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... what I want is for those with the power, to keep the planet cool." |
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COP30 COP stands for "Conference of the Parties" |
'John Kørner (born 1967, Danish): Understanding the Impact of Architecture, 12, 2020
Lithograph
Kørner pursues his artistic practice through various media, including painting, printmaking, ceramics, installations, sculpture, videos and theatre work. Throughout his career he has tackled contemporary global issues such as migration, war, and systems of production and consumption. He refers to these as 'Problems' that form an ongoing process of enquiry in his work. In his series of paintings and prints Understanding the Impact of Architecture (begun in 2014) he explores the way architecture influences, impacts and interacts with people and their environment. This print from the series addresses blind consumerism and its effect on the fragile Nordic landscape. It was made at Edition Copenhagen which along with Borch Editions is the other major print workshop in Denmark.
Acquisition supported by AKO Foundation, 2023,7056.2'
Nordic noir
works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson
Exhibition / 09 October 2025 – 22 March 2026
'Snow. A single word, for an infinite variety of water formulations, frozen in air. The study of snow is physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. It is hope – annually renewed. And it is history, too.
Earth saw its first snowfall 2.4 billion years ago. The world's oldest skis, made by hand five thousand four hundred years old, pre-date the pyramids of ancient Egypt. To humanity, snow has variously been an ally and an adversary; an inspiration to countless artists and a place of breathtaking tragedy and survival. But it’s always been there. And now it is melting.
In 1927, the snow was already more than nine metres deep on Japan's Mount Ibuki when a remarkable 230cm fell in 24 hours, bringing about the greatest depth of snow - 11.82m - ever recorded. Yet it is a fact today that, ironically not only has this mountain's resort been forced to close due to lack of snow, most people in the world have never been near snow: never felt the soft crunch of snow underfoot, never held snow to see it melt in their hands, let alone stood on a pair of skis.' continued ...
compass defined compass unified mental expanse beauty memory lived experience signature of change sadness signifier |  |
culture poetry - arts social history shared loss recreation - leisure Two kids. Uncles! In car, drenching us driving through slush in the gutter 😎 |
'Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, dead or alive, that isn't in the frame of this picture.'
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“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.” 'Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness' |
'The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
In response to the atomic bomb attacks of August 1945, a global movement arose whose members have worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of using nuclear weapons. Gradually, a powerful international norm developed, stigmatising the use of nuclear weapons as morally unacceptable. This norm has become known as “the nuclear taboo”.
The testimony of the Hibakusha – the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – is unique in this larger context. ...'
Press release. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. Sat. 19 Oct 2024. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2024/press-release/>
"In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth."
See also:
Earthrise: The Story of the Photo that Changed the World | Short Film Showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsShNeDvccc
Thank you Bill and all the Apollo team and subsequent space faring families across the Home planet.
What is that out there? Bioscape. Incredible whole Beautiful mote - in my eye? Are your - dreamscapes - yours? Your inscape alone: mindscape - your inner eye? | Landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes, spacescapes speak to us. Everyone. Stories of deep time. Stories of truth and truth emerging. See both sides of the cloudscape. Snowscapes in retreat. Cityscapes on the march. Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! ... Soundscape* |
The sums have it. What tablescape awaits us? | For us - no escape. |
"In November 2022, I spent a month on remand at HMP Bronzefield for my part in the Just Stop Oil protests on the M25. I was happy to go to prison for something I know is morally right. Drawing in prison became my saviour against the monotony. I rarely draw from life anymore, but we were given a little notebook in our 'welcome' bags of grey tracksuits, pastel pants and toothbrush." p.19.
"This drawing is Slugfields Luxury Prison, (152×120cm) the institutional blue doors, plastic chairs, toilet in the corner and the panoptican architecture mirror that of Bronzefields. It's not quite finished yet, but it's been a cathartic experience to draw some of my thoughts on prison life and incarceration by the state." Instagram (and image source).
