Readings 9, 10
Reading 9:
Key words:
Image: The author of this defines “one’s image” as one’s viewpoint. This involves one’s vision of the world, and one’s understanding of space, place, and time in history. Messages: Experience, or messages are what shape ones image. Messages are received at all times, with some changing one’s “image.”
Discussion questions:
How does this article affect our own “image”? Is it revolutionary to anyone? Is it more of a clarifying “message” to others? To me, I don’t think his points are very new, he is essentially rewording the argument that our experience and knowledge contributes to our vision of the world.
Is he arguing that there is no certainty of truth? That truth is only achieved through experience and is personal rather than universal? This is especially regarding one’s perception of religion.
Reading 10:
Key words:
To see: He defines seeing as “to perceive all its simultaneous components without overlooking any of them.”
Sword: In the last story, Mr. Palomar describes the intense light from a sunset as a sword;it pierces the eye-and the eye was made to perceive the sword, and the sword exists for the eye
How does this reading relate to an architect’s education?
Does reading this make you want to paint? Don’t you just want to create what he explains so vividly?
Do you agree with Mr. Palomar’s conclusion that, “The dead weight of an intolerant tradition prevents anyone’s properly understanding the most enlightened intentions”? Do you think that society influences what we see and don’t see, or can’t see?