The Return

On May 22, 2013May 22, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Current Reading, JournallingsLeave a comment

Within the hallowed halls of Powell’s Books in Portland, OR with a next-to-nothing budget is not an easy thing to be for book-cravers. But it also picques the selectional impulse somewhere thrumming in our genetic bands. Survival of the “fittest” given current conditions and some self-observation through excruciating choice.

What came back with me:

what did not , purely due to economic constraints, and set aside at the last possible moment (at closing):

equivalency finds for my wife:

now to prepare pictures of those immaterial experiences – the fleeting profounds – that happen as we go

to be posted soon

Accompanying me home

On May 21, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Art, Current Reading5 Comments

“For my father, the road had to wind uphill both ways and be as difficult as possible. Sadly, this was the sensibility he instilled in me when I set myself to the task of writing fiction. It wasn’t until I brought him a story that was purposely confusing and obfuscating that he seemed at all impressed and pleased. He said, smiling, “You made me work, son.” He once said to me in a museum, when I complained about an illegible signature on a painting, “You don’t sign it because you want people to know you painted it, but because you love it.” He was all wrong of course, but the sentiment was so beautiful that I wish to believe it now. What he might have been trying to say, I suppose, thought he never would have even thought about it in these terms, was that art finds its form and that it is never a mere manifestation of life.”

-Percival Everett-

compliments of:

“Acquiring an open rationality”

On May 13, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Current Reading, TracesLeave a comment

The best that I can do on this trip is to share some of the inputs coming my way… aside from the gorgeous lush thick greens of Oregon and Washington, there are also these gorgeous, lush, thick growths…

Edgar Morin – Paradigm of Complexity

Le Moigne – Intelligence of Complexity

Systems Everywhere

On May 11, 2013May 10, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Current Reading, TracesLeave a comment

On the Dissimilarity of the Similar (excerpt) – Viktor Shklovsky

Excursion

On May 10, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Current Reading, Journallings6 Comments

we’re heading off to visit children and family in the Pac-NW for a week +…not sure how often I’ll “get back again” to ze blog, but aside from my amazing wife, I’m taking these….

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Happy Trails….

“A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered and come into contact with another, foreign meaning…” – M. M. Bakhtin

On May 10, 2013May 9, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Current Reading1 Comment

Response to a Question from Novy Mir

– M. M. Bakhtin –

The Joy of Incompleteness

On May 9, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Current Reading, TracesLeave a comment

“By Godel’s theorem the following statement is generally meant:

In any formal system adequate for number theory there exists and undecidable formula – that is, a formula that is not provable and whose negation is not provable
A corollary to the theorem is that the consistency of a formal system adequate for number theory cannot be proved within the system”

–Rebecca Goldstein–

“…there can be neither a first nor a last meaning; [anything that can be understood] always exists among other meanings as a link in the chain of meaning, which in its totality is the only thing that can be real. In historical life this chain continues infinitely, and therefore each individual link in it is renewed again and again, as though it were being reborn…”

-M.M. Bakhtin-

“And so the world is interior to our mind, which is inside the world. Subject and object in this process are constitutive of each other. This doesn’t lead to a unifying and harmonious vision; we can’t escape from a generalized principle of uncertainty. In the same way that as in microphysics, the observer disturbs the object, which disturbs the perception, in the same way the notions of object and subject are profoundly disturbed each by the other: each opens a crack in the other. There is, we will see, a fundamental, ontological, uncertainty in the relation between the subject and the environment…a new conception emerges both from the complex relation between the subject and the object, and the insufficient and incomplete character of the two notions. The subject must remain open, deprived of all decidability in itself; the object itself must remain open toward the subject and toward its environment, which, in turn, necessarily opens and continues to open beyond the limits of our understanding…

All this incites us toward an open epistemology…Epistemology is not pontifical nor judiciary. It is the place of both uncertainty and dialogics. In fact, all the uncertainties we have raised must confront and correct each another; there must be dialogue, without, however, hoping to stop the ultimate crack with an ideological Band-Aid.

“If this gap is recognized, then the gap becomes an opening of one toward the other, opening toward the world, opening toward a possible surmounting of the either/or alternative, toward a possible progress of knowledge…”

–Edgar Morin-

The Argument Tunnel / A Chaos Tube

On May 8, 2013May 7, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Experimenctes9 Comments

From non-computational directions we arrive.

We may enter unaware or gingerly, with good and caring intentions. We might have plans to rush right through – eyes cinched, hands clenched, heart throbbing – with risk and fear in angry justice or righteous defense. We often stumble in. We get tripped up. It is possible we are shoved. Sometimes we charge.

However we get there – within all that dark and churning – disorientation accompanies our arrival. This temporal funnel – a passage where noise wins the day, interference scrambles messages, things fall apart and the center will not hold – renders us untethered, at loose ends – the chaos tube.

Occasionally we may notice our derailment as our words and thoughts cease mating, time travel whisks us to and fro ‘twixt past and present and some unknown yet desperately predictable future, full of echoey recalls, details smeared and marred, yet panic and terror renowned. Feelings turn to Emotion – symbolic, iconic, religious. We find ourselves grasping, delirious, snatching at this phrase and that, yowling or yelling, whimpering and weeping or delivering laws, lecturing truth.

