When I started using the Typepad platform a year ago I tried to create Virtuality to house all my various interests and aspects of self as well as some of the tech interests upon which I draw as I create my business. After a few months I realized that I wanted to be able to write more freely than I felt I could under the rubric of Virtuality. So I've changed the name of this blog to allow me the freedom to write about all the diverse and sometimes disparate topics about which I feel compelled to write.
So what are these other worlds? Answers to this quesiton can include:
- different writing personas I have used -- all the way from The Word Wench to Art Pax
- various parts of my content and design business
- sphere of public speaking
- the many realities of virtual worlds
- the reality of tech geeks
- cooperative versus competitive realities
- psychological differences between healthy and abused realities
- frugal, ecoconscious sustainable reality
These are just a few of the realities that I inhabit. I create them. They overlap. They morph. They evolve I wholeheartedly believe in the power of visualization, framing and intention. These words can sound a bit "woo woo" or a bit too new age but they reflect a rather sophisticated theoretical anchor from which I moor my understanding of the world and how we each create unique variations within the human theme. Whether I look at business models or the healing process I see bits of information arranged into patterns and matrices (simple ones) based on semiotics and systems theory.
I studied with some of the best minds in the world, the ones hashing out the earliest glimmers of post-modern or processual understanding of the emergent paradigm before it was dumbed down and commercially misapplied. I look at what I call deep meaning as it shifts in cultural systems to accommodate new contexts and practices. I don't pretend this navigation of self and other, virtual and physical, or real and artificial is an exact process, but I do understand some of our mapping processes and the limiting and enabling contraints placed upon those processes by all the levels of interaction between cultural and biological systems as much as anyone outside of academia who works with popular or business cultures. I translate between realities.
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