Frequently, when people mention authenticity it comes hand in hand with an underlying and all too often unchallenged (romanticist) assumption that only face-to-face experience can truly be authentic.
But why should we be required to have to share the same temporal and spatial co-ordinates as another person in order to experience or share something authentic with them?
To be human is to be neurodiverse; I believe passionately in the importance of cognitive liberty.
What best suits some people doesn't best suit everybody. And different experiences (including different mediated experiences) will give varying degrees of nourishment depending on each individual. And equally what might seem authentic or of value to one person may be entirely meaningless and empty to another also.
Variety and diversity is what's important, I reckon. And the more options we have to communicate and share with one another and learn about one another, the better.
Showing posts with label Neurodiversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neurodiversity. Show all posts
17 April 2010
Creativity is as important as Literacy
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
21 November 2009
The DAWN CHORUS
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said: "...people are communicating publicly. It is untrue that we are becoming more isolated because of these tools, I think we are connecting more and we are finding new ways to do good."
"A friend of mine asked me, 'what do you hope people will say about Twitter in five or 10 years?' and my answer to him, which I was surprised to hear myself say, was that I hope people will not consider Twitter a triumph of technology, instead that they will consider it a triumph of humanity."
"The idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. If people are more informed then they become more engaged and if they are more engaged then they can become more empathetic."
"A friend of mine asked me, 'what do you hope people will say about Twitter in five or 10 years?' and my answer to him, which I was surprised to hear myself say, was that I hope people will not consider Twitter a triumph of technology, instead that they will consider it a triumph of humanity."
"The idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. If people are more informed then they become more engaged and if they are more engaged then they can become more empathetic."
19 November 2009
KETMAN
Ketman (Arabic kitmān كتمان "secrecy, concealment") is the act of paying lip service to authority while holding personal opposition.
It is a sort of political or religious camouflage, for the purpose of survival, in circumstances where open opposition would result in persecution.
Ketman can be practised through many generations, and eventually erupt in the form of revolutions, uprisings, etc.
Though the term was originally used exclusively in regard to Islamic authority, the term is most frequently encountered in reference to Communist authoritarianism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketman
It is a sort of political or religious camouflage, for the purpose of survival, in circumstances where open opposition would result in persecution.
Ketman can be practised through many generations, and eventually erupt in the form of revolutions, uprisings, etc.
Though the term was originally used exclusively in regard to Islamic authority, the term is most frequently encountered in reference to Communist authoritarianism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketman
05 November 2009
Creative Talent and the Mental Environment
Should the best creative minds of our generation be so focused on high-gloss dishonesty?
"We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it."
Artists "who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse."
"We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design."
http://www.spack.org/words/firstthings.html.moved
https://www.adbusters.org/category/tags/first_things_first
"We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it."
Artists "who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse."
"We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design."
http://www.spack.org/words/firstthings.html.moved
https://www.adbusters.org/category/tags/first_things_first
02 November 2009
THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS
ABSURDITY and REVOLUTION
"From a lucid appreciation of the absurdity of our life three consequences flow, which Camus calls Revolt, Freedom and Passion."
By 'Revolt' Camus means defiance in the face of the bleak truth about the human condition, hopeless but not resigned, lending to life a certain grandeur.
"We must imagine Sisyphus happy."
"Recognition of the absurdity frees us from habit and convention: we see all things anew, and are inwardly liberated."
"By 'passion' Camus means the resolve to live as intensely as possible, not so as to escape the sense of absurdity but so as to face it with absolute lucidity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
In "The Myth of Sisyphus" Albert Camus elevates Sisyphus to the status of The Absurd Hero.
"Absurdity is a feeling which arises from the confrontation of the world, which is irrational, with the hopeless but profound human desire to make sense of our condition. The appropriate response to this situation is to live in full consciousness of it."
"From a lucid appreciation of the absurdity of our life three consequences flow, which Camus calls Revolt, Freedom and Passion."
By 'Revolt' Camus means defiance in the face of the bleak truth about the human condition, hopeless but not resigned, lending to life a certain grandeur.
"We must imagine Sisyphus happy."
"Recognition of the absurdity frees us from habit and convention: we see all things anew, and are inwardly liberated."
"By 'passion' Camus means the resolve to live as intensely as possible, not so as to escape the sense of absurdity but so as to face it with absolute lucidity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
In "The Myth of Sisyphus" Albert Camus elevates Sisyphus to the status of The Absurd Hero.
"Absurdity is a feeling which arises from the confrontation of the world, which is irrational, with the hopeless but profound human desire to make sense of our condition. The appropriate response to this situation is to live in full consciousness of it."
16 October 2009
APE PERSONHOOD : ape protection
http://www.personhood.org/personhood/lawreview/
The core mission of Great Ape Standing & Personhood (GRASP) is to secure legal recognition of the rights of apes and all nonhuman primates to live in their own ways.
- The condition of “humanness” is not essential to becoming a “person” under the law. -
- We now know that Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Human Beings are all species of African Great Apes. -
- Together with Orang-utans, we are members of a slightly larger taxonomic group known as the Great Apes, or "Hominoidea." -
- We humans understand the other great apes much more than was possible even a few years ago. -
http://www.greatapeproject.org/
It is morally unjustifiable to treat sentient animals as items of chattel property.
Great Ape Project (GAP) is an international movement that aims to defend the rights of the non-human great primates - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
The main rights are: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty and the prohibition of torture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_personhood
The core mission of Great Ape Standing & Personhood (GRASP) is to secure legal recognition of the rights of apes and all nonhuman primates to live in their own ways.
- The condition of “humanness” is not essential to becoming a “person” under the law. -
- We now know that Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Human Beings are all species of African Great Apes. -
- Together with Orang-utans, we are members of a slightly larger taxonomic group known as the Great Apes, or "Hominoidea." -
- We humans understand the other great apes much more than was possible even a few years ago. -
http://www.greatapeproject.org/
It is morally unjustifiable to treat sentient animals as items of chattel property.
Great Ape Project (GAP) is an international movement that aims to defend the rights of the non-human great primates - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
The main rights are: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty and the prohibition of torture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_personhood
NEURODIVERSITY: how soon is now
"I am the son and heir,
Of nothing in particular,
You shut your mouth
how can you say,
I go about things the wrong way,
I am human and I need to be loved,
just like everybody else does..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity
"Neurodiversity is an idea which asserts that atypical (neurodivergent) neurological development is a normal human difference that is to be recognized and respected as any other human variation."
Of nothing in particular,
You shut your mouth
how can you say,
I go about things the wrong way,
I am human and I need to be loved,
just like everybody else does..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity
"Neurodiversity is an idea which asserts that atypical (neurodivergent) neurological development is a normal human difference that is to be recognized and respected as any other human variation."
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