My source: Somerset House - 1st July 2026 M.C. Escher The Exhibition
The source for the post:
- reminds me that Hodges' model provides a potential 'World Model'. Not just one world, but (seriously and non-trivially) several, in the form of the ...
Hodges' model is applicable in assessment, planning, interventions, evaluation and review. The key of course, is as was as computers first arrived on wards and clinics: the human users of Hodges' model.
Of course, each comes with their own, hard won (see what I did there!) model, that needs extending by several intensive years of study.
Situated and person-centred, Hodges' model can assist all its users, to 'incorporate the learned dynamics of the environment', however it presents: medicine anyone? What about surgical, psychiatry, paediatrics, orthopaedics, or gynaecology? You get my drift?
Wenninghoff, N., Schwammberger, M. (2026). Interpretable World Model Imaginations as Deep Reinforcement Learning Explanation. In: Guidotti, R., Schmid, U., Longo, L. (eds) Explainable Artificial Intelligence. xAI 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2578. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08327-2_7
*And not necessarily a student nurse, but possibly medical, social work, psychology, probation, ... ai!
28 February is
Rare Disease Day
'Raising awareness and generating change for the 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease, their families and carers.'
Manchester, UK https://www.rarediseaseday.org/event/light-up-for-rare-2/
Continued ... https://www.rarediseaseday.org/
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My source: Intima (and image) - mail list.
See also: 'reflect' : 'crossroads'
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Just imagine ... no, not like that - really imagine!
You are in a situation. Unsurprisingly, let's say it's in health, or social care. We find ourselves in a care or nursing home, on a ward, or in the individual's home, even if the patient does not currently recognise it as such.
The patient is mobile. That is, and isn't a problem.
Physically, apart from thoughts about a chest, or urine infection, yes they are mobile, but they're also confused - disoriented.
We are concerned about their safety.
Noisy, increasingly agitated, they are making it clear they want to leave.
Their carer, family, or staff are trying to limit the patient / resident's access to the exits, be that the front, or back door, the spare room, their room, or main entrance. They are not in agreement about where they need to be. Persuasion and distraction aren't working either. They appear to lack the level of mental capacity required to decide for themselves what needs to happen.
It is one thing to have this assessment of the situation running through one's mind; but quite another to 'pick up' a care concept mentally and carry it over the care (knowledge) domains of Hodges' model.
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A workshop in memory of Bill Ross, and to celebrate the posthumous publication of his book Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology (2024).
Convened by the British Society for Phenomenology with the family and friends of Bill.
I never met Bill Ross, nor had I learned of his work prior to receiving news of this workshop. I attended today in Manchester; also realising I'd intended to post the details. It was well worth the effort in the (predictable!) rain. The speakers and sessions were as follows:
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'Bill Ross (1964 – 2022) had interests ranging widely across contemporary philosophy and culture, with a particular interest in the relations between science and philosophy. As managing editor, he was the driving force behind Clinamen Press, which in the early 2000s published new works by contemporary philosophers, and English translation of important works by continental philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Gaston Bachelard and Michel Serres. He completed his PhD in philosophy at Staffordshire University, where he taught on the MA in the Philosophy of Nature, Information, and Technology. Bill had a lifelong passion for the connections between science and philosophy, on which he had published several important articles. Bill was working on a monograph on the philosophy and science of Deleuzian cosmology, which was has been posthumously published by Edinburgh University Press. This event is to celebrate Bill’s book and his life, and to allow his friends, his colleagues, and anyone interested in his work or the topics and issues addressed by his work to continue the conversation that Bill’s work inspires.'
"The atom of Niels Bohr, a miniature solar system, had become a embarrassingly false image. ... Bohr himself had set the tone. In accepting the Nobel Prize for his atomic model, he said it was time to give up the hope of explanation in terms of analogies with everyday experience. 'We are therefore obliged to be modest in our demands and content ourselves with concepts that are formal in the sense that they do not provide a visual picture of the sort one is accustomed to require. . . .' This progress had not been altogether free of tension. 'The more I reflect on the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more disgusting I find it,' was Heisenberg's 1926 comment to Pauli. 'Just imagine the rotating electron who charge is distributed over the entire space with axes in 4 or 5 dimensions. What Schrödinger writes on the visualizability of his theory . . . I consider trash.' As much as physicists valued the conceptualizing skill they called intuition, as much as they spoke of a difference between physical understanding and formal understanding, they had nevertheless learned to mistrust any picture of subatomic reality that resembled everyday experience. No more baseballs, artillery shells, or planetoids for the quantum theorists; no more idle wheels or wavy lines. Feynman's father had asked him, in the story he told many times: 'I understand that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle of light called a photon. . . . Is the photon in the atom ahead of time? . . . Well, where does it come from, then? How does it come out?' No one had a mental image for this, the radiation of light, the interaction of matter with the electromagnetic field: the defining event of quantum electrodynamics." p.242.
critical thinking intuition | physics Bohr's atomic model reflection |
Gleick, J., (1992) GENIUS - Richard Feynman and modern physics, London: Little Brown and Company, p.242.
