What wonderful connections, from the spider to the web of love. I was introduced to Maturana & Varela's autopoiesis, by Julia Marshall, who died last month. She was an amazing arts educator and author who loved rhizomatic thinking and playing with natural growth forms as metaphors. I think I was drawn to both Julia and autopoiesis because for me, both the woman and the theory played with self-organization and spontaneity, particularly in living systems. Julia's teaching in the InterArts Center at San Francisco State University and later, her writing, inspired me to look in depth at my role as a teacher-leader, and how I could integrate equity principles into the arts and forms of play, and transmit love into the beloved community that is my students.
So, love is a relationship with a social history to it. That's a nice thesis. I think we should explore this together with such phenomena as: the social relations of non-love, the relation of love as declaration without a social history, and the relation of love as an active denial of the first. What are their interrelationships? How and when do they morph into one another? Are some relations one way, hierarchical, others mutual and horizontal, other staggered in time, realizations of relations coming into view cyclically, delayed, rather than foreshadowed.
Thanks for posting. How would cybernetics or Maturana approach evolutionary psychology regarding the biology of love? Are they opposition or is one working with the other?
What wonderful connections, from the spider to the web of love. I was introduced to Maturana & Varela's autopoiesis, by Julia Marshall, who died last month. She was an amazing arts educator and author who loved rhizomatic thinking and playing with natural growth forms as metaphors. I think I was drawn to both Julia and autopoiesis because for me, both the woman and the theory played with self-organization and spontaneity, particularly in living systems. Julia's teaching in the InterArts Center at San Francisco State University and later, her writing, inspired me to look in depth at my role as a teacher-leader, and how I could integrate equity principles into the arts and forms of play, and transmit love into the beloved community that is my students.
Maturana is very interesting. His interviews always have something good
miss this beautiful human
So, love is a relationship with a social history to it. That's a nice thesis. I think we should explore this together with such phenomena as: the social relations of non-love, the relation of love as declaration without a social history, and the relation of love as an active denial of the first. What are their interrelationships? How and when do they morph into one another? Are some relations one way, hierarchical, others mutual and horizontal, other staggered in time, realizations of relations coming into view cyclically, delayed, rather than foreshadowed.
He’s a brilliant man
Thanks for posting. How would cybernetics or Maturana approach evolutionary psychology regarding the biology of love? Are they opposition or is one working with the other?
Humberto Maturana died on may the 6th.
At a ripe old of 92.