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From: krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz)
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Subject: Re: clocks
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 10:02:00 EST
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>>                                           Or check out a book called
>> "Turing's Man," by Stephen Bolton, which discusses changing metaphors
>> for life, the universe, and everything (the ancient Greeks had the
>> spindle, renaissance Europeans had the clock mechanism, we today have
>> the computer as a central metaphor, he claims). We change our world
>> views as our knowledge of ourselves and the universe changes. 

> McLuhan's _Understanding Media_ also discusses the importance of the
> clock metaphor in the late middle ages and the Renaissance.  (Both
> books are well worth reading.)
-- 
> Col. G. L. Sicherman
> UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel

And, of course, in breaking down the barriers of modernism, Salvador
Dali did his famous "melted clock" paintings.   Right?  Not to mention
the clock with the hand at 2 minutes to twelve, the doomsday metaphor
of our times.

- Michael Krantz

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