Barthes neutrality … Laozi 無爲 Wúwèi

To record an exchange from PSF

Muindi: In light of our talk about institutions that play the role of neutral facilitator in geopolitics and individuals who play the role of neutral facilitators in games and play scenarios, I wanted to share with you all some quotations from Roland Barthes' lectures on The Neutral, a book which I am very, very fond of and that I think would make great reading for the PSF group, alongside his lectures on How to Live Together. I send this because I think that Roland Barthes has a lovely way of talking about neutral party as a passionate figure rather than a dispassionate one. What's more, Barthes phrase "outplay the paradigm" (rather than "playing into the paradigm") could be a very useful phase to empower a facilitator within the context of types of games and play scenarios that we were discussing. (edited) 
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In a related timbre, Stefano Franchi, Niklas Damiris, and Helga Wild wrote a deep book on Passivity, which exists only as an unpublished ms.  A source for these diverse Western turns away from modernity: Bathes,  passivity, Heidegger’s standing in reserve, and Merleau-Ponty’s notion of constitution is Laozi’s Daodejing.  Here’s an introduction by Steve Coutinho to the daoist concept of wúwèi:

Re: Prototyping Social Forms, Nov 2 reverb

Yes Monday 
I’m open 12:30 to nightfall 
for this 

Xin Wei

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Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering | ASU
Senior Fellow Building21 McGill | Fellow ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems | Affiliate Faculty English, CIDSE
Professor European Graduate School | Associate Editor AI & Society Journal | Founding Director Topological Media Lab

sutured augmented learning spaces, diagrammatic, 5/8 2 PM MST

See Zimin Proposal (augmented learning environment) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLwEIvjrWbPanZ2ZLKFOBzEvIzyrkTwmkfkARBTyOgQ/edit

Diagrammatic Master Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k0Up-3Q0YvZbbBJwmaeqRN0RfsAJeDwGQzaoAmbn7CM/edit

Possible courses and workshops:

• Digital Culture / Media studies / Computational thinking; Media choreography for non-coders (Leonardo?) • Augmented sutured learning environments + diagrammatic + ecology of things • Place-labs (Dartington, Leonardo) • Alter-Economics: alter-finance (EGS, UNDP) • Emergence, Individuation, Ontogenesis, complex systems (EGS, UNDP)

• Trans-course portfolio

Experiment and Experience (v2)

The syllabus for the seminar on Experiment and Experience may be useful background.  Here are readings with embedded extracts:

Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double: Essays. London,: Calder & Boyars, 1970.

Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, Case Study: Criminal machine learning, 2017.

Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. [1st American ed. New York,: Atheneum, 1968.

Brook, Peter. The Open Door : Thoughts on Acting and Theatre. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2005.

Burnett Masters of All They Surveyed "Terra Incognita" and "Marks on the Land"

Calude, Cristian S., and Giuseppe Longo. "The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data." Foundations of Science 22.3 (2017) 595–612.

Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. La société du spectacle 1967. New York: Zone Books, 1994.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia. tr. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987(1980).

Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Grotowski, Jerzy, and Eugenio Barba. Towards a Poor Theatre. 1st Routledge ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought. HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade, 2001.

Henrich, Joseph, Steven Heine, Ara Norenzayan, "The Weirdest People in the World," 2009.

Heraclitus, and Charles H. Kahn. The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary. Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

James, William. Essays on Radical Empiricism. York: Longman Green and Co, 1912.

Jänich, Klaus. Topology. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1980, 1984.

Latour, Bruno. “Drawing Things Together”

Lefebvre, Henri. Rhythmanalysis : Space, Time, and Everyday Life. London, New York: Continuum, 2004.

Magnusson, Thor. “Of Epistemic Tools: musical instruments as cognitive extensions,” Organised Sound, 14  (2009), 168-176.

Marker, Chris. San Soleil (film).

Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 42. Dordrecht, Holland, Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1980.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, and Donald A. Landes. Phenomenology of Perception. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2011.  Introduction & ToC, Excerpts re. the Body.

O’Gorman, Marcel, Necromedia

Petitot, Jean. "Morphological Eidetics for Phenomenology of Perception." Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Ed. J. Petitot, F. J. Varela, J.-M. Roy, B. Pachoud. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 330-71.

Pye, D. The Nature and Art of Workmanship. Cambridge UP, 1968, 17-29.

Prigogine, I., and Isabelle Stengers. Order out of Chaos : Man's New Dialogue with Nature. Toronto ; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1984.

Sennett, R. The Craftsman. Yale University Press, 2008, Chapter 1.

Sha, Xin Wei. Poiesis, Enchantment, and Topological Matter. MIT Press, 2013.

Sha X. W., "Topology and Morphogenesis," Theory, Culture & Society 29 (4-5), 2013.

Sicart, Miguel. "Against Procedurality." Game Studies 11.3 (2011).

Stengers, Isabelle. "Beyond Conversation: The Risks of Peace." Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms. Eds. Keller, Catherine and Anne Daniell. New York: SUNY, 2002. 235-55.

Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology. Eds. Griffin, David Ray and Donald W. Sherburne. Corrected ed. New York: The Free Press, 1978.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Philosophical Investigations : The German Text, with a Revised English Translation. 3rd ed. Malden, MA,: Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Xiaolin Wu, and Xi Zhang, "Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images," 2016.  With responses to critiques. (2017)