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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

https://t.co/bdjDrHEeto

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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https://t.co/zYkTw3YjID

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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https://t.co/13hfMOPUzf

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Living document for notes: https://t.co/mCpZPYNo0O

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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"I did not start out as a philosopher, and I have no special desire to write about philosophy or about the nature of things. This is not my trade. I am interested in one question above all -- how to make beautiful buildings. But I am only interested in real beauty."

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Prologue: mechanistic worldview + postmodern relating to subjectivity killed off the intellectually rigorous establishment of systems of shared values by pretending there is no hope of such coordination, and this is why everything is ugly now and architects are building trash

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Touches on the fact that most folks (architects included) don't realize they have any particular worldview and therefore don't notice that is flavors and shapes everything about how they exist in and interact with the world Same energy: https://t.co/DR9xT94wdh

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 6 years ago

@visakanv @infiniturtle My thoughts precisely. When I discuss on personal narrative it’s like: “you have a personal narrative!” “Huh?” “Yep, and now that you know that you can write it!” “Whoa” “Yep, and now that you wrote it you can edit :)” “WHOA”

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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"How can you make something which has no 'I' in it, when the whole process of making anything comes from the 'I'?"

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Post-modern epistemic nihilism has produced "a mental climate of arbitrariness" and by extension "an architecture of absurdity"

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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So long as we have a confused or inaccurate conception of what kind of thing Order is, we shall inevitably make buildings which are ugly, houses which do not support ordinary human wellbeing, gardens and streets which are at odds with nature, and a world which destroys our souls.

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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https://t.co/0nfq3ysjY0

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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"life" must be expanded beyond biology to encompass the entirety of creation to establish any truly meaningful and successful definition of ecology or ecological design

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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"Southern England is one of the largest structures ever made by man"

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 7 years ago

If anthills are Nature, aren't skyscrapers?

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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What is alive? What definition of life can unify the animate and inanimate? Any strict definition thus far runs into problems fast

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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That's what we're seeking in the books here: a general concept of life useful for reasoning about all systems as living systems, from a pristine forest to a park to a house to city and beyond

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10/7/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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So now life is defined, we move onto the main show: Wholeness and Centers

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10/9/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Wholeness: the gestalt, the "all is one" integrative all-of-it, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, the superorganismic lens Centers: The building blocks of Wholeness, those elements whose interactions interact interactively to produce superorganinasmic pleasure

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10/9/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Look closely at these two shapes: what do you see? https://t.co/qfZTO1eZ51

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10/9/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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https://t.co/P2i2TTYMMA

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10/9/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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bottom line: https://t.co/Xfxym85xk4

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10/9/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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So p much it's just Clump and Vibe theory again https://t.co/yU8GXjAFrS

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• about 5 years ago

There are two unifying theories: Vibe Theory and Clump Theory and they dance 💃🏻

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10/9/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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https://t.co/aIgo7alQTC https://t.co/ZjI5LIuTE2

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10/26/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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"it requires liberation from opinions and concepts and ego to experience deep liking"

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10/26/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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The most elemental rules of architecture are: 1. Ask people what they want, and 2. Give it to them almost without question, so that the dignity of their inner response is recognized, preserved

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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"The fact is the worldwide advanced of money-based democracy has created a profound sameness which is (so far) based on falsehood, on a denial of what it really means to be human."

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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a metaphor for @ck_eternity_ and @Grimhood https://t.co/TLsMx74y3m

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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https://t.co/IX3spMbVdB

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Now discussing: an economy of stress from various sources

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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anxiety-inducing architecture is a public health issue

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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on the ideal built environment: https://t.co/4wNdP4rzHv

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11/3/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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11/6/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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11/6/2020

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

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Chris connects ideas of wholeness with the similar philosophy of Alfred Whitehead, who holds that everything is made up of overlapping and interacting "organisms" Chris points at this and says that what Whitehead calls "organisms" are almost certainly what Chris calls "centers"

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11/6/2020