Hi all,
As a reminder, and referring to Muindi’s summary of the first phase of the PSF seminars, our goal with these “lite” sessions of the Alter-Eco seminars is to rehearse possible seminar-studios that could be offered under the general thematic of “Alter-Eco” by having discussion leaders step through a sketch of the seminar or studio.
Once we step through the “sketch” of the event, we’ll offer feedback on the content, references, pedagogical design, format. Each session will come with a proposed set of readings, and some minimal recommended material to pre-view.
Really looking forward to tomorrow! Our first session (with follow-ups over the subsequent two weeks) will be dedicated to:
Description
If asked what the world is made of, we can say it’s made of objects, or we can say it’s made of stuff. This seminar takes the point of view of stuff, the stuff of which objects are made. But instead of asking what stuff the world is made of, we ask how the stuff changes, how things and relations emerge and transform. Repurposing Galileo’s legendary observation – Eppur si muove – we will read and discuss theories of dynamic, historicity, process, and temporality. Participants will bring, create and write about examples from their own practices and studies.
Session
- Presentation: Transformation, Process, Continuity and Field (Xin Wei)
- Working vocabulary: We will workshop some of the most salient terms so that they may provide some conceptual scaffolding and guidance for subsequent sessions
- Open discussion
- With the time remaining, start gleaning some feedback on content, purpose, and format
Resources
** Readings are optional! We list them here so that you may go through them on your own time, and know what will be referenced during the session.
Recommended pre-view
Additional
- Coutinho, An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies (p 1-44);
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Coutinho, Zhuangzi and Early Chinese Philosophy, Vagueness: 'East' and 'West' (p 1-18);
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Sha, Poiesis Enchantment in Topological Matter, Preface (vii - ix), Why this Book? (p 1-10, 15-18), Substrate (p 89-121)
- Sha, "Topology and Morphogenesis" TCS 29.4-5
- https://ontogenesis-egs.weebly.com/syllabus.html
Gabriele + Xin Wei
On Jun 27, 2020, at 9:00 PM, Muindi F Muindi <muindi@uw.edu> wrote:Hi team,As you know, I've already drafted a summary of our last PSF session here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pOI2FqFj6h3w7auPMjMMrX-30Ak0_ZYlU_aGlykiy3Q/edit?usp=drivesdk
Please do review the above and make additions, comments, and revisions. Then feel free to post the text wherever you'd like. As I mentioned in the Slack, I will be drafting summaries, like the one linked above, withinh 48 hours of all future, Phase 2, sessions of PSFAs I also mentioned in the Slack channel, I'd like to produce one longer summary of the previous, Phase 1, sessions. To help me do so, I'd like to meet with any one insterested in such summaries to chat about what they would like me to extract from the previous sessions. If you have time next week to meet please shoot me a Slack.Best,Muindi
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