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Re: Wabi-sabi

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Post by zhemao » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 7:30 PM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #18

ttflee wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe we had, but lost them in the history.

You probably lost those words when Qin Shi Huang decided to burn all the (non-legalist) books and bury all the scholars [1]...but there is always YinYang (also Taoism), which at least emphasizes contrasts. Let a hundred schools of thought flourish! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of...

Well Yin and Yang has more to do with philosophy than aesthetics and is used in martial arts and TCM rather than in design or art, so it doesn't really correspond.

Re: Wabi-sabi

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Post by askar_yu » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 8:47 PM UTC

britta wrote: post #28

askar_yu wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saw your first sentence coming. Just getting past read the generalization "East" in the parent comment and thinking "Oh, somebody is gonna finger point and get up in arms about it!", then I see your comment :)

Hm? Not up in arms, just politely noting an inaccuracy. It seemed unnecessary to pull out the Edward Said quotes.

Oh, I did not mean to describe your comment exactly as such. That was a polite and concise point-out by you. "Up-in-arms" was what I was expecting to come, not yours. I just found it amusing to immediately read your first sentence just as those thoughts were flowing in my head. Sorry for confusion.

Re: Wabi-sabi

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Post by qnm » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 10:50 PM UTC

easytiger wrote: post #22

Anti-fragile?

Perhaps. An item gains wabi-sabi through stressors increasing imperfection?

Re: Wabi-sabi

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Post by easytiger » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 12:31 PM UTC

qnm wrote: post #33

easytiger wrote: post #22

Anti-fragile?

Perhaps. An item gains wabi-sabi through stressors increasing imperfection?

Sound's like Taleb's Anti-fragile to me.