https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/ timelets - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:25:18 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios timelets personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/10862491/2614584 https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/ 100 86 https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/620884.html Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:25:18 GMT https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/620884.html There's some important thought behind this comic but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it has to do with the way we divide the world into objects and its relationship to the background.<br /><br /><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/phone.png" /><br /><br /><a href="https://xkcd.com/1802/">https://xkcd.com/1802/</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=620884" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/620884.html background quote public 0 https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/558556.html Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:33:17 GMT https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/558556.html <blockquote>A most useful way of demonstrating the existence of a certain phenomenon is to examine the implications and consequences of its absence. As Benjamin Lee Whorf suggested, if a rule has absolutely no exceptions, it is not recognized as a rule or as anything else; it is then part of the background of experience of which we tend to remain unconscious. <br /><br />The obvious methodological implication of this is that investigating the "pathological" might help us to discover, unveil, or simply bring into focus the "normal," which we usually take for granted and­ therefore tend to ignore.<br /><br />--- Evitar Zerubavel. Hidden Rhythms, 1985.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=558556" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/558556.html quote information background data time public 0