Publisher's Synopsis
In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work and Fritjof Capra's "The Tao of Physics", this study embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help to explain the functioning of our universe.;Tyler Volk explores these "metapatterns" through a literary synthesis that probes, for instance, the forces that bring sphericity to grapes, moons, and baseballs. He delves into the significance of borders, from the city walls of Renaissance-era Florence to the clothing we wear to cover ourselves or the houses in which we find shelter. Seeking relationships between the infinitely large and infinitesimally small, Volk opens a door into consciousness itself.;The work begins with the archetypal patterns of space, both form building and relational. Volk then turns to the arrows, breaks, and cycles that infuse the workings of time. He brings together a range of material drawn from art, architecture, philosophy, mythology, biology, geophysics, and the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences.
