Paul Hurt's linkage site: home page

       Below, some of the site's many images, showing some of its range and
      variety - easily seen by scrolling down the page. Click on an image to
      go to a linked page or to Home Page Images in some cases. Clicking
      anywhere on 'the rail' (the long band at the left margin) from lower
      down on any page takes you to top of page. Some pages, including
      this, make use of 'Large Page Design.' They are wide as well as long

All pages use an innovation of mine in Web navigation, 'the rail,' a long, thin band on the left margin.

Clicking on the rail gives a means of reaching top of page very quickly. There, links are provided for
rapid page travel, travel within the page (to different regions of the page) and travel to other pages.

The British Library (the national library of the United Kingdom) has selected all of this site for preservation, in the
Arts and Humanities / Literature archive and the Computer Science, Information Technology and Web Technology archive

I've been working on new, very demanding projects. The time I have available for other projects is restricted. Pages I intended
to revise / extend, pages with formatting issues, will have to remain for now in their present state.
Many of the images on this page without a link to a page will be provided with links and text explanations but again,
the demands on my time will delay this work.

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PHD, Paul Hurt Design: sustainable design and construction. Innovations for farms, gardens, workshops, construction of small buildings, the home

PHD, Paul Hurt Design offers genuine innovation, practicality and a concern for aesthetics and the environment in the design and construction of

Agricultural growing systems, as in one of the three inventions now 'patent pending' in the United States.

The invention title is 'Integrated dual layer structure and structure group system with modifiable components and configurations for growing, protected cropping, protected working, materials handling, water collecting and water conservation for use in vineyards and orchards and as a polytunnel substitute.' Further information: vineyard-orchard-polytunnel-growing-system.

New Window-Door System is a radical system with a very wide range of applications, from small-scale domestic
applications to industrial and large-scale architectural applications. It offers unparalleled opportunities to install, very quickly, different surfaces in window spaces which optimize insulation in cold weather, optimize air flow in hot weather, to reduce or eliminate reliance upon air-conditioning installations and allow the insertion of surfaces to achieve wide-ranging benefits, including benefits in security, in fire control, and benefits in storage and provision of working facilities inside homes, offices, workshops and factories. This system has patent pending status in the United States.

New roofing-walling-system also has patent pending status in the United States and has the potential to achieve massive benefits in mitigation of flooding, water collection and storage on a large scale to address the problem of drought and to reduce reliance upon mains water, and a range of other benefits, including fire safety.

Other innovations: other water-collecting surfaces, directing water to storage containers, a pond or directly to plants.

Greenhouses - greenhouses with presence, flexible, adaptable, with large, removable panels to lower the internal temperature during heat waves and to allow natural precipitation to water the crops in the greenhouse, reducing reliance on mains water, with water-collecting surfaces to conserve water.
Implementing green roofs, eg, the roof of the PHD Greenhouse, with grape vines / hop plants, with no need for bulky, heavy soil or compost.

New bed-and-board systems in gardens / allotments, with many advantages, including huge flexibility: boards can be quickly removed and replaced, beds can be modified very easily, become larger or smaller, growing areas can be divided into beds or not. When large,
open areas are chosen, water-collecting surfaces can easily be installed, if the areas are on a slope.
A new lightweight metal system allowing quick construction of various garden / small farm structures
for plant protection and support.
A solar composter, speeding up production of compost by the greenhouse effect.
A solar wood store, speeding up the drying of wood for efficient burning in wood stoves.

Wildlife aids - a bird table, a swift nesting box, very different from all existing designs - easily constructed, easily installed at a height without a ladder - it takes a little over a minute.
Hydraulic machinery for log splitting / apple pressing, elegant, useful furniture when not in use.
Other domestic furniture- a table, a bookcase, storage systems - distinctive designs, not copies.
A radical new roofing system, allowing inclined roofs (including water collecting roofs) to be constructed as easily as flat roofs, within (not above) a new walling system.
Workbenches for woodworking / metalworking, easy to construct, easy to dismantle, easy to move from place to place, but solid and immovable in use, with ample storage space and versatile working surfaces.
A vice for woodworking, with pressure exerted by a ratchet strap, not a screw thread.
Van to Campervan conversions which can be implemented quickly and are cost-effective, practical and harmonious.
Van to Display Unit conversions, using telescopic and other components, in particular display boards. The boards can display material of many different kinds, e.g. campaigning images and text, advertizing material. The displays are static, for use when the van is parked, not moving.
Simple aids to moving heavy loads up slopes and on level ground, in gardens / allotments.

Page-travel: new techniques in Website navigation introduces innovations in navigation within the page and between pages. I regard links of this kind as a form of rail, in this case a horizontal rail for navigating within the site or to other sites. The long rail at the left side is a vertical rail, of course. A large number of the images above are
image-links, another method of navigating the site. The material on this page is diverse. The presence of a vertical rail helps to unify the page, to remove the feeling that the user is going into remote parts, in the case of very long pages. Website navigation has linkages with travelling in an area or travelling to more distant places, to remote places.

My work has been carried out for personal reasons but with the hope of giving wider benefits.

Linkages as well as contrasts underlie to a greater or lesser extent most of this site. I stress methods, techniques, ideas, concepts, values that are common to very different fields of activity, often ones which unify, and not only in design / construction but far more widely - the project TTL, 'Theme, Theory, Practice.'

