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Games / Apps. Collapsing Bulkheads: the Covers of Crash. By Rick Poynor ‘Missing the point’: (detail, Livre de Poche edition, 1973; design: Atelier Pascal Vercken). NOTE: This is an edited version of an essay published in Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture by Rick Poynor, Laurence King Publishing, 2006. First published in Eye no. 52, Summer 2004. J. Yet Crash, described by Ballard himself as a ‘psychopathic hymn’, did find a following. I read the hardback first edition of Crash as a teenager, soon after it came out.
LEFT: Crash’s first jacket, designed by Bill Botton (Jonathan Cape, 1973).RIGHT: Chris Foss’s interpretation (Panther, 1975). The first jacket, published by Jonathan Cape in 1973, shows a jutting gear stick, presumably intended to be phallic, in front of a towering three-dimensional titlepiece that occupies most of the cover. . (1972), treats the image as an opportunity for lurid, pulp-style exploitation. LEFT: Fashionable flirtations (illustration: James Marsh; Triad, 1985).RIGHT: ‘Too lipsticky; too neat’. Rick Poynor. Anthropic principle. The Participatory Anthropic Principle. Science studies space, time, matter, and energy. Does it have a place for truth, love, beauty, or justice? Each of these depends upon “consciousness,” an “emergent property” of the material world. If intelligence here on Earth is just a statistical fluke in an otherwise lifeless universe, then categories like “beauty” or “justice” have no intrinsic meaning.
In that kind of a universe, “meaning” is what humans impose on their surroundings, not something they discover within them. Modern methodogical materialism takes the position that intelligence here on Earth is, in fact, just a statistical fluke. But is this sound reasoning? John Wheeler (the physicist who coined the term “black hole”) proposed a “participatory anthropic principle” which makes the quantum concept of an “observation” even more basic than the physical realities of space, time, matter, and energy. Phenomenalism. Phenomenalism is the view that physical objects cannot justifiably be said to exist in themselves, but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. redness, hardness, softness, sweetness, etc.) situated in time and in space. In particular, some forms of phenomenalism reduce talk about physical objects in the external world to talk about bundles of sense-data.
History[edit] Phenomenalism is a radical form of empiricism. Its roots as an ontological view of the nature of existence can be traced back to George Berkeley and his subjective idealism, which David Hume further elaborated.[1] John Stuart Mill had a theory of perception which is commonly referred to as classical phenomenalism. Kant's "epistemological phenomenalism", as it has been called, is therefore quite distinct from Berkeley's earlier ontological version. Criticisms[edit] Roderick Chisholm criticized the logical positivist version of phenomenalism in 1948.[4] C.I. A third common objection in the literature[who?] Early Modern Texts - Philosophers and Philosophy Topics.