PORTRAITS
OF CHARLES BEDAUX, PIONEER OF THE ENHANCED WORKING PROCESS AT
THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF WINDSOR TO MRS. SIMPSON
TIME
AND MOTION - IMAGE RESEARCH ALBUM
METHOD; Penguin English Dictionary ; a systematic procedure for doing
something; an orderly arrangement or system; a habitual practice of
orderliness and regularity.
Shorter Oxford Dictionary ; Procedure for obtaining an object; a special
form of procedure adopted in any branch of mental activity, whether
for exposition or for investigation.
SYSTEM ;Penguin English Dictionary ; an organised set of doctrines or
principles usually intended to explain the arrangements or working of
a systematic whole.
Shorter Oxford Dictionary ;
1. an
organised or connected group of objects. A set or assemblage of things
connected, associated or interdependent, so as to form a complex unity.
2. A group
of bodies moving about one another in space under some particular dynamical
law.
3. A set
of organs or parts in an animal body of the same or similar structure.
In scientific terms, a group, set, or aggregate of things, natural or
artificial, forming a connected or complex whole.
Roget.'s Thesaurus; Order; uniformity, symmetry, harmony,
music of the spheres. Subordination, course, even tenor, routine, method,
disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline, ordiliness.
Method; way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus
operandi, procedure. Path, road, route, course, trajectory, orbit, track,
beat.
PONDER
THEN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METHOD AND SYSTEM.
METHOD
"There's method in her madness"
"Thought his be madness, yet there is method in it." W.Shakespeare,
Hamlet.
""Rod Steiger is a Method actor"
SYSTEM
"They were creatures of the System."
1. PIONEERING
METHODS AND SYSTEMS. ; WORDS AND CONCEPTS.
1.1 Diderot
and D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, 1764; founded
as a French answer to Ephraim Chambers general work, the British Cyclopaedia
or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728). The Encyclopédie
is arranged alphabetically but also with some dividing up of the branches
of knowledge. Diderot wrote the article on Encyclopaedias that he and
his friends wanted a plan or design that would
1.2 Roget's
Thesaurus, "was, for Roget at least, not a literary
tour de force, but the culminating effort of a lifetime devoted to discovering
a way of presenting the unity of man's existence. .... Thus organisation
- and particularly classification, with all its attendant problems of
establishing relationships, recognising correlations, distinguishing
between large and small orders of things , and rendering visible the
spatial, chronological, numerical causal, and constituent relations
among all the things and happenings of existence - became early and
remained late Roget's primary intellectual challenge and joy and frustration."
D.L.Emblen, Peter Mark Roget, The Word and the Man ,
Longman London 1970, p.259. Roget set up six major classes of ideas;
Abstract
Relations;
Space;
Matter;
Intellect;
Volition;
Sentient
and
Moral
Powers.
1.3 Dr.Johnson's Dictionary
2. PIONEERING
METHODS AND SYSTEMS. ; SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS.
2.1 Buffon's
Natural History ; that nature was Animal (15 vols for
quadrupeds, 9 vols on birds, 5 for fish), Vegetable (never appeared)
or Mineral (6 vols).
2.2 Linnaeus System of Nature, Systema Naturae , 1735,
categorising plants not by shape and colour, function or growing characteristic
but by their sexual organs (their fruit and their flower).
2.2 Tycho Brahe and the Heavens ; an attempt to count and categorise
the stars.
2.3 Taylorism ; a systematic study of all the human actions entailed
in physical work, used to maximise the workers on the assembly line
(Time and Motion) see also Chaplin, Modern Times .
3.
SYSTEMS ON FILM
3.1 Chaplin, Modern Times. the assembly line
3.2 Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, dressing
3.3 Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, the automatic house
3.4 Buster Keaton, The Electric House
3.5 James Cameron, The Abyss. Submarining
3.6 Kurosawa, The Seven Samurai, defending the village
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