Architecture, Masonry plate intellectualises practical knowledge by ignoring the tacit dimension embodied within it. In this process of translation, knowledge is fragmented and diminished. It is transformed into a poetic, oneiric, and romanesque18 image that ingrains in itself signs and their infinite vibrations 19.
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Img. 9 Diagram indicating how the tableau vivant follows the Map of the System of Human Knowledge grid’s pattern – Edited by the author.
18. Roland Barthes, The Plates of The Encyclopedia (Evanston: Northwestern Press, 2009), 2339. In “The Plates of The Encyclopedia”, Barhes describes the informative system of the Encyclopedic image as being “poetic, oneiric, and romanesque”. 19. Barthes, The Plates of The Encyclopedia, 34. Barthes defines Poetics as the sphere of infinite amount of vibrations, in other words, meanings.
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