“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful, but it is more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”—Henry David Thoreau Read more...
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- M. Merleau-Ponty Read more...One does not write solelyfor oneself,
or solely for truth, but not simply for others either.
One writes.
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si la vie est un songe, le songe est une vie- Merleau-Ponty Read more...
Husserl, Foucault et la mer
"Cette vie est comme une mer, dans laquelle les hommes, les peuples sont des vagues qui se modèlent les unes les autres fugitivement, qui se transforment et disparaissent à nouveau, les unes étant plus ondulées et par conséquent plus riches, les autres plus élémentaires"(Husserl)
"L’homme est une invention dont l’archéologie de notre pensée montre aisément la date récente. Et peut-être la fin prochaine. Si ces dispositions venaient à disparaître comme elles sont apparues (...) alors on peut bien parler que l’homme s’effacerait, comme à la limite de la mer un visage de sable"(Foucault) Read more...
"Clichés, frases feitas, adesão a códigos de expressão e conduta convencionais e padronizados têm a função socialmente reconhecida de proteger-nos da realidade, ou seja, da exigência de atenção do pensamento feita por todos os fatos e acontecimentos em virtude de sua mera existência"- Hannah Arendt (pesquisa de livros) Read more...
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“Um homem não entra no panteão dos filósofos por ter se aplicado a ter apenas ideias eternas, e o tom de verdade só vibra por muito tempo quando o autor interpela a sua vida.”Merleau-Ponty Read more...
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Mind is the forerunner of (all good) states. Mind is chief; mind-made are they. If one speaks or acts with a wholesome mind, because of that, happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.Dhammapada, 2 Read more...
The "post-theoretical" age and the "reality-based community"
In the absence of data, you theorise. In an abundance, you just need to do the maths. And, because of all those super-efficient search engines, we share more and more data. Data dissolves ideology.
Two further books exemplify this: David MacKay’s Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air and Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline are rigorous responses to the challenge of climate change. Both work from data rather than theory, and offer systems of management rather than ideologies. Both are number-rich and theory-light, and urge action—now. In MacKay’s words: “We have to stop saying ‘No’ and start saying ‘Yes’.” In Brand’s: “We are as gods and have to get good at it.” Brian Eno on Prospect, 29th October 2009
Some years ago...
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Reality-based community is a popular term among liberal political commentators in the United States. In the fall of 2004, the phrase "proud member of the reality-based community" was first used to suggest the commentator's opinions are based more on observation than on faith, assumption, or ideology. The term has been defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality." Some commentators have gone as far as to suggest that there is an overarching conflict in society between the reality-based community and the "faith-based community" as a whole. It can be seen as an example of political framing.
The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."[1] [Wikipedia]
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"They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness"Read more...
John Milton
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