Per my comment to CJ today on Facebook, in response to a thread on Martin Heidegger, and bridges to the Bucky stuff, we could take Aristotle's four causes, and integrate MH's observation that they all stick together like a single glue-ball (or glass bead): materials, design, maker, purpose.
Make that a Tetrahedron next time.
I then thought of calling this a "kiln" in the sense of an oven or cooker, the alchemist's crucible. We're following the "silver chalice" theme to some extent. What pops out of the oven is thereby unconcealed, a new truth of some kind.
With modern technology comes the possibility of mass production, or mass reproducibility, which becomes our way of optimizing distribution in the coming digital age (MH was prescient).
The open source free software world (terminology) already includes a lot of baking and cooking metaphors. We also go through iterations or versions. Our creations evolve. The design may be somewhat fluid, and melt with new purpose, without sacrificing all the materials.
Recycling happens.
Make that a Tetrahedron next time.
I then thought of calling this a "kiln" in the sense of an oven or cooker, the alchemist's crucible. We're following the "silver chalice" theme to some extent. What pops out of the oven is thereby unconcealed, a new truth of some kind.
With modern technology comes the possibility of mass production, or mass reproducibility, which becomes our way of optimizing distribution in the coming digital age (MH was prescient).
The open source free software world (terminology) already includes a lot of baking and cooking metaphors. We also go through iterations or versions. Our creations evolve. The design may be somewhat fluid, and melt with new purpose, without sacrificing all the materials.
Recycling happens.
