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I write about the blur as a state of mind, or perhaps it is better to say, a state of attention. Or intention : In philosophy, intentionality is the power of minds and mental states to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. To say of an individual’s mental states that they have…

With my development of the blur as an intentional way of thinking, with regard to categories or routines of thought and language, I have discovered prior art which is either allied or bears striking similarities. Striking in the sense that they show a similar stance or attitude to: paradox, mystery, holism, emergence with any way of knowing (meaning broadly, holding…

This post discusses the idea or mental stance, not a “belief state”, of the blur. It is a key aspect of my thinking, or at least, a key meditation or practice. I came to it in parallel to my related work on the… —gap, with which the blur is part of that Janus Dance. As such it is a conscious…

Example of blur - 'de-range' I was reading Maximilian Werner’s essay Countee Cullen's Lyric Ghosts about Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen (1903 – 1946) and his use of Keats, when I came across some joyous prior art, a good example of the blur. The deranging work here of the poets, their making, unclasses the prepositions of language based on the…

This is part two, so if you are beginning… —maybe start over at Slash-and-blur worldculture part 1 which introduces the slash, the blur and the contronym as the main tools in a good worlding culture. The slash lists things into a chunk, and in chunking, it blurs… —while our attention finds another focus: a distraction, an urgency, a pot on the…

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…