Monday, February 27, 2017

Qualia, Irigaray, Stein, Shakira, Keck, Indiana Landmarks, etc.

Recent post 23 March 2017 from Essen 2017 Green Capitol of Europe

And then, much too much to be known and surmised about qualia aka experiences

Luce Irigaray
Wandering to the Source of the Intimate
"Another era of speech is opening. In which it lets itself put in question with a view to dialogue, dialogues. It is no longer only speech which allots to the subjects, from what is hidden in its interlacings, the task of realizing an appropriate denomination., giving to them and taking from them the word by a gesture alone."  on the next page, "The subject then accepts being unsheltered."

Near the end of her "The Way of Love"
"The light that someone radiates is not necessarily perceived as such by the one who gives it to be seen. Perhaps it grants the peace that whoever dwells in oneself experiences. And, with it, the joy. A proof that mortals are destined to light, but a light often visible through the effects rather than in itself. And which lights up the night while letting it rest in darkness"

also see her earlier, "Speculum of the other Woman"  much to consider, digest, act upon, humbly shrink from

Updated 14 April 2017 (be careful about the blood)
Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma, The Hand and the Architect: gesture and creative expression
"The ultimate meaning of any building is beyond architecture; it directs our consciousness back to the world and towards our own sense of self and being. Significant architecture makes us experience ourselves as complete embodied and spiritual beings."  2014

http://old.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/pubs/pdffiles/Gallese/2014/Gallese_Unplugged%202014.pdf
Neuroscience, mirror neurons, consciousness, building


Donna Summer, Hot 'the unsheltered' Stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8

Then a link to her 2000 comments on housing in social context...the manner of human dwelling: how to live together without destroying selves.
(to irregular readers, some deep currents flowing with and between Fred and Lucy Keck, Mabel Phythian Tylecote, Bob Tague, Bill and Stella Keck, Catherine Bauer and William Wurster, FDR/Eleanor Roosevelt. aka how do people live?  how could people live? how should people live?)

    Remembered 17 February 17
"Midway through the journey of our life, I found myself within a dark wood. For the right way had been lost."  
Dante Alighieri

"The past is not dead; it's not even past."  Wm. Faulkner

Edith Stein
"The world I glimpse in fancy is a non-existing world because of its conflict with my primordial orientation. Nor do I need to bring this non-existence to givenness as I live in fancy. The world I glimpse empathically is an existing world, posited as having being like the world primordially perceived.  The perceived world and the world given empathically is the same world differently seen."

"Is it essentially necessary that the mind can only enter into exchange with mind through the medium of corporeality?
On the Problem of Empathy, 1917, 1970

Her time as a student and colleague of Husserl in Frieburg and her death in Auschwitz are insufficient brackets.

...if you're a twit-dict, you may have to switch devices(?) to scroll down to garden center pink flamingo short video here.  From February 2017, Mulheim an der Ruhr.

https://www.facebook.com/GartenCenter-Dobirr-Blotz-142978815787546/

In the meantime.                                                                      Maria Callas, Bellini, Casta Diva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sunG-40mGmE
et
         Shakira, Te Dejo Madrid, Laundry Service
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6A7p1trho
et
                                            Tiffany Holmes, SAIC,Chicago
                                                                                   https://tholme.myportfolio.com/

Lenny Bruce at the Berkeley Law School, Bizarre/Straight Records, 1:18:46; origins of law (eat, sleep and crap), common sense, justice, obscenity, drugs, the Klan, LBJ, church and state, John F. Kennedy, men and women

and, not necessarily, Do Not Adjust Your Set or Match c/o Bonzo Dog Band interlude
                                                                                                                   (zombie mention at 8:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvSv85qqM_U 

A Neuroscientist explains: listener's emails about empathy - podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/feb/14/a-neuroscientist-explains-listeners-emails-about-empathy-podcast
From the Guardian online, hosted by Dr. Daniel Glaser, 14 February 2017.  At least see the photo of the dog statue looking in a large mirror.  And imagine a caption. To tell your friends.  And another to tell your cat or peacock.
Other very recent posts: how we perceive the truth; the need for empathetic citizens; and, how music affects the brain. (each about thirty minutes)

