Relational Exegesis

created 2020-06-11 · edited 2020-06-11 · open in Roam

Sessions hosted by Freyja on thestoa.ca
May 13th, 2020 The Guru Papers by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad
May 21st, 2020 Impro by Keith Johnstone
May 28th, 2020 (I missed this one)
June 4th, 2020 Finite & Infinite Games by James Carse
June 11th, 2020 Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa
June 18th, 2020 (I missed this one) - "Stranger in the Village" I think?
June 25th, 2020 A Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
- Malcolm: complete stance, right hemisphere’s alive-perspective
- James Being: CAlexander talks about wholeness a lot
  - Saying people in homes are in the best position to build things, as long as they can be in touch with their sense of things rather than just fears
  - He has a lecture to computer scientists in the 90s: probably this
    - he had a sense that computer scientists didn't really realize the impact that he could have
- Bilal Tariq: thing in your head vs thing you've made
  - Freyja: book about thing you're making is actually on the level of the relationship between what you're doing & what's in your head
July 2nd, 2020 (I missed this one)
July 9th, 2020 Seeing Nature by Paul Krafel
- I like the sense of gradients as being over space, and over time.
- thinking about the relationship between the gradients he's talking about directly, and the potential-energy-gradient involved in the water flowing etc
July 16th, 2020 (I missed this one)
July 23rd, 2020 Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea

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This is related to something that Lawrence Wang said on a Relational Exegesis call June 11th, 2020, which was about Roam using ClojureScript and also being itself structured as a list-of-lists, which is kind of like Lisp