The Bridging and the Building of Worlds

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My friend mentor and teacher, Charlie Kriener, past away yesterday morning. This man deeply touched lives of many people. Charlie was able to hold up the most valuable and precious attributes of life, not only for his fellow humans but also for all living creature and really life itself. Charlie was a living celebration and I feel honored too have been a part of his life.

On Sunday evening I participated in a discussion group about Latour's Chapter "Facts, Fetishes and Factishes" in his book "Pandora's Hope". After this meeting, which unfortunately did not rigorously explore the implications of our practice in relationship to this text, I feel stronger in my conviction that I am interested in participating in the building and the bridging of worlds and not taring them down. (i think i am speaking of Hiedegger here) The bridge fabricates links creating new constructions. My interest in the Latour's article and the notion of factishes is that it is a model of construction. Its a bridge between the world of "reality" (science) and the world of "fantasy" (art..religon..) Although, I found Ola's (C-cred member) arguments thought provoking (The playing field of being is less limiting than the playing field of human and non-humans . I think this argument may assume that human is a static and fixed state.), I was more interested in what Ch 9 could contribute, however, to our individual and collective art practices. I am not sure that asking the question why events happen is all that important or relevant, though knowing/discovering the ingredients is crucial.