Word: linearities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...until next month the statistics that Meadows used. Already, though, critics are sharply assailing Meadows' methodology. Their most telling point is that the M.I.T. computer shows only the "bad" trends-such as population and economic growth-increasing exponentially. Some tendencies that might save the world are allowed only "linear" growth, as in simple interest rates. The difference is dramatic. At exponential rates, anything that grows 7% a year would double in size in just over ten years and increase by 86,672% in 100 years. But at linear rates, a 7% increase would lead to a doubling in just...
...courtesan's head, seen in broad day, as it is in the cuirasses and helmets of the gambling soldiers in The Denial of St. Peter, glimpsed by candlelight. A body or a hand is silhouetted against a shielded flame in order to display, with effortless virtuosity, its linear nature as form. Indeed, La Tour's night pieces look like predictions of Cubism; the background is as active as the figure, voids read as strongly as solids. This quality gives his compositions an immense formal authority - Caravaggio, whose followers La Tour had undoubtedly studied in Rome, never solved problems...
Sloan describes his latest work as an attempt to explore the "question of connection between planes of reality"--an experiment in the non-linear story popularized by John Barth. In fact, the book is nothing less than a thorough annihilation of the concept of rationality, a "stoic" work in the very audicity with which it posits the insanity of normalcy...
More generally, comics encourage a non-linear, non-chronological kind of reading, a sense of the story as being all-present. In this way, comics are a possible source for the single most remarkable characteristic of Resnais's style--the handling of time...
Joan Miro plays with curves and lines more as writing than as contours of space, but his calligraphy does not deny the spatial qualities of linear forms. His Woman In the Night provides the viewer with the sensation of being watched by a three-eyed, large-footed smiling female form, whose physical balance is as precarious as the barbell forms floating and swinging around her. Done on a white background with black objects, the work recalls the Japanese brushpainting and calligraphy that influenced many of the surrealist artists. The seducing elements of Miro's works are the imaginative and playful...