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 Mind and land I  Mind and land II  Mind and land III  Comprehensive outline

Mind and land minicourse outline

    I. Cognitive ecology: sketch of a project
    1. Preliminary bits
    a. Bleak dream
    b. Kinds of bad houses
    c. Cade Bambara quote
    d. Imagining an institution
    2. Introduction to the series
    a. What is the question
    b. Definitions
    c. Cultural imagining ­ imagining a kind of cultural attitude
    d. 'New humanism'
    e. Organic high intelligence
    3. Good mind
    a. What is good for minds to be?
    b. Contemporary styles of mind in relation to land
    c. What are some reactive qualities
    d. So what is not good enough, what isn't it
    e. Cognitive ecology: integrity of mind and land
    4. This era
    a. Where are we?
    b. Cultural opportunities of this era
    c. Shifting structural metaphor ­ from mechanism to complex network
    d. Scary tendencies in this era

     

    II: Practitioners of marvelous contact
    1. Congeneris Foundation mission statement
    2. Gordon Smith
    3. Lee Bontecou
    4. Peter Manning
    5. Craig Childs
    6. Michael Benedikt
    7. Tim Robinson
    8. Fernando Flores
    9. Antonin Artaud
    10. Sharon Olds
    11. Jorie Graham
     
    III: Theoretical aspects
    1. Epistemology based on perception
    2. Anthropology of complex connection
    3. Understanding disaffection
    4. Revision of science

 


 Mind and land I  Mind and land II  Mind and land III  Comprehensive outline