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Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Good questions do not have answers at all, let alone right or wrong ones.
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
Not because there was or is an answer, but because the question brought both rigor and imagination into the inquiry.
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
Each has a perspective, each has a changing narrative, each in relation—umwelt.
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
Looking ahead we must ask: Who do we want to be in this transforming world? Who are we, now? … And what of Humanity?
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
The models, graphs, and charts that communicate this methodology carry ‘fact’ packaged in such a way that its authority is unquestionable. It says, “this is serious,” “this is how things are done,” and most insidious, “this is how life works.”
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature, and ideas.
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
Anyone’s heart is liable to be broken open by the simple poetry of the many entanglements captured in a single blink.
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
I want to emphasize that whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition; whenever we start insisting too hard upon ‘operationalism’ or symbolic logic or any other of these very essential systems of tram-lines, we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel a
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
But the problem with problem-solving is the idea that a solution is an endpoint. There are no endpoints in complex systems, only tendrils that diffuse and reorganize situations…
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