2023-12-24 02:42
I just uploaded the new edition of "Concepts and synthesis", the Volume 0 of the series about "The transition from Western-Modernity to After-Modernity". It is now available on my websit… Read More
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A blog by Laodan about painting and thinking on the function of the arts in society and for the individuals
2023-10-25 10:10
I just uploaded the "Daily reality and the news about it". It is now available on my website.
This e-book is a compilation and edited version, of my series of 5 articles under the… Read More
2023-10-19 23:36
Foreword
Emerging facts, that are separated from the context in which they appear, make no sense for the good reason that it is their context that procures them substance. In themselves… Read More
2023-10-12 20:00
While formatting the content of the series of articles, about the "Daily reality and the news about it" in pdf book form, I thought that it would be useful to dedicate an article specifica… Read More
2023-10-10 05:16
Part 5. “There Is Definitely An Alternative” to Western hegemony (TIDAA)
In this last part I’m using a few quotes from articles by Peter Lee to force myself to focu… Read More
2023-09-28 20:00
Part 4. Science → great convergence → mass extinction event
For memory the multiple side-effects of Western-Modernity, that are presently converging, are accelerating both :… Read More
2023-09-21 20:00
Part 3. The Western Enlightenment, concealed the traditional model of knowledge formation
Traditional animist knowledge formation emerged most probably sometime in the millennia preced… Read More
2023-09-15 02:59
Part 2. The emergence of Western exceptionalism and its consequences
Northern Western Europe has inherited Christianity after the fall of the Western Roman empire. During the Early Middl… Read More
2023-09-07 20:00
The present is the outcome of long haul evolutionary processes + the development of their latest structures
With my recent upload of "Societal knowledge formation" I put a stop to more t… Read More
2023-08-26 20:00
I just uploaded the Volume 3, of the series about "The transition from Western-Modernity to After-Modernity", titled "Societal Knowledge Formation".
It is now available on my website… Read More
2023-08-25 20:00
The following quote was copy-pasted from the introduction of "Knowledge Formation. 8.2.2. Future societal evolution" starting on page 1,104 and following.
This 1,150 page book will be av… Read More
2023-08-23 20:00
The following quote was copy-pasted, from "Knowledge Formation. 7. The mind : – awareness – consciousness – wisdom" starting, on page 570 and following.
This 1,150 pag… Read More
2023-08-21 20:00
The following quote was copy-pasted from page 418 and following of "Knowledge Formation. 5.1. Ideation is rooted in the contextual substance of the societal cultural field".
This 1,150… Read More
2023-08-19 20:00
The following quote was copy-pasted from page 185 and following of "Knowledge Formation. 2.4. paradigms and societal knowledge formation".
This 1,150 page book will be available on… Read More
2023-08-17 20:00
The following quote was copy-pasted from page 347 and following of "Knowledge Formation. 4.2.2. Knowledge and Pragmatism". This 1,150 page book will be available on my websi… Read More
2023-08-14 20:00
The following quote was copy-pasted from page 583 and following of "Knowledge Formation. 6.2.1. The quasi-Worldview of Modernity".
This 1,150 page book will be available on my website… Read More
2023-08-13 01:10
The following quote was copy-pasted from the introduction of "Knowledge Formation. 6.2. A given context forces a given future" starting on page 570 and following.
