Posted On : March 31st, 2009 by hoon
Visited my friend Holly’s new digs. We went for a walk in the wood lot behind her house, encountered a deer, and had a jolly time. I enjoy such walks on the cusp of spring. On her neighbor’s land Holly pointed out a calm watch-woman of the wood.
“History” (excerpt from A Bibliography On America For Ed Dorn)
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“Theory” Theory of Society
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(source: Additional Prose of Charles Olson Four Seasons Foundation 1974)
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Carried over from the Hoon Loops.
Planning concerns man’s efforts to make the future in his own image. If he loses control of his own destiny, he fears being cast into the abyss. Alone and afraid, man is at the mercy of strange and unpredictable forces, so he takes whatever comfort he can by challenging the fates. He shouts his plans into the storms of life. Even if all he hears is his own voice, he is no longer alone. To abandon his faith in planning would unleash the terror locked in him.
A. Wildavsky
If Planning Is Everything, Maybe It¹s Nothing
Policy Science No. 4, 1973
Posted On : March 5th, 2009 by hoon
Under the Self-Development category, author and thought leader Dick Richards gets his link updated because he’s now blogging at his Riding On Dragons. Intraspec.ca goes away because it seems to be embedding feeds but isn’t showing original content.
Another carry over.
This Dionysian quality of spirit confronts and questions all human certainties. Human reality instead becomes a flux of images and constructions that need continuous reappraisal. His inherent qualities of good and bad, of creativity and destruction, of life and death challenge the edge of alertness in order to pursue life in its full dimension.
Mia Nijsmans
A Dionysian Way to Organizational Effectiveness, in Psyche At Work;
Chiron 1994If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s not a trivial outcome, because the kind of sense that an organization makes of its thoughts and of itself has an effect on its ability to deal with change. An organization that continually sees itself in novel images, images that are permeated with diverse skills and sensitivities, thereby is equipped to deal with altered surroundings when they appear.
Karl Weick
The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2nd ed.,
McGraw-Hill 1979
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