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- In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work and Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, this study embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help to explain the functioning of our universe.
- Author(s): Tyler Volk
- 296 Pages
- Philosophy, Metaphysics
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Embracing nature and culture, this book seeks out the grand-scale patterns that help explain the functioning of our universe. Beginning with the archetypal patterns of space, Volk turns to the arrows, breaks and cycles that infuse the workings of time. Illustrating his metapatterns with a series of collages, Volk offers an exciting new look at science and the imagination.Book Synopsis
In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work and Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, this study embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help to explain the functioning of our universe.From the Back Cover
In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature, and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, Metapatterns embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help explain the functioning of our universe. Metapatterns begins with the archetypal patterns of space, both form building and relational. Tyler Volk then turns to the arrows, breaks, and cycles that infuse the workings of time. With artful dexterity, he brings together many layers of comprehension, drawing on an astounding range of material from art, architecture, philosophy, mythology, biology, geometry, and the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences. Richly illustrating his metapatterns with a series of sophisticated collages prepared for this book, Volk offers an exciting new look at science and the imagination. As playful and intuitive as it is logical and explanatory, Metapatterns offers an enlightening view of the functional, universal form in space, processes in time, and concepts in mind.Review Quotes
"Volk gives us new ways of thinking about and looking at the world. Intriguingly illustrated with computer and hand drawings, collages and photographs, his lyrical meditation will appeal to scientists, New Age types, interdisciplinary thinkers and the intellectually adventurous." -- "Publishers Weekly"
"Volk gives us new ways of thinking about and looking at the world. Intriguingly illustrated with computer and hand drawings, collages and photographs, his lyrical meditation will appeal to scientists, New Age types, interdisciplinary thinkers and the intellectually adventurous." -- Publishers Weekly
"Volk gives us new ways of thinking about and looking at the world. Intriguingly illustrated with computer and hand drawings, collages and photographs, his lyrical meditation will appeal to scientists, New Age types, interdisciplinary thinkers and the intellectually adventurous." -- "Publishers Weekly"