Peculiar patterns

摘要

"What is art? Why does it matter to us?" These questions are posed time and again in Alva Noee's latest book, Strange Tools. To Noee, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, ordinary tools are technological things: we make them to organise our lives. But "strange" tools are those that help us make sense of how we organise our lives. For him, "a work of art is a strange tool".