One of Escher's best-known images, this lithograph of two hands drawing each other presents several of the artist's favorite concepts. Most notably, it is an example of what author Douglas Hofstadter has called a 'strange loop,' a paradoxical system which continuously self-referentially repeats…
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena…
Hofstadter devoted his life to study paradoxes of life and the parallels between music, mathematics and philosophy. His research focus in the study of “I”. And the books he wrote are magically…
Musical Theatre Factory (MTF) will present A STRANGE LOOP, with Lyrics, Music, and Book by Michael R Jackson.
In the eye of the beholder
Strange Loop von Paul Dempsey
A Strange Loop at Barbican Theatre London Review: Written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Stephen Brackett, starring Kyle Ramar Freeman
Where he describes this self-referential mechanism as what describes the unique property of minds. The strange loop is a cyclic system that traverses several layers in a hierarchy. By moving through…
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Michael R. Jackson’s new musical is inspired, in part, by the experience of sharing the name of a very famous person.
If everyone did as I think, would it be moral?
image by Shane Willis "Hand Fixing Hand" is sci-fi homage to M. C. Escher's famous lithograph, "Drawing Hands" (see below). The digitally manipulated
Over the past twenty years, Matt Lipps has developed a distinctive photographic practice that pays tribute to the history of twentieth-century photography while
In 1979, a cult book by Douglas Hofstadter explored consciousness via a mathematical idea found in art and music. Now, in the AI revolution, that concept could solve a vital question
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In 1979, a cult book by Douglas Hofstadter explored consciousness via a mathematical idea found in art and music. Now, in the AI revolution, that concept could solve a vital question
In a major new work from the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, two leading scholars argue that analogy is the basis for all human thoughts Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work.…
he old adage, “if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail” can also apply to language. If our language is linear and static, we will tend to view and interact with our world as if it were linear and static. Taking a complex, dynamic, and circular world […]
