
The ethos underlying the idea that “attention is an art form” and, specifically “how we become skillful perceivers and doers, people who know, in the moment, the right details to attend to and the right actions to take” is very similar to a core theme within Bill Torbet’s Action Inquiry, as explained here.
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The Side View is about the knowledge and intuition we use to navigate the world. It’s about how our minds meet the world, but it’s also about how our minds, when trained in the right way, change how we perceive what’s around us and within us. In other words, The Side View is about how we become skillful perceivers and doers, people who know, in the moment, the right details to attend to and the right actions to take.
The idea is that we can develop new ways of making sense of things, ways that change what we’re able to do in the world. From our perspective, sense-making is its own kind of craft, and the medium of this craft isn’t paint or stone or wood, but your own perception. Perception on this view is a skill you can shape through practice. We see our ability to pay attention to things as an art of its own. It’s an art of looking at things in a certain way.
These are good tag lines for The Side View—attention is an art form; perception is a skill—but when we dig deeper into what this approach really means, to what it makes possible for us in our lives, we find something more interesting: When we start to look at our own perception in this way, we find that we can actually take hold of some of these dynamics and change them. In a way, the whole process of learning is about creating these transformations in perception. The Side View is about making sense of this process. By looking at perception and experience, we’re making sense of how we make sense.
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From Adam’s web page:
I run a publication called The Side View. We are an independent publisher that integrates theory and practice, while running parallel to academic and public conversations. We publish a journal, online and in print, and a podcast that explores the nature of perception and attention by having conversations with architects, cognitive scientists, athletes, philosophers, contemplatives, and more. We have an online shop, and you can learn more about us here, or on Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, and most podcast platforms.
I am also a philosopher by training. My first book is contracted with Revelore Press, and will be finished in the fall of 2020. The book is about askēsis (exercise) and its relation to perception. Askēsis aims at a transformation of perception through a variety of exercises, including contemplative practice, philosophy, athletics, art, and more. These practices are concerned with the development of our inner and outer senses. You can read a draft excerpt here. I write about these themes on my blog, on Medium, and on Twitter.
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TSV Episode 27: Perspectiva – An Urgent 100-Year Project w/ Jonathan Rowson
Published on: 24 Sep 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 26: A New Inquiry on Science & Buddhism w/ Bonnitta Roy
Published on: 8 Jul 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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The Side View Live 1: Physics of the World Soul w/ Matthew Segall
Published on: 17 Jun 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 25: Buddhist Modernism w/ Evan Thompson
Published on: 27 May 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 24: Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age w/ Ryan Duns
Published on: 15 Apr 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 23: Philosophy as a Way of Life w/ Gregory Sadler
Published on: 8 Apr 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 22: The Side View at The Stoa
Published on: 1 Apr 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 21: Media Ecology and the McLuhan Institute w/ Andrew McLuhan
Published on: 25 Mar 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 20: The Halkyon Thinkers Guild w/ Johannes Niederhauser
Published on: 18 Mar 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 19 – The New Localism w/ Jason Snyder and Joe Norman
Published on: 14 Mar 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 18: Palladium Magazine w/ Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton
Published on: 13 Mar 21 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 17: Susan Ingham & Chris Andrews
Published on: 20 Mar 20 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 16: The Wisdom of Socrates with David Collins
Published on: 7 Nov 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 15: Perceptual Learning w/ Kevin Connolly
Published on: 15 Jul 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 14: Jeremy Johnson
Published on: 10 Jul 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 13: Matthew T. Segall
Published on: 4 Apr 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 12: Michael Tremblay
Published on: 20 Mar 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 11: Jacob Given
Published on: 13 Mar 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 10: Abeba Birhane
Published on: 7 Mar 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 9: Bonnitta Roy
Published on: 28 Feb 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 8: Joe Norman
Published on: 21 Feb 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 7: David Collins
Published on: 15 Feb 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 6: Peter Sjöstedt-H
Published on: 10 Feb 19 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 5: Roope Kaaronen
Published on: 29 Oct 18 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 4: Erik Davis and Aaron Weiss
Published on: 22 Oct 18 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 3: Live from San Francisco
Published on: 21 Oct 18 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 2: Aaron Weiss
Published on: 4 Oct 18 in The Side View – Podcast
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Published on: 4 Oct 18 in The Side View – Podcast
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TSV Episode 1: Bryan Von Reuter
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The ethos underlying the idea that “attention is an art form” and, specifically “how we become skillful perceivers and doers, people who know, in the moment, the right details to attend to and the right actions to take” is very similar to a core theme within Bill Torbet’s Action Inquiry, as explained here.