A carafe, that is a blind glass
A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading. (Gertrude Stein, Writings 313)
Reading a text is an experiment. You -the reader- are the observer. Without you the text remains in a superposition of all possible meanings. The text collapses under your eyes.
[...] to explore the correlation between the modernist aesthetics emerging from Gertrude Stein's writings and quantum mechanical models of reality. A common ground between Gertrude Stein's art of fiction and Niels Bohr's interpretation of the quantum phenomena can be established by tracing both visions back to William Jame's ``Principles of Psychology.'' [...] Quantum mechanics reflects modernism's self-consiousness understanding of language and art. (Jan D. Kucharzewski, American Studies, 2005)
This will be a truely interdisciplinary Regensburger Nachtgesprüch with speakers from both sides of the campus pond. Will it be possible to find words to make ones associations and interpretation of a text understandable by all? Space (Patrizierstube im Vitus) and Time (Tuesday, July 5, 21 c.t.) are fixed, and the massive wooden walls may serve as frames of reference.
A carafe, that is a blind glass
A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading. (Gertrude Stein, Writings 313)
Reading a text is an experiment. You -the reader- are the observer. Without you the text remains in a superposition of all possible meanings. The text collapses under your eyes.
[...] to explore the correlation between the modernist aesthetics emerging from Gertrude Stein's writings and quantum mechanical models of reality. A common ground between Gertrude Stein's art of fiction and Niels Bohr's interpretation of the quantum phenomena can be established by tracing both visions back to William Jame's ``Principles of Psychology.'' [...] Quantum mechanics reflects modernism's self-consiousness understanding of language and art. (Jan D. Kucharzewski, American Studies, 2005)
This will be a truely interdisciplinary Regensburger Nachtgesprüch with speakers from both sides of the campus pond. Will it be possible to find words to make ones associations and interpretation of a text understandable by all? Space (Patrizierstube im Vitus) and Time (Tuesday, July 5, 21 c.t.) are fixed, and the massive wooden walls may serve as frames of reference.
