'Happy 250th birthday to one of history's great Romantic artists! People don't usually think of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel as a Romantic Hero, but he's the philosophical equivalent of Beethoven -- born the same year -- and his philosophical preoccupations were just as Romantic and Heroic as Beethoven's musical ones.'
G. Bartley, "The Biggest Picture," Philosophy Now (Oct/Nov 2020), p. 4
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'At its most ambitious, memento vivere as a project is a fusion of rhetoric, psychology, and cosmology (Bloom, 1973/1997, xxvi) that can never match Shakespeare's eloquence, Hip Hop's power, the mystery of the oceans, or of the galaxies.
But this project does try to point to the same expansive, all-inclusive, singular-diverse realities that these (Shakespeare / Hip Hop / oceans / galaxies) give us in and of our lives. One starting place for this is with Things (& Being).' -Memento Vivere project rough notes, p. 2 If an individual's discourse-use within a group 'is accompanied by displays of emotion' that correspond to that group's emotion, 'then that individual will be judged to be a "cooperator"...and group members will predict further cooperative behavior from that individual in relation to [their] group (adapted from Bubulia and Sosis, 2011, 365; cf. Irons 2001)'.
XJ, pp. 94-95 (adapted) 'The Franklin, also known as the "Fugio," cent [a penny coin] was authorized by Congress in 1787 and thus...predates the constitutional regime....' Its two inscriptions 'We Are One' and 'Mind Your Business' 'perfectly express a minted conflict between two national impulses....'
M. Meltzer, Secular Revelations, p. 53, adapted http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740764149 'What does it look like to write about life? One version, among many others, is through biography (bio-graphy): writing about (a) life.
Another version of writing about life is biology -- the study of life -- or discourse, reasoning, and organization / ordering regarding life itself, not only individual lives but also in terms of what makes life in all its diversity. Yet another version of working on the topic of life is psychobiography: writing about a life from a psychological perspective. ...My own version of what others have called psychobiography leans toward being more expansive and as all-encompassing as possible, both to understand and optimize life/lives. At least, that is the aspiration.' Memento Vivere project notes, pp. 1-2, adapted 'Memento mori in an experiential sense is transformative because it brings one into awareness of truths about human existence, as an individual and beyond, in a way that may not easily be surpassed. It not only shows or tells, but it brings one into an experience of what it is, or what it is like, to be mortal. In many contexts, this experience raises questions of the most fundamental kind that are often dealt with in religion, art, and science.'
D.i.D., p. 13 'The brain is wider than the sky / For, put them side by side / The one the other will include / With ease, and you beside.'
–Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems, p. 98 https://books.google.com/books/about/Selected_Poems_and_Letters_of_Emily_Dick.html?id=aLZOAAAAMAAJ 'beyond one's own life, there are the lives of others, and beyond that: even life itself. The project of memento vivere explores life on all these levels. For example, what, after all, are the 'building blocks' of life? What are the building blocks of living experience? Any discussion of life may go in the direction of quantitative or qualitative accountings of life, lives, and a life. One primary way to account for life is through writing.'
Memento Vivere project notes, p. 1 'the higher price one pays, the truer one is seen to be. If one does embarrassing, absurd, or sacrificial things, one is perceived as 'really meaning it' and being authentically serious in one's commitment.'
XJ, p. 94 'water is always more than itself'
A. Ballestero, 'The Anthropology of Water', p. 405 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011428 'Memetica ecologica is a new "glocal" folk culture that operates anywhere there are people, whether they are business people, scientists, village market goers, artists, political party leaders, refugees, citizens, revolutionaries, or the proverbial ordinary.
But anywhere a "totality" exists, in reality or in one's mind, we humans have a way of thinking otherwise. Is this because "the world" is always more than we think? There a more things, Horatio.... Is this because our brains, powerful and complex as they are, remain relatively limited? Or is this because when it comes to words and concepts, our minds always have the power to create slippage or differential change even if such slippages/differentials do not exist in reality? These questions and others like them ultimately will be left for readers to answer for themselves, but there is no question that a new informational ecology of memetics is at the forefront of our minds, bodies, societies, and our very lives.' Memetica Ecologica project notes, p. 2 'Susan Sontag...writes...of how "certain photographs...can be used like memento mori, as objects of contemplation to deepen one's sense of reality; as secular icons...."
...primetime viewing on public television, the major television networks, or online providers provide a steady stream of death-related or mortality-awareness content, including access to massive volumes of visual material and footage through venues such as YouTube, Vimeo, and social media platforms.... [Beyond information and entertainment, these images] give occasion for reflection upon a viewer's status as a mortal (and either an immortal with an uncertain future or not an immortal at all).' D.i.D., pp. 6-7, citing Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 119 http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/regardingPain.shtml 'when are the maddening / steep if consoling fractions of history done'
-K. Koch, "Ellie Campaigns...", Collected Poems, p. 9 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/94568/the-collected-poems-of-kenneth-koch-by-kenneth-koch/ 'There are so many ways to 'break down' life -- or a life -- in order to understand it and, maybe, to optimize it.
How do you break things down? What are the main areas of your life? If you had to name 3 or 4 or 5 main areas of your life, what would the labels be? Say your life, metaphorically speaking, is a 'building' -- like a house, an office complex, or a workshop -- what would the main 'rooms' of your life be? Or if you were to present a photo album / slide show of your life: where would the snapshots of your life go? Under what sections or headings? How would you label the major sections? These major labels, sections, or areas of your life could be something to come back to as ways of organizing, in one's own way, one's life.' Memento Vivere project notes, p. 1, adapted A high-cost discourse may correlate with a perceived high commitment (XJ, p. 94).
In other words, if the way someone talks costs them a lot, people may think (and/or feel) that person is truly committed. That is, some people may think they are the 'real deal'. "'The writer...believes all that can thought can be written.... In their eyes a human being is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported.'" -R.W. Emerson
In E.L. Doctorow, Reporting the Universe, p. 1, edited https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674016286 'The ecology of memetica, or memetica ecologica, encompasses large domains of the human world, including knowledge, experience, and existences
that in turn includes religions, cultures, sciences, technologies, economies, and governments. Memetica ecologica as a concept also encompasses large domains of the non-human living world in the massive diversity and complexity of life; and it includes the non-living world of the physical universe that is most fascinatingly described in quantum theory and experimentation.' Memetica Ecologica project notes, p. 2 'Memento mori as experienced is considered to be transformative because no other human experience can surpass that of mortality or the encounter with the boundary between life and death -- an experience that brings about altered ways for a person to be (or not be) and act (or not act) in the world.'
D.i.D., p. 6 'systems...may exhibit both linear and nonlinear behavior. A classic example is the movement of water.'
W. Loewenstein, The Touchstone of Life, p. 42 'Memento Vivere is a way to name an ongoing project of individual and group practices to deliberately cultivate one's life in the context of others -- using tools and knowledge from the ancients and from present-day sciences, technologies, and arts -- in order to survive, live well, and inspire others: to live the life we have to live, now.'
-Memento Vivere: Life, Now project notes, p. 1, by b.b.c. |
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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