Hodges' model: The Art & Science of Care Choreographies?

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	Introduction to Choreographies
Merce Cunningham: Changes: Notes on Choreography

Last month attending the UKSS conference in Portsmouth, I stopped in Oxford on the way South arriving 0800. Visiting Blackwell's bookshop - what bliss! I spotted Montesi's book and found a comfy armchair for more comfortable look. On the return journey, two days later, I used Park and Ride again and returned. It was worth it.

Over the years I've thought of Hodges' model as a theatre (in every sense), dance floor and the performance of health care practitioners. The wear of shoes bears testimony to the many steps about the hospital, clinic, nursing home, patient's home and community.

Choreography as a discipline naturally follows, and is more extensive than I thought.

UKSS is scheduled for Oxford in 2024, details - when I have them.

Cunningham cover: Amazon.

Committing Ecocide to Hodges' model ...

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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.

Plumptre AJ, Baisero D, Belote RT, Vázquez-Domínguez E, Faurby S, Jȩdrzejewski W, Kiara H, Kühl H, Benítez-López A, Luna-Aranguré C, Voigt M, Wich S, Wint W, Gallego-Zamorano J and Boyd C (2021) Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities? Front. For. Glob. Change 4:626635. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.626635

My sources:

Lawton, G. (2021) Crimes Against Nature, New Scientist, 250: 3333. p.24.

Obituaries. Polly Higgins. Register, The Times. May 2, 2019. p.53.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/polly-higgins-obituary-92z6zd3ps

See also:

Eradicating Ecocide (2010).

Earth is Our Business (2012).

"Diagrammatic Immanence"

Diagrammatic Immanence

"There is thus a naturally 'pragmatic' epistemology intrinsic to categories: from the standpoint of category theory objects are investigated and known only via their interactions with other objects, not 'in themselves''. The space of possible maps from one object to another determines what can be known of those objects as such. Over the past several decades, category theory has proven extraordinarily successful in unifying diverse fields of mathematics and providing a less arbitrary and more productive foundation for mathematics than set theory. Because of its intrinsic orientation towards relations, it connects more readily and with fewer idealist assumptions than set theory to the real world and its component structures." p.10. 

"A meaning of whatever sort is necessarily determined by its position in a space of various intersecting structures, each with its own rich tangle of relations. Each of the 'single' topics being discussed opens up internally into a complex arrangement of mappings between, words, sentences, semantics, phonemes - all the systematic orders of differential relations that structuralism has taught us to recognise. And these orders are themselves embedded in actual material and historical processes.

The seemingly intractable complexity of actual language (parole and not only langue) is one of the reasons linguistic semantics have tended to resist mathematical and logical formalisation so stubbornly. Meaning is enacted in singular events and in this way resists abstract treatment. Yet at the same time, meaning presupposes translatability.  All the singular grain of the interlocking systems of some actual conversational exchange connects potentially to the systems of innumerable others. Any adequate categorical representation of linguistic events and, more generally, semiotic processes must be both rigorous and and flexible enough to track the logical and structural underpinnings of meaning and at the same time facilitate the blurring and affordances of translation." p.141.

Gangle, R. (2016). Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bgzc38

Two abstracts for 2024 inc. Philosophy at Play Conference

This month, in addition to an abstract for:

MYTH, RITUAL AND PRACTICE FOR THE AGE OF ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/09/myth-ritual-env-religion.html

- there is an invitation to submit a paper abstract for:

The sixth Philosophy at Play Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Education at the Complutense University in Madrid on June 3-5, 2024

No one likes to waste time^, but whether or not these abstracts are accepted, the thought and effort will extend my thinking and application of Hodges' model. Beyond initial thoughts below, I need to check on the key issues in the philosophy of play:

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play therapy (distraction ...) being outdoors: psychological impact of green symbolic play mental games - play intellectual skill, creativity imagination in play individual play child - verbalisation cognitive and character development - morality, personal ethics 'illness' norms - anhedonic addictive quality of gaming role of advertising play theology - utopia

play senses, kinaesthetics, embodiment accessibility information at play: uncertainty, bluff, prediction - movement, strategy functional play - toys/objects activities - performance space: arena, field, theatre games / sport - physical contest gaming as work / effort / energy gaming as tech/software simulation gaming 'in' Virtual Reality (tech's role in disrupting (idealised?) play? Games/Gaming as rules/process quantitative research - evidence

social inclusion/exclusion sociology of play (and in arts) socialisation language: "= playing field" role play :: fancy dress socio-cultural dimensions - history traditional play/games social behaviour, status, participation turn-taking, stigma (cheating) sports etiqette, 'fair play' team games (team building - work) Serres - Myth, History Harlequin - mischief

politics of play studies: oppression, marginalisation, erasure, vulnerable groups, exploitation* 'export' of games hegenomy, hierarchies software colonialism (Africa)** debates: guns in play, weapons, 'shoot em up' FROM: child's-play TO: gamesmanship whose rules, control of space? governance & politics of play economies of play 'A nation at play' media - controls - consumerism, advertising gambling THEOLOGY

*An example - previously:

Loot boxes: GET YOURS TODAY!

^Since posting: I realise that 'neutrality' in play (studies) and the call here appears an important concept. Clinically, Hodges' model can literally reflect unconditional positive regard, as a template the model provides a 'blank slate'; as long as we are being authentic and not 'playing games'.

In terms of this conference, can Hodges' model act as a referee - by providing a neutral space? It would appear so, but this is quickly challenged - if not illusory.

