Living Structure in Japanese Katana
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Tagged Christopher Alexander, Ornament, Unfolding, Wholeness
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Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?
nI found this talk interesting and refreshing. It tallks about the shifting balance of power from the USA to China & India. If highlights the western bubble most western media is immersed in. It felt well informed and balanced and somewhat hopeful … though …
I believe that there was also something backwards-facing in the talk. From a geopolitical perspective it does seem like China & India are catching up and possible poised to shoot past the USA & Europe. However I believe that as western social infrastructure crumbles (systems of money, democracy, law, nation-states) the west is better poised to discover and create new social technologies that China & India are not even aware they may require. It may be that the space that china & India are growing into is a crumbling space. The measures and centers of powers, I believe, may be shifting. The growth and rise to power that Mahbubani presents may be apparent in the existing measures of power … but if those change …
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Spaces for the Soul (a Ruth Landy documentary about Christopher Alexander)
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Dear Ruth, thank you for this precious work, it is vital that this story be told, and for it to be told it is vital that it be available. While I understand your motivation for having it taken down, please don’t. Please let it live and ripple.
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Christoper Alexander – What is Wholeness?
n“How can we tackle the task of making good sense of this intuition of unity and wholeness?
First, wholeness is a structure, and can be understood as such …
Second, the thing we call wholeness – the feeling, or the intuition, of what the wholeness is – always extends beyond the thing in question …
Third … somehow, any wholeness we want to poin to, or think about, seems to elude comprehension … words and concepts almost always fail to encompass if perfectly …
Fourth, there is too, the presence of unity … It is, also, somehow, at peace … it is exactly what it is, and nothing else.
Fifth, each wholeness contains and is composed of myriad other wholes …
Sixth, and finally, the idea of wholeness encompasses the idea of healing. When something is whole we consider it healed … Healing is making whole.”
Christopher Alexander – The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth