Abstract objects, 50-53
Acceleration: as ratio of Modernism, 160-82
Accommodation: defined semiotically, 15-20, 140
Adams, Henry: theory of history, 161-69, 172
Agreement: in fairy tale, 1
Ali Baba, 62-65
Alienation: and instrumentalism, xii; semiotic, 171-82
Allegory: as exchange-with-displacement, 63-64
Anamorphoses, 97-99
Anaximander: map of, 86-88, 148
Animal communication, 7-10
Apeiron, 19
Apollo: lyre of, 126, 130
Aquinas, Thomas: order of desire, 114
Art: dimensionality of, 38-43; Galileo’s classification of, 41; Paleolithic, 49, 88; Northwest Coast, 60; anamorphic, 97-99; Three-Friends motif, 103
Art for art’s sake: ritualization in, 10
Autocatalysis, 169
Average Man, 168, 171
Bacon, Francis, 45
Baker, Matthew, 18
Balance of power, 147-48
Beauty, 177-82
Bernard, Claude, 141
Betweenness, 71-73
Black box, 64-65
Bohr, Niels, 170
Boustrophedon, 109
Bricoleur, 16
Burke, Edmund, 178
Cannon, W. B., 141
Catachresis, 81
Centaur: groping, 48
Chess: analogy with language, 135-36, 146
Communication theory, 68
Complementarity, 54, 68, 157-59
Conjecture: and signs, 3-6; ‘key’ to discovery, 64; and refutation, 82, 86
Copula. 72-73
Crank: defined, 148
Crowding, 166-67
Cuviers, George, 142
Cybernetics: helmsman in, 86
Daedalus: constructs wings, 6
Deconstruction: and reassemblage, 47
Descartes, René: on indefinite limits, 89; coordinate geometry, 91-92
Dewey, John, 159
Dimension: Euclidean categories, x-xi; hypothetical, 1-2, 5-6, 10-11, 13-14, 40, 48, 59-61, 79, 113, 140; rhythmic, 70
Discovery, x-xii, 2-3; cult of ship, 19; handling, 66; DNA, 67; 2D, 80; ID, 120; Goethe, 142; 4D, 153-59; exhaustion of, 171; fittingness in, 179-80
DNA model, 68, 177
Double: in literature, 5
Drawing, technical, 94
Dürer, Albrecht, 96-97
Egypt: hieroglyphics in, 82-83; surveyors in, 121-22
Einstein, Albert: configurational relativity, 179; on service, 179
Eliot, T. S.: “The Dry Salvages,” 179, 182
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 180-81
Episteme, 56
Erthe, 56, 60, 175
Emergence, 113
Enclosure Acts, 174
Euler, Leonard, 96-97
Exchange: defined, 4; and acceleration, 160
Exchange-with-displacement, 4, 14, 150, 156
Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness, 130-32
Feedback, positive, 169-70
Fetish: means-ends distortion, 21, 163-64; and alienation, 173-74
Field: numbers, 119-20; concept of, 134-41
Figure-Ground, 13-14; cutting and combining, 50, 53-55; Urgrund, 56; language, 136-40
Fittingness, 177-82
Fleetingness, 119
Flock numbers, 119-20
Focillon, Henri, 48
“The Frog Prince,” 1, 175-76
Funktionskreis, 55, 140
Future, 1-3, 112-13. See also Time
Galileo: “sculptress nature,” 61; vice anamorphic art, 97
Geometry, coordinate, 91-95
Gestalt psychology, xi, 138-39. See also Figure-Ground
Gnomon, 59
Gödel, Kurt, 157
Goethe, J. W., 22, 74-75, 141-43
“The Golden Goose,” 174 -75
Graticola, 91
Gulliver, 182
Hands, 47-50
Harmonics: Pythagorean, 122-31
Hecataeus, 86-87, 89
Hieroglyphics, 80-85
Hobbes, Thomas, xii, 2, 3
Holism, 152-59
Homeostasis, 140–1
Homo faber, 49
Horizons: theory of, 88-91
Icon, 101-102
Ideograph, 80
Induction, 57
Industrial Revolution, 160-61
Industry, Neolithic, 58
Ingres, J. A. D., 40
Inverse-square law, 122-30, 161-67
James, William, 111
Jones, Sir William, 134
Junk, Chinese, 17
Keats, John: “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” 177
Kenning, 15
Knack technology, 50
Knotting, 70-74
Koffka, Kurt, 139
Kohler, Wolfgang, 139-40
Language: abstraction in, 52; ground of, 136
Lascaux cave paintings, 40, 77-79
Leaps to discovery, 6, 57, 155
Leonardo da Vinci, 81
Locke, John, 132, 160-61
Locked-room mystery, 63-64
