“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.”
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.)”
(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…
Philosophy of Information & Communication
Unwanted Advice: Reflections of a Self-Appointed Life Counselor
Spoondeep: Magazine of New Writings
and so on….(check my blogroll)…
Thank you all for the rain-like sunshine and versatility you bring to my days:
the connections…
All my Words are Silent 