The included middle of Lupasco and Nicolescu gives me a convenient handle for understanding Edgar Morin’s concept of the dialogic, which I first encountered in his book On Complexity but which is also discussed in his Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future (1999) and in his article The Reform of Thought, Transdisciplinarity, and the Reform of the University (in Nicolescu’s …
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Loading...So Mending Wall does not present us with a binary choice between the discrete individualism of reductionism and classical logic on the one hand or the undifferentiated unity of holism and mysticism on the other. Rather, the poem presents a third way, a middle way, but not in the Aristotelean sense of a Golden Mean or in the Hegelian sense of a synthesis.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So in his poem Mending Wall, does Robert Frost really want to tear down our walls?
No, he doesn’t. That is too naive a reading, and Frost is doing something far more interesting, I think. Frost is not locked into an either/or choice.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In a few weeks, I will deliver a presentation about boundaries to the Southern Humanities Conference convening this year in Savannah, GA. The conference topic, Boundaries: Real and Imagined, was chosen at last year’s conference, and I have come to think about boundaries often this year as I have read deeper into complexity theory.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Like most everyone else for the past six months, I’ve been thinking about MOOCs (note that on Susan Bainbridge’s current Connectivism Scoop page, easily half of the scooped articles are about MOOCs (2nd note: if you are at all interested in Connectivism and MOOCs, then you should follow Susan’s Scoop.…
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