Inundated in end-of-semester bewilderment and projects….I riffle through book stacks and this catches my eye again…
and I quickly recognize myself in the mirror:
Self-Portrait of Mind – July 2013
Category: Current Reading
What I’m buried in this week or this moment
Cause for Celebration – Library Retrievals
and Evan Lavender-Smith’s MFA thesis from 2004: The Invention of Love!!!!
The big TOE
I have been fascinated by and greatly enjoying the discussions and promulgations of some very astute bloggers considerations of the possibilities of and potential candidates for a “Theory of Everything.” See, for prime examples, the tremendous thought-work of MultiSense Realism and Anacephalaeosis. Hoping to further conversation, I humbly post a couple of intriguing considerations of TOEs by two others of my thinking-hero-eschelon… and hope for responses from those above-mentioned and anyone else with thoughts on the matter (or process, as it may be)…!
From the Concept of System to the Paradigm of Complexity – Edgar Morin
and
Do We Know How to Read Messages in the Sand? – Isabelle Stengers
Other Writing Wisdom
“Writing is a question of becoming, always incomplete, always in the midst of being formed, and goes beyond the matter of any livable or lived experience.
It is a process, that is, a passage of Life that traverses both the livable and the lived.
Writing is inseparable from becoming.”
-Gilles Deleuze-
from article Literature & Life (read full here)
Writing Wisdom
This turns out to be the best thing I read this week on the art of writing…
“The friends could not agree which way to go. Pooh looked for answers.
“Perhaps if we tell a story, the story will tell us how to get there…”
– Winnie the Pooh
struck me solidly as the way so very many of us who write
go about looking for answers.
Write on…
Inflexions: Issues
Inflexions: Issues.
Very exciting new discovery for me!
for instance: A Perspective of the Universe – Massumi & Manning
When I speak of “Relations” – this is what I have in mind
the scales, the leaps, the constraints, affordances, limitations and opportunities of being alive…
…the modes and formats, forms and patterns, processes and movements…
the interdependencies
I can’t really add anything (currently) to this man’s work – without a doubt a hero of mine – thinking, being, creating…
if you have the interest and time…
I attest that this is brilliant…
and opens and opens and opens….
Feeling and Meaning – Jay Lemke
Experience, anyway. diverted toward Empty, the space of life.
Experience, anyway.
(click above if you missed the start)
2 pages in…the new fiction meets a message….
Empty, the space of life
“My relation to others is staggered all the way to the infinite;
from the bottom up, never horizontally, the distance from here to there…
…What you call ‘distance’ is but the time of breathing in, of breathing out.
All the oxygen man needs is in his lungs.
Empty, the space of life.”
-Edmond Jabes, from A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book–
perhaps a title change, but certainly a deepening of the layers…
anyway, Experience, anyway. goes on into the encounters…
Synchronous Display – Serendipity
The books I first encountered today – and in such intriguing titular order….
and when is additional engagement with Olafur Arnald’s work not welcome
Needing Complexity, Craving Simplicity
from Donald Norman’s immensely readable Living with Complexity (2011)
(click pic for chapter 1)
All my Words are Silent 