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  • Draft no. 4

    Draft no. 4

    by John McPhee This book is half writing craft / half memoir. Here are some of his gem’s about writing. First, one of the graphs that inspired me to buy the book. I am fascinated how he thinks so visually about his structural process. (The book was second hand and dog eared when I bought […]

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  • Leap Before You Look (2015)

    Leap Before You Look (2015)

    Black Mountain College had an expansive view of art where “artistic exchange” and the “cultural ecosystem” were central. Here are some of my notes from Molesworth’s excellent book Leap Before You Look.

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    Notes on attention from Austin Kleon & Alan Jacobs.

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  • “LIFE IS NOT ABOUT READING OUT A BLUEPRINT, IT’S ABOUT CREATING FLEXIBLE RULES AND RESOURCES FROM WHICH DIVERSE FORMS MIGHT EMERGE.” Philip Ball, How Life Really Works via Austin Kleon

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  • This seems like another potential language for whole to part thinking (gestalt cognitive processing): Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe wrote in “Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery,” rewilding pays attention “to the emergent properties of interactions between ‘things’ in ecosystems … a move from linear to systems thinking.” Rewilding: The Radical New Science of […]

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    Continued reading indicated this area of research may have originated with Dr. Barry Prizant and then abandoned by his peers (along with Gestalt Language Processing.) Here is an early study of his (bear in mind this was written a long time ago and is more deficit based than his current work.) PDF (Source)

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    A screencapture from Reuben Son’s website about weaving music.

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    A screencapture from Dornith Doherty’s website about the Archiving Eden installation.

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  • What is GCP? Gestalt cognitive processing is when experiences are held as primarily episodic memories. Gestalt cognitive processors process events as a “whole” that is made up of very specific parts. They are whole-to-part thinkers. They have a hyper-awareness of specifics and details in events that make up the entirety of the event, episode, or […]

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    School for Poetic Computation https://www.are.na/school-for-poetic-computation/channels

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