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> The future of work deals with more than the mind. Clearly.
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> There is an MA or Ph.d thesis here on the ergonomics and intellectual
> ecology of the total workplace.
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> Arthur Cordell
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> From: S. Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Who would have guessed that the nature of workplace toilets would spark so
> much interest!? Are we into the symbolic realm here...(your choice of
> symbols: power, control, privacy, escape, etc.)? Sally
*An* MA or Ph.d thesis? In my Ed.d. dissertation, I set forth
the notion of converting various quotidian areas of life into socially
self-reflective activities "over the long duration" and with
publication of results (etc.):
whole new forms of Geisteswissenschaften(sp?),
which would make the Internet look less like a global nervous system
or brain (silly analogies these!) than a better global postal system.
Another angle: What is one of the main things that distinguishes the
art which modernism considered *serious* from Beaux-Arts academicism?
The disconnection of the seriousness with which a subject was treated
from the subject's preconceived social rank. A great modern artwork
can be "about" a rock quarry (Cezanne), whereas a painting of Napoleon
can be of little interest.
As Elias Canetti wrote in his _Crowds and Power_, we need to break
the spell of *power*. "Splitting" is not *only* about obvious
traumata. Why shouldn't the quotidian activities of
our lives be nourishing to our spirits? Why don't we take
greater affront at the fact that often they are not? (Partial
answer: The title of Alice Miller's book on childrearing: _Thou
Shalt no be Aware_).
As I believe Nicholas of Cusa said: In an infinite universe,
the center is everywhere and the periphery nowhere. We still
live in a finite, myth ridden universe with a few "stars" at the center,
and "Everyman" lost in the peripheral crowd of "human resources",
"consumers", etc.
"Yours in discourse...."
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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