Wednesday, August 26, 2009

confluence, chaos + Nature

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
C G Jung
Philoctetes ~ http://www.youtube.com/user/philoctetesctr 
                  ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw7gSRaZ_JQ

Lorraine Daston 
The Moral Authority of Nature  Daston, L and Vidal, F 2004
Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150 - 1750 Daston, L and Park, K
listen to Daston ~ http://odeo.com/episodes/22550989-Lorraine-Daston
   

"Things become talkative when they fuse matter and meaning"

Daston talks about the deep theoretical need of humans to seek analogies and conceptual sources for our normative commitments in Nature. She diagnoses that we need to look for grounding in normativeness suggesting that our answer may lie in examining notions of order - but not specifics in nature.

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/margaret_wertheim_crochets_the_coral_reef.html 

and more http://www.ted.com/search?q=coral+reef&x=0&y=0 


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