BMZ
Medusa () - Caravaggio
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French born artist BMZ lives and works in Charleville-Mézières, France.bmz.petit@laposte.net
+33 6 87 57 96 21
Syncretism
The triumph of black American culture is that, forcibly stripped by the Middle Passage and Slavery Days of any direct connection with African mother culture, it has nonetheless survived; by syncretism, by bricolage, by a day-to-day programme of appropriation and adaptation as resourcefully broad-minded as any in history. But still, the humane tradition - of warmth, community hope and aspiration - central to the gospel roots soul of the southern black tradition is, if treated as the principle that underlies all, a way of hiding from these facts in plain sight: that this tradition is no more uniquely "African" than the Nation of Islam is "Islamic", that this culture is still - in its constituent parts - very much a patchwork borrowing; necessary of course for physical and psychic survival, but not an unarguable continuity. -- Mark Sinker, 1992 The WirePredictably enough, Wilber has come up with his own, and in my opinion convincing, interpretation of postmodernism. According to Wilber the pre-rational (magical and mythical) structures were characterized by syncretism, an indifferential fusion of the different elements of the phenomenological quadrants (see above). In mythical thinking the subjective world (the world of the Interior-Individual 'I' and the Interior-Collective 'we') and the objective world (the individual and collective 'exterior' aspect) are regarded as a single unit. For example, as far as the Church was concerned, Galileo not only had evil intentions (objective science), he was also a heretic (the world of the 'I') and thus a danger to the state. The mythical thinking that was predominant in that era regarded all of this as a single issue. It was modernity that separated these different aspects: dividing the church from the state and deciding that it was up to the individual - now considered to be a free subject of the state - to determine his or her own morality. By the same token, science came up with the notion of a separate subject who was able to examine the world in a detached and objective manner. Thus the cultural of modernity is one of differentiation. --Michel Bauwens
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