Polímatas del día: Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen

Nature as imagination itself

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." 

                                                                                            William Blake

The quote is from a letter written by Blake to one of his patrons, the Reverend John Trusler, in the summer of 1799. Trusler had hired Blake to produce a series of moral artworks in the style of contemporary caricature. When Trusler criticized Blake’s artistic vision as too ‘imaginative’, Blake let Trusler know in no uncertain terms what he thought of his aesthetic sense. ‘If I am wrong, I am wrong in good company … What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.’ (Collected in Alfred Kazin (ed.), The Portable Blake (London: Penguin Classics, 1979 and reproduced in James Bridle's Ways of Being (London: Penguin Books, 2022)

Poliamor

 "Sometimes a neighbouring field, or even a distant one, can consciously or subconsciously distract you from the main field that you love, in which you are a professional or to which you are currently devoting most of your attention. During the course of the distraction you may realize that this “other” field becomes your main work and focus; something that you had considered just a side interest or hobby has swept you up in its embrace, you’ve been seduced by it, you live with its love, and even if you haven’t completely forgotten all your past lovers (genuine love is never forgotten!), your attention towards them is decreased. To use another illustration, if you have not one but several lovers, when you grow tired of one of them, you can go to another one; you are always with a lover and always busy, but it feels like you are resting as well (please interpret this as a metaphor, not as a moral statement). If you continue this type of pattern all your life, good for you! You will see and accomplish many things." Hamlet Isakhanli

Dom de iludir (Caetano Veloso)

 

Polímatas del día: William James

 William James: médico, filósofo, psicólogo...

William James Society

Smile (Sorri), de Charles Chaplin (también en versión en portugués de Djavan)

 

Polímatas del día: Jean Jallabert

Matemático, físico, político, pastor, profesor de filosofía...:

Jean Jallabert

Polímatas del día: Al-Jahiz

Autor de obras de literatura, biología, zoología, historia, filosofía islámica, psicología, teología y polémicas político-religiosas, y evolucionista antes de Darwin:

Al-Jahiz, el filósofo musulmán que tuvo la idea de la evolución 1000 años antes que Darwin

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Melancholy

 "Melancholy is not rage or bitterness, it is a noble species of sadness that arises when we are open to the fact that life is inherently difficult for everyone and that suffering and disappointment are at the heart of human experience. It is not a disorder that needs to be cured; it is a tender-hearted, calm, dispassionate acknowledgement of how much pain we must inevitably all travel through"

The School of Life

Polímatas del día: Isabel Di Tella

 

Isabel Di Tella