Wasn't it "Annie Hall" that turned the phrase 'negative space' into a catchphrase/punchline?
I actually heard it used seriously the other night, in a show about cinematography... and it occurs to me that it could be morphed into a concept called "negative intelligence" that refers to *the quality that prevails when intelligence is absent*.
And what I notice on netnews is that negative intelligence rules almost everywhere-- newsgroups are great sucking black-holes of negative intelligence, where the greatest bigots have the loudest voices, and the greatest say...
The way people get smarter, generally, is by looking at multiple points of view, and letting these pov's 'debate among themselves' in the most even-handed manner possible. But in newsgroups, people who try to lay things out evenhandedly get massively squelched by fucking idiots...
just my opinion ;^/
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In article <4nvikl$...@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <j...@MCS.COM> wrote: >Wasn't it "Annie Hall" that turned the phrase 'negative space' into >a catchphrase/punchline?
I thought it was "negative capability".
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In article <4o09mq$...@bermuda.io.com>, YoYo <y...@io.com> wrote: >In article <4nvikl$...@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <j...@MCS.COM> wrote:
>>Wasn't it "Annie Hall" that turned the phrase 'negative space' into >>a catchphrase/punchline?
>I thought it was "negative capability".
Happily, this is 1996, and I can go type this in to Altavista, which confirms you're right... though the movie was Manhattan.
Going back to my 'negative intelligence' argument, I think this concept may be related to the concept of a Trickster god, like Loki... and to Murphy's Law.
In article <4o4b4j$...@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <j...@MCS.COM> wrote: >In article <4o09mq$...@bermuda.io.com>, YoYo <y...@io.com> wrote: >>In article <4nvikl$...@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <j...@MCS.COM> wrote:
>>>Wasn't it "Annie Hall" that turned the phrase 'negative space' into >>>a catchphrase/punchline?
>>I thought it was "negative capability".
>Happily, this is 1996, and I can go type this in to Altavista, >which confirms you're right... though the movie was Manhattan.
. . . I thought it was John Keats <URL:http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/ ~maldoror/rcmbtx17.html> (for example), not Diane Keaton. You're quite right; AltaVista is a blessing. --
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