A project which is a substantial part of my work, in the field of comparative literature: 'literature, broadly defined, and other spheres of human activity, including history, politics, philosophy, art and science' and in multiple languages. Work in the field of poetic technique
and innovation in poetics is a separate, linked project.

One interest of mine, music, has no coverage in any detail. I do include brief information about some writing of mine on an aspect of violin technique. It was included in a violin concerto which received its world premiere at a Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall. The concerto includes text as well as the music, obviously the main component of the work. I had studied with the Hungarian violinist Rudolf Botta, commemorated by the concerto. Before switching to the violin and viola, I was a cellist, and played the cello in an orchestra which included professional players, the members of 'The Lindsays' (The Lindsay String Quartet.)

Images are an important part of the site. So too are ideas and concepts, particularly the concepts I call {themes}. The project TTL, 'Theme, theory, practice' involves practical applications as well as abstract theory.

I discuss many, many applications of {themes} in pages of the site. These two lists give some idea of their range and variety.

List 1 gives examples organized by {theme}. They range from the general to the very specific. Each {theme} has its own page in the site and there are links to the {themes} in the lists below.

List 2 gives examples which are all discussed in the page Interpretations. The treatment is generally more thorough, making use of symbolic {theme} theory.

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{adjustment}
Pseudo-science
Commercial pressures
Nietzsche
Goya and violence

{completion}
Mathematical proof
Truth tables
Digital electronics
Biological taxonomy
Aristotle's 'telos'
Gothic and Renaissance architecture

{direction}
Generalized linkage connective
Implication
Material conditional
Teleological arguments
Trends
Vectors and directed lines
Ferromagnetism
Entropy
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 3.144

{distance}
The key system in music
modulation in poetry
The unities of drama
Narrative {distance}
'Du' and 'Sie' in German
Edward Bullough's aesthetic {distance}
Wordsworth's boy at Windermere
The subjunctive and optative in Thucydides iii, 22
Web design and {distance}
The law of negligence

{modification}
The Journey
James Connolly and the Easter Rising
Innovation
Nietzsche
Transformation in Rembrandt and Rilke
Mind, body and the rest of the world
George Orwell: capital and corporal punishment
Activism and opposition
{modification} by {diversification}
The necessary, the impossible and the contingent
The ship of Theseus
Invariance
Variables and pretensions
Corroboration and falsification
Typography and action
Modal properties

{ordering}
Ethical decision-making
Digital technology
Military medicine: triage
Priorities in politics
Dependence
Nietzsche
{ordering} and {grouping}
The mind and concentration

{restriction}
Limitation and limits
Disappointment and imperfection
Exemption: slavery
Quantum mechanics
Jokes
Linkage schemata
((surveys))
Framing
Linkage isolation
Isolation and abstraction
Isolation and 'The Whole Truth'
Isolation and distortion
Poetry and prose
Kant and the limits to knowledge
Allowing and disallowing

{reversal}
Thermodynamic reversal
Elastic deformation
Negation
Undoing
Inversion and musical intervals

{separation}
Of people: Shakespeare
Of people: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Commuters
Between past and present
Vegetables and fruit
Human characteristics and versatility
Thermodynamic separation
{separation} and application-sphere
{separation} and separability
Causation
Areas of competence

{substitution}
Evaluating the thing itself
Mathematical and scientific {substitution}

2. Interpretations
Commutative operators
Demarcation: science-metaphysics
Endothermic and exothermic reactions
Foundationalism and coherentism
Implication
Induction
Inertia
Infinitesimals
Interchangeability
Intervals
Inverses of functions
Kantian categories
Mendelian factors
Meta- and para-studies
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's third law of motion
Particle in a box
Polish (prefix) notation
Referents
Regions
Selection: natural and artificial

SI units
Thermodynamic systems and partitions

Email address: paulhurt100@gmail.com

About this site gives introductory information on a wide variety of topics, including use of images and this: 'Emails sent to me are treated as confidential. Emails sent to me won't be released into the public domain, including publication on this site, unless with the sender's permission.' With only the most limited exceptions: automatic, machine-generated emails and any emails which threaten actions which are clearly illegal.

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...' ('Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics,' translation of 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 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, metal, 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 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 in war, industry and nature.

Ethics has technical and non-technical sections. It introduces symbolic notation for 'outweighing,' a fundamental concept in ethics, for me, but with much wider applicability.

Pages concerned with value judgments include appreciation as well as criticism. There's criticism of anti-feminists as well as radical feminists, criticism of people who oppose 'woke' views as well as criticism of woke views, criticism of Christian beliefs without assuming that non-Christians and anti-Christians have a monopoly of good sense, without assuming that they are incapable of stupidity (and worse, much worse), arguments and evidence in favour of 'conservative' views, but with significant reservations.

The pages on universities contain criticism of some aspects of some universities (Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, the Sheffield universities and others) and many people at those universities. In other pages, I attempt to convey some of the astonishing achievement of universities, in science, technology and other fields. For me, the achievements outweigh the failures.

My poetry - very varied - appears on the page Poems. Some of the poems have been published in literary magazines. Word-image design contains my 'concrete poems.'

The study of linkages is one of the broadest of all studies. Linkages / contrasts, are fundamental organizing principles of the site. I discuss linkages in many different fields and create new ones - there are many innovations here. 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.

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.