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"AI: Though these projects do not work solely within a logic of 'representation' they do, almost as a side effect, produce awful images. I am thinking in particular of the film still from Aluminium and the blackened lung hooked up to a coal fired computer. If the 'contraptions' you make can be thought of as diagrams of socio-technical relations, what are the qualities of the images they produce? To what extent are these images necessary by-products of the processes. GH: We can see the images arising out of the forces that threaten to break the machine, or assemblages arising out of its in-betweenness. Its unfinished nature always requires the imagination of the participant/viewer to finish the job, fill in the details. This is a powerful strategy." p.164. |
Snap!
As suspected the elasticity in the holistic bandwidth of the working abstract just failed.
The abstract rejected, I'm not surprised.
[ Prev. https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/03/category-theory-or-category-mistake.html ]
I hoped 'no news' ... might fuel progress for a little longer.
Clearly (again), holistic bandwidth is never enough - focus, focus.
I'm grateful to learn from the call however, that there is a need to address:
How can prevention in social care be better conceptualised?
So I've a start at least ...
Grateful too, in the call, for Wright Mills sociological imagination:
“Know that the human meaning of public issues must be revealed by relating them to personal troubles—and to the problems of the individual life. Know that the problems of social science, when adequately formulated, must include both troubles and issues, both biography and history, and the range of their intricate relations. Within that range the life of the individual and the making of societies occur; and within that range the sociological imagination has its chance to make a difference in the quality of human life in our time.” Wright Mills (1959:226). [My emphasis.]
Clearly the current and previous governments have not got a clue!
I have rarely felt the fury that I feel at todays @DHSCgovuk “announcement” on social care. A massive retreat from what was already bare minimum first steps in long term reform. So on top of previously announced delays to the cap and a better means test, here’s what we now have..
— Sally (@so_says_sally) April 4, 2023
There's a clearer idea now - an abstract - something to aim for in July:
Not yet fully fledged, but then Spring [N] still beckons ...
Still much more to do ... heaven knows what the result will be - and do? Even as I keep the call 'in mind', it may not 'fit' the intended journal at all. Non-predatory, and no article processing charges is essential. Brevity, conciseness ... the order of the day. I can't even hide behind "A little knowledge is a ...": I know nothing - but I'm sure there is some-thing here and in #h2cm.
If anyone is interested in writing something quite different and challenging, then please get in touch. There may (realistically imho) be two-three papers here?
From the call:
"As Rapoport highlighted in the 1960s, however, translating the unified view of prevention associated with public health into social welfare is inherently problematic. This remains the case. Preventative social care and support necessarily operate in complex and dynamic systems, generally where knowledge of causation and the consequences are unclear, and an imaginative application of care needs and contexts is required.
Though current policy direction across many countries suggests opportunities for re-imagining how prevention may be best conceptualised, numerous studies have highlighted that there remains considerable confusion and disparity in how this plays out in practice."
I have held on to the following article from Computing, March 19th 1987 and still learning from Durham and colleagues' journalism:
"Sometimes a highly abstract, unifying mathematical theory underlies a whole set of scientific or engineering subjects. ...
Category theory is one such subject. Sometimes described as an algebra of algebras, it plays a unifying role in discrete mathematics. Discrete mathematics is a general heading for all the mathematical subjects which deal with jumpy, lumpy entities. Most of the mathematics used in the theory of digital computing is of this kind.
Another unifying subject, homology theory or differential topology, is less well known to computer scientists ... Homology theory is a unifying theory in continuous mathematics, which is the name given to everything that deals with smooth and stretchy entities.
[According to Bowden,] 'category theory and homology theory are fairly close things. The big difference is that homology theory includes information about the topology of the space that it describes.
Durham, T. (1987) Over the Horizon.
Working out the algebra of algebras, Computing, 19 March. pp.28-29.Category theory is just about information. Homology theory is about information and structure, the structure of something.'
