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© 20/12/09 Jon Hawkes <email> <web>
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Cultural poles / binaries / dualities
The dynamic between imagination and reason
One of the ways we see
the world is in terms of opposing pairs.
Cultural development can be viewed as dialectic: emerging from the interplay between two helical
mindsets. Both are essential. Both need to be nurtured.
inspiration |
calculation |
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rule breaking |
rule making |
art |
science |
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innovation |
tradition |
mythos |
logos |
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raw |
cooked |
intuition |
conclusion |
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savagery |
civilisation |
transcendent |
immanent |
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the muse |
the miser |
right brain |
left brain |
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Dionysus |
Apollo |
development |
envelopment |
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Heraclitus |
Parmenides |
wisdom |
information |
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dancing |
marching |
insight |
outcome |
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what is it worth? |
what does it cost? |
impulse |
plan/strategy |
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the exception |
the rule |
spiritual |
secular |
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antithesis |
thesis |
sacred |
profane |
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to be |
to do |
poetry |
prose |
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originality |
memory |
lateral |
logical |
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theory |
practice |
illumination |
solution |
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subject |
object |
understanding |
comprehension |
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inclusion |
exclusion |
play |
utility |
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the flash |
the plod |
curiosity / wonder |
analysis |
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the senses |
the intellect |
unknowable |
knowable |
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feeling |
thinking |
unnameable |
naming |
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orbit |
progress |
infinite |
finite |
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non-sense |
sense |
cyclic |
linear |
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emotion |
consideration |
dream |
technology |
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absurd / irrational |
rational |
fantasy |
fact |
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madness |
sanity |
serendipity |
management |
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surreal / unreal |
real |
spontaneity |
de-liberation |
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impossible |
practical |
chance |
determination |
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Venus |
Mars |
chaos |
organisation |
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ecstasy |
agony |
anarchy |
hierarchy |
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private |
public |
impact |
compact |
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inside |
outside |
what if |
what is |
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soft |
hard |
as if |
as is |
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space |
time |
is it exciting / fun / challenging? |
is it useful? |
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what do we see / feel / hear / taste / sense? |
does it add up? |
love / hate / joy / fear |
caution / envy / greed / suspicion |
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connection |
separation / classification / categorisation |
un / sub / conscious |
conscious |
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images / sounds / tastes |
numbers |
creation |
re-creation / reproduction |
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how not to remember |
how not to forget |
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© 20/12/09 Jon Hawkes <email> <web>
From The Hawkes Library; affiliated with FourthPillar.biz