This 1,150 page book… Read More
2023-08-11 06:35
In my last post from 2003-03-06 I mentioned that I would try to give a monthly quote of parts of the book "Knowledge formation" that I was writing. I have not been able to keep this pro… Read More
2023-03-07 01:32
This is a first post related to the book "Societal Knowledge Formation" that I'm presently writing. I'll try to give a monthly extract of parts of the book that I personally find particula… Read More
2022-12-17 18:00
I just uploaded the eBook “The perspective of the 5,000 year old grandmother of all nations”. It is a compilation, and edited version, of my series of 5 articles under the s… Read More
2022-12-15 18:00
In these twenties humanity is in the midst of a Geo-Political storm that is being activated by the shift of the center of gravity of the economy-world from the West to East-Asia. &nbs&hellip…Read More
2022-12-09 03:05
I started Part 1 with the following sentence : "The media noise nowadays relates in one way or another to the Western refusal to accept the natural shift of the economy-world to East-Asia… Read More
2022-12-08 00:54
The impetuosity of the US adolescent nation culminated during the Trump presidency. Aware that the Middle-Class' had fallen into poverty Donald Trump got elected because he focused on the… Read More
2022-11-18 01:47
Western decision-makers seem to be stuck, in a highly chaotic bout of delusion, absolutely impervious to the facts on the ground of our planet earth. This is how the Global times… Read More
2022-11-11 04:43
Before I retreat, for something as a full year in hibernation, to edit the volume 3 of my series "From Modernity to After-Modernity" that is titled "Societal Knowledge Formation", I w… Read More
2022-09-30 07:02
I just uploaded the ebook “The Great Turning”. It is a compilation, and edited version, of my series of 10 articles under the same title. “The Great Turning” e… Read More
2022-09-30 00:45
10. A new worldview in After-ModernityThe historical combination of the societal disintegration of the West, with China’s economic rise to the top spot, have initiated the hope in t… Read More
2022-09-23 01:41
9. The Fall of ModernityAt first sight one might think that what is at stake, in these two-thousand twenties, is the rejection of Western hegemony which, the large majority of citizens by… Read More
2022-09-16 01:36
8. The Russian operation in Ukraine is a rallying cry against uni-polarity (1)At the image of a train, whose engine has stopped running for lack of energy but that continues to move powered… Read More
2022-09-09 01:27
7. Western resistance to the shift of the center of gravity of the economy-world to East-AsiaOver the last decade the center of gravity of the economy-world has been shifting extremely rapid… Read More
2022-09-08 11:17
In between writing... here is an update on my digital variations. I selected 4 variations from each of the series that I terminated as of today to let you see their evolution over time… Read More
2022-09-02 01:24
6. ‘separation – rationality – scientific knowings’ / ‘interconnectedness – pragmatism – knowledge’ Content of this article (8000 words)… Read More
2022-08-26 02:22
5. The expansion of the paradigm of Modernity into philosophic rationalism and scienceAs I wrote in Part 3 “the pragmatic common sense of the long distance merchants ensured the thri… Read More
2022-08-19 04:55
4. how did Modernity arise ? Modernity did arise with the emergence of the paradigm of “the reason that is at work in the transformation of money into capita… Read More
2022-08-12 13:40
3. The Continuum of the societal cultural field This title is also the title of the first volume of my collection “From Modernity to After-Modernity” and I summarized the gis… Read More
2022-08-05 03:41
A tale at the end of Western modernity. Westerners are boosting about their multiculturalism at home but they are nevertheless averse… Read More
2022-08-05 03:38
2. A new lease on life for the unipolar world ? The prospect of an ending of Western hegemony implies that the days of Western prosperity, by sucking the resources of “the others&rd&hellip…Read More
2022-07-30 13:41
This is an introduction to a series of 10 articles in which I describe the contemporary moment through the lens of my just published book “Modernity”. Starting today I’ll p… Read More
2022-07-30 13:40
1. How the West created the conditions of its downfall ? The end of Western hegemony was predicated by the class-war mindset of Western big capital holders, and their institutional serv… Read More
2022-07-25 02:03
Watch Richard Turrin's last video about China's Digital Yuan and the impact it will have on money and payments around the world. This is technologically world-changing stuff that will leave… Read More
2022-07-22 04:37
Day after day our minds get ever more confused by the not-ceasing media noise. I followed the advice, that I personally gave in one of my last articles related to the Ukrainian… Read More
2022-06-16 08:10
The synthesis of the series "From Modernity to After-Modernity" just got published in e-book form and is available from my website. The 1st edition totals 128 pages.The complete series total… Read More
2022-05-28 06:02
The second volume of the series "From Modernity to After-Modernity" just got published in e-book form and is available from my website. The 1st edition totals 1,022 pages.The complete series… Read More
2022-04-23 08:05
The present Ukrainian episode of our shifting global order is omnipresent throughout the media all over the world. But its daily news is completely detached from the broader context of the l… Read More
2022-04-18 09:30
I'm personally struck, and this since the end of February, by the historical rejection of Modernity as the cultural field of the West by the whole non-Western world. It is a historical rea… Read More
2022-04-14 05:58
