Monday, June 11, 2012

A public library will order the 1-Page-Classics

Newton Free Library sent me an e-mail saying that they will order my book (I had previously contacted a large number of free libraries including Newton).

That means I'll have more exposure sometime in the next year, which is a crossing point for more serious dealings in the arts.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Recent Stages

I recently posted business cards around New Haven in an attempt to attract new audiences for my book, the 1-Page-Classics.

It is a complex book, and I think successful in more than one area. It is not exactly a novel, one reason the publishers decided to classify it as general philosophy (according to my behest) and also literary criticism---the last choice being not exactly fair, it's actually a small percentage of the content and more creative than revisionary. Some of the content is fiction based on pre-existing classics, and some of the other quasi-fictional content is actually original, or otherwise was interpreted from history (lost works) using psychic powers.

One question emerging in my mind recently is if, in addition to several books of philosophy, I may also publish an art book at some point. But it all depends on sales. I don't want to commit if there is no audience for any of my material.

I'm too superstitious to cross my fingers.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I found my old website---a website I no longer pay for

It turns out my old index page is still running at http://www.geocities.com/drypress/index.html

Also noted are my brother Brian's computer games, which are very entertaining---and he designed them. They may be found at http://www.geocities.com/drypress/BriansWebGames.html

Actually, one of the two games doesn't work the way it was posted.

Remember to de-activate NumLock, and the first game works up until the end.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

This is a favorite style of architecture for me---

Reminds me of Hyper-Cubism. The style could be improved by a creative use of technology or public areas.

http://www.ricardobofill.com/en/5685/Architecture/Kafka-Castle.htm

Is the new Apple headquarters inspired by categorical knowledge?

The recent design for the Apple Headquarters resembles a categorical diagram of eight sections, a functional symbol for coherent knowledge:

https://plus.google.com/photos/112063946124358686266/albums/5640449248757661185

I've never been an Apple fan, but at least it's as though society is advancing. I have to have some respect for the "other half."

Cars inspired by Hyper-Cubism

Amongst the things that might be inspired by Hyper-Cubism on some level, is a recent automotive design:

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/jaguar-f-type-arrives-2013-e-type-long-163031996.html

This might just be a 'zeitgeist' thing.

Another example is the design for the Westminster area in England. Divine time travel? Earlier examples? Dunno.


                                      

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Free Hyper-Cubism, Maybe the Next Picasso

For those that don't know, I've been giving away free artwork at a cafe in New Haven.

Jojo's cafe has been the only cafe to allow me to do so. I try to give thanks to the owner as often as I can.

I've already given away over 100 artworks in the last year or so. The project will continue.

Many young women, including several Yale students have framed my artwork themselves.

In some ways its been the most inspiring activity of my life.

According to U.S. law by the way, artwork is an exception to the rule, it IS IN FACT LEGAL TO RE-SELL THE WORK.

FYI: It's value may grow.

Current major collectors include Gail Hardin (a former neighbor), and my father. There are others, but I'm terrible with names. Someone should make a list of the names and numbers of the artwork and who owns them. There are (at least) dozens. And I still have a big folder full. I produced three or four good ones today.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Western Philosophy Featured in my Classics

Republic of Plato

Timaeus of Plato

Metaphysica of Aristotle

Paradoxes of Zeno

Enchiridion of Epictetus

The Second Sex of Simone d' Beauvoir

Cultura Naturae - Anthropology

The Social Contract - Translated as the Social Construct

Tractatus of Wittgenstein

Modal Realism of David K. Lewis

Poetry Featured in my 1-Page-Classics

Sappho: The 10th Muse

Roethke: A Modern Poet

Shakespeare's Peinn

The Song of Love

The Eternal Song

The Song of Silver: Eveningtide

Chinese and Japanese Works Featured in my Classics

The Mandate of Heaven

Analects

Tao Te Ching

The Art of War

The Art of Ikebana

Solutions: How to Hold Water in One's Hand

The Gold Coin, The Gold Fish, and the Silver Fish

Kwang and Kung

The End of Problems

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

1-Page-Classics is published!

The following link will take you to the bookstore at Authorhouse books:

http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000548722/1PageClassics.aspx

My classics will also appear on Amazon within the next few weeks, hopefully.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

1-Page-Classics

Author: Nathan Coppedge

Book Description:

1-Page-Classics is written by a dimensional philosopher. It includes renditions of mysteries and philosophies ranging from the Tao Te Ching, to the Orphic Mysteries, Mandate of Heaven, and the nature of Ambergris. It also has literary merits through the author’s interesting accounts of prior lives as Rip Van Winkle, the Burner of Alexandria, and Pippin son of William Tell. Valuable for its eclectics, it is also valuable for its philosophical accounts of Modal Realism, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and the stoic manual The Enchiridion; Topics are chosen for their integrity as well as broadness; there is even a translation of Simone d’ Beauvoir’s The Second Sex; The author also takes a unique viewpoint on topics ranging from Archeology to Mathematics, with many of his works having original intellectual merits. The book includes potential study packages such as Cultures, Logic, and Miniature Linguistic Treatises. It also includes writings on the subject of Wonders of the World and Signs of the Zodiac; Compact, complex, and alphabetized, calling this book intellectual would be an understatement, but it has value as pleasure reading too.

