Walter Logeman: Journal
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Here is a recent doodle of mine:
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Tuesday, 31 August 2021 — Of course this post was an import when I disabled “In this moment….”
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I’ve quoted a few things from this book on the blog already, so click the tag, Kevin Kelly and you will see my notes as I read the book.
I think its profound.
Its not just about the evolution of technology. He revises biological evolution in a radical way. Its not just him though, he draws on many latest developments in the field. The main thrust is captured in this image from the book.
185 Chairs – Christchurch a set on Flickr.
I found this a moving Exhibit. In remembrance of people who died in the Christchurch earthquake – on the site where the Oxford Street Baptist Church used to be. I recall campaigning for the church not to be demolished to widen the street in the 80s!
There was a note suggesting to sit in a chair. I could not make that step of role reversal.
Continue reading “This is certainly not like we thought it was! – Rumi”
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I have been making notes about books for about 20 years. They are not reviews, Amazon has enough. I usually have a link to Amazon. Here is a link to all the book posts:
Found this one again. The Reenchantment of the World, by Morris Berman Cornell Univ Pr (1981)
This is from a snippet I have in my essay Archetypes of Cyberspace by Dolores Brien, though I can’t find the link to the original:
We live, we are told, in a world that is “disenchanted” and that has been ever since the scientific revolution of the 16th century. The natural world of the ancient peoples, its trees, rocks, waters, the sky and earth, was alive and inhabited by spirits and gods. Humans were a part of this world too, at home in it. They did not perceive themselves as separate from nature. They belonged to the cosmos, just as did everything else in the natural world, both organic and inorganic. Their consciousness was, what Marshall Berman has called, a ” participating consciousness.” *
* The term “participating consciousness” actually originates with the philosopher, poet Owen Barfield, whom Berman cites.
Wikipedia on Barfield where it states:
His primary focus was on what he called the “evolution of consciousness,” which is an idea which occurs frequently in his writings.
That is an idea that has appealed for a long time and is comes up in Archetypes of Cyberspace where is suggest our consciousness transforms along with our ability to communicate – along with writing and the Internet. It may be different of course to what Barfield meant by it.
I don’t know who recommended this, but I downloaded the sample when someone told me about it. Its a great book. it’s a saga, maybe sentimental, interesting because of its depth about Ethiopia and medicine. One reviewer called it ‘ecstatic realism’. Anyway I loved it. I’d hate the movie, I imagine it would be a manipulative tear jerker. The book transcends that.
Watch this video of the author talking about the book.
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Zo2PxPXx4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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