"I look at the picture as a whole and feel that I 'know'
from personal experience the material context"
Dear Jack and everyone..
I just want to pay attention to this line that you wrote.
I want to slow down, and explore what that "knowing" is. I don't think we
"know" enough about it and I think it is a potentially whole source of human
thought and ontology.
When you say this, I connect with you, in understanding that sense of
recognition - of experience that is on the one hand completely unique and on
the other inalienable from all human experience, like a wondrous cosmic
tendril that winds through us, is of us and we make it what it is, across
all time and geography even though our cultures of knowing would lose sight
of this extraordinary human right of existence.
I am reminded of Alan's beautiful reference to Wordsworth in his manuscript
which I am currently reading:
"In nature everything is distinct, yet nothing defined into absolute
independent singleness"
(Forgive me Alan for quoting your reference, I will be quoting you when I am
finished with the read!).
So, in reference to this discussion about the power of images to communicate
knowledge, I wanted to dwell on knowledge not as information, but as this
living stream of a thing we call experience, and note how rich a pool that
is once we sense it "bodily" and culturally alive within and around us - and
to advocate for a significant turning towards understanding it and making
"it" the ground in which we are....
Logically (instinctively), it is perhaps the most accurate form of knowledge
with which to sense the state of our ecology (sociological and environmental
etc etc) - and potentially the road back/towards being in nature again.
Lovely to be in the stream with you guys again
Susie
On 25/1/07 6:59 PM, "Jack Whitehead" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ?
|