Topology - (Binaural Version With Video Examples) - Derek Drudge - The Cube

Performance of Topology by Derek Drudge The Cube @ Virginia Tech 8-21-2026“Performance of Topology by Derek Drudge The Cube @ Virginia Tech 8-21-2026 Video by Meredith Drum Text: "Before writing was invented man lived in acoustic space, boundless, directionless, horizon-less. In the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by Terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. The goose quill brought an end to talk. It abolished mystery. It brought architecture and towns, roads and armies, bureaucracy. This is the basic metaphor with which the cycle of civilization began. The step from the dark into the light of the mind. The hand that filled the parchment page built the city. Whence did the wondrous mystic art arise, Of painting speech, and speaking to the eyes? That, by tracing magic lines are are taught, How to embody, and to color thought.” “We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art, as a teaching machine designed to maximize perception and to make everyday learning a process of discovery. Application of this knowledge would be the equivalent of a thermostat controlling room temperature. It would seem only reasonable to extend such controls to all the sensory thresholds of our being. We have no need to be grateful to those who juggle these thresholds in the name of haphazard innovation.” -From Media is the Massage (1967) by Marshall Mcluhan “The eye—it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where’er they be, against or with our will.” -William Wordsworth, “Expostulation and Reply”