I terminated my last article, dated 2022-03-25, with the following words : "... to keep your sanity, and to avoid having your mind being captured by Western propaganda, I hope everyone sta… Read More
2022-03-25 12:51
At the core of our present moment figures the West trying to force its vision of a new "Rules Based Order" on the world at large. China is refusing to submit to such a forced Western order… Read More
2022-03-19 15:07
Never have I witnessed such a Western propagandist rage than around the question of Russia's military operation in Ukraine. It's nothing short of sickening and it begs the question "How on… Read More
2022-03-09 03:50
Part 3, of my last article "Deal with it : Dualism drives the thinking of Western minds !", was titled "The mainstream media announces "The Globalization of White Supremacy". In it I… Read More
2022-03-05 11:35
For 30 years M. K. Bhadrakumar was an Indian diplomat. He is now retired and writes about "Indian foreign policy and the affairs of the Middle East, Eurasia, Central Asia, South Asia and the… Read More
2022-03-04 09:21
The USA was powerless to prevent Russia from acting in Ukraine to guarantee its security. And its adventurism, in the face of its loss of hegemony, excludes the possibility that the USA… Read More
2022-03-03 14:45
Over the whole of its time-span Modernity has witnessed 7 shifts of the center of gravity of its economy-world. An eight’s shift is presently in the works that moves the center o… Read More
2022-02-09 09:35
Some Western commentators speculate that Western societies are facing a moment of truth because '...perhaps we are touching the crux of what is hybrid warfare that threaten… Read More
2022-02-09 09:33
The context of Russia's two Treaty proposals with the West just got unveiled without ambiguity by Sergey Karaganov in an article, titled "It’s not really about Ukraine", that got p… Read More
2019-06-14 07:35
2. the cultural context forces human thinking and actions
The present post covers:
- chapter 2.2. Societal worldviews
Next week’s post will cover:
- chapter 2.3. Cult… Read More
2019-06-07 02:00
2. the cultural context forces human thinking and actions
The present post covers:- the introduction of this part 2 - and its first chapter 2.1. Axioms of civilizations… Read More
2019-05-31 01:56
1. Pragmatism versus ideology
I’m foremost a thinker and a painter And I want to make clear from the get go that painting does not happen in a void. You certainly withdraw to a ce… Read More
2019-05-24 06:39
The disorder in the world of human affairs has been rapidly accelerating since the publishing of my book “A growing disconnect between East & West”.
At the time I con… Read More
2019-05-18 02:37
The complete gallery, with all 256 digital variations of painting 1-01 from "the grand project", is now available here.
Remember that in real life each of the images in this gallery has a… Read More
2019-05-18 02:36
The complete gallery, with all 256 digital variations of painting 1-02 from "the grand project", is now available here.
Remember that in real life each of the images in this gallery… Read More
2019-03-21 10:38
I had been playing with various fractal apps in the early 2000’s and marveled shortly at the wild gyrations on the screen. But I rapidly started to feel uneasy with the machine like pe… Read More
2019-02-21 04:31
"The only acceptable status for China is as a distinctly lesser power. To ensure such an outcome, administration officials insist, the U.S. must take action on a daily basis to contain or i… Read More
2019-02-19 13:45
" Five hundred years ago, Hernán Cortés began the European annihilation of the Mayan, Aztec, and other indigenous civilizations in the Western Hemisphere. Six months la… Read More
2019-02-12 13:44
A few weeks ago my friend Titus Hora (Facebook, Pinterest), and I, entered a conversation relating to art which is also the core subject of this blog. I wrote a sketch of a summary about my… Read More
2018-10-25 09:47
An e-book of all posts in the series “A growing disconnect between China and the West”. After editing the posts the e-book totals 150 pages. Click on its cover page hereunder fo… Read More
2018-10-12 12:45
In the present stage of our understanding tribal art roughly spans between 40,000 and 5,000 years ago while Xieyi, Chinese Buddhism and Christianity only start around 500 AD.
Calligraphy or… Read More
2018-10-05 16:28
This series of posts about “the disconnection between the West and China” centers around societal evolution, and more particularly, the present shifting of the center of gravi… Read More
2018-09-26 05:16
How to understand art?Through reason with words?Or through images of the thing itself?
I built a tentative visual encyclopedia of the evolution of art on Pinterest that divides the whole his… Read More
2018-09-21 09:51
In the Peoples Republic of China the communist party literally owns the institutions of state and no interference in the decision making of these institutions is accepted by any group of… Read More
2018-09-14 06:27
In democracies a few families own controlling stakes of the capital that is invested in strategic sectors of the economy. This gives them, for example, the control over the media and ensu… Read More
2018-09-08 08:18
In my last post I tried to brush a rapid sketch of the profound mental disconnect between the West and China. In the present post I’ll brush an even more rapid sketch about how large… Read More
2018-08-31 07:18
This article is a sketch of the general context of the present moment we find ourselves in the world. It comes as a conclusion of my short series “the disconnection in perceptions b… Read More
2018-08-27 08:25
To my regular readers "welcome back" and to new readers "welcome".
Recapitulation
Since I stopped blogging over a year ago let me start with a recapitulation of my past blogging activity… Read More
2017-07-05 12:42
This 4th of July Patrick Buchanan asked if America is still a nation (1).
