28
MAY
2020

WORD – Enantiodromia

ART & ORGANISM . Enantiodromia ._______________________________________ In the antechamber of the Shrine of Apollo at Delphi, there is an injunction to know thyself . on the opposite wall is the motto, nothing in excess…   Excess seems to be what drives ENANTIODROMIA … In phi
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24
AUG
2023

A&O – DUALITY notes

ART & ORGANISM DUALITY notes    “The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image
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24
AUG
2020

A&O – PERCEPTION – INTEGRATIVE and REDUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVES   

ART & ORGANISM notes on INTEGRATIVE and REDUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVES    _____________________________ IN the ethological ideal of JANUSAN THINKING, we pursue the seeming alternative or even opposing percepts that are reflected in familiar expressions such as “One
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24
JAN
2018

A&O – BIASES – congenital and acquired – notes

ART & ORGANISM   BIAS, INTUITION, PREJUDICE notes .  In ART and SCIENCE, In ETHOLOGY as in PHENOMENOLOGY we cannot proceed without a concerted effort to be aware of one’s biases, a heroic task given how much bias is implicit in human nature itself  . Who can d
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27
APR
2017

A&O OVERVIEW of resources

  ART & ORGANISM OVERVIEW of NOTES & RESOURCES A (very) loosely organized accumulation of resources, largely serendipitous, used for presentations   . INTRODUCTION to ART & ORGANISM telling “The best story we can tell with the best evidence we haveR
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