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Interview with Colin Wilson, part 4, undated
No full textInterview with Colin Wilson, part 4, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 2, undated
No full textInterview with Colin Wilson, part 2, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
The tectonic evolution and fluid characteristics of gold-quartz veins at the Globe and Phoenix Mine, Zimbabwe
No full textThe Globe and Phoenix Mine in central Zimbabwe has been developed down to a vertical depth of 1460m and, prior to effective cessation of underground working in 1977, produced 120t of gold at an average recovery grade of 27.6g/t. The deposit contains a large number of veins with a variety of orientations and is located at and around the contact between granitic gneisses of the Rhodesdale batholith and altered rocks of the Kwekwe Ultramafic Complex. Wide zones of ductile deformation are concentrated within the ultramafic rocks and occur both along the E-dipping contact and along NNW-striking zones. Where the two intersect, major alteration to magnesite-rock grading outward to talc-schists occurs. Early deformation involved ∼E-W compression with veins generated along both the gneiss-ultramafic contact and ENE-WSW-striking, subvertical fractures. These preceded the main mineralising event which involved NE-SW-directed compression, with subsequent veining along both NE- and SW-dipping reverse-sense fractures and major veins (the Phoenix Main and Parallel Reefs) related to an oblique reverse-dextral-sense reactivation of the gneiss-ultramafic contact. A further series of veins which steepen progressively down-dip formed along curved stress trajectories late in the evolution of the deposit. In all cases, veining is restricted to gneisses and carbonatised ultramafics, with lodes terminating rapidly on entering talc-schist, indicating that carbonatisation pre-dated vein development. Within the composite lodes, early, deformed, shear-parallel vein increments are clearly post-dated by later units. In the ultramafics, mutually cross-cutting age relationships between steeply dipping shear-parallel vein increments and horizontal extensional veins indicate the operation of stress cycling in the overall formation of the composite orebodies. Shear-parallel increments formed where fluid pressures rose to supralithostatic values sufficient to cause rupture, increased dilatancy, and subsequent rapid fluid infiltration.</p
The practice of history: the Smithsons, Colin St John Wilson, and the writing of architectural history
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to explore the type, form, and methodology of history written by practicing architects following the arrival of kunstgeschichte in Britain. Through an analysis of historical writings by Alison and Peter Smithson, and Colin St John Wilson a series of topics are explored including the relationship between history and practice, the use of different narrative structures, and the qualities that a practicing architect can bring to the study of the past. The paper concludes by emphasising that whilst all history is contemporary history, the association between history and its architect-author was not simplistic but a complex interrelationship of position and intention
Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints
No full textThe claim that feature assimilation is strictly local, applying only between adjacent segments, appears to be contradicted by languages in which, descriptively speaking, vowel harmony passes through so-called 'transparent' vowels without affecting them.
We adopt the particular approach to vowel harmony developed within OT by Bakovic (2000), according to which agreement constraints require only articulatorily adjacent (Gafos 1996, Ni Choisain & Padgett 1997) vowels to harmonize with one another. Adopting strict locality seems to force us to incorrectly predict that non-assimilating vowels block harmony -- are opaque to it -- in all languages. Our proposal is that transparency is optimal in some languages because an output candidate with a transparent vowel diverges minimally from an output candidate with full assimilation. These languages highly value full assimilation, but they also highly value avoidance of certain types of (marked) vowels. These two value systems interfere with one another, resulting in a pattern that is an optimal blend of assimilation and avoidance: namely, transparency.
Formally, transparency arises from a targeted constraint (Wilson 2000; cited as Wilson, in preparation in the paper) that disprefers the full assimilation candidate relative to another candidate that is exactly the same except that one or more vowels (the transparent ones) have failed to assimilate. Because a potential candidate with opaque vowels is in turn disprefered relative to full assimilation by an agreement constraint, the end result is that transparency is optimal.
