A Dream of Reason III. Wild Flowers, Opening, and The Unnatural Bird Song of My Kind

III: Writing Wild flowers  Wild flowers Opening (2005)          This manuscript as writing may at first glance appear wild and free. Yet images and narratives are continuously pushed beyond themselves towards the explicitly conceptual. Relatively pure images and narratives can contribute to reconstruction (e.g., they open lines of “constructive implication” and articulate […]

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A Dream of Reason III. Floodtide and Borderline Notes: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction

Floodtide and Borderline Notes (1987) We write against a resisted yet increasingly powerful tendency for pattern and abstraction to overwhelm unique existence, inwardness and presence…. Action, experience and discourse are progressively twisted from personal and dialogical moorings and captured by increasingly complex hierarchical systems. Now at the edge of the overwhelming breakthrough of the cybernetic revolution […]

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A Dream of Reason III. Part 3 John’s Vision: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction and The Author Descending

John’s Vision: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction Dream (1974) (Transcript and continuation of A Dream of Reason Bellow) (The above Video is also part of a series, Exploring Questioning) I went to a tough junior high school…. One recess in front of an old red tenement a big guy came at me with a knife. Said, “Give […]

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A Dream of Reason III. Part 4- Bathysphere and Fertile Open Space

Bathysphere (1979) A bathysphere descends. – Not steel and glass. Sensitive and sapient…. A sapient bathysphere is shaped by and shapes that through which it falls and that which it contains. The sociological-psychological bathysphere descends through the rhythms and currents of the ocean of voices. A bathysphere descends to the depth of bathysphere construction…descent into […]

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A Dream of Reason IV: Part 1 Entering through “Personal-Interpersonal Dynamics”

IV: Entering through “Personal-Interpersonal Dynamics”   On the Anatomy of Personal-Interpersonal Dynamics (2005) 1.Opening 1.1 Until the final essay this section remains within the gravity of “social/behavioral science.” Yet it is in motion towards an autonomous humanistic dialogical sociology-psychology. Most essays are relatively early. – Now they appear within the dialogical context they opened. Their author […]

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A Dream of Reason IV. Part 2 Introduction to the Problem/Solution Orientation…

Introduction to the Problem/Solution Orientation as a Foundational Sociological-Psychological Schema (1965) 1.Introduction (2006)        Our first sociological-psychological schema, initiated in 1962, explores generically human determinate processing potentialities and species realms through the problem/solution connection. Internal problems[1] include: Theoretical integration of timeless “if then” connection and “historical becoming”, Theoretical integration of generically human, type specific, and […]

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