WorksheetsQuiz 14 | Diller + Scofidio, Blur
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Diller + Schofido's Blur is a complex work where it reveals cloud, conceals cloud, and gets one into the cloud
True
False
Blur is equated with indubious
True
False
Descartes's philosophical project is to shine the light on human reason
True
False
If the fog or cloud of Blur offered an experience of a vaporized, massless or light world, it provided the perfect setting, Scofidio claims, for the experience of "another all-pervading, yet massless medium" of light and flickering messages:_________________________
the Internet
the Computer
the Website
the Book
In Blur, technology produces a cloud in which we dwell with things, people and messages of which we have only dim awareness yet a clear feeling of ____________________
disconnection
connection
information
disinformation
What could possibly be divine about life inside a cloud?
"Cloud of Knowing"
"Cloud of Doubt"
"Cloud of Unknowing"
"Cloud of Undoubt"
Entering the cloud in pursuit of the divine life means leaving behind the world of solid and stable objects seen clearly and placed distinctly to run after the elusive and mysterious, the face that is seen less and less clearly the more truly one attains sight of it
True
False
Theologically speaking, cloud is not dark; indeed, the darkness that negates light must itself be negated or overcome. The ___________________cloud is the negation of this darkness, itself a negation of light, but the _________________ cloud negates darkness without returning simply to the light in which things are seen clearly and distinctly
superhero
superlucent
superficial
super
Opposite “The apotheosis of electricity,” their technologies move us to clarity and distinctness, introducing us into the clouds and bringing us to inhabit the blur of a world with clear and distinct, high-definition or high-resolution images.
True
False
Entering the cloud in pursuit of the divine life means leaving behind the world of solid and stable objects seen clearly and placed distinctly to run after the elusive and mysterious, the face that is seen less and less clearly the more truly one attains sight of it.
True
False
If it is indeed by technology that we make and sustain a clearing in which what comes to light might come to light,________________ is one such technology, but it makes and sustains an opening better understood as a cloud than a clearing-perhaps a cloudy clearing.
reason
passion
love
science
