Re: your mail 2/95

Date:         Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:41:14 CST
Sender:       DESIGN-L "Basic and applied design" (Art and Architecture)
From:         carr0023@gold.tc.umn.edu
Subject:      Re: your mail

>spn: you have suggested over and over the dichotomy between
>subjective(humanities) and objective(science). this is a dichotomy i
>would like to suggest is far to catagorical. Generally speaking,
>"antihumanist" thought would never accept such a split, rather, it would
>investigate the tradition of how that split eventuated as an historical
>assumption. So i propose that the framework you offer is needd to be
>problematized. From there, if what you are suggesting above is that the
>internet is subjective and thus a design tool, i would submit that it
>might described better as relativistic and self emergent--that is neither
>subjective nor objective.

 

 
                           SCIENCE/HUMANITIES
                                   |
                                   |
                               SUBJECTIVE
                                OBJECTIVE
                                   |
                                   |
                         science___o___humanities
                                   |
                                  / \
                                 /   \
                                /     \
                               /       \
                           obj/sub   obj\sub
                             |           |
                             |  "nature" |
                             |           |
______________o__________objective____subjective________o___________________
             /|\             |    |  |   |             /|\
             / \             |____|  |___|             / \
                                 /    \
      "engineers nature"        /      \        "architects nature"
                               /        \
       true and false         /          \        right and wrong
_____________________________/            \_________________________________