ASC Speakers Series - Thinking Transversally

This talk by Cheryl Hsu proposes transversal thinking and praxis as a means to create coherence, or "wholeness", through a pluriverse of perspectives.
Many of us seem to be observing a time of cultural fragmentation and ecological collapse. How might systems thinkers and designers work in the service of cultivating a sense of coherence, or wholeness, without fixing one perspective or worldview? This talk explores the generative tensions between the universal (one world) and the pluriversal (the world of many worlds) that might lead to glimpses of the transversal: the numinous moments of awareness where the “us” and “them” transform into an emerging “we”.
For those who seek to revitalize human participation in symbiotic systems of living wholeness, how do we also embrace the epistemic humility of what feminist scholar Donna Haraway names as “staying with the trouble”? A transversal mindset and posture is proposed for collectively sensing the glimpses of wholeness in the warm, thick, transcontextual fields of human and more-than-human relations. This unnameable quality of wholeness that arises out of many interacting patterns in a system is borrowed from architect Christopher Alexanders’ The Timeless Way of Building (1979).
The word “transversal” comes from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of radically new possibilities that erupt out of the tensions and potentials held in assemblages of difference. Drawing from the speaker’s experience with emerging relational practices such as Collective Presencing, we explore the depths of communication -- seen and unseen -- that come alive when we embrace our wholeness and differences as entangled, embodied, ecological actors on this planet. In a time between worlds, how do we nurture the gaps and sanctuaries for the unfurling of new and hidden patterns, and to notice the subtle aliveness of autopoiesis?
Link for the chat: drive.google.com/file/d/1q3Ly...

[@michaelhohl5672]

I looked at Ria Baeck's book 'collective presencing' and a quote on page 6 answered the question i asked at the end of Cheryl's wonderful talk: "When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure' - Rudolf Bahro

[@mri8517]

Mysterious happenings in the midst of these Circles. As per Wittgenstein you already said too much.

[@iayanarael2315]

64 views! where is everybody !! 👍🏽 👍🏽

[@grantor_7990]

Pueden traducirlo al español?

[@1bionic1]

Neologisms, tears, and ephemeral wholeness - sounds like an Eckhart Tolle presentation. This is strange for ASC!
Dr. Pangaro said hello, Dr. Bunnell said she wished she knew more about the speaker so that she could introduce the speaker, but then, we see that this speaker was invited because of a "scramble" to find a replacement speaker, AND, the speaker reveals that she spent just two weeks getting up to speed with cybernetics: "I actually took the opportunity when Pillay [Dr. Bunnell] got in touch with me two weeks ago to just immerse myself in the field of cybernetics, I want to say more deeply, but there's only so much you can sink into over the course of two weeks." Don't the members of ASC, and the general viewer, deserve more? Deleuze and Guattari were not cyberneticians; and neither is Ms. Hsu!

[@ascybernetics]

Thank you for voicing your opinion.
We look for speakers and topics that might enrich or expand the discourse on and about cybernetics, but also beyond it, bringing different perspectives.
The speaker kindly dived into cybernetics to establish relationships between her topic and cybernetics.

[@headythomas954]

Perhaps you missed the Cross-Discipline intention and embodiment of Ms. Hsu's lecture, Mr. May?