The substantive basis for this targeted constraint is bipartite: first, transparent vowels and their assimilated counterparts are perceptually similar, and second, the assimilated counterparts of transparent vowels are articulatorily marked. The example discussed in the paper concerns the transparency of high vowels to [ATR] harmony: [-ATR] high vowels are articulatorily marked, and are perceptually similar to [+ATR] high vowels (Archangeli & Pulleyblank 1994).The definitive version of this paper was published in WCCFL 19 : proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2000) and is available at http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl19.htmlBakovic, E. & Wilson, C. (2000). Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints. In R. Billerey & B.D. Lillehaugen (Eds.), WCCFL 19 : proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 43-56.). Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Press
When is less more? Faithfulness and minimal links in wh-chains
No full textIn the domain of wh-questions, we explore the application of OT to syntactic explanation based on the principle of Minimal Links ('Shortest Move'). We develop a family of constraints called MinLink, and argue: (a) OT allows a strong but flexible MinLink to be constructed directly from general principles, and (b) the resulting MinLink explains a broad range of cross-linguistic (overt and covert) extraction facts. In addition, we argue for certain general solutions to fundamental questions for comparison-based syntactic formalisms: What structures compete? What is the 'input'? How is language-particular ineffability possible? How are marked outputs possible?The publisher of the book in which this chapter appears does not permit the archiving of this or any other version of the chapter in the Rutgers Optimality Archive. The authorized version is available here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/best-good-enough-optimality-and-competition-syntaxLegendre, G.; Smolensky, P.; & Wilson, C. (1998) When is less more? Faithfulness and minimal links in wh-chains. In B. Pillar (Ed.) Is the best good enough? (249-289). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Colin St John Wilson and the independent group: Art, science and the psychologising of space
No full textAs an architect with the London County Council (LCC), a newspaper columnist, friend of artists and an incipient collector, Colin St John Wilson is a fascinating figure in the interacting circles of 1950s London. It was Wilson’s sketch-plan that ordered the ‘market-stalls’ of the This is Tomorrow exhibition and – in the opinion of Theo Crosby – the display he created with architect Peter Carter, engineer Frank Newby and sculptor Robert Adams most closely achieved the exhibition’s original aim of an anonymous synthesis of the arts. In this article, the author interprets Wilson’s life, work and theory as both critique and commentary in an examination of three pertinent issues within the Independent Group: the possibilities of artistic collaboration in architecture; the creative tension in architecture between science/technology and art/humanism; and the potential for a deeper psychologising of space – linked to psychoanalytical debates of the time. Interrogating these concerns is of importance, the author proposes, as they were so central to the discourses and form-making of architecture both at the time and in the immediate futures of the 1960s, the 1970s and afterwards
The geography of peak experience: Colin Wilson's message for American geographers
No full textColin Wilson is a self-taught British author whose\ud
works range widely across the humanities. Perhaps best\ud
known for his inaugural book The Outsider (1956), his\ud
reputation is based on the affirmation of human creativity.\ud
Wilson's first seven books, the "Outsider Cycle,"\ud
illustrate his basic beliefs: "that human beings are free\ud
agents, that meaningful values can be found at the core of\ud
life itself, and the belief in human will as an evolutionary\ud
force with unlimited potential for development." His effort\ud
is to create a new philosophy to replace the failure of a\ud
negative and pessimistic old existentialism.\ud
What guidance can this remarkable author provide to\ud
geographers who are struggling with the issues of contemporary\ud
humanistic geography? Although I do not pretend\ud
to be a philosopher, or even a particularly knowledgeable\ud
student of geographical thought, I have struggled to understand\ud
the field's present philosophical dilemma. Colin\ud
Wilson's works have helped me understand some of\ud
the problems facing humanistic geographers, and perhaps\ud
a brief introduction to his ideas would prove useful to\ud
others
Reversed food chains : humanity, monstrosity and an evolutionary utopia in Colin Wilson's Spider world novels
No full text"Colin Wilson (1931-2013), philosopher, novelist and an "Angry Young
Man" of British literature, is best known for his works on true crime,
mystery and the paranormal. He is also the author of several science fiction
novels, among them the cycle Spider World, written over the span
of sixteen years (The Tower [1987], The Delta [1987], The Magician [1992],
Shadowland [2003]. Set in a distant future, the cycle begins as a post-apocalyptic
vision of Earth governed by giant spiders where surviving humans
are hunted, eaten or forced into slavery, and those who are allowed to live
are subject to selective breeding and all forms of social surveillance. The
novels follow the vicissitudes of Niall, a young boy who sets out to defeat
the spiders but turns into an advocate of an inter-species alliance, becoming
in the end the ruler of both humans and spiders. (...)
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