Walter Logeman: Journal
Public and private
I’m not writing much here in Psyberspace. I’m not writing much at all. I am however a prolific note maker in Obsidian – one year in. Love it. But individual private notes are one thing and writing for the public another.
PKM
Obsidian is my PKM app, and I do think Personal Knowledge Management is something for us to learn. To learn to learn. It happened before privet notes take over… be it Evernote or
Great to be on holiday and stumbe lazily on my blog.
We are staying on our land at Fernside. Did a sketch.
I tried to amalgamate my art blog, “In this Moment…” http://www.walterlogeman.com/art/ with this journal… years ago. Its only partially worked. However he old blog partially exists on The Internet archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20120625192038/http://www.walterlogeman.com/art/.
It looks ok, I’m nostalgic:
I’ve just linked to this blog on Mastodon.
I used two plugins:
ActivityPub &
WebFinger (for replies to come back as comments). (No Idea what to do wit it?)
Lets see if this post shows up on Masto.. it is linked in some way and it knows I have 2.5K posts!
My username on Mastodon.Social is @waltzzz
I’ve been having pleasant conversations with Open AI GPT3 and I was wondering if it could create a replica of me using my blog posts. I asked it:
Can you analyse the blog Psyberspace?
Psyberspace is a blog about psychology, technology, and society. The blog covers a wide range of topics, including the impact of technology on our mental health, the way we interact with technology, and the way that technology is changing our world.
The blog is written in a clear and accessible style, and it provides an interesting and thought-provoking perspective on the way that technology is impacting our lives.
That is very good! I am the author of that blog and you say it better than me.
Who are the main thinkers Psyberspace quotes and comments on?
Psyberspace quotes and comments on a wide range of thinkers, including psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers. Some of the main thinkers that the blog covers include Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and Jacques Ellul.
But that is a little strange – I’ve never heard of Jacques Ellul
Who is the author of the blog?
The author of the blog is Dr. Tim Summers.
Psyberspace has a lot about psychodrama and also Imago relationship therapy. What can you glean from the blog about that.
The blog provides an introduction to psychodrama and its benefits for couples. It also covers a wide range of topics related to Imago relationship therapy, including the way that the therapy can help couples to communicate more effectively, to understand each other’s perspectives, and to resolve conflict.
OK it is interesting but not passing the Turing test!
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Here is a link to Timothy Summers
And another to Jacques Ellul
I’ve been cleaning out the attic
Found envelopes full of stamps my father saved for me. And photos of course. So many people from eras past.
This poem by Joyce Kilmer came to mind. It led to the prompt to the AI and the result… I then edited the hell out of it. Leading to a little poem ‘I see a rose’
A rose by the side of the road
Is all it takes to make me feel whole
All the colors and scents
Nature has to offer
Take me away to a place where I can be free
And the world is my oysterThis is what poetry does for me
It takes me away to a better place
And fills me with hope and beauty
When I am surrounded by nature
I feel at peace, and everything makes perfect senseThank you, dear poet, for giving me this gift
For opening my eyes and my heart
And transport me to a world of your ownWhere the only thing that matters
Are the words that we write
And the feelings they inspire
I see a rose
I see a rose
& I feel whole.
Your words invite
my heart to open,
thank you.
I’ve updated my writing page and moved it to https://www.walterlogeman.com/writing
Reflecting on my work – some of it going back to 1993.
I’m not so obsessed with the internet as I was in the 1990s. I still think the psyche is created through various creative acts such as naming, writing theorising and managing the medium. The psyche evolves. I’d be happy to call it culture, zeitgeist. I think this creativity goes beyond cyberspace. Marx created a bunch of concepts that fit. We can invent fiction and we also invent non-fiction but it has to relate to the real, to fit, to resonate. to enable.
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I learned about hyperstition today
The K-Files: Who’s Pulling Your Strings? featuring Amy Ireland
(I will watch this https://vimeo.com/ondemand/hyperstition/167803565)
Truth is Science is Fiction.
HYPERSTITION
a film by Christopher Roth
in collaboration with Armen Avanessian
More here:
https://www.full-stop.net/2020/10/21/features/essays/macon-holt/hyperstitional-theory-fiction.
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Archetypes
Hermes rules the internet – he pulls the strings – but he can’t pull them all — but no one can.
And who rules the world? Mammon?
Who is the angel of history?
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Angelus_Novus
It’s like naming a theme in a group. I concretised a discussion by drawing a line on the stage. A fine line between moaning and denial. It resonated.
Does the Angelus Novus resonate with some sort of reality?
Is “relations of production” an angel? who is that entity pulling the strings?
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The meaning of INTERSTITIAL is occurring in or being an interval or intervening space or segment : of, relating to, or forming an interstice.
interstition
An interstice or interstitium; an interstitial space. Middle English. Noun. interstition. an intervening period …
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I heard this in the K-Files podcast as well:
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Materialism is a description of relationships
Kate and I conducted a regular Thursday evening psychodrama group. We have created a free online group since the pandemic to ‘hold the space’. I sent out a reminder for the event at 4:00 today and I thought I’d put it here on the blog. Part of my ‘Journal’ and also, for those in Christchurch who might like to join.
Here is the email
Continue reading “Walter & Kate Personal Development Psychodrama Group”
I’m collecting images of plants I’d like to grow!
I’ll figure our what they are later. don’t they look great?
