and innovate. Not that I can't, but I don't feel very creative when its just doing for the sake of doing. I'm tempted to default to visual interfaces or at least audio, but I don't want to copout on my original goal for taking the course, which is to stretch my imagination to non-typical interaction methods and interfaces. I have 3 weeks now to do something and I feel like I'm at square 0... worse than when I started. A bunch of ideas but no finishing concept to tie them together. Oh well... a half baked chocolate cake is fudge right?

[amymcools]

To the Great Plains and Illinois I Go, in Search of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Abraham Lincoln, and Other American Histories - Hello, friends of Ordinary Philosophy! From time to time, I take a trip to some corner of the globe, to explore the lives and ideas of great thinkers in the places where they lived and worked. For this series, I follow in the footsteps of thinkers who are no longer alive, since those who are still telling their own stories. But those who are no longer alive in the body live on in the ideas that they pass on, and in the example they provide for us to follow. I’m pleased and excited to announce my seventh philosophical-historical adventure: an almost three-week road trip through the Great Plains and on to Illinois. I’ll fly from Chicago to Scotland on August 9th: I’ll be pursuing a master’s degree in the history of ideas at the University of Edinburgh starting this fall. In the meantime, I’m overjoyed to have this window of time to explore parts of my country which I’ve never seen, and to learn as much as I can along the way.... https://ordinaryphilosophy.com/2017/07/17/to-the-great-plains-and-illinois-i-go-in-search-of-crazy-horse-sitting-bull-abraham-lincoln-and-other-american-histories/ #sittingbull #crazyhorse #yellowstone #abrahamlincoln #chicago #greatplains #robertingersoll #lakota #historyofideas (at Lochsa Lodge)

[molliebalshawlevel4]

History Of Ideas Chosen Topic

I have decided to go with romanticism and the Gothic for my history of ideas topic because I have prior interest in the subject and think I can get quite a bit of research under my belt to fit the 3000-4000 word count.  I have looked into the Gothic in the past and wanted to explore it further, so adding the element of romanticism will help me to do this I think. 

[egocogitoegosum]

Let the games begin! #thesis #stoicism #neostoicism #scottishenlightenment #enlightenment #history #philosophy #intellectualhistory #historyofideas #davidallan #summerschool #scholarship #scholar

[amymcools]

I have a new header image up at Ordinary Philosophy, ordinaryphilosophy.com . It features many, though not nearly all, of great thinkers and promoters of great ideas I've written about. What do you think? #philosophy #history #historyofideas #activism #frederickdouglass #marywollstonecraft #thomasjefferson #thomaspaine #idawells #elizabethcadystanton #davidhume

[amymcools]

Happy Birthday, Blaise Pascal! Born on June 19th, 1623 in Auvergne, France, he was a mathematician, philosopher, physicist, scientist, theologian, inventor, and writer.... https://ordinaryphilosophy.com/2017/06/19/happy-birthday-blaise-pascal-june-19-1623/ #blaisepascal #pascalswager #historyofideas #gametheory #probabilitytheory #theology

[amymcools]

When Philosophy Needed Muslims, Jews and Christians Alike, by Peter Adamson https://ordinaryphilosophy.com/2017/05/24/when-philosophy-needed-muslims-jews-and-christians-alike-by-peter-adamson/ #peteradamson #christianphilosophy #muslimphilosophy #jewishphilosophy #philosophy #historyofideas

[amymcools]

Happy Birthday, Karl Marx! Portrait of Marx by Sam Kaprielov, 76x61cm, oil on canvas, 2015 - https://ordinaryphilosophy.com/2017/03/05/happy-birthday-karl-marx-2/ #karlmarx #historyofideas #politicaltheory #communistmanifesto #bornonmay5th

[amymcools]

Happy Birthday, Niccolò Machiavelli! https://ordinaryphilosophy.com/2017/05/03/happy-birthday-niccolo-machiavelli/ #niccolomachiavelli #theprince #historyofideas #politics #italianliterature