“Absurdity, like any other genre, has its own rules. But, it implies everything that is outlying of common rules and boundaries,” Cheval says. “‘Absurdism’ is an attempt to understand our life the way it truly is.” “Melody of Rain” (2015), Michael Cheval ...
a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional id...
For these architects, detailing is the activity of eliminating not only “unneces-sary” trim, but also those small-scale elements that are the evidence that a technical problem has been solved: how water is shed from the top of a wall or a windowsill, how a plane of glass is supported...
What is the purpose of satire? The purpose of satire is to leverage a critique of society in a way that’s interesting, useful, and often funny. By creating a clever or surprising storyline around a familiar topic, the writer can point the reader’s attention toward the absurdity of the...
combination that manages to get the point across, yet must be avoided. The reason we easily understand this metaphor is because the elements the woman is being compared to are so ingrained in our mind that we don’t actually pay attention to the literal meaning—or the absurdity of combining...
PrefaceIntroduction/Foreword: Einstein's LifePart 1: Getting Started1. Voyage to a Black HolePart 2: Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity2. Racing Light3. Redefining Space and Time4. A New Common SensePart 3: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity5. Newton's Absurdity6. Redefining ...
As effective as Newton’s description is for most purposes, there is something mysterious about it, however. The way gravity seems to act instantaneously over great distances, even across half the universe, bothered Newton himself no end. He thought this “so great an Absurdity that I believe ...
(注3) 斯金纳声称,这些人眼里只有文本本身,而由此将产生出“种种历史谬误”(‘various kinds of historical absurdity’)和“神话”(‘mythologies’)。这是因为,仅仅专注于文本本身,学者们就定会把某些原作者在其时空环境中不可能持有的观点强加到原作者身上——这么做,学者们所产出的就不是由严谨的研究所导出的...
See Rugh and Zinkernagel (2002) for details. This huge value was initially skeptically acknowledged by physicists. However, the true absurdity of that number only became apparent after it was possible to empirically estimate the vacuum energy. These turns of events astonished physicists. After all,...
That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. Nonsense Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense A message that seems to convey no meaning Nonsense Ornamental objects of no great value Nonsense Having ...