Every fact is accompanied by the cutting edge of an epistemological knife, the wielding of which makes worlds.

Contributing artist at New Forms Technology

by Seth on April 22, 2012 · 0 comments

If you don’t know about the discovery of the Chestahedron, a volume with seven faces of equal area, you should check it out at New Forms Technology (shameless plug: I’m the webmaster).

I have been experimenting with the form in its sculptural capacity, and have come up with some interesting designs that are featured on the site, which you can see here.

Below are a few samples of my work, click for larger:

 

columns 300x139   Contributing artist at New Forms Technology

Chestahedral Rings 7 white 288x300   Contributing artist at New Forms Technology

Chestahedral Star 1 296x300   Contributing artist at New Forms Technology

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do not think about this

by Seth on April 21, 2012 · 1 comment

2   do not think about this

do not think about this
it is not here for your pleasure
not waiting self-less
for some deathly embrace
as if it were not already perfect
and rising starkly, gently behind you
perusing the pages of your eyes
passing no judgment

straighten your back
and fly into the sunset
as you were meant to –
objectless, void, unsundered
by the sheer presence of its wings
will you be lifted
footprints trailing clouds
into what has always known you

pulling the threads of your heart
it makes your fists close hard
about what you can never grasp
the light to your shadow
a silence around your music
forgeless and forging
you become its thoughts
it is no it
I AM

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Observing the Observer: Exploring a Cybernetic Epistemological Recursion

April 15, 2012
Observing the Observer

This post explores the recursive nature of observation from a cybernetic epistemological point of view, utilizing a number of images to show how concepts of self and other are co-generative.

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Sleep, Dreams and Video Games

February 1, 2012
Dream Ladder

How you use your attention in waking life has definite effects in your dreaming life.  The following is my distillation of some insights from anthroposophy in this regard, which I offer as one way of looking at this phenomenon, specifically around the issue of video games and dreaming.  This post should provide an appropriate background [...]

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Reality, Process, and Mathematics

January 22, 2012
Square root of 2

In aesthetic epistemology, notions of “reality” are replaced by “patterns in process.”  ”Things” are (ontologically) patterned processes.  We mistake the nature of the universe when we presume that “things,” to be, must “be” from the bottom up: on the basis of some “substance,” which THEN interacts in processes to yield what we experience (the first coherent [...]

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Patterns in Process: Transdisciplinarity as a Background for Working with the Elemental Cycle of Transformation

January 21, 2012
Elemental Cycle

Abstract This essay outlines connections between the Elemental Cycle as an archetype of transformation, transdisciplinarity, and  cybernetics.  A number of questions are addressed: the nature and importance of connecting these fields, an examination of resources and the dominant disciplinary discourses for the associated fields, and a critical examination of my assumptions, beliefs, and position. Introduction [...]

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Form and content – two levels of change

January 12, 2012
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Form and Content Understanding change is a very difficult task. No aspect of our world, either experienced outwardly through our senses or inwardly through our feelings and thoughts, seems exempt from the paradoxical rule that the only constant is change. It is possible to examine the way change occurs at many levels. At the “lowest” [...]

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Quantum Mechanics – To Understand or Not Understand, that is the question

January 9, 2012
Fractal Flower

Introduction About 100 years ago the birth of quantum theory changed forever how humans perceive the universe… sort of.  Certainly “quantum physics” is a phrase found far outside the boundaries of physics classrooms, and has even achieved a fairly wide popularity through movies such as What the Bleep and works like Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics.  Does this [...]

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Thinking about “What’s for lunch?”

December 28, 2011
What's for Lunch?
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This question is a touchstone for the modern human dilemma, and it’s all about consciousness. I’ve recently been in some discussions around transitioning to being vegetarian/mostly vegan.  Part of the discussions revolve around the available evidence for the state of affairs with respect to our food production.  Two heavy-hitting potential sources for perspective can be [...]

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