Crucial talk

Question: Can We Design The Next-Evolution of Community?

2009-07-11T15:34:00.000-05:00

Nova Spivek had an interesting post on Twine:(a smarter way to keep up with what you’re into) that I could not resist commenting on.Nova Spivek diagnoses:- Loneliness, social isolation, and social fragmentation are huge and growing problems- Our...

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What now in painting? Part 2: The visual form of meaning.

2007-09-12T13:40:00.005-05:00

Summary of Part 1: = Art as an illustration of the worldview of the men of knowledge of the day: ........... but who are the men of knowledge in late modernity? ........... artists have to build up their own knowledge base = Knowledge as the...

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What now in painting? Part 1: The meaning of what to represent.

2007-09-06T18:18:00.002-05:00

The central thesis that runs through my rumblings about visual arts is that they are no more than the visual representation by artists, of the worldview of the men of knowledge of their days, for all to share. Under Animism they represent the...

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Nourished by the sap bubbling from our civilizational roots.

2007-08-24T16:19:00.001-05:00

Abstract: It's like a given for all of us that people of different civilizations are and behave very differently. We all inherited stereotypes about "the other" but once we start to better know people from another civilization it seems that those...

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Loss of certainty and the purpose of life?"

2007-08-06T23:17:00.001-05:00

This post is a follow-up of my commentary in StumbleUpon about Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia by Spengler that was published by AsiaTimes. ________________ "Christianity is the great liquidator of traditional society, calling...

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My last 4 paintings

2007-07-23T15:25:00.001-05:00

I write much about the meaning and societal sense of visual arts but how does my painting relate to my writings? Take a peak at my last 4 paintings they foreshadow the content of my next post. Acrylic on canvas. Size: 24" x 30" (61 x 76.5 cm) ...

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The plight of the visual artist in late-modernity.

2007-06-04T09:11:00.000-05:00

Seen from a historical perspective the form taken by visual art appears to have greatly evolved over time while its function has nevertheless remained constant, indeed, along 99.99% of its timespan visual art has been the visual representation of...

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On ART in the future.

2007-06-03T09:28:00.000-05:00

This article is a follow-up of:- What is modernism after all?- Scientific visualization. Is it art?- About the ways of seeing reality.- Soulless science and rationalism - Etymology to the rescue of sense in art. In the air of our times something...

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Rationality versus religion, a non-sense debate.

2007-05-30T23:18:00.000-05:00

To make any sense about religion and rationality, it seems to me that, we have first to situate them in a societal evolutionary perspective and I'm afraid that the question has to be viewed from within the more globally encompassing framework of...

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Sick art gives visual signs of a sick society

2007-05-24T09:47:00.000-05:00

in The Guardian by Jess Smee In his latest Berlin performance Christoph Schlingensief underlined his reputation as the enfant terrible of the German art world - and now the storm of controversy is about to hit London.Images from the blood and vomit...

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Scientific visualization. Is it art?

2007-05-07T21:42:00.000-05:00

URL: 2006 Visualization Challenge WinnersURL: Slide ShowCockroach Portrait. David Yager. University of MarylandA Da Vinci Blackboard Lesson in Multi-Conceptual Anatomy. Caryn Babaian.Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PennsylvaniaBody Code....

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What is modernism after all?

2007-05-05T08:41:00.000-05:00

When placed in a societal perspective (economic, social and cultural history) it seems to me that the seeds of modernism started to sprout with the plunder of Middle-Eastern luxuries during the crusades and the flow of trade that ensued along the...

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Soulless science and rationalism

2007-05-02T17:32:00.000-05:00

Alan Finder had an interesting piece this morning in the NYT: "Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus": Peter J. Gomes has been at Harvard University for 37 years, and says he remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. To...

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About the ways of seeing reality.

2007-05-01T07:42:00.000-05:00

I first published this article on my Saatchi blog and on The way things are on 2006-07-05. What follows is a doctored version of that article.I just had an interesting read in The Guardian, an article by Jonathan Jones titled "Ways of seeing" (lost...

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This religious story of science.

2007-04-30T09:26:00.000-05:00

Since long I sense that the more knowings (parcels of knowledge) I accumulate the more evident it becomes how little I really know about the whole of reality. What I mean to show is that a large accumulation of knowings does not necessarily preclude...

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Etymology to the rescue of sense in art.

2007-04-29T13:40:00.000-05:00

My friend Mark from New Delhi sent me the following comment about my post "About the ways of seeing reality":The word 'idea' has its roots in the Ancient Greek word 'idien' which means 'to see'.The root word for 'technology' is again an Ancient...

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What is it with Postmodernism that irks in the "intellectual" narrative?

2007-04-28T15:35:00.000-05:00

Visualizing something that our eyes can't see....With science the first action, in visualization, is no longer going from the eyes to the brain as earlier, now the action comes first from the brain and then goes to the eyes in order to make things...

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Crucial Talk: Table of content

2006-05-08T20:20:00.000-05:00

Browse the 164 most important posts in Crucial Talk's table of content.The second stage of my ARTSENSE adventure, "The way things are", shall also be published on Laodan's blog and on my Saatchi blog.My daily clippings of what I find of interest in...

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Publication of Crucial talk's "adapted" content into a book: ARTSENSE.

2005-12-14T11:28:00.000-06:00

I'm now, entering a new phase of my work, preparing for the writing of "The way things are" or "About the emergence of a postmodern realism".I shall be publishing the first drafts in the form of posts on this blog and other web venues.If...

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Societal atomization

2005-11-25T19:45:00.000-06:00

Here is an article that comes somehow to the same conclusions that I express in this blog and also in my book Artsense (see top left and click on the coverpage).Late modernity ends in atomization. The individuals believe that they have the truth...

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The road of humanity, worldviews and visual arts

2005-11-22T19:37:00.000-06:00

Before jumping to the description of civilizations and culture, I guess that a summary of the thoughts presented earlier would be usefull.1. The road of humanity.This model is based on the "Wave theory" by Dr. Chaim H. Tejman2. Worldviews.We know...

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About non-determination.

2005-11-21T21:54:00.000-06:00

The future is not given.The future is non-determined.The future can't possibly result out of a straight line projection from a limited and subjective reading of the present... there are ups and downs, order is followed by chaos and out of chaos...

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Wordviews

2005-11-20T17:42:00.000-06:00

Worldviews are transmitted from one generation to another over the long haul.A worldview, as its name implies, is a view of the world a shared understanding of reality. When we speak about reality what we mean is nothing more than our perception,...

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Worldviews, civilizations and culture

2005-11-18T19:24:00.000-06:00

I concluded my last post with the following words: "The European and by extension the Western civilization finds its roots in Christianity. In contrast the Chinese civilization seems to have been built directly out of its Animist societal...

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Western versus Chinese civilization

2005-11-16T16:25:00.000-06:00

In Western eyes, the traditional model of societal development that has been teached for ages goes something like this. (The timeline goes from left towards right.)We should be aware that this is somehow an Eurocentrist model and it should thus not...

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