Book News

I gave my approval for the cover and text layout of my book.

1-Page-Classics

It will be featured on Amazon by May 14th.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Age of the Mitochondria and Space Exploration

It seems, upon some recent science fiction musings, that we have entered an age of the Mitochondria; Refueling space-ships that travel between stars will require a vast amount of fuel; The obvious source of energy for this fuel is the sun, but situated so far from the sun as the earth, that energy is not fully available; Although eventually such energy might be "quantum teleported" into the fuel tank, or back to earth, in what might seem like the near future to the industrial space agencies, the sun might be used like a solar generator for sun-orbiting satellites or local spacecraft, even before exploration moves beyond our solar system.

As it is known, various "capsules" have already traveled the distance of Mars, and I believe one even went to Pluto; A new generation of scientists is currently working on a manned spacecraft to travel to mars---as reported in Popular Science; What this might be called is the age of the Mitochondria, the power generator for individual animal's cell structure;

Suitably, philosophy of this period could become highly advanced, beyond mere "postulations" into an age of "active, dynamic information;" I'm excited, as I feel some of these 'advents' have direct social applications that may appear in cafes or other public areas vis. 'modular citizen' and 'virtual capital'

Also see my comments at Esther Dyson's technology column at http://www.project-syndicate.org recently, "avant-garde information" and in other places, "digital marketing devices" and the correspondence between games and society.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Ideas and Society

Thoughts of agenda are like technology: they work on a microcosmic and macrocosmic level; There is a technology of the citizen and a technology of government, which are integrative; Applications are the new paradigm of "interface interfacing," (interface being the razor of metaphysical circumstance in a time of technology); Applications create function-based concepts of knowledge and experience, much like the Dadaists influenced perspectives on writing during the second world war; Such perspectives are deeply intuitive;

Small seeds, germinations of thought, become very capacitous in their state of reference, such as through paradigm-definition, or through variable-mobilization, in the sense of presenting a new pretext for pseudology, that ground where new ideas emerge;

There is a "transcendant" level of this interfacing, a vertical or hierarchical structuring creating node-based corroborations of thought experiments which may be termed the "animals of the applications;" From the most dynamic idea comes an "upshot" a transcendental isomorphism to use logical terminology, through which some mysterious "delineation" dominates and prospers; This idea suggests that we should allow very small pieces of information to influence large networks, if only the standard of application is perfectible; The result, on the obvious level, is hierarchical information (not persons, importantly, at least there is an ambiguity there); Also, there is a kind of poetics to commerce and communication that serves personal psychology imperatively; It is a new paradigm of "superficial chemistry" served via the easy influence of images upon intellects;

Beyond the "Ouroboros" or self-swallowing snake of applications-singularity, and the architectural plotting of aggregate information storages (as though by color, or perfection, or complexity), there is an applications-or-input paradigm of personal dynamic;

This depends on cultural support for interface-nature, either minimalistically (hints of information) or elaboratively (via applications-based public programs); For example, psychological tests can define superficial agendas like the appearance of walls, and sophisticated programs can create a new kind of artwork based on electrode surveying;

The role of the artist merges with the role of the bureaucrat, through simple questions, and bases for authority; Higher principles become common principles, and higher paradigms may rely on the input of the common citizen;

But moreover, there is a need for applications-aesthetic ideas, the call of the philosopher, not just in terms of economics, but in terms of the "superficial" variables that imitate economics; With electronic screens, the city has a new obligation to mystery, both in marketing, and as a dynamic for psychological and systematic functionality;

The role of ideas in such an environment is quite open and expressive; The first step is not to relate money with ideas directly, but the last step is to award many valuable ideas with small cash; This creates a structural program that deserves reflection in sophisticated systems;

Finally, there can be major programs (like book projects, only electronic) that compose aspects of digital culture, organizing them into mystery-functional control and applications networks; That electrode caps should be implemented in a survey framework that already has common appeal, and serves the interest of public networks and benefits should be taken-for-granted;

The subtlest level is the appeal of the public philosopher, and the genius of teenagers, who have the most irrational and at that same time unconventional and inspiring motivation::