Posts Tagged ‘comparison’

Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4 One interim conclusion that might be drawn from part 3 is that objects are not known through a description of their properties, but objects are known through the difference that they make. Moreover, if the difference objects make are as participant-comparisons, then this is the material and dynamic work of [...]

Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4 Comparisons as imperium brings with it the active modern subject (who imposes the comparison), and the passive modern object (who is compared). Such a subject strives to know the world through describing the properties of objects (as objects having properties is the comparison imposed), with the hope of determining modern [...]

Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4 This task of characterising number as a comparison may seem unfamiliar. We don’t usually think of number as a comparison. As in the previous post, we merely accept that accept that number does comparison, and can do so with almost anything. According to Mary Poovey, this is because number epitomises [...]

The next four posts are written to develop some momentum into thinking number as a participant comparison. The interest in comparison comes from a recent seminar called Comparative Relativism (Original link in Danish and English link) hosted by IT-University of Copenhagen (September 2009) papers from which are to be published in Common Knowledge in 2011. [...]