John Prine and EmmyLou Harris (take a breath) doing Angel from Montgomery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAaD_N12ms
...................
March 11 to 17, 2017
What brings us together and separates us?  Shelters from the storms?
"In the kiva, Jared observed that the village men 'like your uncle, your maternal grandfather, your father' are charged with the duty of passing on knowledge about the Hopi world to youth that is often expressed through song: 'They give you a lesson about the song, the story behind the song…mostly (describing) nature – the clouds, the fields of corn, everybody being happy.' Sekaquaptewa (personal communication, May 25, 2004) confirmed this, 'the words [of social dance songs] paint images of a beautiful world, prosperity, with the rains bringing all of that so that people can feel good about seeing this image as something they all would want.' "
Becoming "fully" Hopi: in the contemporary lives of Hopi youth---A Hopi case study of language shift and vitality, Sheilah E. Nicholas, 2008, dissertation, University of Arizona


Interlacing some of these prominently are the obscured work of George Fred and Lucille Lieberman Keck.  Not in isolation and barely in preservation.  If possible, donate to Indiana Landmarks
re: House of Tomorrow, now awaiting restoration. (photos: Laukes, 2012)




Thanks to Josh and Zoe Kind. Here are some unexpurgated clips of Fred Keck and Josh Kind in conversation in the mid-1970s. 

b/w video interview; clip 1 of 6 https://vimeo.com/207861964 
elapsed time; topic
0:30 Born in 1895 in Watertown, Wisconsin
1:00 New job to build a tree house in Spring Green, Wisconsin; reminded by Lucille L. Keck, that he had built three treehouses before he was twelve years old.  Full circle.
3:00 Building canoe in Watertown
3:30 Few people went to college 60 years ago. My father wanted to build a chain of furniture stores.
4:30 Company then using household wastes to produce fuel. History repeats itself.
5:40 Started in general engineering at Univ of Wisconsin for one year; transferred to Univ of Illinois
6:40 Into the Army, spent almost two years, one in France, then finished schooling
8:00 Self study
8:30 European Modernism not taught; didn’t know about Chicago school; known in Germany first with 1910 publication of FL Wright
10:30 Only Architectural Record published a few articles by the early 1920s
11:15 Juries were colonial architects, not interested in Modernism.  Just like today.
13:00 Resent (the new)
14:00 In early 1920s
15:00 Took night drawing classes at Art Institute; just celebrated 52nd wedding anniversary
16:20 Studied architectural engineering
17:00 Complete non-joiner
17:30 Opened own office in 1926 in Auditorium Building, 6th floor.
19:00 Worked for Burnham Brothers. Then Schmidt, Garden and Ericson.
20:30 Taught at University of Illinois for one year, then trip to Europe. Wife became ill.
22:00 Developed interest in Modernism during this period
23:00 Did not see architecture in France while in military service
24:00 We lived in Kenwood and Hyde Park
25:00 Hugh Garden and others, juice taken out of them
26:00 I start at 10:30 and go home at 3:00
 
b/w video interview;  clip 5 of 6  https://vimeo.com/207865884
2:00 Howard Meyers. Editor, only after world War II that architectural magazines interested in modern design
3:25 Chicago World’s Fair helped bring in Art Deco during 1930s
5:40 Complete files because we stayed in same office
6:10 Designed small apartment building in Elmhurst in 1926
7:40 Have a reason for designs 
9:00 Miralago Ballroom, neon fountain
12:00 Pulling a fast one on Benjamin F. Bills, developer of Miralago
14:00 Burned down without fire departments
16:00 To rebuild Germany in 1920s worked as cheaply as possible. Gropius.
17:00 Schweikher, housing project, solar orientation, 1933 apartment house models
20:40 Cycle of building is slow
21:30 1933 Fair, showed movies in Transportation Building
22:00 House of Tomorrow, 1933
23:00 Crystal House, 1934
24:00 Green prefab house, 1945

b/w video interview (ex/including the Spanish Inquisition sketch {I'd like to be in program planning but unfortunately, I have a degree}): part 4 of 6  https://vimeo.com/207474565
0:10 Furnishings from House of Tomorrow
1:45 Crystal House, Dymaxion Car
4:00 Bucky Fuller
5:40 Art exhibit with Archipenko, Katherine Kuh gallery
7:00 Commissions after Fair, BJ Kahn house, Lake Forest, later demodernized
8:20 Apartment building home on University Avenue, Hyde Park
10:50 Reputation as residential architect
12:00 Watercolors
12:25 Bringing Bauhaus to Chicago, Norma Staehle, Moholy-Nagy
16:40 Name changed to Institute of Design
18:00 van der Rohe coming to Chicago
19:40 Philip Johnson, International Style
21:40 Building permit for University Avenue home
23:20 Conservative architects in charge
24:00 Glass houses get hot, tried louvers
25:20 Blair House

Wisconsin Historical Society is posting previously unpublished photos of many Keck buildings.  More promised.
Follow this link and type Keck in the search box next to blue Go button.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1135 

Semper ubi, sub ubi.   Perennial motto.


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