Re: <nettime> wary of terms like synthesis

[Gary Hall <mail@garyhall.info>]

Well, just to run with the definitions/connotations you provide... (and 
not to get into terms like 'whole')

Most obviously perhaps in the context of  Felix's point that discussion 
of the environment is missing from Graeber and Wengrow's "The Dawn of 
Everything", there's the emphasis on 'the human community', and the 
implied separation of humans from the world - rather than emphasis on 
their being enmeshed with it - that Michael has already drawn attention to.



On 08/12/2021 20:40, mp wrote:
> On 08/12/2021 18:13, Gary Hall wrote:
> > I'm really wary of terms like synthesis.
> A term with many definitions/connotations, which one gives you caution?
>
> Taking a look in OED's arrangement of possible meanings what comes
> closest to what I had in mind is 6b:
>
> "A body of things put together; a complex whole made up of a number of
> parts or elements united".
>
> Where "body" signifies the human community and "put together" signifies
> social movements finding common, emergent ground sufficient to accept
> differences, without annihilating each other and each other's respective
> "parts", so that we can live together ("united") as a diverse bunch
> without going to war from separate echo chambers and parliaments.
>
> At the moment, if one drinks from the mainstream, then it appears that
> we're still moving apart from each other, rather than coming together,
> but are we? Could we be one and many?
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