This question touches a raw nerve and our minds ache.
What will we do without America?
Ron Paul proposes the follo… Read More
2017-06-19 10:05
As I wrote in the first post of this series (A growing disconnect between Chinese and Westerners) "Change is assaulting our certainties as never before. The fields it affects are multiplyi… Read More
2017-06-15 10:18
1. Past trends that help to understand the present:
Source: “Statistics on World Population, GDP and per Capita GDP, 1-2006” by Angus Maddison, University of Groenin… Read More
2017-06-05 04:21
Does it matter if Chinese and Western perceptions about societal reality are growing further apart? Whatever people may be thinking the fact is that this disconnect is going t… Read More
2017-05-27 06:53
What is going on? People's perceptions in China and in the West are so absolutely out of sync nowadays that I feel the urge to write about this disconnect. Generally speaking people in China… Read More
2017-02-17 04:51
Book 3. Divination 1. the future emerges in a given context1.1. The quasi-Worldview of Modernity
1.1.2. Power ideologies mold the minds
In “Book 2. Volume 1. About the formation o… Read More
2017-01-13 07:02
Book 3. Divination
1. the future emerges in a given context
1.1. The quasi-Worldview of Modernity
Modernity is not a worldview in the real meaning of the term. It is a quasi-worldview… Read More
2017-01-11 07:09
Some readers suggested my articles start with an introductory note about
their contextual setting. This series is indeed becoming so long by now
that new readers might easily get lost… Read More
2017-01-06 04:37
Book 3. Divination
1. the future emerges in a given context
Obviously the future does not fall from the sky.
The
future is resulting from the arbitration between the multiple
dete… Read More
2016-12-28 12:21
Part 3. Divination
Introduction (continued. 4)
The future as a probabilistic outcome
The
alternatives, that are shaping in the present as potential futures, are
not readily visible an… Read More
2016-12-23 09:09
Part 3. Divination
Introduction (continued. 3)
About divinationThis
“Book 3” is about getting a feel of what the future has in store for
humanity and more broad… Read More
2016-12-16 03:12
Part 3. Divination
Introduction (continued).
Confrontation, reconciliation, integration
The
subconscious is accessible through altered states of consciousness and
humanity, along the pa… Read More
2016-12-09 03:41
Part 3. Divination
Introduction.
By confronting one’s conscious certainties with one’s subconscious visions one gets to reconcile them in a unified consciousness that is boost… Read More
2016-11-17 09:13
Hi patient readers,
I have started writing, these last few weeks, the first draft of "Book 3: Divination" of my series "From Modernity to After-Modernity". My experience last winter with "B… Read More
2016-07-17 03:03
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Summary sketch of book
Life is one of the applications installed in the operating system of the universe and it emerges eventually in t… Read More
2016-07-09 04:48
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
What follows is the table of content of the 25 posts I published during the past winter 2015-2016. These posts for… Read More
2016-07-06 12:01
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
Chapter 5. About the arts
5.4. the arts in what comes after Modernity
As
I have laid out extensively alre… Read More
2016-07-02 11:46
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
Dear readers I'm
really sorry for this late publishing of the last articles in this
series. A software… Read More
2016-05-13 07:07
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
5.3.2.2. China.
China and the countries in the TriContinentArea ("Middle-East: in Western European parlance) ex… Read More
2016-05-13 06:08
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
5.2.3. From biological evolution to societal evolution
What I propose here is that biological evolution has been a f… Read More
2016-04-29 13:26
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
5.2. The origins of the arts.
It
is my contention that to have a valid conversation about the arts we
have first and forem… Read More
2016-04-25 11:21
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the arts
Dear readers,
Technical problems prevented me from publishing my last series of posts over the last 4 weeks. The problem is f… Read More
2016-03-25 02:24
Part 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 5. About the artsHello to my regular readers and to everybody else,As of my post last Friday my writing this winter already generated 560 bo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
What is sticking out, in my view, from my writing over the past 10 years can be summarized as follows:
1. The general economic and societal reality in Late-Modernity:
Late-Modernity is… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
My last series of posts dwelled on "the meaning of art", "the great
Modernist bungle" and how scientific visualizations came to surpass
visual artists' productions in their role at depicti… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The
modernist avant-garde, at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, was
very clear about its mission. That mission can be summarized as
follows:
1. rejection of all past ways… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In my last post I concluded that we observe the following, today, in Late-Modernity:
1. Artists have reached a plateau of confusion and absurdity. Henceforth most everyone thinks that art i… Read More
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