Listened to the meeting: Yanis Varoufakis with Shami Chakrabarti (2018 Event) found it uplifting.
Just ordered it from Scorpio
Booktopia – Call of the Reed Warbler, A New Agriculture – A New Earth by Charles Massy
Very impressed by this guy.
Listened to him being interviewed here:
An agricultural insurgency — Thursday 11 January 2018
This all sounds too good to be true. But I do trust him!
Looks like we can manage the anthropocene.
Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond — Mark Winborn
Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond
Heard about this on Shrink Rap Radio where Dr Dave interviews the author/editor Mark Winborn. Worth listening to.
I had to get the book, it is a sort of meditation on the nature of the relational space. It focusses on therapy, but this would be so relevant for those of us who consider that the marriage is the therapy.
How language shapes thought – All In The Mind – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
How language shapes thought – All In The Mind – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): “It’s been controversial for centuries but new empirical research suggests that language has a powerful influence over the way we think and perceive the world. Lera Boroditsky from Stanford University suggests that Japanese and Spanish speakers have a different sense of blame, and some Indigenous Australians have a different sense of space—all because of the language they speak.”
Interview with Zerka Moreno 2000
İSTANBUL PSİKODRAMA ENSTİTÜSÜ – an interview with Zerka Moreno 2000
(it is on that link but takes a bit of perseverance to find it.)
I was intrigued by the ideas about couple therapy. Pre marital clarifications of expectations.
Shakespeare Sonnets – Evolution – Kim Hill – Brian Boyd (and relationship)
Loved this discussion:
Bryan Boyd Interviewed by Kim Hill
Here is the book:
I will read the book. But as I listened I was burning to join in on the discussion. I have since my days studying under Prof. Robert Bigelow in the late 60s at Canterbury had an understanding of “gene pools”. The concept makes sense of how some things might benefit the survival of a species even when individuals do not have more babies.
Brian Boyd touched on this lightly in the interview, I’ll be interested to see if he does this more fully in the book.
The point is this: if lyrical poetry (or anything else) is useful to the group then only a few need to have a gene for it, and even if they individually don’t have more babies, the group as a whole might survive and a neighbouring group who does not have that gene in their pool might not.
I’ve been thinking about this in relationship to the purpose of monogamy. It seems that it has a special place in healing wounds from childhood. But this typically does not happen till after the crucial childbearing years, in the second reflective half of life. I think of the powerful impact even one or two healing couples can have in a group. They can foster relationship education as well. They might influence psychological health, and more robust grandchildren.
PS
Bigelow’s book here: Amazon – The Dawn Warriors
Podcasts I’ve enjoyed lately
I’ve been using Pocketcasts on the iPhone. First one I’ve liked in all these years. The iTunes one never satisfied and the way I used to do it – was clumsy. But it worked and was essentially what did on the Palm.
Casts (as it also gets called) has a sharing function so I can easily pop them inhere from time to time. — though not the full audio. So the links might no work. When there is one I really want I’ll post the whole thing. The pocket cast links work only on the iPhone (or Android?) if you have the app.
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Are Computers Creative?
Studio 360 from PRI and WNYCEpisode:
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/ttW4ML
I did follow this one up:
I liked this show. Why dpi these AI programs never use the Internet, Wolfram Alpgha etc? Siri creates its own search … I think the big breakthrough will come when they link all of these things – the music – art and writing and all search through some higher entity.
I just noticed the words “higher entity” I just mean a meta engine. Ha.
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RNZ: Saturday MorningEpisode: Kim Hill
Chris Szekely – Rahui and libraries
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/s6Ur45
I like this and I have the book!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1110/S00196/rahui-an-exceptional-new-childrens-book.htm
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WeAreMany.org
Ways of Seeing: The Art Criticism of John Berger
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/ODAn7Y
All the talks at the Chicago socialist conference are here. I like some of them.
Listened to this just as I was given this book
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RNZ: Saturday MorningEpisode: Kim Hill Saturday Morning 19 May 2012
Art with Mary Kisler – Angelica Garnett
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/7TLKXO
I like stuff about the Bloomsbury group. Bohemians.
I now have the Kindle Sample”
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Mac Power UsersEpisode:
Mac Power Users 56: Mail
http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/1s4pG1
Very long and a bit boring but what a resource if you want to understand Mail on the Mac.
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Archetypal Tendencies
I’ve been reading Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants. One of the central thesis of the book is that evolution is not only driven by adaptation. There are two other forces at work: structural forces, ie the laws of physics and contingency, luck. What if Beethoven did not have a piano?
I’ll post the picture that impressed me again:
This is a central idea (from the book):
The progression of inventions is in many ways the march toward forms dictated by physics and chemistry in a sequence determined by the rules of complexity. We might call this technology’s imperative.
What is stirring me to write this post is that I listened to a podcast today on Tech Nation, Moira Gunn interviewing Adrian Bejan – details
It is uncanny, and totally in line with the Kevin Kelly theory of what is inevitable that these tow come up with the same ideas. This is the time when we make a shift from classical darwinism, to incorporate something marx might have called dialectical materialism.
More about & by Adrian Bejan here:
TEDxBucharest – Adrian Bejan – YouTube
Interview with ‘Design in Nature’ Author Adrian Bejan, Part One …
His book on Amazon:
This theory, Bejan calls it “Constructal Law” governs everything. From his book:
The constructal law is revolutionary because it is a law of physics—and not just of biology, hydrology, geology, geophysics, or engineering. It governs any system, any time, anywhere, encompassing inanimate (rivers and lightning bolts), animate (trees, animals), and engineered (technology) phenomena, as well as the evolving flows of social constructs such as knowledge, language, and culture. All designs arise and evolve according to the same law.