That neutrality is lost in the blink of an eye - shattered even, by a twist, a step of a foot. A shift from the nexus, center of the model - the neutrality is comprised. All of a sudden the observer is forced to play. Or at least there is an invitation to contextualize; psychologically, physically, socially, politically or spiritually.

A game to play in itself?

**c/o Bytes for All mailing list:

"Software colonialism is killing Africa" - Neville Roy Singham  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKcQsfCDg8

BBC - Software Development in Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDSLX8KFE0

Citation of Hodges' model IN "Application of the Threshold Concept Framework in Nursing: An Integrative Review"

This morning ResearchGate informed me of a further citation for Hodges' model:

Kistler KB, Tyndall DE. Application of the Threshold Concept Framework in Nursing: An Integrative Review. Nurse Educ. 2022 Mar-Apr 01;47(2):91-95. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001041. PMID: 34033613.

I have requested a copy and added Kistler and Tyndall to the bibliography listing in the blog's sidebar.

Here, I am still sitting on the two-part draft paper on threshold concepts, liberty protection safeguards, residential forms of care and Hodges' model.

Last week, during a break I received news of acceptance for another online conference. Details to follow, as I complete two abstracts this month.

Ear of Dionysus :: Ear(s) of a Mental Health Nurse*

c/o Archaeological Park of Neapolis

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Interpersonal Communication Skills Active listening	Ear of Dionysus - Syracuse, Peter Jones 29th Sept 2023
The Socio-Politics of 'information'	Secrets, States and Power

Ear(s): we all need to listen; not just in stereo but quadraphonic.

https://www.italia.it/en/sicilia/siracusa/cultural-places/neapolis-archaeological-park

Whether, wherever, whatever you shave - you need Occam's razor

Can Hodges' model be honed by students from day #1 - 'Intro lecture 101',
 across all curricula to function as a form of Occam's razor -
a reflective and critical thinking tool
to last a lifetime's learning (and unlearning)?
 

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Occam's razor: "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity". "It urges us to choose the simplest explanations or models for any phenomenon we observe." William of Ockham, born around 1285.	"It has been a tool for scientific progress, not to mention a guiding principle for our thoughts, right up to the present day."
Hodges' model: a tool for individual learners and communities of practice.	"He was, I believe, the first person to so clearly separate science from its religious tethers, a move crucial to science's subsequent secular development."

McFadden, J. (2021) Razor sharp, New Scientist, 18-25 December. 252:3365/66. pp.70-71.

MYTH, RITUAL AND PRACTICE FOR THE AGE OF ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE

Fabrice Monteiro, a garbage spirit, from his series
The Prophecy (2017)

The European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment

- is pleased to announce its
seventh international conference

Friday May 17 to Sunday May 19, 2024

Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

MYTH, RITUAL AND PRACTICE
FOR THE AGE OF ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE

 

Click here for the Call for Papers and Conference Description:

https://www.religion-environment.com/conference/open-call-for-papers

Proposals will be accepted until 31 October, 2023

This conference will explore the many questions that arise from the apparent continuing philosophical-scientific indigestibility of mythology, ritual and practice. What does or would gaia-logical mythology, ritual or practice look like? Are they, could they be more pedagogically effective with non-experts than analysis and critique? Is the solution to ecological alienation the same as the age-old solutions to spiritual alienation? Is ecological alienation parallel to the emic/etic divide in ethnography? Is “practice” the way “in”? Is “belief”? Does gaiaism demand rituals and practices? Are contemporary scholarly analyses (Haraway, Latour, Stengers, Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s pantheologies, Sloterdijk, etc.) today’s form of ecological myth? Is myth, with its associations with the archaic (despite the work of Cassirer, Barthes and others), a fitting genre for today? (Many traditional myths are hardly gaian.) Must gaian myth, rituals or practices be atheological (i.e., is theology, as some argue, inherently not deep-ecological)? Does subtractive theology (à la Badiou) better lend itself to legitimate gaian mythology? Do ecotheologies written out of specific continuing pre-modern cultural-religious traditions that are not entirely or comfortably gaian satisfactorily bridge the spaces between emic and etic genres/approaches and satisfy calls for new gaia-ologies? Is there a meaningful difference between the myths of “major religions” and “indigenous” cultures? How do or might “old” and “new” cultural material relate to one another? Must scholars-scientists, environmentalists or artists use only material from “their own” heritages in producing gaia-ologies? Are there bases for and modes of considering or evaluating the skill or usefulness of gaia-ologies, gaian myths, rituals or practices? How have religious or spiritual environmentalists created gaian myths, rituals or practices? How might they? What artists, artistic works or modalities or works of popular culture stand as noteworthy examples?

Conference Chair: Jonathan Schorsch jschorsch AT uni-potsdam.de

We will be most grateful if you could circulate this through your networks.

Kind regards,
Jonathan Schorsch

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Professur, Jüdische Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Institut für Jüdische Theologie
Universität Potsdam
  jschorsch AT uni-potsdam.de
  +49 (0)331 977 1744

Founder and Director
Jewish Activism Summer School
  www.jassberlin.org

Founder and Director
The Green Sabbath Project
  www.greensabbathproject.net

My source:

Philos-L "The Liverpool List". Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/
https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL/
@PhilosL @LiverpoolPhilos

Image: c/o https://www.fabricemonteiro.com/

I am planning to submit an abstract, to develop further ideas encountered and contributed at SOPHERE.