Goethe, Nature, Philosophy

I really like this piece (thanks to dmf):

Goethe and Environmental Philosophy

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"The Snow Man"

The not so simple issue of time . . .   It seems quite obvious that objects withdraw partly because our experience of them (and our experience of ourselves) is temporal.  How can anyone assume they have the full picture of any thing, when they experience day by day that their understanding of things changes as they learn and unlearn about them.

I’m also interested in the idea (implied above) that objects withdraw through our projections . . . that is, we not only don’t see what is there but we also see what’s not there.

"The Snow Man"

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Isolina Limonta--Printing with Objects

“The bodies of the figures in her work are filled with the intimate elements of their lives — plants, coins, feathers, architecture, lace, or buttons (to name a few) are imprinted on their bodies.”

See more prints here.

  

(Quote from http://lagaleriacubana.com/limonta.aspx)

Film . . . Half Nelson

"near perfect" . . . . including tracks from Broken Social Scene

Great trailer here.

Objects Indian and Otherwise

by Randall Honold

See here from  Environmental Critique

OOO 101.1

Explaining Object Oriented Ontology to your non-OOO friends

by Rick Elmore

See here from Environmental Critique. 

OOOCD

I’m reworking my rhetoric of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and OCD arguments.  If a patient learns to modulate dysphoria or anxiety through CBT . . . they come to accept that the cause of depression (say, sibling rivalry) is not actually cause for depression, or the cause for alarm (doorknob) is not really cause for alarm. 

They have to assimilate paradoxes:

sr = depression (feeling) and sr =/= depression (knowledge)

dk = alarm (feeling) and dk =/= alarm (knowledge)

Thus they come to realize that objects are withdrawn from them (the wholesomeness of the doorknob, the value of germs, etc.), and that they are withdrawn from themselves (they are not the sum of their depressive or OCD symptoms).  They have leverage in access to knowledge about themselves, other objects, and how they relate to other objects . . . all of which are withdrawn. 

This is true of mindfulness in general.