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What is Worlding? Worlding is the artistic activity of an individual artist conceiving, incubating, triggering, and nurturing a World towards aliveness.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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Recall the artist’s dilemma: What do I do with my time? How do I ensure my efforts are worth anything? What is a guaranteed sustainable way to make meaning, relieve restlessness, and weather the changing tides of Reality? The Emissary answers: Worlding!
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
Of course, in a more-than-human world, it’s not only organisms which have an umwelt – everything does.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Phenomenology
Is a branch of modern philosophy that attempts to describe phenomena - the world of appearances- ‘as they are’, unmediated by intellectual filters.
Phenomenologists ask themselves - how can we best allow the world of objects to shine forth? Preconceptions and the intellectual apparatus are ‘bracketed out’ in an attempt to let the world
... See moreBy the fantastic, I mean something that is exotic, outlandish, or shocking (apparently, it is trying to get our attention), something that actually happened in both the material and menal domains, which are in turn being mediated by the imagination.
Jeffrey J. Kripal • How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
It’s beautiful, this teeming world of ancestors and progeny, this utterly animated free-for-all, this breaking down of boundaries. This is what the close scrutiny enabled by our technology actually reveals: not a rigid map, but a pattern of interference, all the way down to the quantum dance of the energy field behind everything.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
