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Prof David West

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Gentlefolk,

I need a word.

I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a
possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related
activities for 632.

What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
enlightenment?

And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
discipline / degree / body of knowledge?

Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
ugly as a word.

Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
used by Charles Darwin in his travels).

Ideas??

dave west

Tom Johnson

[632 Advisory] wordcrafting

"Information Ecologist"??????

-tj

On Nov 8, 2007 9:55 AM, Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Gentlefolk,
>
> I need a word.
>
> I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a
> possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related
> activities for 632.
>
> What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
> incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
> art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
> imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
> entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
> enlightenment?
>
> And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
> discipline / degree / body of knowledge?
>
> Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
> ugly as a word.
>
> Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
> science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
> used by Charles Darwin in his travels).
>
> Ideas??
>
> dave west
>
> _______________________________________________
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>

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To change something, build a new model that makes the
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Michael Orshan

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Pioneer Science?

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Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:12 PM
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"Information Ecologist"??????

-tj

On Nov 8, 2007 9:55 AM, Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

Gentlefolk,

I need a word.

I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a
possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related
activities for 632.

What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
enlightenment?

And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
discipline / degree / body of knowledge?

Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
ugly as a word.

Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
used by Charles Darwin in his travels).

Ideas??

dave west

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Advisory at santafecomplex.org
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--
==========================================
J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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MCW

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In reply to this post by Tom Johnson

Sounds like a "branding" question. :-)

How about "the da Vinci discipline?" the "Renaissance discipline"?
I'm kidding. Since only a few geniuses like Da Vinci could truly
claim to be masters in multiple of those disciplines listed....

IMO the answer would depend on where the new discipline rested in the
white space between all those "older" disciplines. It's probably not
equidistant between all of them; and there are too many of them to
pretend that this new discipline would be deep in them all.

One axis is: is it envisioned as being closer to the "quant"
disciplines (engineering, math etc) or being closure to the non-quant
disciplines - cultural/symbolic/interpretive stuff (art, humanities,
etc). "Math" in the title sounds like something towards the "quant"
end of the range.

Another way to look at it: what artifacts/work product does this new
discipline create? Equations, paintings, quantitative models....etc?
Once created, how do other people use that artifact? What "job" or
use does the artifact perform for others?

One part of this "new discipline space" might be Information Architect
(a name for a pretty wide range of things -- some of them are more
technical, some more humanistic/anthropological).

FWIW there seems to be a lot of these "white space" new disciplines on
the rise these days. I attended the EPIC conference recently
("ethnographic praxis in industry," talk about ugly words) -- it's
new-ish conference, a mix of anthropologists, ethnographers, other
social scientists, academics, tech industry people, designers, user
interface and web design people, etc. One big topic at the conference
was how much was going on these days in the white space/intersections
between business, design and social sciences.

- Mary Walker

Consultant
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marywalker

> > What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
> > incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
> > art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
> > imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
> > entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
> > enlightenment?
> >
> > And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
> > discipline / degree / body of knowledge?
> >
> > Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
> > ugly as a word.
> >
> > Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
> > science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
> > used by Charles Darwin in his travels).
> >
> > Ideas??
> >
> > dave west

Don Begley

[632 Advisory] wordcrafting

In reply to this post by Tom Johnson

That's nice.

On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

> "Information Ecologist"??????

Patrick Reilly

[632 Advisory] wordcrafting

V., Gestalt weaving.

N., Gestalt weaver.

On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Don Begley wrote:

> That's nice.
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
>> "Information Ecologist"??????
>
>
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Roger Critchlow-2

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Dharma bum.

On Nov 8, 2007 9:50 PM, Patrick Reilly <patrick.reilly at ipsociety.net> wrote:

> V., Gestalt weaving.
>
> N., Gestalt weaver.
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Don Begley wrote:
>
> > That's nice.
> >
> >
> > On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> "Information Ecologist"??????
> >
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>

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