Blind Man Looking For A Black Cat In A Dark Room

A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.

Blind man looking for a black cat in a dark room.

Read reviews from world s largest community for readers. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there book. Ernest gellner referred to an east european joke about science philosophy and marxism as looking for a cat in a dark room with various consequences. December 3 2009 january 31.

Dashiell hammett in the dain curse 1929 referred to a blind man in a dark room hunting for a black hat that wasn t there. James mentioned the black cat expression in the first chapter of some problems in philosophy. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there starts with the premise that art is not a code that needs cracking. The cat s responses yearning and mournful seemed to me to echo the depth and doubt of morandi s work.

You re like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. Celebrating the experience of not knowing and unlearning the artists in this exhibition understand the world in speculative terms eager to keep art separate from explanation. The show curated by anthony huberman took its title from a line attributed to charles darwin. A blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn t there and finding it.

September 11 2009 january 3 2010 ica london. Contemporary art museum st. With science the cat is present with philosophy absent and with. With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things the philosopher is likened to a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there.

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