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"Alongside Euclidean geometry non-Euclidean geometries were invented. Alongside the old Aristotelian logic and the law of the excluded middle, new forms of logic with, for example, multiple values were developed. This type of work, far from remaining purely speculative, proved indispensable to the progress of physical theories. Consequently epistemological research was no longer seen as fundamentally inductive. It was no longer content to follow the movement of science: it undertook to precede science by indicating which tools should be used to make the best progress. This was the atmosphere which characterised neo-positivism: some concern was already apparent, therefore, but epistemology was still only partially critical. Its role was still more prescriptive." p.227. | |
"Tuan states that 'humanistic geography' is 'not an earth science' and that with its purpose as the better understanding of man and his condition, humanistic geography properly belongs to the humanities. (Tuan, 1976, 266). For Tuan humanistic geography is 'event-centred'; it is the study of articulated geographical ideas such as 'place', 'territory', 'crowding', 'privacy' and religion and it is particularly concerned with describing the quality of the emotion experienced in specific settings, e.g. the study of place as a centre of meaning for an individual rather than place as described by its geographical coordinates." pp.116-7. |
Psychological - "Shock of the NewS" Anxiety Eco-anxiety - Climate anxiety Anti-natalism Polly | No planet B Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities? How much of Earth's land is ecologically intact, in a pre-industrial and pristine state? The answer: 3% [Plumptre, et al.]. ECOCIDE NATURE ... |
Higgins 'conscientious protector' civil disobience "Such a law would not only seek retribution and deterrence but also draw moral red lines." civil society | ... CRIMES AGAINST Environmental activism GENOCIDE ECOCIDE - as law? "I will leave the last word to Polly Higgins, a barrister who gave up a career in corporate law to become one of the most effective backers for criminalising ecocide. As she wrote in 2013, 'For now, in law outside of wartime, it is not a crime to cause mass destruction or loss of ecosystems. Our world has normalised... ecocide'." p.24. |
"Like laws for crimes against peace, an ecocide law would trace its roots to wartime atrocities, in this case the annihilation of forests in South-East Asia, first by the UK's Royal Air Force during the guerrilla war known as the Malayan Emergency and later by the US Air Force in the Vietnam war. In 1970, the destruction inspired Arthur Galston, a plant biologist at Yale University whose PhD had led to development of agent orange, to coin the word 'ecocide'." p.24.
My sources:
Lawton, G. (2021) Crimes Against Nature, New Scientist, 250: 3333. p.24.
Eradicating Ecocide (2010).
Earth is Our Business (2012).
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| Fabrice Monteiro, a garbage spirit, from his series The Prophecy (2017) |
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Institut für Jüdische Theologie
Universität Potsdam
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My source:
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Czerski, H. (2023). Blue Machine. How the Ocean Shapes Our World. London: Penguin. Retrieved May 22, 2023, from https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441190/blue-machine-by-czerski-helen/9781911709107
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See also:
My source: Whipple, T. Where all life begins - the magic of cells, Saturday Review, The Times, November 5, 2022, p.16-17. Blakely, R. The Greta Thurnberg guide to saving the planet (same pages).
Dear all,
Here is the program for an upcoming international symposium:
Gaia and philosophy
Jean Michel Etchecolonea, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons / Cropped
1-3 December, Donostia – San Sebastián
Basque Country University (UPV/EHU)
Organised by IAS-Research – Outonomy project
The recently edited volume of
James Lovelock's and Lynn Margulis scientific correspondence will be
presented for the first time at the occasion. Different lectures will
discuss the scientific and philosophical status of Gaia theory and
contemporary approaches to the understanding of the Earth as a
self-organised entity.
The seminar will be available to follow online. Feel free to distribute to however might be interested.
Registration form.
best regards
Alejandro Merlo
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IAS Research Centre for Research on Life, Mind and Society
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
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n.b. I plan to attend online.
| MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION ATTITUDE BELIEFS - SPIRITUAL ADVERTISING (mental pollution)? [meta-] ETHICSECOCIDE ACTIVISM EDUCATION - LIFELONG LEARNING LITERACY - INFORMATICS SKILLS ... | BIOSPHERE POLLUTION EXPOSURE - EXPOSOME THERMAL REGULATION WATER CYCLE ... AGRICULTURE GEOPHYSICS, GEOGRAPHY MEGA-ENGINEERING PHYSICAL HEALTH URBAN - RURAL METRICS, MONITORING ... |
| SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL MEMORY, ARTS QUALITY OF LIFE WAYS OF LIFE - Communities (Nations!) SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH SOCIAL JUSTICE 'home-land' - DISPLACEMENT - RESETTLEMENT SOCIAL COHERENCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ... |
POLICY, LAW PROTECT FUTURE PEOPLES COP X, UN, UNESCO ... REGULATION TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMICS - CIRCULAR ECONOMICS SUSTAINABILITY COMMERCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH FORCED MIGRATION POLITICAL CHANGE (LONG-TERM) ... |
What do they need to believe,
envision and be able to do,
to help transform the World?
