HELIOSPHERE

conversations on the nature of reality

Reality: Etymology and dictionary (google search)

"The state of things as they actually exist, rather than the idealistic."

Objective and subjective.


Approach: All reality is already subjective, coloured by experience.

Two questions:

1. How we create reality?
2. How reality creates us? (stories, culture)


Believes and attitudes shape subjective reality.

idea of reality is fragile and manipulative = because we know little about how we work (our minds). F.i. if something strongly affects your life, it can change a lot.

WHo constructs (my) reality?

1. My family.

also, in nature. (mama bird throwing the child from the nest) 

2. My education


3. Decided reality


4. My culture

Multidimensional nature of reality.


what is truth?

possible worlds..



describing and mapping.

If you try to understand reality, you are trying to understand what being is and what perceiving is.

Philosophy can offer you a certain kind of reality (shortcut to reality).

Stoicism (shortcut to virtue) : the world is already crooked, but knowing this you can live a happy life.

Fragile nature of reality

perception of reality

there might be one reality, but there's many perspectives

things only exist when you look at them.

Perception vs personal

"The other big reality" 

Propaganda - mediating reality

Can I construct reality.

mediating reality. Homo fabre.

Manipulation is bad? Propaganda? Moralism.

Pervert's guide to ideology
(Zizek) 
Matrix - "it's about fiction that structures reality. NOt the reality behind the illusion, but the reality in illusion itself. "

How stories shape our reality?

or

How images shape our reality?

Samantha: 
Propaganda always has a goal (shaping reality) art not necessarily.

Jacques Elul:

Elul regards propaganda as a sociological phenomenon rather than as something made by certain people for certain purposes. Propaganda exists and thrives; it is the Siamese twin of our technological society. Only in the technological society can there be anything of the type and order of magnitude of modern propaganda, which is with us forever; and only with the all-pervading effects that flow from propaganda can the technological society hold itself together and further expand

Edward Bernays:

The

Reflections on the talk:

1. 4 parts




Edward Bernays:

The

the goalthe goal of the thesis is to illuminate the dimensions of the mediated reality

i am nobody to make others believe anything (Dada approach)


My approach to writing researching as laying out.
Tristan Tzara