Spring in Portland is great, even if you don’t leave your own porch…
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Author: Seth
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A Theoretical Beginning
Every moment of transformation enacts an epistemology. Part of what it means to be human is to have the potential to awaken to this fact, and more: to recognize that the recognition of the inescapable relation between action and epistemology leads to the unfolding of a life-long quest and question: how do I know? Exploration of this question, always implicitly present but seldom asked, yields consequences for the entirety of human life, from the most mundane actions to the deepest soul struggles. Once one sees that it is impossible, as a living system, to escape epistemological concerns at even the most trivial level, such concerns form an ever-present background to the unfolding of one’s life. (more…)
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Music Squared
This is from Andre Michelle Laboratory, but I had to repost it here so I could have three simultaneous sets. Unfortunately I don’t know how to make them synchronize perfectly, because they load at different speeds… oh well. Also, if you have an iPad or iPhone, check out Soundprism too!
Click some squares — don’t be shy!
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Portland Japanese Gardens
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I’m working on my dissertation and hopefully I’ll post some bits when I feel they are polished enough. In the meantime, my sister is visiting from Durango and we had a great time at the Portland Japanese Gardens. It rained (expected), showed (whaaaat?) and sunned (OMG!) all within half an hour, which made for some great lighting conditions… enjoy!
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Blow your mind with epistemology and ontology!
To begin in the middle:
– There is no “it”, but there is talk about “it”. Ultimately the talk about “it”, the pointing to “it”, is more fundamental to “it” than anything else, because it is the RELATIONS that are primary: thingness is a subset of relatedness. Relations are not between two “things” but are recursively self-generated between other relations – things fall out of relations (things = Earth, relations = Water). Relations themselves are a precipitate of tension between complementarily opposing potentials (Air). Relations are to opposing potentials as things are to relations. Opposing potentials are themselves a precipitate of the whole, and work alongside each other within the whole simultaneously. Each step from the whole is a step-down transformation, we could say that beginning with level N, we move to level N-1. Each level is pulled out of simultaneity by an act of distinction within the whole, of the whole, by the whole. A cascading of levels of distinction yields the ontology of “things”, and simultaneously an epistemology of “knowing” activity, which together yield the whole of cosmology.
– This can be approached in another way. We can begin first with a problem of the modern condition, made apparent most strongly by both postmodernism and deconstructionism. The problem is that language is (more…)