Space itself is not something we usually think of as possessing structure. But space does impose limitations on the kinds of behaviour that can be exhibited by things like electric fields and currents, or electromagnetic waves." p.28.
Durham, T. (1987) Over the Horizon. Working out the algebra of algebras, Computing, 19 March. pp.28-29. (Sorry no issue / volume nos.).
See also:
I drafted this with (i) but didn't want to distract from the call and journal itself.
With three working titles in a 250 word abstract in response to:
"How can prevention in social care be better conceptualised?" -
I am open
here (as ever) to expressions of interest towards collaboration. Support (help)
would be invaluable, whether advice/co-author - to develop ideas on
Hodges' model as a mathematical object(?). Even if this includes telling me to stop the barking and leave the tree alone. That point aside, the reading and videos are a challenge, but really enjoyable too.
In reading the call, Quaternary prevention will be added to:
"While applied in the context of complex social problems, discourses of prevention are most coherent and established in the realm of public health (e.g., tertiary, secondary, and primary prevention). As Rapoport highlighted in the 1960s, however, translating the unified view of prevention associated with public health into social welfare is inherently problematic. This remains the case. Preventative social care and support necessarily operate in complex and dynamic systems, generally where knowledge of causation and the consequences are unclear, and an imaginative application of care needs and contexts is required."
The result will be abstract. With “'re-imagine' social care" taken literally.
Since there are quinary industries ( 'ours' no less), is there, should there be - quinary prevention? I think so, and this - and several legacy issues encountered in my career and ongoing today (also accentuated in the future?) will form the basis of discussion. Early days, but also need to decide upon the manuscript type:
The completed draft may not be 'finished' by July, but the
exercise will help develop ideas to further understanding and awareness
of Hodges' model. I'm almost too close to Hodges' model and I can't discuss ideas on a daily - work basis. The other impediment, is standing on my foot, pressing me against the walls (whichever domain) is the fact that models of/for care, and nursing theory have little currency these days. Finally, having explained I have no funding, encouragement to write is appreciated. This effort is also informed by threads on (and off) the Spirit of 1848 ListServe.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023
Deadline for
Articles: 31 July 2023
Publication of the Issue: January/March 2024
Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social
Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science; Impact Factor: 1.543) and Scopus
(CiteScore: 2.5), welcomes new and exciting research papers for
its upcoming issue "Community Development and Preventative Care With
Older People: New Values and Approaches," edited by Fiona Verity
(Swansea University), Frances Barker (Solva Care), Mark Llewellyn
(University of South Wales), Simon Read (Swansea University), and Jonathan
Richards (University of South Wales).
The subject of this thematic issue is a prevention agenda in social care for older people, with a focus on community development values and approaches. Though current policy direction across many countries suggests opportunities for re-imagining how prevention may be best conceptualised, numerous studies have highlighted that there remains considerable confusion and disparity in how this plays out in practice.
Prevention in social care can be implemented from mixed starting points, i.e., economic objectives, social justice objectives, and look different in practice. Included within this broad agenda are community development approaches and service delivery models driven by the needs of older people in their communities/localities, and collectively focused on common concerns and solutions.
This thematic issue will canvass questions such as:
Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers:
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/pages/view/nextissues#PreventativeCare
Abstracts welcome by 15 March 2023.
Kindest regards,
Mariana
Mariana Pires Social Inclusion Cogitatio Press 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal New issues (open access): Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Disability and Social Inclusion: Lessons From the Pandemic
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/332 Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/331
My source:
EUROPEAN-SOCIOLOGIST list
Post ii: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/02/h2cm-relational-ontology.html
There is something seductive in architecture, the imagination of ideas on paper, the promise of the cornerstone, the reality of the construction, the space it grasps and the space it bestows.
Arriving at Younés paper, the history and reference to Valéry's Eupalinos ou l'architecte, Socrates and Phaedrus had me captured.
Healthcare is dialogue. Spoken and unspoken. Discourse. Dialectic. Perspective: One : Shared : (the) Many.
What is said, gestured, and unsaid. Valéry's dialogue sounds worthy of follow-up, appreciating Plato and this form of theatre and learning. There is a latent architect in us all. Patiency too - but not yet - let us build first. Every day and night we construct (hopefully). When necessary we know when to disassemble, de-construct, to initiate change.
Reading Younés I can readily relate the paper to nursing, Hodges' model, and healthcare generally. The paper's three main questions concern (of course) architectural theory:
There are many points of note (reading my yellow highlighter) here.
'Reflection precedes realization, but theory does not necessarily precede practice'. p.234.