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 166-67
Maps: Uncle Toby’s, ix; cosmic, 14; as linguistic signs, 33-34; 2D, 60; mapping, 85-88
Marx, Karl, 172-73
Mathematics, 11, 118, 165
Matter: splitting and fusing, 47, 50
Means-ends variations: in eighteenth century, ix-xi; in fairy tales, 5; in definitions of signs, tools, and models, 20-25, 42; in stone tools, 52-53; in reversals, 114, 162-64; in service, 180
Melville, Herman, 106, 181
Mercator projection, 76
Metalanguages, 37
Milton, John, 15
Mnemonics, architectural, 79
Model: of fortresses, ix-x; of discovery, 5, 80; defined, 23; container, 63-65; DNA, 67-68,177; endless screw, 74-75; Chesapeake Bay, 133; tree, 141-46; steam engine, 149-52; 4D, 154-59
Modernism, 160-71
More, Henry, 89
Mukarovsky, Jan, 170
Music, 42-43; Pythagorean theory of, 122-30
Naming, 49
Napoleon Bonaparte, 59
Neocortex, 51—52
New Criticism, 137
Newton, Sir Isaac, 120-30
Nicholas of Cusa, 91
Nietzsche, F. W., 20
Obsolescence, 169-70
Odysseus, 38
Oedipus, 14, 110
Organicism, 141-46
Origami, 97
Painting: Mannerist, 92-93
Palingenesis, 6, 50-51
Parallax: semiotic, 138
Perception, 13, 76-78, 103
Perspective: Renaissance, 91-95
Perspectivism: six categories of signs, 5, 24; and whole systems, 134
Phyllotaxis, 74
Phoenician traders, 85-86, 88
Placebo, 10, 53. See also Fetish
Plato, 113, 129, 148
Platonism, Cambridge, 128
Plutarch, 22
Poincaré, Henri, 89
Polar analysis, 106
Polybius, 147-48
Progress, 169, 171
Poe, E. A., xii, 63
Pope, Alexander, 17
Pygmalion, 60
Pyramid, Great, 59
Pythagoreans, 118, 120-30
Quixote, Don, 182
Ratios, 119-30
Relativity, 98-101
Rhythm, 159
Ritualization: in animal communication, 7-10, 15; and abstraction, 51-52; in stone tools, 52-53; and square circle, 81-82; in writing, 85; and inverse-square law, 165; and alienation, 173
Rotation: Euclidean, 36
Rousseau, J. J., 51
Salviati: “Bathsheba,” 92-94
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 142
Semiotics: as class, 6; triad, 26; and genetics, 68; social need for, 170-71
Service, 179-82
Shakespeare, William, 3-4, 16, 21, 168-69, 176
Ship: cult of, 17-19
Sign: defined, 1-4, 21
Skill: defined, 48
Snell, Bruno, 106
Socrates, 177-78
Space: polydimensional, 12; sacred, 13-15
Spatialization of Thought, 130-32
Stacking: 3D classification, 59
Structuralism: French, xi-xii; self-regulation in, 139-40, 147-52
Stylization, ix-x. See also Ritualization
Symbol: as class, 11; defined, 80, 115-16
Symbolic envelope, 164
Symmetry, 70, 97
Synchrony, 134-38
Tally stick, 115-16
Tantalus, 48
Technology. See Acceleration of products
Tetractys, 122-24
Thales, 19, 86, 147
Thoreau, Henry David, 20, 180-81
Time: transcendence, 36; clock, 109-11; future, 111-15; “time-factored,” 116-17; waste in, 182
Timeliness, 168
Tool: hand-held, 23; Neolithic pot, 39-40; stone, 52-53; cutting, 53-55; walking stick, 54-55; combining, 55-62; jack knife, 180-81
Topology: handling, 66-67; and planar distortion, 95-101
Torsion: and Found Art, 16; and sleight of hand, 37-38; betweenness, 72; on planes, 91-101
Triangle, 13, 17
Tristram Shandy, The Life and Opinions of, ix-xi
Twoness, 36, 118
Uexküll, J. von, 55, 140
Vaihinger, F., 106
Vergegenständlichung, 175-76
Warp and woof, 105-107
Watt, James, 149-52
Wilkinson, John, 163
Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 114
Winteler, Jost, 138
Whole System, 65, 133-58
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 98
Words: illusoriness of, 62, 64
Wordsworth, William, 141
Writing: pictographic, 80; rebus, 82; Sumerian, 83-84; cuneiform, 85; cursive, 109
Xenophon, 177-78
Zeno, 162
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