Course: Taoism and Western Culture

This article is excerpted from Telematic Embrace written by Roy Ascott, and edited by Edward A. Shanken(2003), Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press. When art is a form …

This article is excerpt from Jerusha Hull McCormack and John G Blair, THINKING THROUGH CHINA (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), chapter 7. Here are some characteristics in most Chinese …

This article is excerpt from Jerusha Hull McCormack and John G Blair, THINKING THROUGH CHINA (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), chapter 7. The philosophical Daoists, then, would make us …

This article is excerpt from Jerusha Hull McCormack and John G Blair, THINKING THROUGH CHINA (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), chapter 7. In Zhuangzi’s philosophy all theories are useless …

Of this cybernetic relationship we have with each other and the world of dynamic systems is that authorship becomes distributed. Authorship is no longer simply in the hands of one …

The artist was always seen as someone standing apart from the world looking at it through a window and then depicting what is seen within that frame. We have said …

The key word that links the process in design, in architecture and art that I’m talking about, and the Tao, is immersion. The Tao is a recognition that we are …

A new kind of human faculty is emerging. So we have a faculty of seeing, of tasting, of hearing, so forth. We’re looking at the way in which machines or …

Matter is pure energy. We are part of a flow, we are part of an energy field. This is what relates us to the Tao. We can construct ourselves. We’re …

Cybernetics is basically the science or the art, the study of dynamic relationships. In our world, one thing affects another. It is a causal world in which everything is interrelated. …

Cybernetics arose as an understanding of the way that natural systems, systems of interaction and living systems in nature and computational systems could be understood theoretically in terms of control …

Roy Ascott will show you a totally different world with new terms in this week. During the past three weeks, you have all learned something about the Dao De Jing …

A global revival of Chinese thought can be seen in the publication of J. J. Clark’s pertinent work ‘The Tao of the West’. We need to know that Confucianism, Taoism, …

Taoist themes have entered Europe’s mainstream through US entertainment products, for example through the global Hollywood film industry with movies such as “Kung-Fu Panda” or “The Matrix” trilogy both featuring …