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• February 22nd, 2021

  I'm reminded of Sarah Perry's article 📰 Deep Laziness, inspired by Christopher Alexander, about better living through Structure-Preserving Transformations.

  The article I've been trying to write is about drawing connections between Eugene Gendlin and Christopher Alexander.

• February 23rd, 2021

  📝 Eugene Gendlin and Christopher Alexander

  Yesterday, February 22nd, 2021, I thought I would try to use this new public notebook as a place to work on my article about Eugene Gendlin and Christopher Alexander.

  describing Christopher Alexander's architectural practice;

  describing Christopher Alexander's wider aesthetic theory;

• Thread on Plateau, Flow, and Symbols

  So craftspeople like to have tools that are truly beautiful, which themselves exhibit the qualities of good craftsmanship. Beloved hand tools are exceptionally radiant examples of the Christopher Alexander type of quality—like, they have the "inner calm" property.

• Thread on Visual Attention and Semantic Centers

  but I'm interested in this also because I wonder if Christopher Alexander's proto-scientific theory of Centers has been brought to empiricism in studies of visual attention

• Thread on @kev_mcg's The Game of Quality

  and here is @kev_mcg making it clear how Christopher Alexander's style of enhancing the Centers in the environment inspired by Patterns is a way of reenchanting the world in a direct, material, pushing-atoms-around kind of way https://t.co/iA5oq5mcwX

• Thread on Christopher Alexander and Functorial Structure-Preserving Transformations

  posting an idea before I forget it Christopher Alexander’s “structure-preserving transformations” take place within a domain, like a function of type Drawing → Drawing there are also SPTs between domains, like Flower → Drawing

• 📰 Deep Laziness

  What is this underlying structure? It is the “field of centers,” made up of “centers,” a Christopher Alexander term I have written about extensively, and about which my thinking changes each time I write about it (hopefully becoming more correct).

• 📰 The Long Path that Leads from the Making of Our World to God

  Author: Christopher Alexander

• 📙 The Nature of Order

  Author: Christopher Alexander