Paul Hurt's linkage site: home page

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A New PHD Page is about my most recent gardening, building, workshop and general projects as well as some less recent ones, with many new images. A PHD Page contains archived / still relevant material. These and other design / construction pages are independent of the pages where I discuss very different matters, such as the 'FEFE' pages, where I discuss restrictions which can't be justified (as I see it) on freedom of expression, and systems of belief / ideologies, including Christianity and 'woke' views.

Gardening, construction: introduction, with, photographs 2010 - 2020 is very comprehensive, including techniques, efficient working, new ways of working, appearance and aesthetics. with links to other gardening pages. Page Travel and Web Design are about innovations in Web page navigation, for use in 'Large Page Design' and other applications.

The section 'Controversies' includes pages on Christian religion, abuse in the Anglican Church, green issues, University education - these are also FEFE pages - the death penalty, Israel and Palestinian ideology, animal welfare and activism, objections to veganism, bullfighting, supermarkets and small shops, Ireland and N. Ireland and the FEFE page abuses of power - education and anti-anti-woke.

Designing with words: PHD concrete poetry and design and Innovations and new ideas: poetry and visual art are detailed accounts. Metaphor and metre present innovations in the technical study of these subjects.

I go beyond English in various pages, e.g. Seamus Heaney: translations and versions, with texts in German, Dutch, Italian, Latin, classical / modern Greek, with my own translations - and a text in Polish. My anti-bullfighting page, in French as well as English, is about bullfighting in France and Spain.

Most pages (but not this) use an innovation in Web navigation, 'the rail,' a long band on the left margin.
Clicking on the rail gives a means of reaching top of page very quickly, where links are placed for easy page travel -
travel within the page and travel to other pages.

The British Library (the national library of the United Kingdom) has selected all of this site for preservation, in the
Arts and Humanities / Literature archive and the Computer Science, Information Technology and Web Technology archivee

NEW PAGE in preparation, 'Anti-anti-woke Comments on: the New Culture Forum, GB News, History Debunked, Conservative
Woman, Mahyar Tousi's channel'



PHD Paul Hurt Design - a project, not a business - offers genuine innovation, practicality
and a concern for aesthetics in the design and construction of

Greenhouses - greenhouses with presence, flexible, adaptable, with large, removable panels
to lower the internal temperature during heat waves and to allow rainfall to water the crops in
the greenhouse, reducing use of hose-pipes, with water-collecting surfaces to conserve water.
Other water-collecting surfaces, directing water to storage containers, a pond or directly to plants.
Implementing green roofs with grape vines / hop plants, avoiding the use of bulky, heavy soil.
New bed-and-board systems in gardens / allotments, with many advantages.
A solar composter, speeding up production of compost by the greenhouse effect.
A support structure of lightweight metal with various uses: a pergola, when it support plants,
a walk-in plant protection cage when it supports netting, a water conservation structure
when it supports a water-collecting surface.
A grape vine trellising system which makes no use of posts, either wood or metal -
instead, slim, lightweight metal bars supported by lightweight metal support structures.
Wildlife aids - a bird table, a swift nesting box which is easily and safely installed.
Aids to moving heavy loads on slopes in gardens / allotments.
A radical new roofing system, allowing inclined roofs (including water collecting roofs)
to be constructed as easily as flat roofs, complemented by new walling systems.
Workbenches for woodworking / metalworking, easy to construct, easy to dismantle,
easy to move from place to place, but solid and immovable in use, with versatile surfaces.
A vice system for woodworking with pressure exerted by a ratchet strap, not a screw thread.
Hydraulic machinery for log splitting / apple pressing, elegant, useful furniture when not in use.
Other domestic furniture - a table, a bookcase.
A cheap van to campervan conversion, using oak, polycarbonate, steel.
As well as many contributions to design / construction in fields other than these.
Linkages as well as contrasts underlie to a greater or lesser extent most of this site.
I stress methods, techniques, ideas, values that are common to very different
fields of activity, ones which unify, and not only in design but far more widely.
In the project TTL, 'Theme, Theory, Practice' (the pages are listed above) i discuss
the issues in detail, using a very wide range of examples.

Email address: paulhurt100@gmail.com

The page Site Map About this site includes background information, including this, 'Emails sent to me are treated as confidential. Emails sent to me won't be released into the public domain, including publication on this site, unless with the sender's permission.' It also includes my policy on the profiles to be found on some pages, including my reasons for including profiles and circumstances in which I could remove profiles.

Mikhail Bakhtin writes of "Dostoevsky's passion for journalism and his love of the newspaper, his deep and subtle understanding of the newspaper page as a living reflection of the contradictions of contemporary society in the cross-section of a single day, where the most diverse and contradictory material is laid out, extensively, side by side..." (Quoted in 'Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics,' translation by Caryl Emerson.)

My approach is in part systematic and rigorous, sometimes at a high level of abstraction, but I see no contradiction between system and rigour on the one hand and on the other, passion, compassion, activism, humour, an intense concern for the health of language and the vitality of culture, a whole range of other concerns. A systematic study can reveal gaps very clearly. The meticulous work of cartographers helped to show explorers which regions were still unexplored, to suggest new areas for risk and discovery. Activism and activists - deluded and deranged activists as well as ones I respect and admire - politics and politicians, have a part to play in the pages of the site, but also journalists, poets, musicians, scientists, engineers, labourers, scholars, miners, and many more, including animals.

The 'diverse material' in this site covers a very wide range, some of it of journalistic, some of it academic, some of it personal, some of it practical - working with wood, metal, other materials, designing and constructing buildings, other structures and sometimes machines, the growing of a wide range of plants. Some of it is concerned with aesthetics, some of it is concerned with ethics - with humane values and harshness, unavoidable harshness as well as harshness which can be reduced by reform or technical advances, harshness in peace and harshness in war, industry and nature.

Pages concerned with value judgments include appreciation as well as criticism - fair-minded and balanced, I think, even when outspoken. There's criticism of anti-feminists as well as radical feminists, criticism of many people who oppose 'political correctness' as well as criticism of 'political correctness,' criticism of religious views - mainly, Christian views - without assuming that non-Christians and anti-Christians have a monopoly of good sense, without assuming that they are incapable of stupidity (and worse), arguments and evidence in favour of 'conservative' views, but with reservations. The page on university education contains strong criticism of some aspects of some universities - I focus attention on Cambridge but discuss others - without overlooking their very impressive strengths.

The study of linkages is one of the broadest of all studies. Linkages, and contrasts, are fundamental organizing principles of the site. I discuss linkages in many different fields and create new ones - there are many innovations here.

Many linkages are problematic and disputed. Astrologers find a linkage between human personality and celestial objects whilst skeptics find no convincing evidence. Scientific advances involve new linkages: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation proposed a linkage between all the bodies in the Universe, Darwin's Theory of Evolution new linkages between organisms.

Most of the material is non-technical. The page introducing {theme} theory (which includes linkage and contrast) is one exception. I explain some conceptual innovations and go beyond natural language, developing a symbolic notation with many uses and substantial advantages. Pages which make use of this notation include Interpretations. Most of these concern topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy and logic, including commutative operators, thermodynamic systems as partitions, inverses of functions, indeterminate logic, induction, prefix notation, foundationalism, coherentism, S.I. units.

Ethics: theory and practice has technical and non-technical sections. It introduces symbolic notation for 'outweighing,' a concept which I see as fundamental in ethics but with important, wide-ranging application-spheres.