'Dystopias are just as seductive as utopias. These -topias are totalizing, fantastic places in our heads (and may reflect or become our reality) -- heads that are connected to our bodies (which in fact are our bodies) -- that don't adequately map the territory of our experiences, of human experience, let alone observation and experimentation.'
-Memetica Ecologica project notes, 25 Sept 2020
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'Specific instances of [lingo-use] depend upon the situation, the behavior, and the consequences -- including positive, partial, or negative reinforcement or punishment -- of that use, non-use, or intermittent use.'
XJ, p. 95 'The ambiguity of the ego consists in the fact that something that is a part of the world can stand over against the world, and even "possess" or be correlated with the world.'
-R. Sokolowski, Intro to Phenomenology, p. 113 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-phenomenology/E674F6D1A67EB5EA0BAD016711487D9D The project of 'memento vivere,' or 'life, now' may address any human anywhere but need not necessarily exclude non-human life forms such as non-human animals and even non-human intelligence (even, e.g., A.I.).
A most pressing and absorbing situation for memento vivere is that of living within and interaction with "memetica ecologica" -- an all-encompassing "ecology" of "information" both quantitatively and qualitatively that defines the real in which "we live, and move, and have our being."' -Memento Vivere project notes, 26 Sept 2020, adapted 'human cooperative projects, artistic or otherwise, are galvanized by word-signs that allow human individuals and culture to be transformed'
-DD, p. 20, adapted 'Certainty resides in the past.' -notebook entry: 1 January 2020 [sic] 'Memetica is our current drama. It's a grand drama of our time. Information is our poetry -- that is, at a lowest common denominator. Memetica is a poetry of the people, but of leaders, too. We're all caught up in it somehow. We see it in our teacups. We see it in the stars.'
Memetica Ecologica project notes, 25 Sept 2020 'Various reasons for this need [to communicate commitment through ostentatious lingo-use] could be suggested -- from an individual not feeling intense emotion connected to [the lingo] to being in a leadership role where increased scrutiny of one's commitment is put upon from the larger group and outsiders'
XJ, p. 95, adapted 'it is only as we discover the primacy of society, the inclusive coherent unity of human interdependence, that we can hope to transcend the perplexities and the contradictions of our times.'
-R.M. MacIver in K. Polanyi, The Great Transformation, p. xii '"Memento vivere," "life, now" addresses how we humans have lived, do live, and shall live. It's an injunction to Wake Up to the life we have to live now in our present situation, informed by the past, and looking to the future.'
Memento Vivere project notes, 26 Sept 2020 'people are persuaded -- even more, transformed -- as one identifies or simulates a shared experience with another. Here one finds the most effective and thoroughgoing consolidation of directed action.'
D.i.D., p. 18 'healthy anger acts as the honorable sentry or boundary-holder of the psyche'
-K. McLaren, Language of Emotions, p. 6 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Language_of_Emotions/F8AWZOE2wWMC?hl=en&gbpv=0 'I observe that the language of "information" runs across all domains and often is the core or grounding language or concept no matter what the domain, field, or discipline.
"Memes" are simply one of the latest and most popular versions of this. But an annoying internet meme is like an annoying pimple -- it gets all the attention but there's still a whole body, a whole organism, a whole person that goes with it. Maybe we have to pop a social media meme in order to get relieved of it and get back to the larger dynamics, the larger realities of the construction, flows, and interactions of information. -Memetica Ecologica project notes, adapted, 25 Sept 2020 'Highly ostentatious display in [a particular lingo-use] indicates a high need to communicate commitment' to the particular lingo-using community.
XJ, p. 95, adapted ''"I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World."'
-I. Newton, Principia, 1686 In/adapted from W. Lowenstein, Touchstone of Life, p. 43 'One challenge for life now is getting maximum or sufficient or optimal freedom for individuals (& particular groups) while maintaining relatively orderly progress for groups/masses of people, along with all the systems on Earth (& a little bit beyond).'
-Memento Vivere project rough notes, 2/1/2020 Coming to awareness of mortality 'raises questions about immortality, about whether immortality exists, and, if so, precisely how.
With immortality, or the lack thereof, at stake, along with one's life and the future of one's fellow human beings, especially biological and/or cultural offspring -- no wonder [awareness of mortality], as experienced, is so definitive.' D.i.D., p. 13 '...in the world of infinity, a part may be equal to the whole!'
-G. Gamouw, One, Two, Three...Inifinity, p. 17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Two_Three..._Infinity 'THINGS (& BEING)
Question: How do you organize/group/manage everything in your life?' To respond to that, we'll probably have to address some categories such as 'organization & chaos' and 'regularity & irregularity' -Memento Vivere project outline, 8 May 2020, adapted 'Memento mori, as it operates experientially or existentially, asks questions such as "What does one know?"
"What does one do?" and "What does one find oneself caught up in?" D.i.D., p. 13, adapted |
AuthorBenjamin Bennett-Carpenter writes philosophy and poetry. Teaches at a public university in North America. Consults/coaches (executive, life, creative). Archives
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