I had an image yesterday morning that gives me a picture of what flattening space might achieve.\u00c2\u00a0 You know those pop-up children’s books that open up to a three-dimensional scene in cardboard cut-outs,\u00c2\u00a0lifting up to create a little world when you open the page and folding back when you turn the page to the next scene?\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps that’s a good image for our dimensionalized reality: rigid, fixed configurations whose seeming substantiality cannot move or evolve in time.\u00c2\u00a0 Comparing that to the rich depth of what a good book can open up for us–in the “flattened” space of its pages–perhaps gives some hint of what we give up in the “dimensions of substance”\u00c2\u00a0lifting off the surface of appearance? — Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had an image yesterday morning that gives me a picture of what flattening space might achieve.\u00c2\u00a0 You know those pop-up children’s books that open up to a three-dimensional scene in cardboard cut-outs,\u00c2\u00a0lifting up to create a little world when … Continue reading