Category: Books
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Retrospective 2019-19
This is a look back at what has happened during the week. Paintings Below are this week’s paintings where I explore the use of colors. I have become better at seeing and working with contrasts compared to a month ago. Books One from ManyI mentioned last week that I planned to review On Dialogue by…
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Retrospektiv 2019-13
Detta är en återblick på veckan. Nya böcker I början av veckan kom två nya böcker. Den ena boken är Animate Earth av Stephan Harding. Det som intresserar mig är att Harding kombinerar rationellt tänkande med intuition och känsla. Jag återkommer eventuellt med en bokrecension. Den andra boken är On Becoming a Novelist av John…
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Book Review: Clever Digs
Jenny Quillien identifies patterns that enable thought in her book Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought. Quillien focuses on thinking, but doesn’t address spaces for aliveness (Christopher Alexander’s “quality without a name“). I assume that places that support a sense of aliveness also are good for thinking — especially creative thinking. Patterns can be…
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Retrospektiv 2019-10
Detta är en återblick på veckan, som handlar om ledarskap i olika former. Under veckan läste jag Livsfarlig ledning av Bengt Carlsson och Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall. Det är historien om kraschen i ABB för snart 20 år sedan. Nästa vecka kommer jag att läsa Nachemson-Ekwall och Carlssons bok Guldregn, som är sagan om Skandia för nästan…
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robert wolff Library
robert wolff (who wrote his name in small letters) is the author of Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing, which is a book I highly recommend. robert wolff’s website went offline when he died in 2015. Fortunately, Clinton Callahan has created a robert wolff Library with a collection of robert wolff’s books,…
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Retrospektiv 2019-05
Detta är en återblick på veckan. Under veckan har jag läst tre böcker. Joy Den ena boken är Joy: The Surrender of the Body and to Life av Alexander Lowen. Boken publicerades första gången 1994. Alexander Lowen hade 48 års erfarenhet av kroppsterapi när han skrev boken. Delar av boken är mycket insiktsfulla, medan jag…
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Henri Bortoft on human organizations and relationships
IntroductionHenri Bortoft is the author The Wholeness of Nature and Taking Appearance Seriously. I am particularly interested in the ‘dynamic way of seeing’ which is explained at length by Henri Bortoft. Taking the ‘appearance’ seriously is necessary if we want to see ‘life’ in nature and in work. Henri Bortoft mentions in Taking Appearance Seriously…
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Book Review: Biopoetics
Biopoetics: Towards an Existential Ecology by Andreas Weber connects our human experience with a scientific understanding of life. A major limitation of conventional scientific objectivity is the exclusion of the first-person subjective perspective. Rational thinking has omitted the rationality of the living body. Andreas Weber proposes an existential poetics for living systems: 1) Perception and…
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Book Review: Biology of Wonder
Andreas Weber writes in Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science that the more technology allows us to study life, the stronger the evidence of life’s complexity and intelligence becomes. For two hundred years, biology made no major efforts to answer what life really is. Most biologists assumed organisms to be tiny…
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Book Review: Matter and Desire
Andreas Weber pursues an ambitious goal with Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology. He investigates the principles of reality that we experience and are part of through a science of the heart. It became clear to Weber that we need to completely rethink how we understand life and its significance. It also means that we…