Walter Logeman: Journal
How has the Internet changed the way you think?
John Brockman’s question of the year. Nice. And he has asked a bunch of interesting people to respond. The link below is to John Brockman’s conclusion followed by Kevin Kelly’s. There are plenty more there, to explore.
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I was steeped in this model of counselling for many years, first I was taught in the early ’80s by my supervisor, John Morrison, and then more formally in Social Work training. Still think it a useful approach. I like just seeing the list of these core conditions again.
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Full text of “GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY”
Vol. VIII, Nos. 3 and 4.
The whole volume is online in a poorly scanned version.
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION
Revised and Enlarged
PAUL E. JOHNSON
Found this while looking for the original Theatre of Spontaneity. The whole book is online. Looks like the author was strongly influenced by Moreno. Link and quote follow.
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This is the second post while doing a close reading of Moreno’s lecture on Tele, “given by the author during his European journey, May- June, 1954.”
Note: I continue to edit these posts, they are a work in progress for now, not really be good blogging practice. If anyone comments or there are track backs, I will not change what I wrote so conversations make sense.
First Post
Transference and Tele (tag).
Quotes from the lecture, some research on Google and my detailed comments follow.
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Put together what Kevin Kelly says about the Internet being an extension of “The Self” and the following quote (I just found in an essay of mine) and we get a glimpse of the exponential evolution we are experiencing right now.
A point was made in an obscure paper posted on the Net, author unknown, “Understanding Internet – Extension of Media” [1999?]. They propose that the Internet is not just a medium like radio and TV, it is a media of media. This alludes in an interesting way to Marshall McLuhan’s idea that media are an extension of the human. The Net did not exist in his time but several writers have assumed that if it had he would have seen it as an extension of the brain. This simple linear extrapolation of McLuhan does not do justice to the power of the Internet. The Internet extends media exponentially. Media squared, media to the power of two. This idea makes sense in a world where the power of technology doubles every year, where we are talking about increases in the rates of change and qualitative leaps and paradigm shifts.
My new “Possibly Related Posts” plug-in is wonderful! Browsing my own archives found a bit I like from 2000:
Old edit this page Items › Psyberspace:
…we are seeing applications go off the “personal computer” into the sky … no huge hard disk, or any hard disk? … while we had Personal Computers as prosthesis, as extensions of our selves we were still localised beings surrounded by tools. Now we participate in One tool. Can you feel the change? Meet me in the noosphere
I’ve enjoyed a meander into Tim Boucher’s website this evening. He has a good sense of coex systems and patterns of the psyche.
CIRCUS CHARACTERS, History, Archetypes & Symbolism by Tim Boucher (Dead link)
Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20100317104050/http://circuscharacters.org
The circus is a place where dreams and reality intersect, where the limits of human ability and perception are tested and surpassed. It is a place of escape from the everyday (to “run away and join the circus”), a place of spectacle & entertainment, and a proving ground for the human imagination. In this article, we’ll explore some of the primordial archetypal characters from the circus and carnival tradition, and connect them with pastiche of historical context and symbolic meaning.
I enjoyed this, like being in on a psychotherapy session – well conducted by Sherry Salman.
Talking Head: David Byrne Discusses Art and Inspiration at the Rubin Museum – WNYC Culture:
Saved the same audio here:
Talking Head: David Byrne Discusses Art and Inspiration at the Rubin Museum Wednesday, December 30, 2009
David Byrne looked like a large awkward bird that had been shaken from its nest when he arrived at the Rubin Museum to take part in the “Red Book Dialogues.” That might have had something to do with the audience that packed the room to see him undergo public psychoanalysis with the Jungian analyst assigned to gently coax him into revealing his unconscious.
I like to think I am not into having heroes but most of these from tb are my heroes. I’d add a few: J.L. Moreno, James Hillman, Jim Rough, Karl Marx, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Kurt Vonnegut, Peter Pinney… of course they are all a bit flawed, but that is where the light gets in… I’ll add Leonard Cohen, and there are a lot of non-famous real people who have had a bigger impact!
People who found awesome ways to be creative, and who I’ve learned a hell of a lot from about how to be a kick-ass human being: