About this site
Abuses of power:
education, policing
Animal
welfare and activism
Aphorisms
Black Lives Matter Ideology:
criticisms
Bullfighting: against
Cambridge University
Christian religion: against
Church of England: against
Culture industry
Death penalty: against
Design/construction:
other
Ethics: theory and practice
Feminist ideology
Framework science: review
Gardening /
construction:
photographic introduction, 2010 - 2020
Gardening: bed and board
Gardening: protection and support
Gardening: greenhouses, cloches
Gardening: composting, rainwater
collecting, weeding, digging, no dig
Gardening: design principles
Glossary: general
Green ideology and the Green Party
Heaney, Seamus: introduction
Heaney: Cambridge Companion
Heaney: crap and credulity
Heaney: selected poems, criticism
Heaney: ethical depth?
Heaney: translations and versions
Industry
Ireland and Northern Ireland
Israel: defending
Kafka
Nietzsche
Palestinian ideology
[Clicking on light text takes you to the page]
The study of linkages is one of the
broadest of all studies. I discuss linkages in many different fields and
create new ones. There are many innovations here. PHD:
Paul Hurt Design
introduces my design work. The page
Gardening/construction:
introduction, with photographs 2010 - 2020 introduces my
design work in gardening, including techniques, efficient working,
new ways of working as well as appearance and aesthetics. In the
introduction, I quote Jane Grigson: ''In my most optimistic moments, I see every town ringed again with small
gardens, nurseries, allotments, greenhouses, orchards, as it was in the
past, an assertion of delight and human scale.' The other
gardening pages give more detailed material on my gardening work.
The page
Design/construction: other is very varied, with information
about innovations in areas other than gardening.
Page Travel and
Web Design are about my
innovations in Web page navigation, with many advantages in 'Large Page Design'
and other applications.
The section 'Controversies' includes pages on green ideology, the Black Lives Matter ideology, Christian religion, the death penalty, Israel and Palestinian ideology, feminist ideology, animal welfare and activism, veganism, bullfighting, supermarkets and small shops, Ireland and N. Ireland, University education (mainly at Cambridge), secondary education and policing.
Designing with words: PHD concrete poetry and Innovations and new ideas: poetry and visual art are comprehensive accounts. The page metaphor and the page metre present innovations in the technical study of these subjects. There are pages on modulation, on linkage by meaning and linkage by sound. My poems cover a wide range, including humour and sarcasm, war, child labour, nature and troubled relationships. There are pages which make the case against Seamus Heaney's poetry and one on Rilke and Kafka.
I go beyond English in various places,
such as the page Seamus
Heaney: translations and versions. I discuss texts in German, Dutch,
Italian, Latin, classical Greek, modern Greek and Polish,
providing my own translations in most cases.
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Mikhail Bakhtin writes of "Dostoevsky's passion for journalism and his love of the newspaper, his deep and subtle understanding of the newspaper page as a living reflection of the contradictions of contemporary society in the cross-section of a single day, where the most diverse and contradictory material is laid out, extensively, side by side..." (Quoted in 'Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics,' translation by Caryl Emerson.)
My approach is in part systematic and rigorous, sometimes at a high level of abstraction, but I see no contradiction between system and rigour on the one hand and on the other, passion, compassion, activism, humour, an intense concern for the health of language and the vitality of culture, a whole range of other concerns. A systematic study can reveal gaps very clearly. The meticulous work of cartographers helped to show explorers which regions were still unexplored, to suggest new areas for risk and discovery.
Activism and activists - deluded and deranged activists as well as ones I respect and admire - politics and politicians, have a part to play in the pages of the site, but also journalists, poets, musicians, scientists, engineers, labourers, scholars, miners, and many more, including animals.
The 'diverse and contradictory' material in this site covers a very wide range, some of it of journalistic, some of it academic, some of it personal, some of it practical - working with wood, working with metal, working with other materials, designing and constructing buildings, other structures and sometimes machines, the growing of a wide range of plants. Some of it is concerned with aesthetics, some of it is concerned with ethics - with humane values and harshness, unavoidable harshness as well as harshness which can be reduced by reform or technical advances, harshness in peace and harshness in war, industry and nature. There are polemical pages but far more non-polemical ones.
Pages concerned with value judgments include appreciation as well as criticism - criticism which is fair-minded and balanced, I think, even when outspoken - for example, criticism of anti-feminists as well as radical feminists, criticism of many people who oppose 'political correctness' as well as criticism of 'political correctness,' criticism of religious views - mainly, Christian views - without assuming that non-Christians and anti-Christians have a monopoly of good sense, without assuming that they are incapable of stupidity (and worse), arguments and evidence in favour of 'conservative' views but with significant reservations, strong criticism of some aspects of some universities - I focus attention on Cambridge but discuss others - without overlooking their strengths.
Many linkages are problematic and disputed. Astrologers find a linkage between human personality and celestial objects whilst skeptics find no convincing evidence. Scientific advances involve new linkages: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation proposed a linkage between all the bodies in the Universe, Darwin's Theory of Evolution proposed new linkages between organisms.
Science is advanced by new ideas but scientific ideas are corroborated (or falsified) by experiments, most often using apparatus, which belongs to the material world. The linkages between science and the material world aren't in doubt, but the relevance of science to human emotions and society is very problematic. I'd claim that the concepts and ideas put forward on this site are applicable to all these spheres.
Most of the material is non-technical. The page introducing {theme} theory (which includes linkage and contrast) is one exception. I explain some conceptual innovations and go beyond natural language, developing a symbolic notation with many uses and substantial advantages. Pages which make use of this notation include Interpretations. Most of these concern topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy and logic, including commutative operators, thermodynamic systems as partitions, inverses of functions, indeterminate logic, induction, prefix notation, foundationalism, coherentism, S.I. units.
The page
Ethics: theory and practice
has technical and non-technical sections. It introduces symbolic notation for
'outweighing,' a concept which I regard as fundamental in ethics but with
other application-spheres.
The page
About this site
gives background information, including this, 'The site doesn't have comment
sections but comments are always welcome. Emails sent to me won't be
released into the public domain, including publication on this site, unless
with the sender's permission.'