Re: Wtr: LIFESCIENCE: organic political economic morality

[Trevor <tebatt@dds.nl>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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On 28-May-99, melinda rackham wrote:

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>>How much human endevour (scientific, artistic, philosophical, religious and
>>even economic) is driven by the desire to either avoid or come to terms
>>with suffering -indeed how little is not derived from this!

>illness doesnt really = suffering .. its become so because of morality -the
>foucauldian imperative of health if you like, and pain is an interresting
>thing which some people see as pleasure and go out of thier way to engage
>in sexual practices, scarrification, piercings etc which cause pain.
>childbirth im told is incredibly painful but most of the planet keeps on
>doing it..  yet simple practices like breathing in certain ways can releive
>physical suffereing.

Well I guess this brings us back to the old point regarding the importance of
the (subjective) way we define/percieve/organise/interpret ourselves and the
world.

Surely, this must be the "common ground" between the arts and the sciences.

So do these different "approaches" need to constantly fight each other?

Would some form of mutual understanding be benificial to both sides?

It does seem that however we may wish to construct or deconstruct -to
rationalise or derationalise -the world, there still remains some form of
"external reality" which appears to have its own ideas about how to behave
under the changing circumstances.

What, then, are the implications for "Lifescience"?

greetings,
trevor


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