'Theory however, is a systemic elaboration that operates based on definitions and concepts, in the sense that definitions build concepts, and concepts in turn build a theory, but not the reverse of the sequence.'
'Theory, then, comes 'late', only because it is the synthesis of a content that was already present'. It is constructed after a prolonged reflection over many experiences, based on common, comparative, or contrasting sets of criteria.
Younés focus is specific the development of theory in architecture, but as he writes: 'there is some element of reflection which can be termed the building's efficient cause' p.234. I wonder about Nursing Theory and the nurse's theory based on the person - in-person: reflection of care, assessed, planned, delivered, evaluated and recorded. There are nurses still preoccupied with Q.1, even if the (primary) focus is within academia(?).
Q.2 seems an invitation for philosophy (as per the journal's title!). Being non-judgemental, if not starting to build nursing Theory, then especially for the nurse co-constructing, co-designing a theory of care with the patient/family. Hodges' model is not just a series of set squares, facilitating design; it is an empty set. Never completely empty, due to the structure. A structure that contradicts. A structure paradoxical as it constrains and releases, records and forgets.
Q.3? Did someone call - continuity? Yes, (and how!) we can carry on from Q.2. Scope - yes. See the space? Listen to all the dimensions. Reduced to those that count, in discourse and nature, by nature.
Person-centred? New patient. RESET. Re-build - but remember humanistically.
See also:
Seeds in 'architecture' i
Seeds in 'architecture' iii
Younés, Samir. “Constructing Architectural Theory.” Philosophy 78, no. 304 (2003): 233–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3752046.
For many years I've held a copy of:
Younés, Samir. “Constructing Architectural Theory.” Philosophy 78, no. 304 (2003): 233–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3752046.
Previously, missing a few (photocopied) pages, the paper is now complete as I continue to sort and clear 'stuff'.
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There is something dynamic, literally world-defining* in architecture, a view that has influenced my thoughts about Hodges' model, and it appears other disciplines.
The source lost, I recall reading somewhere about a trend of 'architecture' being added to titles and disciplines. It may have been in an information technology, programming source, but I'm not sure. The point made, was that when this is the case the result is NOT architecture. If you have a source for such ideas I would love to hear from you.This statement probably stood out, because I'm guilty too:
'architect-ure' - care architecture, care design ...
Buildings are fascinating, sometimes as important as the art inside, getting from side A to B and so on. If properly curated though the building shouldn't overwhelm the work inside? While I love the arts, drawing and painting, Leonardo's technical work is awesome, as witnessed in Oxford and London, I was never keen on 'technical drawing' at school. It's not in my nature to blame the teacher, but - for once - I was a runner not a footballer. In hindsight, the time was almost up on technical drawing as we were taught in the 1970s and Leonardo, well he is in another class.
In health and social care, we plan and plan again; and resort to design (case formulation) too.
So, models and frameworks - anyone..?
The axes of the model are like a mast.
The care (knowledge) domains - with their nebulous edges - are like sails.
The concepts (data, information, disinformation, uncertainty, null! ...)
caught in the domains are the wind that drives, disrupts, or in its absence bestills us.
The direction of travel the context, the situation - always adjusting.
And often subject to change, misdirection and correction.
*A potential for good or ill.
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Women's Rights begin..?
My source:
Critics' choice, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 19-20 December 2015. regarding: https://www.bl.uk/alice-in-wonderland
Image: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound
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"It has been another challenging week for the UK's NHS as nurses were offered a paltry 1 per cent pay rise. But the artist Banksy is to show his support by auctioning "Game Changer" (2020), a painting initially made to hang in University Hospital Southampton, and now sold to benefit the NHS. The hand-painted, signed work, which shows a kneeling child playing with a toy nurse instead of more traditional superheroes, is estimated by Christie's at £2.5m to £3.5m". |
Gerlis, M. (2021) The Art Market, Collecting, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 13-14 March, p.14.
'Game Changer' source: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/banksy-southampton-general-hospital-game-changer-1202686284/
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Self Person Biography imagination and creativity individual values Sociologist C. Wright Mills, who created the concept and wrote the definitive book about it, defined the sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between [individual] experience ... | 'Thought experiment' | ||
...and the wider society." (Crossman, 2019).
| Political growth climate change universal health care antibiotic resistance pollution corruption fake news |
Aphantasia - unable to visualise mental images Ed | Animation Frame by Frame Aphantasia - 2.5% of people may have it Requires memory plus areas in the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes to work together. |
| Catmull ... has "blind mind's eye" |
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, 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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