DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice by Edited by Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, and Siegfried Zielinski - 2018

University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Scholars of philosophy and media from around the world-but with a focus on the knowledge culture in the Spanish and Catalan languages-explore the enormous influence of Catalan philosopher and theologian Llull (1232-1316) on the modern world. Among their topics are deus ex machina: eschatologies of automation in 17th-century Lullism and present-day post-scarcity Utopias, introduction to Salvador Dalí's Mystical Manifesto: Dalí and Iberian mysticism, musical representations of the Scala Naturae in the Neoplatonic tradition, about the miniatures and Meditationes, and computational thinking and thinking computationally. (2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)