Francois et al,
I found your article in Google Books, here:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=VlJr9SV1oxkC&lpg=PA95&ots=8XZ7Axozz-&dq=The%20Geography%20of%20Material%20Artefacts%20And%20an%20Outline%20for%20Synergetic%20Geography&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cheers.
Fil
On 15 December 2010 06:23, Francois Nsenga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Keith and Terry
>
> Yes, the piece has been published under: The Geography of Material
> Artefacts
> and an Outline for Synergetic Geography (Co-authorship with Gary Backhaus).
> In EARTH WAYS: Framing Geographical Meanings. Edited by Gary Backhaus and
> John Murungi. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 95-114.
>
> But you'll find in the above only one tiny part of the whole story. The
> inspiration (I am neither philosopher nor logician, just a student in
> Design!) of the assumption, perspective and terms comes from my reading of
> (not in order):
>
> - Richard Buckminster Fuller and his "Synergetics: Explorations in the
> Geometry of Thinking"
> - Michel Jullien in IF Vol.9, (1978), No. 2-3; Cahier de l’Isuc No. 1, and
> many live conversations
> - Bruno Latour (with Peter Weibel) in *"Making Things Public: Atmospheres
> of
> Democracy*", in *"Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-network
> theory*", and on Sloterdijk "A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps
> Toward a Philosophy of Design (with Special Attention to Peter
> Sloterdijk)",
> Keynote lecture for the Networks of Design, meeting of the Design History
> Society, Falmouth, Cornwall, 3rd September 2008
> - Peter Sloterdijk and his Spherology
> - Stéphane Lupasco, Basarab Nicolescu, Edgar Morin and the "T-state" of the
> "included middle", Transdisciplinarity, and Complexity
>
> De bonnes lectures during this Holidays Season!
>
> Best wishes to all!
>
> Francois
> Montreal
>
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