Posts on the blur

meika loofs samorzewski

A method to use or explore an intentional suspension of judgement or separating out. While this term of the blur was developed before my readings on neo-Pyrrhonism, it has parallels with Pyrrhonist suspension of judgment I hope to draw on. I do not see ataraxia as the only endpoint/utility/framework of this suspension of judgment, I see more potential for it beyond more soteriological foci of personal salvation. Not that this is a bad thing. I just do not grok it very much.

  1. Slash-and-blur 'to world' culture part one
  2. Slash-and-blur worldculture part two
  3. Cormac Orthography, more or less
  4. contronym… —when the source is the sink it is all about the flow
  5. Werner's Cullen's Keats' derangements unclassing
  6. The blur is different from having no boundaries
  7. The blur is not just a contradiction and Reacting to reading of a reading of Simone Weil writing about reading

In terms of taxonomies it is a type of creative and discerning lumping. Post hoc mind and hopefully not reactive, certainly not dialectic in a Hegelian sense, certainly not a synthesis. Lumping can be as discerning as splitting, I'd argue they are the same process where they require effort. A sculptural process that uses both additive and subtractive ways of moving in the world. Indulging a preference requires no effort even as it depletes us.

In terms of a state of mind, it is intentionally unfocussed in order to discern:

  1. potential mis-frames
  2. the multi-frames of our worlds
  3. that which we split is sometimes not really there
    • or, at least, does not originate outside our preference to split/lump (it's a ratio)

I suspect my 'blur' thus is related to phenomenological bracketing. But is a bit more meditational, and being aware of consciousness in being conscious, being one's consciousness, its efforts and discernments, not just putting one's preferences or inclination to one side, like the way one might put down one's hat to get on with the job of crawling through a cave. I'll have to do more research but phenomenological bracketing looks like it takes lessons learned from, say, Buddhist practice, but not the practice, but that is a guess.

Over at Posts on writing, consciousness and altered states I will begin to keep track of writers with vaguely similar claims or methods (this is an example of a discerning lumpist approach) and are the woo-woo versions and/or creative process examples of what I am talking about (Robert Graves, Huxley & spiritualism), or are just a monotropic inventure.

I am just talking about conscious effort of dealing with consciousness when talking about the 'method' of the blur.