Note: Much of the thought about Marcuse now focuses around an 'Academic Wiki' featuring a man (DrGerryD) with a seagull perching on his head. Most people seem to recognize this person as Marcuse although Marcuse it is not. This is the reason I date Marcuse to 2010, even though in fact he died in 1979 and perhaps few knew him since then.
"The hypothesis of infinite dimensions seems to prove that if each thing in some way 'IS' its own dimension, then on one of the infinite dimensions, the information is always preserved. In other words, there is a whole dimension for every proper object that can be observed." ---Nathan Coppedge, via [ Quora ] April 10, 2016.
"The future overlaps with the past. Out of binary laws comes the idea that past standards are always in some way conserved, while future succeeds in realizing merely some species of development. We can only return to the past, but we can only realize the future." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 10, 2016.
Previous examples are Ian Bogost's Alien Phenomenology, and
Possibly Herbert Marcuse's strange writing on seagulls...
On Marcuse's philosophy of art:
"There was a page on Marcuse’s Multi-Dimensionism that seemed to see art as an ironic joke, a somewhat badly played card, or perhaps something that is understood only from the wrong angle. Appreciating art in this sense is not about perfection, but perspective. Art is that special perspective where perspective is possible, even if one cannot stomach the way life is at other times. At least there is art left. But very likely people who do not suffer to get there will not appreciate it, so in that way it is kind of worthless after all. The result is a dumpy art, but an art that is at least capable of perspective. And as a consequence, it may be that one can recognize at least part of the genius that existed in arts of earlier times."
---How Does Marcuse View Art?
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