Popular Culture
Frank O'Connor, the manager of the Halo video game series, made an illustration that references this work. It appears in the Halo Graphic Novel.
In Disney's "TRON: Legacy," Jeff Bridges' Character, CLU, is seen holding a reflective apple in which he sees his own reflection. This may be in homage to Escher, as there are two octahedra on a nearby shelf, and much of the digital world is made up of tessellations, a subject largely focused on by Escher.
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“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)