Free 2 Hour Workshop – Poetics With Dr Long 9am (Canberra Time) Wednesday 10 December We offer you a free special 2-hour workshop with Dr Long 9am (Canberra Time) Wednesday 10 December. If you want to join in, register here: admin@spor.com.au Those who register will receive a free copy of … [Read more...] about Free 2 Hour Workshop – Poetics With Dr Long
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Poetics and Risk Part XIII – Poetic Disciplines
Poetic disciplines are those things that cannot be measured. Semiotics Human Movements Law Poetry Dance Art Music Theatre Social Psychology Biology Performance Humanities History Geography Theology Metaphysics Knowing Multimodalities … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part XIII – Poetic Disciplines
Contra-diction and Poetics in Risk
There is so much to learn about the development and nature of language. It is certainly not helped in safety by trying to turn language into some kind of mathematical equation (Usability Mapping). The beginning of understanding language is by studying and understanding the following: … [Read more...] about Contra-diction and Poetics in Risk
Poetics and Risk Part XI – Poetics and the Collective Unconscious
Jung and his Understanding of Myth and Symbols show a collective unconscious, a collective knowledge, even though they have not met each other and share forms of the mandala, totems. So, what is it that they share in common, that cannot be seen or measured? Sheldrake calls it Morphic Resonance … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part XI – Poetics and the Collective Unconscious
The Nature of ‘Safety Speak’
A collection of us are writing our next book Poetics and Risk, Feeling Into Being at the moment and we expect it to be released early next year. The book is about the importance of language in risk and being sensitised to making meaning (semiosis). Our contributors to the book are from: … [Read more...] about The Nature of ‘Safety Speak’
Can Innovation Come From Within Safety?
The language and discourse that floats about so much of safety is little more than marketing and propaganda. The noise of all these competing interests, selling the next fad, is deafening. Is it really that easy to sell and con in this industry? Perhaps so, as there is simply no curriculum for … [Read more...] about Can Innovation Come From Within Safety?
Poetics and Risk Part X: Embodied Knowing
How do we know something? If the unconscious in our body, rather our brain, the we digest without thinking, our hearts beat without thinking, we can walk without thinking about walking, language comes out of my mouth without thinking, unconsciously. So as a part of embodied knowing let us also … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part X: Embodied Knowing
What Can Poetry Say to Risk?
The question itself uses personification to pose the question. Neither Poetry or Risk are persons yet, we easily understand the poetic device (metonym). This kind of poetic device is used all the time in risk and safety where a thing is substituted for another or an object/topic is given a life of … [Read more...] about What Can Poetry Say to Risk?
Is There a ‘Soul’ in Safety? A Poetic Guide
Everyone accepts the idea of a ‘soul’ (https://discover.hubpages.com/entertainment/Songs-With-Soul-in-the-Title ). Like the metaphor of heart (https://safetyrisk.net/do-you-have-the-heart-for-safety/ ), it has been in the Poetics, Art and Musicology … [Read more...] about Is There a ‘Soul’ in Safety? A Poetic Guide
Podcast (audio) Series on Poetics and Risk – 14 Episodes
If you have been following the video series on Poetics and Risk (https://safetyrisk.net/poetics-and-risk/) then you can now listen to these conversations in your car through the SPoR Spotify channel - https://open.spotify.com/show/1Au9CC2plFXLWQlqejpG82 The series starts at Episode 40. Poetics … [Read more...] about Podcast (audio) Series on Poetics and Risk – 14 Episodes