It was a rainy and slightly muggy Tuesday evening as I caught up with Ken Tanaka in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Amidst the neon blur of Shinjuku, we found ourselves enjoying Japanese “oden” and sharing some wonderful conversation. Thank you Ken for taking the time to meet up and converse.
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Today, amidst a rainy May day, my copy of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new album “Lie Down in the Light” arrived. What is refreshing is that I know that this album will remain with me. That is, I will be returning to this music for a long time to come. I knew this even before I [...]
The following is a systems approach to the increasingly popular website Friendfeed. Recently, there have been many articles written about this site (I will provide links at the end of this post). I have written what follows through a Media Ecology systems framework with the hopes of “fleshing out” the system known as “Friendfeed.” The [...]
Blogging from the mobile device allows one the freedom of interacting with your environment in a different way.The pathway to the network of the rural via bluetooth existentialism.Now the bus with its chattering and silent passengers.The invisible side of faceless communication and seamless connectivity surrounded by trees.
There are no piles of books around,only the evening [...]
I’ve been obsessing over Carl Rogers these days and would like to briefly outline techniques for enacting and engaging in “the good life” as drawn out in his piece “A Therapist’s View of the Good Life.”
THE GOOD LIFE: A Process
1. An Increasing Openness to Experience: Your armor has disintegrated and you are more at [...]
“To Be That Self Which One Truly Is” is published in Carl Rogers’s book “On Becoming a Person.”
In this essay he provides guidance for opening oneself up to the process-nature of one’s self while relating it to the question: “What are my goals in life?” That is, how are we to realize these goals? [...]
Image from WikipediaJacques Lacan’s idea of “the fragmented body” is of interest to me and I wish to briefly talk about it in relation to the virtual body of cyberspace. For Lacan, the fragmented body emerges in infancy when, for example, the infant sees his or her body in the mirror and recognizes the body [...]
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