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I think this fits the criteria somehow, but couldn't specify exactly how: research process, the video itself, something else...

From the perspective of the hotel pool side at San Antonio

...although there is a mr Holt disturbing the view, I still have to confess that things flow nicely over here too. (and this is only to test whether posting is possible for someone like me)

just been doing the process workshop in the states ... the questions of how to conduct our process research remain vexed .. this is something we might really investigate for the next year's stream

a rough argot of techniques?

1. following things ... we move from investigating what is the case outside of time, to 'the how' of how events arise over time (traditional process work), to concern for what things do, their potential ... recognising how things satabilize into spatial settings of rest that can be intellectualised through observation and measurement is not all there is, that things also demur from rest, engrafted with indeterminancy in process of differentiation and division ... following the life of things ... a bit like the DM boots, morphing in use and meaning without regulation, inexhaustible, until suffering the blandishments of strategic impress, where they are forced to spatialise, loosing their redundancy

2. telling stories from different aspects, under the aegis of different conceptual schemas ... splintered tales the meaning of which arises from the relations between them rather than within them. Like Altman's film 12 shorts maybe

will be thinking of more

Interesting methods conference in April....

.... organized by Ann Cunliffe. The conference theme is Embodiment, Imagination, and Meaning. April 4-6 in New Mexico. Conference call; www.mgt.unm.edu/grm/

PS. Mike, I love this initiative. Best,

Jenny

Indie Blackboard (2008)

Swaying

I was thinking about stillpoints amid flows. A good place to find them is in Roethke's North American Sequence. Here are few lines:

I sway outside myself
Into the darkening currents,
Into the small spillage of driftwood,
The waters swirling past the tiny headlands.
Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment
While on a far point of the rocks
The light heightened,
And below, in a mist out of nowhere,
The first rain gathered?

Feldweg

For those German speakers amongst us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSaVn6toBRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-UsMgjP7Tc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iw6lb7TpNk&feature=related

Wayfinding. Navigation and trust in the present time. Painting "at sea" by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905)

the sky is the chief organ of sentiment

An Ecology of Mind: director and executive producer Nora Bateson

http://www.anecologyofmind.com/

http://www.naturearteducation.org/AnEcologyOfMind.htm

I wonder whether we could organise a screening of this.

Ingold on handwriting

http://www.dur.ac.uk/writingacrossboundaries/writingonwriting/timingold/

Process thinking...

Process research is an emerging methodological approach within Organization and Management studies which questions the role of time in the analysis if organisational processes. Key to process thinking is the idea that these processes not only unfold over time, but that there is an ‘immediate present’; that is, past and future are rolled together in the ongoing experiences of the present moment. This creates a range of specific questions for management studies, as this approach creates a specific temporal dynamic in which actors continuously engage in reconstructing their histories in order to understand the present, while at the same time projecting their understandings onto anticipated, possible futures. Because managerial action emerges out of the thrownness into existential pasts, the study of histories is of paramount importance, as it allows for agents and events to be situated in time; linked with particular meanings so that they can be understood ‘in their time’, rather than only as occurring ‘at a time’. In reconsidering time in the study of organisational phenomena, process and process-history studies promise alternative insights into how managers construct pasts and futures particular to their own organizations and in so doing provides novel explanations for the emergence of novelty, change and unexpected outcomes from their actions. In both process as well as history studies, emphasis is therefore usually placed on longitudinal studies investigating the emergence of patterns linked to outcomes, allowing researchers both an explanatory and evaluative frame in which to advance knowledge.