What excites me is that the same law – or rules of complexity, a law about change really, governs the psyche too. I think Jung was onto this with archetypes. These structures hare universal across cultures.
Publishing on the Net
It’s hit a new high. I see & hear & about 100 times the talk of self publishing books, and books on demand than even 6 months ago. (Later: checked out my hunch) And I buy self published books! Got the sample of this one, will buy it if I like it.
Kim Hill has a discussion with Kate De Goldie & Laura Kroetch on ebooks, (not much on self publishing though).
AmazonTech Crunch on self publishing
How to publish on Kindle:
The new Apple book Authoring initiative on iPad ( beautiful but locked down and sinister) Apple iBook Author
The rather wonderful LuLu. Heres one where I bought both the book AND the digital edition: Sociodrama
I’ve just bought a swag of Moreno books that have been republished from through Lulu as well: The First psychodramatic Family
C.G. Jung and the Red Book
C. G. Jung and the Red BookLectures presented by Dr. Lance S. Owens
via C.G. Jung and the Red Book.
I’ve downloaded a couple of the Audio… could be interesting.
It is book worth owning, but big to ship!
AmazonTammy Nelson – recovering from affairs
Tammy Nelson on recovering from affairs
This is the topic of her new book, not yet out? There is a wealth of info here. It is worth listening to a couple of times and making notes, a few of mine follow:
Gottman – Imago Audio
Imago Gottman in dialogue. This Audio begins with the Gottmans explaining their methods, it is followed by a discussion with all four of them.
I’m interested mainly in the relationship between the two modalities, on the way I noted Gottman’s research on emotions and children. He mentions that towards the end of the Gottman talk before the discussion.
I found the book on children:
RAISING AN EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT CHILD: THE HEART OF PARENTING BOOK
Its pretty basic, details follow, but it was nicely put in the audio, so worth a listen.
Imago Audio
Harville Hendrix and Helen L Hunt interview
One of the clearest statements about the Imago method. Shows the originators are continuing to sharpen the method and theory.
Moreno on God
YouTube audio
The rest of the audio can be purchased here.
Am I responsible for everything if I’m God?
Partner in its creation
I must have been in the beginning
I created myself
Harville Hendrix Audio
Harville Hendrix Helen Hunt Freud to Buddha
Note from: http://gettingtheloveyouwant.com/thinktank
The Challenge of Creating Change: Freud and the Budda in Dialogue with Imago
Join Harville Hendrix for a preview of the keynote presentation at the 8th Annual Conference
I listened to it and found it quite wonderful.
Harville places connectedness as a form of consciousness akin to or surpassing enlightenment. That is quite something. It makes sense to me as there is a resonance through the cosomos, things connect.
Spotted another Harville Hendrix one there on Behaviour Change:
Imago Couples Therapy – Thinktank Audios
Tariq Ali on Islam, the US China – Pakistan – Kim Hill interviews
Tariq Ali on Islam, the US China – Kim Hill interview
Very good to hear this interview today. It is incredible that a broad left perspective can be voiced so clearly but so little heeded. Listen to this interview, it is rare to get such crisp insight into world dynamics. It hard enough to understand the world, let alone when most of what we hear is designed to insulate us from insight. If people in New Zealand listened to these perspectives and engaged fully, even to challenge, then we would not be in Afganistan. No one wants a US empire and their assassinations, drones, war machine, and other antics of an empire in its death throws.
It is only a revolutionary socialist’s perspective that ever makes sense to me, but it is one that is largely invisible. Chomsky might be another speaker who has a world perspective worthy of discussion. The dominant media creates a climate where these voices are side-lined and certainly not discussed seriously. It is wonderful that this is in the public domain on New Zealand national Radio – I respect Kim Hill for at least listening without ridicule.
Right click to download, click to play:
Tariq Ali on Islam, the US China – Kim Hill interview
Also
Morris L West
I’m enjoying reading The Devil’s Advocate. Now curious about its Australian Author. Storified Research. I like it. I was wondering how Christian West was, yes, but he is not a preacher.
And this time its all on my site! I could still go & update it there.
Nora Bateson
What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? ”
–Gregory Bateson
Listened to a wonderful podcast http://www.futureprimitive.org/2011/04/nora-bateson-the-pattern-that-connects/ today Nora Bateson about her movie http://www.anecologyofmind.com/index.html
Worth listening to
I love listening to podcasts. But only some! I have a selection I keep, and they are of value to me as they come from a list in Google reader I have pruned and added to over many years. Then from Google reader I select about one-in-100 podcasts that arrive. I listen to these on on the iPhone and delete most of those once I’ve listened. Then a few remain and I save them… I’ve put a few on the blog, and there are some below in this post.
I can’t even remember them exactly, but I’ll summarise these in this post. In each case I’d like to discuss them, to recall them for things I’m writing and so on.
This one is relevant because she is the co-creator of Imago – the method that informs a lot of my work.
The Pelagian Controversy – In Our Time
Simply here because I see such a parallel with the main controversies in psychotherapy today. We have the same debates in secular language.
Leo Bensemann_ A Fantastic Art Venture – Nine to noon
Love anything about The Group. And of course these people were around even while I was at the university here in Christchurch.
Peter Sunde _ file-sharing and micropayments
? Must listen again.
Playing Favorites with David Vann – Kim Hill
? Must listen again.
Psyberspace (old site) 
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