Blind Man Looking For A Black Cat In A Dark Room

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.

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

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

With science the cat is present with philosophy absent and with. A theologian is the man who finds it h l. September 11 2009 january 3 2010 ica london. Also in 1942 a book reviewer in the cornell law quarterly extended the humorous passage by contrasting three professions.

Philosopher theologian and lawyer. You re like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. Read reviews from world s largest community for readers. The show curated by anthony huberman took its title from a line attributed to charles darwin.

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. A blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn t there and finding it. 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. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there will travel to an additional american venue and a slightly modified version of the exhibition will simultaneously travel to three european venues.

December 3 2009 january 31. 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.