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The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comCosmotechnics, Yuk Hui, and the Possibility of Changing Your Story
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Myth → 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
“What is a ritual?” said the little prince. “It is also something really forgotten,” said the fox. “It is what makes one day different from the other days, one hour, from the other hours.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
GOCHUJANG BUTTER BEAN STEW
mikeyandthekitchen.com
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
“In art and design, knowledge flows through objects and texts of all kinds, you can read in a different way; you don’t have to necessarily read things traditionally ” - Christabel, Academic Support team
Looking at artwork “you are reading them for the meaning in the structure, the meanings the structures bring you, but again it is your own reading,
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Myth as a way of de-politicising history, allowing a distance from collective identification, blame and responsibility into discussion of ideas
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana (epics) are free from identity and are just expressions of the karmic chain of events,
Gandhi who is pro non-violence addressing Gita important bc
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