Relational Anthropology – Honesty as Methodology

Chapter Seven emphasizes that honesty, within Relational Anthropology, is a methodological stance rather than a personality trait. It involves acknowledging one’s internal realities, including unce…

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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)

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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always…

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Where visual space emphasizes linearity, acoustic space emphasizes simultaneity—the possibility that many events can occur in the same holistic zone of space-time. Unlike visual space, where points either fuse or remain distinct, blocks of sound can overlap and interpenetrate without necessarily collapsing into a harmonic unity or consonance, thereby maintaining the paradox of "simultaneous difference".      - Roots and Wires - Freddy Mercury #quote #visuals #acoustics #spaces #simultaneity
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I tried to make it general enough that anyone could respond, so no worries there.

[Here's a post I just happened to see that talks about the importance of measuring principles, in the context of domestic abuse: https://c.im/@[email protected]e/109523214049642663 ]

The thing I could have emphasized more was the dual nature of the process. When we're stuck in one, the other will suffer.

So 'letting go' cuts both ways. As you point out, often times our models run into problems, and we have to make changes. The disagreement between #experiment and #theory is a big red flag.

The default seems to be to alter the theory in some way. This is not always bad, nor is it always right. The impetus for this is our confidence in the model, fueled by various factors. The farther back the model goes, the less likely people are to challenge it, or even go back to the start for a complete review.

At the #fundamental layer of maths are simply the concept of numbers & quantity. If you're going to use them other than the way they come, the set is probably the next option.

OTOH, not doing this is also creating #HiddenAssumptions that do pass along to the higher levels. The problem with problems is that we don't always know where they're coming from!

The idea of 'continuous' reality, measured by a continuous number line populated by integers, and then modified by 'infinitely divisible units' between them in order to gain accuracy or change #scale, is the status quo that few ever bother to question.

IMO, the time to do that re-examination is exactly in circumstances like you brought up. Looking only at GR, or only at QM, we might walk away with the impression of their correctness & #universality. But when they cannot be brought to terms with each other, then the next (or at least after a century of tinkering & failing) logical area to question is in the models & structures prior to them (rinse and repeat until resolved).

Our notion of making single, #continuous measurements and being able to determine things like #simultaneity or mass-energy relations has failed in these areas.

The similarity between the theory / #measurement relationship, and between practice / 'live' performance is what I was aiming to highlight.

When not performing, all masters practice /revisit the basics on a regular basis. A good practice session 'lets go' of the conditions of a performance, and vice versa.

Patrick S. Forscher (@[email protected])

"When the measure is broken the solution is wrong" https://busaracenter.medium.com/when-the-measure-is-broken-the-solution-is-wrong-part-1-d35fe7d0cf1 This blog -- the first in a series illustrating the kind of work my group is doing at the Busara Center -- describes how measurement thinking can improve how we approach women's empowerment in India

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Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay and inter-war Romanian connections | Intellect

This article analyses the connections between the worlds of fine art and fashion through the complex interconnections between the Parisian-Eastern European creative exile. It follows the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) and prominent inter-war Parisian Romanians: namely, Tristan Tzara, Constantin Brâncuși and Lizica Codreanu. I suggest the concept of ‘simultaneous migrations’ to illustrate fashion’s mobility beyond and across cultural differences, identities and aesthetics through Sonia Delaunay’s philosophy of Simultaneity, focusing on her inter-war Romanian connections in Paris. The research bridges across the fields of fashion studies, art history and cultural studies, in order to explicate the synapses that shed light on Sonia Delaunay’s ideas of Simultaneity and colour theories to Paris as an ideological, cultural, artistic and identity hub.

Does the Past Still Exist?

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