Matt said: > What this local creation of "one use of DQ" from Pirsig cries out for > is a systematic supplementation of a laundry list of uses, thereby > moving us forward in "what Pirsig means."
Then added: > Appendix (from Nov. 2005): > Notes Towards a List of Uses of "Dynamic Quality" > > 1. DQ as undefined 73 > 2. DQ as pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality 114, 118, 133 (as > primary empirical reality (76), as ultimate reality, as direct > experience (73, 112-3)) > 3. DQ as betterness 132, 139 > 4. DQ as the good (as moral order (111, 133)) > 5. DQ as telos 160 > 6. DQ as noun > 7. DQ as change 131, 139, 165 > 8. DQ as weird 113, 138, 164 (new 133, 135) > 9. DQ as virginity (as orgasm) 74 > 10. DQ as genesis 137 (as universal source of things (88, 133)) > 12. DQ as inexpressible > 13. DQ as pre-reflective > 14. DQ as Romantic Quality > 15. DQ as intuition > 16. DQ as freedom 133, 139 (as broken 136) > 17. DQ as holistic viewpoint > 18. DQ as perfection Dave And... 20 DQ (including all the above list) as THE background (SODV paper) Pirsig presented a simple illustration of the MoQ in his Subjects, Objects, Data and Values paper. (See FIGURE 4-SODV paper at http://www.moq.org/) in which he says this about DQ: "Here is a drawing of the basic framework of the Metaphysics of Quality: In this diagram you will notice that Dynamic Quality is not shown in any block. It is in the background. This seems the best way to represent it. It is not only outside the blocks (SQ), it pervades them but it goes on where the blocks leave off." For all you want-to-be authors DQ is the blank sheet of paper or more likely now the new document with the blinking insert line on your computer screen. For the artist, DQ is the proverbial blank canvas. The insight Robert Rauschenberg gained from his "White Series" turned out to be that in a gallery setting blank white canvases are very dynamic. They change moment by moment based on shade and shadows as the viewers pass by. (http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/audio/aop_tour_404) His earlier work in the series was white house paint on multiple canvases fastened together. Based this insight he later did a very large single white panel with a very high gloss surface. The mirror-like (but not quite) quality reflected color,shade,and shadow, and the viewer's reflections became sharper as they approached the panel (DQ). A perfect visual analogy of Pirsig's diagram. Dave Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
