The philosophy of four dimensions and more overlaps into many areas, in the
early 20th century it became a means of dematerialising matter, seeing beyond
the surface and attracted links into theosophy (Madame Blavatsky), as well
as impacting upon literature (Edwin Abott Abott: Flatland), graphics (Claude
Bragdon), architecture (Theo Von Doesburg) sculpture and painting (Kandinsky,
Lissitsky, Duchamp, Pevsner et al).
A key work is Tertium Organum, translated from the Russian (Ouspensky). Where
a new understanding of reality is cited as a means of preparing for the next
step in evolution of the mind..
Today, in Webland, the notion of hyperspace becomes associated with VRML,
aliens, and mind altering chemicals see
Mark Pesce (creator of VRML)
or Terence McKenna
Land for a variety of modern day philosophical interpretations.
Philosophy, Mathematics, Technology, Art and a sense of spirituality are
often found in hybrid artists and mathematicians. It is often argued that
a coming together of the disparate modes of understanding is required to
take is into the Millenium - as was hoped for at the end of the 19th Century
- the hope for the Great Epoch, parallels the somewhat passe New Age
phenomena..