Project 8 (NON FULL): William Blake And Art's Relationship To Science, Politics And Science, 2014

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Name: William Blake and Art's relationship to Science, Politics and science, 2014
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[kiran]

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[sweetly]

Seeing as it's been over 4 months since kiran posted and he hasn't provided a transcript, I'm doing part 2.

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[Giraffe]

Part 3 for Giraffe

 

[Blossom]

Part 5 Blossom.

 

[Blossom]

Part 5

I: You didn't want to stereotype any living organism it sounds like?

RP: Um, yeah each thing is different in it's unique species and individual personality but within that species and form every individual is always becoming something new. I think a lot of his epistemology that basing experience, putting experience as the basis of all knowledge, I think that grew directly out of his thinking about evolution and reading Erasmus Darwin's thinking about evolution. Blake saw that each thing- the lamb and the tiger -each one had it's own character or genius but each one was also an individual experiencing and has to be free to be itself and to, like the human, has to always be exploring and getting new sensory information.

I: How does Blake creating fantastic and specific images of how the world worked relate to his ideas about science?

RP: I think Wilhelm Reich, as thinking about science, he said that the people who identify with what Freud called the super-ego they want to put all life in spiritual things and that makes them see the body as a worthless lump and matter v. spirit is an absolute contradiction in that Freudian thinking. That Wilhelm Reich emphasized over and over that matter itself is the source of experience and knowledge. It's a deformation of personality that makes people think about matter as something else something outside of consciousness and knowledge. The Kantian idea that the thing in itself unknowable- where Blake and Reich would say it's matter, the genius of matter, is what knows. Ideas about resonance and interaction and such. Electricity was of great interest in the whole culture not just in so called sciences but the idea of electrical interactions entered into common thinking so that people were getting so called medical treatments by getting shocked with mild electrical current and so this idea of energy as part of life. Some places Blake said there is no body distinct from the soul but other places he identified the body with energy. What he was denying was that there is this inert nature behind what we experience as nature. There is no such thing as a thing in itself which is this inert passive matter.

 

[Makrosky]

Part 5

I: You didn't want to stereotype any living organism it sounds like?

RP: Um, yeah each thing is different in it's unique species and individual personality but within that species and form every individual is always becoming something new. I think a lot of his epistemology that basing experience, putting experience as the basis of all knowledge, I think that grew directly out of his thinking about evolution and reading Erasmus Darwin's thinking about evolution. Blake saw that each thing- the lamb and the tiger -each one had it's own character or genius but each one was also an individual experiencing and has to be free to be itself and to, like the human, has to always be exploring and getting new sensory information.

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What does that mean in practical terms ? Exploring like literally exploring new physical places ?

 

[Blossom]

I just took it to mean attempting to have a stimulating life, trying new things, challenging ourselves, broadening our horizons. You know like a child who is learning and exploring their world with a sense of wonder and excitement. Basically being open to the many possibilities available to us and creating our own possibilities rather than sitting by bored or worse falling into learned helplessness. That just my take on it.

 

[Makrosky]

I just took it to mean attempting to have a stimulating life, trying new things, challenging ourselves, broadening our horizons. You know like a child who is learning and exploring their world with a sense of wonder and excitement. Basically being open to the many possibilities available to us and creating our own possibilities rather than sitting by bored or worse falling into learned helplessness. That just my take on it.

Yeah that sounds good.

 

[burtlancast]

Part 8, 10 and 12 for Burt.