Backstage
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Critique, Mystery | No Comments »Hidden is not necessarily secret. Those not in the know might not need to know and might not want the bother of learning and remembering. Those making a presentation--whether actors, film-makers, teachers or whoever--are usually willing to share the ...
Fire One
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »Consider this scene from back in the old cave dwelling days. A storm, lightning shears off a tree limb and sets it on fire. A woman approaches and sensing in an ah-ha moment the distinction between the cold and hot ...
Teaching. Who’s for Lunch?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in Teaching | No Comments »Catching and riveting the attention of lethargic smart ass students is the teacher's challenge. In part showmanship and acting skill, like the thespian securing an audience's rapt attention by reading the telephone book or reciting the alphabet or a ...
Notes on Invention: (1) Buck Rogers in the 21st Century
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »Buck appears to have been made-up by writer Philip Francis Nowlan in 1928 in two short novels published by Amazing Stories. Rogers' original first name was Anthony. He has appeared in a variety of media since--newspaper comic strips, radio ...
The Utterly Neuz–Notes on the Sociology of Invention
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »The utterly new is rare. The out-of-the-blue is possible but the neuz is more likely to be anticipated and prefigured. Think of the original beyond original as among the giant leaps for mankind, or perhaps as a wild ...
Invention: Pro, Con, or Maybe
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »The universal test for invention is the measure of acceptance-rejection-indifference. Each invention has its own validation argument--based on experiment, faith, consensus, authority, legislation, intuition, beauty, utility and so on. Some of the neuz are trivial or private or transitory and ...
Invention Affirmed
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in Neuz, Invention | No Comments »Distinguish between the latest copy, the new, and the never previously realized, the neuz. Invention is the making up or finding of the neuz. Do not limit the universal human capacity for invention to tinkerers in cellars and garages ...
The Social Side of Psychotherapy
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 Posted in Psychotherapy | No Comments »Culture in action, expressed through its group carriers, can have a pernicious effect on selected group members. Some physical types can be valued, others not. Some psychological traits found attractive, others not. Some of these ...
Social Class East
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 Posted in Social Class | No Comments »Social class is a dynamic concept. The relationship of the class groupings involves the distribution of available economic value. This is always a latent front that can become active with conscious awareness of self and group ...