miércoles, 10 de noviembre de 2010

Binary Opposition

When Ivan started giving  examples of binary opposition in order to understand better this concept I remembered my philosophy classes two years ago in Spain, the defined land between elements such as good-evil, win-lose, black-white,... it seemed quite similar to Plato’s theory about pure ideas (Beauty, Truth, Love,...).



However, this was just a small part of a theory and know we the main problem how we arrived at this point, in other words, how we made  a significant difference between two elements. It’s quite interesting how sometimes we find the meaning of a fact just looking at the opposite direction.  





The most interesting part was when Ivan Philips mentioned the zone of indeterminacy, especially the sample of the quay, it is shocking how our unconscious choose these locations to certain prohibit activities, it is like a join point.  Adding some intertextuality to this fact, in “The Ghost & the Darkness 1997” Val Kilmer (an engineer) was asked: “Why do you like to build bridges?” and he answered “Because I’m joining two different worlds...”

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