Evolving Systems

To me, Alexandra Teague's "Adjectives of Order" (below) speaks powerfully to the problem with formal education when forms are fundamentally unresponsive to human experiences, especially those we undergo rather than originate.  The poem shows a "student's" schooling in English as an education in the ruthless impersonality of the way grammar is conceived.  It also shows how the situation of formal education erects bizarre barriers between "student" and "teacher"  -- in quotes because the student is, among other things, also a veteran and former prisoner of war, a speaker of a language or languages other than English, and a person working to make sense of his experience through language; the teacher we don't learn much about, but she is clearly also a learner in this case.

Notes for an Evolving Systems conversation related to

Chance: Its meaning and significance
Paul Grobstein
2 June 2010

(on line forum at /exchange/evolsys/chance10)

Beyond Incompleteness: Demarcation, Mind, Chance

On the relation between formal systems and inquiry

Paul Grobstein

19 May 2010

Evolving Systems

May, 2010 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

Reflections after the first year

Background:

Evolving Systems

April, 2010 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

Metaperception

Background:

The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature."  The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions exploring the common usefulness in a wide array of contexts, academic and otherwise, of emergent and evolving systems ideas.  The conversation documented below is archived from a discussion on the Rethinking World Literature Facebook site and will be added to as that discussion continues. A second discussion archive on "From Evolving Systems to World Literature and Back Again" is available here. 

The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature."  The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions exploring the common usefulness in a wide array of contexts, academic and otherwise, of emergent and evolving systems ideas.  The conversation documented below is archived from a discussion on the Rethinking World Literature Facebook site and will be added to as that discussion continues. 

Evolving Systems

Visiting Speaker Series

Literature As Public Humanities