fascinating, the ideas everyone is sharing...
hi Janez, ... 'difference' can be addressed through
a change in the perceptual (class) level of scale,
from private limited views to public universal views.
venn diagrams are a way this can be seen/visualized.
it revolves around the 'problem of perspective' and
what amounts to the Tyranny of Images, referencing
issues cheryl brings up about visual literacy, etc.
everyone is, in effect, looking at everyone else in
the private scale/context of today. observing other
observers, yet not modeling (and transcending) the
individual self as its own (common) public class;
thus a hall-of-mirrors of private subjectivities.
for instance, the question of multiculturalism changes
if considered from a private point of view of man, vs
a public human point of view with a world of culture.
this is the default model for private analysis today,
in which various sets of views (view 1, 2, 3 ... N)
can be created, and based on private 'difference'
(of logic, identity, language) and yet when it is
time to become 'universal' or public representation
of the whole, there is no commonality of all groups.
therefore, various constituencies share overlapping
points of view with some and not others, and such a
consensus ultimately leaves a group without central
connections amongst its public members, if said to
be representing the larger (human) public or not.
the multicultural as private experience is without
the possibility of a shared public point of view.
difference becomes the status quo of private POVs.
the difference here is between a public and a
private scale, what is shared and not shared.
in terms of context, much of this hinges on
the question of perspective, how one and what
one perceives, i.e. are conceptually literate.
an empirical observation would need to account
for the observers, as they alter observations.
this basic fact is left out of most all ideas.
to do so requires some remove from extraneous
particulars of sense or perceptions or views.
literally, to understand how perspective is
constructed in space and time may be needed:
a public perspective including all perceivers
representing common, public, empirical reality:
the 'universal' set of the human public, at such a
(paradigm) shift in scale, from a private viewpoint
of wo|man to that of humanity, equalizes the field.
difference then can exist in relation to its scale.
the shared attributes constitute a public realm in
which private differences simultaneously co-exist.
that is, points of view, in such a way are placed in
relation between their being words and numbers of a
logical system of evaluation by which to judge ideas.
concepts. representations. analyses. it is also this
modeling and diagramming technique which can assist
in the 'coding' of ideas from a shared point of view.
venn diagrams can also be conceptualized as figures,
it is a visual tool that awaits further development to
address complex ideas beyond those of mathematics alone.
issues of public and private, mankind and humankind,
binarism and paradox, all are able to be communicated
using such an approach. what is shared, what is not.
what is a subset and superset. what is the universal.
(so too, if the world is the multicultural, what is the
interdisciplinary approach to such difference and such
complexities as are found, also happens to be found in
architecture which integrates differences of scientific/
mathematics/physics and humanistic/language/metaphysics
in one discipline of thought and action at such scales
of the local and the global. both 'difference' and the
universal are mediated in the present through building.
as a basis for questioning and mediation of realities.)
i am going to continue with its architecture, further...
brian thomas carroll: research-design-development
architecture, education, electromagnetism
http://www.mnartists.org/brian_carroll
http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/
shared views are OK, but there are differences, that is the real challenge and there is no easy way, it is not a matter of understanding but creative production of new meanings,
hi Janez, ... 'difference' can be addressed through
a change in the perceptual (class) level of scale,
from private limited views to public universal views.
venn diagrams are a way this can be seen/visualized.
it revolves around the 'problem of perspective' and
what amounts to the Tyranny of Images, referencing
issues cheryl brings up about visual literacy, etc.
everyone is, in effect, looking at everyone else in
the private scale/context of today. observing other
observers, yet not modeling (and transcending) the
individual self as its own (common) public class;
thus a hall-of-mirrors of private subjectivities.
for instance, the question of multiculturalism changes
if considered from a private point of view of man, vs
a public human point of view with a world of culture.
this is the default model for private analysis today,
in which various sets of views (view 1, 2, 3 ... N)
can be created, and based on private 'difference'
(of logic, identity, language) and yet when it is
time to become 'universal' or public representation
of the whole, there is no commonality of all groups.
therefore, various constituencies share overlapping
points of view with some and not others, and such a
consensus ultimately leaves a group without central
connections amongst its public members, if said to
be representing the larger (human) public or not.
the multicultural as private experience is without
the possibility of a shared public point of view.
difference becomes the status quo of private POVs.
the difference here is between a public and a
private scale, what is shared and not shared.
in terms of context, much of this hinges on
the question of perspective, how one and what
one perceives, i.e. are conceptually literate.
an empirical observation would need to account
for the observers, as they alter observations.
this basic fact is left out of most all ideas.
to do so requires some remove from extraneous
particulars of sense or perceptions or views.
literally, to understand how perspective is
constructed in space and time may be needed:
a public perspective including all perceivers
representing common, public, empirical reality:
the 'universal' set of the human public, at such a
(paradigm) shift in scale, from a private viewpoint
of wo|man to that of humanity, equalizes the field.
difference then can exist in relation to its scale.
the shared attributes constitute a public realm in
which private differences simultaneously co-exist.
that is, points of view, in such a way are placed in
relation between their being words and numbers of a
logical system of evaluation by which to judge ideas.
concepts. representations. analyses. it is also this
modeling and diagramming technique which can assist
in the 'coding' of ideas from a shared point of view.
venn diagrams can also be conceptualized as figures,
it is a visual tool that awaits further development to
address complex ideas beyond those of mathematics alone.
issues of public and private, mankind and humankind,
binarism and paradox, all are able to be communicated
using such an approach. what is shared, what is not.
what is a subset and superset. what is the universal.
(so too, if the world is the multicultural, what is the
interdisciplinary approach to such difference and such
complexities as are found, also happens to be found in
architecture which integrates differences of scientific/
mathematics/physics and humanistic/language/metaphysics
in one discipline of thought and action at such scales
of the local and the global. both 'difference' and the
universal are mediated in the present through building.
as a basis for questioning and mediation of realities.)
i am going to continue with its architecture, further...
brian thomas carroll: research-design-development
architecture, education, electromagnetism
http://www.mnartists.org/brian_carroll
http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/