And is it doing what it has set out to do? Enspiral and Rebellious Data Logos Enspiral defies simple explanation. It is many things to many people at once. It is a mutual aid network. It is a social impact entrepreneurial incubator. It is a future of work and new economy catalyst. It is a collection of […]
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I noted earlier that Platonic askēsis, as seen in the beholding of the vision of beauty described in the Symposium, is a kind of aesthetic askēsis, which is also capable of transfiguring the self in unique ways. This kind of askēsis figures strongly in the work of Gabriel Trop. Trop positions art as a way
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The notion that askēsis is as much additive as privative is central to Foucault’s larger discussion of the term. Readers will recognize a connection with Hadot when Foucault writes, “This is a work of the self on the self, an elaboration of the self by the self, a progressive transformation of the self by the
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January 13, 2020 Twitter: @jim_rutt Mini-bioGameB Facebook Group In this essay, I’m going to lay out a set of ideas about a long term path for GameB to become a civilization level social operating system. Please don’t take it too seriously as THE trajectory. It’s certainly wrong in many regards. It’s just one possibility through the
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Really coherent groups can maintain their harmony despite holding divergent mental models. See: neighbourhoods with a strong local culture but low political alignment.
The definition Hadot gives of philosophy as a spiritual exercise, in addition to the links between Greek philosophy, Christian monastic practice, and aesthetics I’ve just highlighted, makes it clear that askēsis is not bounded by the categories of philosophy, spirituality, art, or religion. In fact, askēsis is in many ways an avenue by which one
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I’ve heard a few times over the years people associate metacognitive observation (of thoughts, feelings, actions, etc.) with a kind of despair, depression, or alienation, as though this were a good thing, as though the metacognitive insights we associate with philosophy are uniquely delivered by depressed or alienated affect, and that in turn alienation has
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I’ll leave aside for the moment the larger conversation one could develop around Hadot, Foucault, and Sloterdijk, because doing justice to… Continue reading on Medium »
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https://medium.com/media/90355a347534ef63c06ef372fbd4be9d/href My talk for the ( æthos ) Salon Series: Intuition as Sensemaking event held on November 4. It’s about linking perceptual learning to intuition and in so doing starting to frame an account of the genesis of intuitive abilities, or, as I’m framing it, a process we could call intuition-making. Full notes below. I’m trying
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Anakiwa, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Photo: Outward Bound NZ Self-organised support groups for compulsive world changers Resources: Self-organised sensemaking — regular meeting process Sensemaking retrospective Finding your way in life is tough. Feeling like you’re alone is really tough. Working out how to respond to a planetary crisis is super tough, so don’t try this alone. From a young age I
