projects

  Some time or other I have read that ↑Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton at his home in Trieste had twelve wooden desks. On each desk the material of one particular book project he was working on, was stacked. Not that I dare to compare my humble self to the immortal RFB—god forbid—, but yesterday I cleaned up the mess I call my office and found that currently there are six articles I am writing, or am trying to write. In consequence I am in dire need of method and order, ↵as Hercule Poirot would put it. Folders on the … Continue reading

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naturealism

  In connection with computergames the term “realistic graphics” is a blunt misnomer—seen from a philosophical, respectively epistemological vantage point. Computergame graphics are an instance of artistical depiction. Already for a long time there is a precise differentiation between “nature” and “reality” in fine art theory. A painting which as accurately as possible simulates what human beings—conditioned in, or by a given culture—visually percept within the outside world of physical things is not to be called “realistic,” but “naturalistic”, or “painted in a naturalistic style.”  The above picture is a clipping from a “hyperreal” oil painting by Robert Bechtle. ↑Jos … Continue reading

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