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HBL is an email list discussing Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, and its application to today's culture.
HBL's moderator and regular contributor is Harry Binswanger, a philosophy professor and associate of the late Ayn Rand.
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It is of critical importance to separate the creator from the created--most certainly for my field of Architecture and Design. In my practice as an Architect and as professor of design, the idea created is distinct from the creator/designer. The idea can take many forms--sketches, written, physical scale model or computer renderings, etc. Once that idea starts to take form, it should be evaluated in an iterative cycle between creator/thinker and object/idea all through the evolution of the design.
In architecture school we call that "having a dialogue" between the designer and the thing designed. That thing, the object, can "tell" you what it really is (as opposed to what you presumed it is supposed to be/what it is exactly that you supposed you were creating)
— Temple Washington
Recent posts by Harry Binswanger:
- 5/4 Subtitle yet again
- 5/4 What is poetry about?
- 5/7 A new idea re "the reactive subconscious"
- 5/8 Publishing--a dead industry
- 5/8 Some good political news
- 5/8 The Left's view of how wealth is made
- 5/11 Heads we regulate, tails we regulate
- 5/11 Postscript on JPMorgan Chase
- 5/14 Causality, selection, and capitalist justice
- 5/14 Objectivity and object
- 5/16 Jamie Dimon and the blunders
- 5/16 Objectivity and object--a follow up
-- Prior posts by HB --