Alchemy, Time, and Temporality

Prof. Sha Xin Wei ¥ http://topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei



References

Required

Christopher Alexander, "An example," Vol 2, 591-652. Vol 3 A Vision of a Living World
Artaud, Theatre of Cruelty, Theater and Its Double, 84-104.
Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
Ursula K LeGuin, The Earthsea Trilogy
----, “Bones of the Earth”
Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition, ch 2 "The dispensability of teleonomy", and Appendix B.3 "Time as a dimension"
Isabelle Stengers, Pignare, Capitalism and Sorcery
Nigel Thrift, Non-representational Theory

Optional

Time
Heidegger, Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
C. Hoy, The Time of Our Lives (selections)

Alchemy
Maxwell-Stewart, P.G. The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy. London: Continuum Books, 2008.
Adam MacLean, The Alchemy Website, (13,382 pages, snapshot 27/12/2004 22:44:57)

Cosmopolitics and Non-representational Theories

Poor Theory, An Open Source Manifesto, Ackbar Abbas, David Theo Goldberg, et al. Critical Theory Institute, UC Irvine, ca. 2010

The Coming Insurrection
www.goertzel.org—timepap.html
plato.stanford.edu—time-experience
www.iep.utm.edu—phe-time

William H. Whyte - Social Life of Small Urban Places, 1988, video 58 min.

Zhuangzi, maybe Daodejing (Laozi) (selections)

 


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