AtDDtA1: Permanent Siege

[Dave Monroe]

--- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> It's a stunning passage, but it moves me to comment
> on the irony of the way we remember Descartes, as
> if his great project had been to construct a grid
> and to see all of reality against it.  In truth,
> his grid was just an abstraction that allowed him
> to express the familiar, sensual forms of classic
> geometry as equations made of arbitrary symbols.
> Removing all visual content from geometry, as it
> was felt at the time that pictures tended to
> mislead more than they explained.

Dammit, there was a contemporary, haptically based
alternative to the Cartesian grid, but ...



 
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