Ricardo Nemirovsky – On the Origins of Geometry: Craft and Language

  • 27/03/2024

Our guest will be prof. Ricardo Nemirovsky with a talk on the origins of geometry in craftwork and language. We recommend reading the provided materials in advance

 

 

Date: March 27th (Wednesday), 3:00 PM (Warsaw time)

Join us online via Zoom: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/my/hill.meetings

Or join live: s. 3099, Wydział Geologii UW, ul. Żwirki i Wigury 93

 

On the Origins of Geometry: Craft and Language

 

 

 

Abstract

In this seminar we will be discussing two papers, both of which take Husserl’s “Origin of Geometry” as a seminal text, and each delve in different “territories” which might have served as grounds for the emergence of geometry: craftwork and language. Both, craftwork and language mesh with innumerable prehistoric practices, as ancient as geometry itself was. These exploratory and speculative ideas inspire and provoke critical questions about prevalent images of geometry and mathematics in contemporary societies.

 

Readings

  1. Nemirovsky, R., Bunn, S. J., & Silverton, F. (2023). Crafts and the Origins of Geometry.
  2. Baldwin, T. (2013). Language as the Embodiment of Geometry. In R. T. Jensen & D. Moran (Eds.), The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity (pp. 305-327): Springer International.

This talk is a part of the Traincrease Lecture Series (D4.2).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952324.