[Industrialblog,
November 15, 2003]
Why Industrial Blog?
It's an application of an idea from William Carlos Williams. He said, "A poem is a thing made." Whether he was influenced by philosophical positivism I don't know, but it sounds like a positivistic philosophy.
The application of science is industry; application of scientific methods toward language should produce poetry. And Williams was a language poet, wasn't he?
So I was trying to think of a name for me new blog (yarr) and thought, hey, I like Williams, why not something that pays an obscure tribute to him?
While not a philosophical positivist by any means, I use many positivistic methods in some areas of my writing. Positivism was concerned with understanding the limits of knowledge. You don't know what you don't know. You don't know what people are thinking. You can guess, but you don't know unless you get serious clues which are likely open to interpretation. I like that discipline in my writing and in what I read. Writing is about 10 percent art and 90 percent engineering, YMMV. Hence, Industrial Blog.
The application of science is industry; application of scientific methods toward language should produce poetry. And Williams was a language poet, wasn't he?
So I was trying to think of a name for me new blog (yarr) and thought, hey, I like Williams, why not something that pays an obscure tribute to him?
While not a philosophical positivist by any means, I use many positivistic methods in some areas of my writing. Positivism was concerned with understanding the limits of knowledge. You don't know what you don't know. You don't know what people are thinking. You can guess, but you don't know unless you get serious clues which are likely open to interpretation. I like that discipline in my writing and in what I read. Writing is about 10 percent art and 90 percent engineering, YMMV. Hence, Industrial Blog.