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Note to self : Gebser
Investigate Jean Gebser’s ‘integral-aperspectival’ pluralistic perspectives, (p.o.e. Wilber’s discussion of ‘Modernity to Postmodernity’(in Integral Psychology 2000, p167) – in relation to my vision metaphors in context of epistemology and ontology issues with special bearing on Compressionism and abstraction.
The democratic dilemma
The democratic dilemma as found in The New American Myth – what if the most popular idea isn’t actually such a good idea, or all that popular in reality? People governing government governing the people’s governing of the government that is in fact governing them. Democratic politics is inherently government by tautology.
What we need is something like ‘sophisticracy’, government by un-biased state of the arts – all arts. The real challenge I think is in finding how to navigate our way towards a balance of open progress and wellness without the hierarchies that are required (and they are required I think, to facilitate and implement intelligent co-habitation of the planet) becoming exclusively self serving in stead of serving the state of the world.
Democracy as we see it today will shred itself – and just maybe we will see that the planet governs the planet, best for us if we work for this as much as we can, evolution can be Stern.
Search Engine Compressionism : Search Our Family Photos
As opposed to say, Flat Bed Compressionism…
My latest effort of using search engines, in this case ‘search’ via Metacrawler as a kind of geeky palet-knife.
billboards into bookbags, Advertising news (here @ 404.px w)
cllick to enlarge.Net Art : Without Animals?
After meeting Nathaniel Stern in person today (great!) and engaging in some of his very stimulating ‘collaborative overlap’, I felt inspired enough to take a look at the theme of ‘art’ through the relatively complicated stylistic cum procedural aesthetic that I am developing. The image along side is a compressed 354 x 354 pixel version of the actual work, which in its completeness measures 7087 x 7087 pixels, that translates to 600 x 600 mm at 300 dots per inch (dpi).
Becoming parents – staying partners?
“I hope this finds you well and that you do not mind me letting you
know about a talk for new and expecting parents and interested
professionals
BECOMING PARENTS – STAYING PARTNERS
What to expect and How to cope
- Saturday 1 APRIL
- Time: 9:30 –10:30
- Cost R30
Venue: my practice on the Norwood Houghton Border
Tea, handout and practical suggestions included
Places limited booking essential
Call Belinda Farre on 728 3406
Antenatal classes help us prepare for the birth and early physical
care of baby, but what about afterwards??????
For more info:Web link:
http://www.wlw.co.za/PROVIDERS/becomingparents.htm
or call 728 3406 or e-mail bfarre at webmail.co.za with any
questions.
Belinda runs workshops for new and expecting parents. Feedback
regarding the original workshop series has been very positive.
workshops aim to strengthen both the partnership and early
parenting. However new parents are met with a barrage of products
and services all drawing on limited funds. The talk covers some of
the ideas and exercises participants found most helpful in the
longer workshop series and also serves as an introduction to the
workshops for those who wish to do some further work.
Please forward to anyone you feel would be interested.
With many thanks
Belinda Farre
Zooming ahead
We live in the kind of world that you can do that in,
it is probably the thing I like most about the world we do live in.
Seeing the big picture is a luxury
seeing the advantaged using it usefully excellent.
The latest punch at it by advertising
{advertising and sustainability} (e.g. adbags [http://www.biz-community.com/Article/196/12/9527.html] by TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris [http://www.tbwa.com/])
deserves nothing but standing ovation.
Applied creativity is an eerie thing
its structure spawning autopoetic
salutogenesis seemingly at random
in truth driven by ultimate reality.
Design is begging for the u to be rediscovered
everywhere in each intimacy
inwov’n structure and form
in our every expression.
Now if you hold the kind of focus that can see that kind of detail, at that kind of resolution and its quality and promotion and you trust your sense of judgement
and pull back on your point of reference
as far as you can without losing
necessary balance between objective and subjective
reason and experiential emergence.
New media is a good industry to be involved in tonight.
Good night.
Salutogenesis
The broadly single minded pursuit of quality tenaciously:
1. systematically {Manageability}
2. aiming procedurally {Meaningfulness}
3. predictably, repeatably and reputably { Cognition }
See also
Salutogenesis in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutogenesis]
where its arguably present if you bother to look into some of the
Web 2.0 Wikipedia discourse [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Web_2.0]
at peace and prosperity down Technorati [http://www.technorati.com/search/peace%20and%20prosperity%20]
Firm Learning : Salutogenic Perspectives on Lifelong Learning
as a way towards cultivating
Organised Sustainable Prosperity and Well-being
of Learning Organisations and their People, 2004
[http://pixelplexus.co.za/txts/firmLearning.htm#Index]
PS.
More than your average soundbite.
“Kentridge Under Erasure”
Interesting, dense but lucid consideration of some Kentridge related issues, in Art South Africa 2002 by Ashraf Jamal, who didn’t like the idea of a Kentridge ‘Retrospective’ exhibition. It makes for the kind of semantic fuss which I suspect is a practical impossibility everywhere outside of the distinctly intimidating world of arts discourse. I cant resist quoting a snippet from the concluding paragraph, adressing fashionable and popular opinion “…who, knowing better, invariably follow accredited opinion like swine…”
Perhaps a pointless road to go down, interrogating the locus of value, implicit vs. explicit worth etc. That is part of the nature of art, addressing questions so big, grasping the question and its invariably bigger answers, simultaneously, is just not going to happen today and all that you are left with are the occasionally entertaining semantic skirmishes around essentially indulgent artefacts.