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About Me
- Duncan B. Reyburn
- Duncan Reyburn, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in both practical and theoretical subjects in Information Design at the University of Pretoria. In his teaching, he specialises in the theory and practice of concept generation. In his research, he has an interest in a lot of things, including: hermeneutical philosophy, philosophical theology, mimetic theory and visual (design) culture. He is the author of 'Seeing things as they are: G. K. Chesterton and the drama of meaning' (Cascade, 2016) and co-editor of 'Theologies of Failure' (Cascade, 2019).
If you look at Renaissance paintings – like those of Raphael and Da Vinci, you'll notice that philosophers and prophets are often depicted with their index fingers pointing at the sky. I'm not sure what this signifies, really (possibly the acknowledgment of a higher-order or power), but I thought it would be nifty to pay homage to this tradition here.
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