serendipityoucity

What a week! Best I can do is make a semi random list of what came up!

• authority - authoritative sources of knowledge
• who gets to choose which is what - the state? a department in the government? a group of citizens? a citizen?
  
• An authoritative sliding scale of a particular knowledge representation - how many axes would it have & what would they be?
  
• Claims to truth & how do you know what is true? How to ensure that you are true? How do you know what you are being told is true?
  
• Brian Eddy - you are not going to believe i am saying this - Holons? Holarchies? Truth found in nested scales and the AQAL? Sex Ecology and Spirituality.
• The role of government is to serve government? Crazy? The role of government is to serve citizens and citizens direct government to serve them in a hopefully - mutually beneficial endeavour.  Participatory Democracy - Rousseau, Equality of Right - Thomas Hardy Green’s liberalism & citizenship political responsibility
• Talking heads - a suit, title, podium, suddenly the authority to say whatever! Unbelievable.
  
• The importance of mentorship/tormentorship - Thanks MP.
• Getting tipsy with your colleagues and happy knowing they are gentleman as they hold your books while you realy focus on negotiating an angular set of stairs definitaly not designed to code while wearing corporate high healed shoes! I love you boyz!
  
• Paradigm shifts in ancient professions - archiving
• If an archive is involved in creation can the archive remain an objective collector of cultural/historical knowledge? If involved in creation does it only ingest what it helped create? Are archives ever objective organizations? Evidence of me. Evidence of us. Does this skew objectivity or simply bring the lack thereof to the fore?
  
• Demographic bridging in the theory and practice of cartography, archiving & bureaucracy
• Authority + influence = responsibility
• Personas, costumes and reality
  
• the perception of objectivity to gain confidence vs the acceptance of the biased worldview
• being bated to ask a question you know the baters cannot ask!
  
• performance of knowledge & bodily ways of knowing
• sensuous learning in a sensuous world and objective ways of representing and using a subjective neo cortex processed sense
• is this lizard part of our brain the most honest processing unit we have? Or has it too been been branded and moulded by biographical history thus needs to be tempered with the more logical rational parts?
  
• subjective, sub conscious sensuous and semiotic (i just like saying this really - dunno if it even makes sense of scent!)
  
• systems theory, social cybernetics/second order cybernetics
• science data as heritage
• institutional repositories as a short term solution to data archives
  
• somehow i have to fit all this stuff into some sort of coherent whole for the review committee eeek!
• the political volatility of topo maps going only digital
  
• geographical community information ecology - via mtlp3
  
• Contemporary atlases as perfect foucaultdian governmentality artifacts
• administrative boundary gerrymandered along race, ethnicity and religious lines by a dictatorial nation state famous for ethnic cleansing!
• abstracting knowledge into manageable sound bites
  
• rasberry Belgian beer, fine company and prom night in Québec!
• the shock, awe and denial of being the mother of a 16 year old!