My source: Nicola Woolcock, Universities offer first climate change degrees, The Times, March 23, 2021,p.16.
*Hope it is going well, and while we really need it to - this is, of course, a responsibility for us all.
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"In the mid- 1990s, Michel Serres was already registering the devastating impact of ‘dense tectonic plates of humanity’ on a hitherto ‘mute world’.1 Our excesses, he writes, have awoken the ‘mute, passive, obscure things’ around us that had ‘obediently slumbered’, but will now respond to us with violence.2 In such discourse we recognize the now common tropes of thresholds and tipping points, often deployed by climate scientists and echoed by scholars who assert that humans are now truly ‘geological agents’ in their impact on the planet.3 ... |
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... Getting to grips with the consequences of human activity for the Earth’s systems is unarguably an essential step in forging policies to mitigate the damage. But in the political urgency that shapes many debates about climate change, there is a risk, as Dipesh Chakrabarty points out, that ‘humans emerge as the subject of the drama of the Anthropocene’ while geological time fades from view.4 An emphasis on human agency may simply lead us full circle, back to the anthropocentric conception of a docile Earth made up of inert matter, only stirred by our own excesses, and waiting to be saved or destroyed by its human inhabitants." p.31. |
See also:
Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.
Consider also - 'deep' within Hodges' model:
DEEP space, time, ecology, links, design ... DEEP CARE.
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"There's this wonderful Japanese word shun, which is when something is full of its life force," says Pearson. "In that peak, when the meadows are flourishing, everything is reaching for the solstice, and you can feel the energy pouring from it. It's quite overwhelming - you're aware of this special time slipping through your fingers and you can't take it all in because it's so alive."p.36.
On second reading, maybe not? And, not for the fact that the next solstice is mid-winter here in the Northern hemisphere.
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Visiting McDonalds for a coffee (only) at the end of 2020, I noticed one of the merchandising screens was displaying an error message. The message referred to glances, which I read as the content that changes after several seconds in succession. I meant to take a photo for a post such as this, and back in the area, I'll take my chance if spied again. [Success!] I did speak to a member of staff but they couldn't help. The take away (you could say!) is of a 'glance' as the content of a single care domain. This isn't very accessible, emphasizing the visual nature of Hodges' model, but I'm kicking ideas around...
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Reading the above I thought of 'holistic bandwidth' in Hodges' model. If the model was fully populated with care concepts and, no doubt, some annotations, key relationships then I thought shun might be appropriate. By holistic bandwidth I mean the semantic distance between care concepts. This is what 'MOST' suggests above. Beyond these concepts we are in the realm of the spiritual: do they join up in some way? Obviously, 'complete' in fulfilling the purpose of assessment, care planning, intervention, evaluation whether clinical or learning activity. But then shun as a celebration of nature seems inappropriate in many clinical contexts, especially palliative and end-of-life care. Yes, time for second thoughts here too.
The role of nature in healthcare, the value of green spaces, for recovery or a peaceful ending is well documented. Then again, the shun as experienced in 2021 by a person, do they really see how it is diminished, how it has changed, is changing? The point was made recently, of the different experiences of the Seasons, the weather, now across generations: diminishing 'norms' birds, bees ...?
Perhaps, after all, shun can signify a complete care matrix. If we carry on as we are then Nature will act, is acting now. Gaia knows.
Coulson, C. Double Act, Work, rest and weed: Dan Pearson and his partner Huw Morgan share their garden vision, HTSI, FTWeekend, April 2021, pp.36-39.
https://www.ft.com/content/74061538-d1ef-4922-a821-09ed5484e7ec
Photos added 8/9/21.
Dear HIFA colleagues,
I would like to wish you all a happy new year and to share with you a powerful quote on the front cover of the current print issue of The Lancet:
"Achieving planetary health will require a renaissance in how we define our place in the world. A new narrative will reject the one streaming into our homes — that happiness comes from relentlessly acquiring more things — and embrace what we know: that what truly makes us happy is time spent with those we love, connection to place and community, feeling connected to something greater than ourselves, taking care of each other."
The Far Future - BBC Radio 4 The Long Now | |
Political planning NHS workforce planning NHS preparedness for (a?) the (this?) Winter |
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, NW England, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
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