Engaging with Globality: through cognitive lines, circlets, crowns or holes

Reviews constraints on engagement with global issues in the light of linear thinking and denial.

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Engaging with Globality
Argument
Cognitive engagement with globality
Globalization and globality
Mnemotechnics and symbolism
Dimensionality of engagement
Encompassing difference and disagreement
References

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Overview of a four-fold exploration. Produced on the occasion of the "coronation" of Barack Obama (as president of the country from which insightful leadership is expected in response to global problems) and of the "crowning experience" of the Davos World Economic Forum (for the instigators and observers of the global credit crisis and its consequences). [Engaging with Globality -- Dimension 1: Cognitive Realignment; Dimension 2: Cognitive Circlets; Dimension 3: Cognitive Crowns; Dimension 4: Knowing Thyself] -- Argument
-- Cognitive engagement with globality
-- Globalization and globality
-- Mnemotechnics and symbolism
-- Dimensionality of engagement
-- Encompassing difference and disagreement

Dimension 1: Cognitive Realignment -- making points and aligning a target
unrest engendered by the crowned
of the Universe"
pathology of the "reborn"

Dimension 2: Cognitive Circlets -- learning/action cycles
scales of scope
-- by-passing and focusing lengthy articulations
torque and fruitful associations
implications
insights from mathematics
between power in practice and in imagination
focus vs Radical reframing of "body of knowledge"
engagement with globality

Dimension 3: Cognitive Crowns -- all-encompassing, well-rounded experience
with globality through "triple crown" cognition?
of "crowning experience"
clues to embodying globality through "crowning experience"
and the global financial crisis

Dimension 4: Knowing Thyself -- embodying engagement with otherness
cognitive unrest implicit in social unrest
implication "down the rabbit hole"?
confidently between locality and globality
categories characteristic of in-the-box thinking
interfacing with otherness: engaging with abundance
questioning: delinking from detachment
categories: self-constraining world-making and system building
engaging with globality through re-categorizing and re-classifying
unknowing, requisite humility and appropriate questioning
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Annex A: Engaging with Globality through Playful Re-categorizing
Annex B: Global Governance via a Double-breasted Strange Attractor
Annex C: Engaging with Globality through Dynamic Complexity
Annex D: Intercourse with Globality through Enacting a Klein bottle

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Introduction

This is an exploration of the challenge of providing succinct integrative vehicles for significance, notably as this relates to any existential sense of coherence and identity. The focus in Dimension 1 and Dimension 2 is on the challenge more conventionally understood in terms of the knowledge management required by governance and the governors -- on behalf of the governed. This is developed in Dimension 3 with respect to those who are effectively "crowned". In Dimension 4 the inadequacies and impracticalities of such possibilities, hitherto considered realistic, are used to reframe the cognitive challenge for any individual obliged to order cognitive skills and accessible insights -- where such dependence on external authority is now clearly unrealistic.

A summary of the argument is provided separately (Metaphorical Geometry in Quest of Globality, 2009)

In the light of Dimension 4, readers could consider avoiding the lengthy arguments of Dimensions 1-3 (regarding what is possible, but increasingly improbable) -- then focus only on the annexes of Dimension 4 for proactive viability and light relief, notably Annex B (Sustainable Governance via a Double-breasted Strange Attractor). Those annexes are premised on the assumption that sustainable governance is necessarily sexy -- and if it is not then it is unlikely to be sustainable.

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