```tracker searchType: frontmatter searchTarget: weight folder: daily notes line: title: Weight Tracker yAxisLabel: weight lineColor: blue ``` # Note on the relation between type and poetry - poetry is about the relation between vehicle and, about how the vehicle relates to the content. - The poet is responsible for this. - Typefaces are a vehicle property of text on a page. - Are they low-level poetic vehicles? # claude request about the [[aesthetic appreciation]] of type. Ok great. I will now tell you my project. I am trying to write an analytic philosophical paper about aesthetically appreciating design. In particular I am interested in... - what about typography or its [[aesthetic appreciation]] is unique? - what about typography or its [[aesthetic appreciation]] is similar to other objects or [[aesthetic appreciation]] of them? - what is the '[[proper function]]' of type (not the various ways it can be used but its central function, the one it was designed to do/reason for its manufacture. - What is the relation between the [[proper function]] of type, and [[the aesthetics]] of type. I have attached a book on type and a chapter from a philosophy book on aesthetics and design (not about typology specifically) I would like you to draw *heavily* on both to answer these questions. Then give me more ways in which an analytic philosopher might link the two texts. Do not bring in any topic which is not *strictly* connected to these requests (DO NOT MENTION culture, history, diversity etc.) ## Claude question on music and type 1. It is interesting that music can be related to typography, i agree with [[what you]] say. But, it is also interesting they can be similar but extremely different. Instrumental music is very often thought of as non-representaitonal, all type does is represent. 2. Please elaborate on the fact that both listening to music and reading type are temporal Please elabourate on this idea in the same amount of detail as your previous response. Make reference to all of the topics in your last two responses. In detail. 3.