Re: Synergetics
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Regarding Synergetics, my party line is it’s a work in the humanities, experimental writing, prose-poetry, in the tradition of Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Infinite Jest.
The boomers mostly misunderstood that and tried to pigeonhole it as speculative physics.
Given the dome that’s understandable.
But both later and earlier generations have more clearly understood.
Einstein is a bridge figure because he was originally hailed as a philosopher. But then he too was pigeonholed.
Bucky could be celebrated as a great American futurist and deep thinker, but because the STEM people (Stemites) got control of things, the humanities people think they’re waiting for something like a signal that the stuff is OK. But really that’s not a STEM responsibility at this point.
As a philo guy, well-versed enuff in maths, I’ve done all the cross-checking I need to do. American lit and philo teachers are not beholden to Stemites down the hall.
Bucky’s remarks about Freud show I’m right. That Norman O. Brown’s Loves Body is the book to read before tackling Synergetics. That’s the route I recommend to anyone who wants to take it seriously.
I was talking this way even back since I was meeting with Kiyoshi in…
