Comments on: Edge-Serpentine Map Marathon

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:37:30 +0000

Sheesh, some of the artists sure couldn’t be bothered to exert themselves with their maps (I’m looking at you, Marina Abramovic, and you, John Baldessari). Or perhaps I am too unsophisticated to appreciate the Duchampian sublimity of their art.

By: psmith

psmith — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:14:25 +0000

No one ever learns from success, they only learn from failure. And failure is a form of pain.
I love the explanatory power of maps. And I am always impressed by how the process of making a map interacts with the thinking process to generate better quality outcomes.

By: Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:09:52 +0000

More grandly: pain is the foreplay of death.

By: Gammaburst

Gammaburst — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:18:04 +0000

Pain is Nature’s way of educating fools.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:55:05 +0000

For more cool and artistic science maps, see the recently published book from MIT Press: Atlas of science: visualizing what we know http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12344

By: bittergradstudent

bittergradstudent — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:10:37 +0000

@Nex:

But you can have illusory pain–I’ve been hit on the head in a dream, and amputees will hurt in their “fingers”. I guess you could say that the ‘pain’ is real, but the meaning ascribed to it is not, but you’re stuck in a circular regress if you go down this chain of reasoning.

By: ChH

ChH — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:23:06 +0000

Lab Lemming,

This is a map in the same way an org-chart or a network topology diagram is a map – it shows how things are inter-related without addressing their positions in space.

By: Roberts

Roberts — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:21:09 +0000

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell something.

By: Yoda

Yoda — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:18:35 +0000

Derision… interesting…

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:20:23 +0000

How is this a map? The spatial location of the information is totally arbitrary.

By: clovis simard

clovis simard — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:12:11 +0000

Bonjour,
Vous trouverez ci joint l’adresse de mon Blog ( fermaton.over-blog.com).

C’est une théorie mathématique de la conscience reliant très bien Art-Sciences-Mathématique.

Cordialement

Dr Clovis Simard

By: Nex

Nex — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:11:14 +0000

Pain -> Reality

It proves reality really is real.

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By: spyder

spyder — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:10:54 +0000

I would have like to seen a Buddhist perspective on this map.