https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day (Wikipedia)
myo Andy Ilachinski
D.T. Suzuki (1870 - 1966) Zen and Japanese Culture describes the Japanese word myo (for which there is no single-word equivalent in English) as a "certain artistic quality perceivable not only in works of arc but in anything in Nature or life. The sword in the hands of the swordsman attains this quality when it is not a mere display of technical skill patiently learned under the tutorship of a good master...The hands may move according to the technique given out to every student, but there is a certain spontaneity and personal creativity when the technique, conceptualized, and universalized, is handled by the master hand. Myo may also be applied to the intelligence and the instinctive activities of various animals, for example the beaver building its nest, the spider spinning its web, the wasp or ant constructing its castles under the eaves or beneath the ground. They are the wonders of Nature. In face, the whole universe is a miraculous exhibition of a master mind, and we humans who are one of its wonderful achievements have been straining our intellectual efforts ever since the awakening of consciousness and are daily being overwhelmed by Nature's demonstrations of its unfathomable and inexhaustible myo. The awakening of consciousness has been the greatest cosmological event in the course of evolution. We have been able by its practical application co probe into the secrets of nature and make use of chem to serve our way of living, but at the same time we seem to be losing the many things we have otherwise been enjoying which Nature has been liberal enough to grant us. The function of human consciousness, as I see it, is to dive deeper and deeper into its source, the unconscious."
Vaster than Empires and More Slow (Wkipedia) and pdf
The Intelligent Plant Michael Pollan New Yorker 15xii13
The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton (Amazon)
...argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does "Nature" exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the ecological thought.
Photosynthesis Natasha Myers at Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
...the Anthropocene is a gift armed with teeth, with a hau of demands and reciprocal tethers that have left many anthropologists rightly cautious about embracing its tale of an overwhelming human agency. What would it take, we wonder, to see this time and its configurations, agencies, and effects otherwise? With this lexicon we hope to develop a resource that is helpful for this task.
A certain kind of human has helped usher the world into the hyperobjective era. Let’s call them hypersubjects. You will recognize them as the type of subjects you are invited to vote for in elections, the experts who tell you how things are, the people shooting up your schools, the mansplainers from your Twitter feed. Hypersubjects are typically, but not exclusively white, male, northern, well-nourished, and modern in all senses of the term. They wield reason and technology, whether cynically or sincerely, as instruments for getting things done. They command and control; they seek transcendence; they get very high on their own supply of dominion. Do you want to know what is irritating hypersubjects today? The fact that hyperobjects are whispering in their ears, whispering that this being and time that they have fashioned in their image and for their own convenience is dying. The voices in their heads say that there is no time for hypersubjects any more. It is hyposubjectivity, rather than hypersubjectivity, that is becoming the companion of the hyperobjective era.
The American songbag Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All ScalesThe Marginalian
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What's a Plant Ally? Healing Herbs
Epic Edible Plant Allies: Over 30 Plants for a Better World Feinstein, Kevin (Amazon)
Powerful Plant Allies at YouTube
English on the Move Kevin Stroud at Patreon
Keep Calm and Carry On (Wikipedia)
The world's largest and oldest organism may have been growing for 80,000 years Boing Boing
The making of Americans : being a history of a family's progress Gertrude Stein
Free Galaxy magazine archive: 356 classic sci-fi issues now online Boing Boing
A comprehensive statistical analysis of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Boing Boing
CP Cavafy at poetryfondation.org
Mechanisms of Energy Transduction by Charge Translocating Membrane Proteins Chemical Reviews
Biological Energy Transduction ITQB
Bioenergetic myths of energy transduction in eukaryotic cells
Energy transduction and the mind-mitochondria connection The Biochemist
Energy Transduction Biology As Poetry
Mechanisms of Primary Energy Transduction in Biology Royal Society of Chemistry
Transducer (Wikipedia)
12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like toolsNew Scientist
The Value—and Limits—of Seeking Comfort in Art The New Yorker podcast