Caught in the Argument Tunnel. There’s a beginning and end, but they’re tricky, elusive and vague, and no matter. Socially constructed – this moving event, experimental device – of a limiting duration. At what point is haywire? Do body and mind turn ape shit? Humanity parenthetically undone? What triggers, pressure, stress compress an organism toward self-destruction – deconstructive discombobulating dislocation? Unhinged and multi-piloted, the divagations of entropy?

Wind tunnel, spin cycle, a sequencing coming apart at the seams, gyrating out of control, baffled and frazzled by fuzzy and unsolving sets – irrotational vortices of turbulent flow.

Spitting us unknown and misrepresented out the other side. Episodic psychoses, neuroses, and unity. Draining extremes, pushed through the wringer, all flushed and muddied – it’s blood and guts, a birth canal, an orifice, survival.

Of limiting duration. A tunnel, a tubing, a way.

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Supplement

On May 7, 2013May 7, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Journallings1 Comment

Astounding – I’m in my fourth decade of life and this is the first day the beauty of this word has hit home…

supple-ment

which put me in mind of Rodin…

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and of the cacophony of arguments followed by caressing clarifications toward shared understandings

of characters presented and nuanced, developed, made complex

of statements expanded and explained, extended into metaphors

vowels echoing sustained

hard Cs molding into soft

crashes dwindling into static

facts becoming rumors becoming murmurs, whispers, sighs

wailing come to weeping come to tears come to rest

Something that completes or enhances something else when added to it.

Getting to the Point : Tracing Complex Intersections

On May 7, 2013May 7, 2013 By NW FilbertIn Journallings, Traces12 Comments

“A point is considered one of the fundamental objects in Euclidean geometry. Without depth, breadth, or dimension it is a part that has no part. It is represented by a dot or period that has some dimension but is not a point, but must cover the point infinite times over. The point in the two-dimensional world is the intersection of lines and in three dimensions of another line as well and on and on. A point is only location. And isn’t that what we are? Mere points? Some points suggest beginnings, some ends, all divide, and when they connect or divide, where they are defined, it is always because of a turn, an angle, a shift toward another plane. How else could we see a point? The point is. The point made. Getting the point. Pointing the way. Points out. Points in. Point terminus…

…The meaning of life is the purpose of life…

…In similar fashion he came to some comprehension of the whole ballet, language being a small window through which very little passed and became helpful, the dance being nearly everything.”

–Percival Everett–

Point being that there is no point. That a point is like an abstract sign – a two-sided symbol – of a non-place where relation occurs – where intersection, connection – moves, happens. Probabilistically? Infinite. Point being that getting the point involves a complex thinking

“going beyond itself in the direction of complexity…not from the simple to the complex, but from complexity to ever increasing complexity. Let us repeat: the simple is no more than a moment, an aspect among several complexities (micro-physical, macro-physical, biological, psychic, social). We attempt to consider the lines, the tendencies of a growing complexification…as they function (in relation to autonomy, individuality, richness of relations, aptitudes for learning, inventiveness, creativity, etc.)”

–Edgar Morin–

(Further reading): Overview of Complexity Thinking – Ferrara

Point being.

Something similar to that – we utilize points and pointing to signify a passing, passage, to trace – to attend to or refer at some intersectional context – thereby creating interactive referants/actants – you, I, the relation.

WordPress as a case in point.

I am ever-so-honored and thankful to have been considered and nominated in community awards insofar as they represent mobile points of connectivity and passage – where one or more of we and our “representation spaces” intersect in this “information common” of the blogosphere.

From Words that Flow like Water I received the “Sunshine Award”

and from CLisaWork, the “Versatile Blogger Award”

both of which I am very honored and thankful for.

The fantastic element to me about these WordPress community awards is that they allow us to introduce and further the connectivity and intersecting “points” of convergence and accordance that shiftily pertains to our activity and representation here.

The acceptance of the awards imply some obligation to self-report. I am unsure how I might bring “sunshine” to others through my working-spaces here, but am happy to live with the mysteries. I tried to find a “Sunshine award” icon that featured rain as rain is much more vitalizing, inspiring and motivating to me personally than sunshine, be that as it may. So, some things about myself:

I prefer rain to sunshine, having always felt the sun to be somewhat invasive and threatening in its brightness and exposure, and rain to be softening and safe, providing more subtle noticing.
I also find raw emotion threatening, and much prefer rational expression of emotion (or musical or aesthetic or literary) to emotionally reported emotion. In other words, I prefer emotion mediated through other things than body and voice. I continue to try to understand why this is so.
I often feel helpless as a parent.
It is never my intention to report my knowledge or ideas as facts or certainties. I find each day bringing with it so much information that the pattern of it is never symmetrical.
I am tremendously graced with a spouse and family that allow and enable me to inquire and pursue connections and concepts in the human universe of information that are far from profitable or sustainable economically.

I am going to use the “award-passing-along” as an opportunity to suggest blogs that (in the “sunshine” vein) inspire and inform me in ways that keep me at it myself, and that enhance my own “versatility” through what they offer and provide. Please visit them – I am confident that there are so many more that should be listed below (I follow 100s) but there is not world enough and time…

Objects

Simon H. Lilly

Tocksin

Life in Relation to Art

[im]probability theory

Philosophy of Information & Communication

Asifoscope

Unwanted Advice: Reflections of a Self-Appointed Life Counselor

draw and shoot

biblioklept

Creativistic Philosophy

so very very