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<p>The <em>holoscope</em> distinguishes itself by allowing for <em>multiple</em> ways of looking at a theme or issue, which are called <em>scopes</em>. The <em>scopes</em> and the resulting <em>views</em> have similar meaning and role as projections do in technical drawing.</p> | <p>The <em>holoscope</em> distinguishes itself by allowing for <em>multiple</em> ways of looking at a theme or issue, which are called <em>scopes</em>. The <em>scopes</em> and the resulting <em>views</em> have similar meaning and role as projections do in technical drawing.</p> | ||
| − | <p>This <em>modernization</em> of our handling of information—distinguished by purposeful, free and informed <em>creation</em> of the ways in which we look at the world—has become <em>necessary</em> in our situation, suggests the bus with candle headlights metaphor. But it also presents a challenge to the reader—to bear in mind that the resulting views are not offered as "reality pictures", contending for | + | <p>This <em>modernization</em> of our handling of information—distinguished by purposeful, free and informed <em>creation</em> of the ways in which we look at the world—has become <em>necessary</em> in our situation, suggests the bus with candle headlights metaphor. But it also presents a challenge to the reader—to bear in mind that the resulting views are not offered as "reality pictures", contending for that status with one another.</p> |
| − | <blockquote>In the <em>holoscope</em>, the legitimacy and coexistence of multiple ways to look at a theme is axiomatic.</blockquote> | + | <blockquote>In the <em>holoscope</em>, the legitimacy and peaceful coexistence of multiple ways to look at a theme is axiomatic.</blockquote> |
<p>We shall continue to use the conventional language and say that <em>X</em> <em>is</em> <em>Y</em>—although it would be more correct to say that <em>X</em> can or must (also) be seen as <em>Y</em>. The views we offer are accompanied by an invitation to genuinely try to look at the theme at hand in a certain specific way; and to do that collaboratively, in a [[dialog|<em>dialog</em>]].</p> | <p>We shall continue to use the conventional language and say that <em>X</em> <em>is</em> <em>Y</em>—although it would be more correct to say that <em>X</em> can or must (also) be seen as <em>Y</em>. The views we offer are accompanied by an invitation to genuinely try to look at the theme at hand in a certain specific way; and to do that collaboratively, in a [[dialog|<em>dialog</em>]].</p> | ||
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| − | <p>A discovery of a new way of looking—which reveals a structural problem ( | + | <p>A discovery of a new way of looking—which reveals a structural problem, and helps us reach a correct general assessment of an object of study or a situation (whether the 'cup' is 'whole' or 'broken') is a new <em>kind of result</em> that is made possible by the general-purpose science, which is modeled by the <em>holoscope</em></p> |
<p>To see more, we take recourse to the vision of others. The <em>holoscope</em> combines scientific and other insights to enable us to see what we ignored, to 'see the other side'. This allows us to detect structural defects ('cracks') in core elements of everyday reality—which when we see them in our habitual way ('in the light of a candle'), appear to us as just normal. </p> | <p>To see more, we take recourse to the vision of others. The <em>holoscope</em> combines scientific and other insights to enable us to see what we ignored, to 'see the other side'. This allows us to detect structural defects ('cracks') in core elements of everyday reality—which when we see them in our habitual way ('in the light of a candle'), appear to us as just normal. </p> | ||
Revision as of 06:42, 19 August 2020
HOLOTOPIA
An Actionable Strategy
Imagine...
You are about to board a bus for a long night ride, when you notice the flickering streaks of light emanating from two wax candles, placed where the headlights of the bus are expected to be. Candles? As headlights?
Of course, the idea of candles as headlights is absurd. So why propose it?
Because on a much larger scale this absurdity has become reality.
The Modernity ideogram renders the essence of our contemporary situation by depicting our society as an accelerating bus without a steering wheel, and the way we look at the world, try to comprehend and handle it as guided by a pair of candle headlights.
Modernity ideogram