Monday, September 14, 2009

HYPERBOLIC STRUCTURES IN LITERATURE

Douglas Hoffstader and others have published great studies into the synthesis of arts, science and cognitive structures, and so many HYPERBOLIC areas of research are invoked by them, Godel, Escher, Bach' is a perfect example of HYPERBOLIC STRUCTURES connecting within literature, but the 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The hare and the tortoise' story's resonate more with the concept I have of HYPERBOLIC literature, and the page as HYPERBOLIC object?

Finnegans Wake itself, and with the added glossings and footnotes provided by Robert Anton Wilson, seems the closest approximation of HYPERBOLIC structures in literature. There are thousands of books and articles showing how James Joyce encoded - physics philosophy, quantum mechanics and taoism - in to the Wake. Robert Anton Wilson's first published article - Joyce and Daoism - can be found echoing throughout the rest of his great comprehensive contribution to world literature, criticism and humanitarian design science. And a good old belly laugh. RAW's own experiments with literature and quantum mechanics - in works such as the Schroedingers Cat Trilogy - he attains his own HYPERBOLIC structures - based upon some of Joyce's principles, and Korzybski, Claude Shannon, Nietzche, Pound, Yeats, and Buckminster Fuller. Bucky was another HYPERBOLIC artist who was known to be a scientist by most people, but it now seems his ideas and principles were closer to art and music in form, and i might add here, exemplified in the activity of creating HYPERBOLIC CROTCHET models.










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