why we should

There was a short piece in June 2026 saying In the beginning was the tool, and the tool was the world. It claims we forgot what we were doing once we saw the world was a tool. I've recently discovered James J. Gibsons work from the 1960s. His ecological psychology is critical of perceptual explanations that do not credit an…

Here I’d like to twist together the worlding covered as intentional activities (from comparing Simone Weil & J. R. R. Tolkien in Xcreatives with On Worlding as performance. Here performance is singled out from the blur of morality/religion/polity/culture/art/performance/market/… The mini-worlds, either personalised as an ascetic withdrawal in Weil’s lived example, or written into a personal creative whole in the case…

Simone Weil has some #priorArt with the word Décréation. The word decreation assumes a creator, in Weil’s case this assumption met the problems of theodicy. If god is X, why does Y exist in creation. X may equal good or omnipotence, and Y may equal evil. Weil’s theology answers this issue by saying God withdraws from creation to allow us…

On Worlding as performance in the re-valuation of all values as efforts of judgement When I articulate the social set of outcomes of the worlding urge I short list the blur of them as follows: morality/religion/polity/culture/art/performance/market/… This series will look at one of those words performance from a number of angles provided by realising it is not cut from whole…

Recently I made some notes about stupidity, suspension of disbelief, and recent story-telling. They came up because this week I read Glenorchy Boy by John Dale. This is set centred on the northern suburbs of Hobart, Tasmania, of a lad coming into the grey zones of responsibility, relationships and restrictions. Mistakes are made, here and there, and avoided. Sort of.

Some while ago I read the phrase “art is his religion”. Where I saw this I have no idea. I do remember that in was in a context in which everyone was expected to know this. When I saw it I re-parsed it from my [selfing the world :: worlding the self] Janus dance, as “worlding is his worlding” and…