#cosmotechnics
Rituals cannot be outwardly productive, they have to be self-fulfilling.
All actions undertaken are recognisably symbolic, recalling and activating larger forces already in motion, concentrating the energy around a certain point eg witchcraft - spell casting is not the same as making something with your hands, rather you are manipulating the
... See moreThis architectural mode of enclosure and enfolding suggests sanctuary, retreat, and escape. From the narthex entry one is invited to lose oneself in this space that channels the pilgrim into a labyrinth of octagons and circles, inviting a wandering that seems to escape from the driven, goal-oriented ways we inhabit the “outside” world. The pilgrim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
My feeling is that art, as opposed to philosophy, is still in a position where it can evoke the glimmer of a new form of life.
Art has always brought forth a new reality, a new form of perception. All his life, Paul Klee said: “Immanently, I cannot be grasped at all. Because I live with the dead, just as I live with the unborn. A bit nearer to the... See more
Art has always brought forth a new reality, a new form of perception. All his life, Paul Klee said: “Immanently, I cannot be grasped at all. Because I live with the dead, just as I live with the unborn. A bit nearer to the... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
A monstrance , also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory ),[1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for ostension, e.g., the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of... See more
Monstrance
“Forms of rituals, such as manners, make possible both beautiful behaviour among humans and a beautiful, gentle treatment of things. In a ritual context, things are not consumed or used up but used. Thus, they can also become old”
“Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity”
“Symbolic
... See moreritual things → recognised as technology
36. how language shapes the way we think
open.spotify.comAnimacy: Braiding sweet grass, process to become native -> animism / regionalism (Cascadia)
Cosmotechnics, Yuk Hui, and the Possibility of Changing Your Story
open.spotify.comMyth → ontology → technology
For west (Greek, not Christian?) : competition is the story, wisdom is a gift in the east, benevolence feeds into tech as way of flowing with life, west tech is to take it
‘ Thinking, rooted in the earthy virtue of place is the motor of cosmotechnics… not a refusal of progress or a homecoming to traditionalism, rather a reappropriation of tech from the perspective of the local and a new understanding of history ‘ - quoting Yuk Hai