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getting mystical, a case for the Other

Thinking along the lines of energy, Teresa Brennan (1992) suggested that attention is energy. More exactly, to receive attention from others is a source of energy. But I suggest that the idea of the Big Energy implies that we receive energy of a different kind when we receive through giving attention to the other. (187)the distinction between two states of consciousness: the one in which we immerse or float or allow ourselves to be carried by association of ideas and one in which we have a definite intention.

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Learning about/from psychoanalysis

The point is to see how much dissonance you can create and still resolve the harmony, because the greater the dissonance, the more intense the resolution. What is fascinating is how to expand and make elastic the strings of consciousness tying you to the One (the centripetal tendency) in order to be immersed in the manifold (the centrifugal); or, as I said before, the tension of going as far out as possible to see how far those strings stretch, how centrifugal you can be and still feel the elastic tension of the Big Energy that pulls you back to the One.

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Multitudes

"[Mannie Ghent's] expression of his personal vision in the form of a Credo (Ghent, 1989) became an invitation for others to write their Credos - a task he literally set for analytic candidates in his seminar" (186)"The subtitle of this paper, "Containing of Multitudes," I chose from Whitman (1855), who, of course, was the great exemplar of this tradition of uniquely personal, subjective expression in American letters and whose lines I choose as an epigraph for this dedication: "Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself,/(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"" (186)"What is th

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aE collab bio 2 psrigyan

I started archiving how air pollution becomes a public and political environmental problem in India at The Asthma Files. It is through archiving that I met scholars and activists I like working alongside; and whose dedication to shared knowledge commons I share. I am currently archiving material for my PhD dissertation on STS Infrastructures. Except PECE instances, I am an experienced user of Wordpress for building websites, having made websites for the Centre of Urban Ecology and Sustainability at Ambedkar University Delhi.

aE collab bio psrigyan 3

1) Feeling excluded from research data and publications due to paywalls due to my location; using "pirated" and printed textbooks; relying on an informal publishing economy for my reading and writing needs 2) The strangeness of not comparing fieldnotes in ethnographic data collection and analysis even when people work across thematically and geographically.