For the last 6 1/2 years I've been collecting passing thoughts and bits of quotation from my reading on yellow pads. They follow me everywhere, ready to catch whatever drops from the slipstream of things I examine in my information universe. But how can I make that material more accessible and more orderly? !Start another domain at oook.info, with the intention to collect extracts from texts encountered, and especially toothsome bits of my own writing. For posterity...
The intention is to keep as much chronological order as possible, so that I can see how subjects and come and gone and morphed and wandered. I won't know if this is an effective strategy until I've worked through a few years of the accumulation... so I'll start accumulating and see what happens.
handout of quotes for a Convivium Question on 'Legacy' August 2018
What is OUR legacy to the future, and how should/might/ought/could we marshal it into something to be passed on to the future?
From Umberto Eco's Introduction to a 1989 edition of Ogden and Richards' The Meaning of Meaning:
...ordinary language lives in ambiguity, nuance, and allusion, and people use it nonchalantly often managing to understand one another despite imprecisions, ellipses, and misreadings.
From Susanne K Langer Philosophy in a New Key
...if we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions (13)
(I think I need to create a subsection for my own writings, some in the form of scans that might be transcribed later into html)
My own self, 20x18:Among the benefits of looking long and longingly at the work of other photographers is the impetus to try to articulate how and why one does one's own work in the medium. The why turns out to be a personal layer cake of interests and obsessions, probably stretching back decades and often unconscious or at least unexamined. The how is worthy of more attention and reflection than we usually afford, in order to escape the formulaic and open the mind's eyes to the unanticipated.I realize that I want my photographs to belong to stories, or better yet to Stories, most of which I've been assembling for many years.
(which led to an extended meditation on rock photographs)