February 2010
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THE AFH TRANSTHETIC ENDNOTES PROJECT →
AFH WIKI PROJECT #1: THE AFH TRANSTHETIC ENDNOTES PROJECT
TRANSTHESIS ENDNOTES
ADDENDA AND COMMENTARY
ABOUT THE AFH TRANSTHETIC ENDNOTES PROJECT
The AFH Transthesis Endnotes Project is a third phase iteration of AFH Lead Artist Paul McLean’s thesis work The End of Organization Man & the Epistemological Age. In this project, the author invites participants to review the post-script...
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Transthesis Endnotes [PDF Format] →
To download the endnotes for The End of Organization Man & the Epistemological Age in PDF format, unillustrated, click on the link above.
©2010 PJM [The Pimps of Davos]
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The Road or Blood Meridian?
I was thinking of what books to cite in reference to the Davos Man and the Hiroshima-of-One Man and their imminent confrontation. I hope it is not Cormac McCarthy’s Road that we collectively choose to travel. I hope it is not the Judge who is victorious in the trajectory of our collective Blood Meridian, as we hurtle towards our new Manifest Destiny.
[Photo: Marion Ettlinger]
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Drucker's Monster [the Corp.]
If I were to write this as a morality play, it would go something like this. Drucker is Dr. Frankenstein, and the corporation is his monster. Drucker’s Igor is John Marshall. The Christian Drucker possesses neither the alchemy of the Rabbi Loew, nor the word of God with which to infuse his creation. Drucker also has no way to pull the plug on the corporate monster, even if he were so inclined....
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CORPORATE AI IS HIVE MIND
At some point, Drucker must have realized there was a glitch in his matrix. Operationally, the theorem of management failed to adequately replace the hero, the charismatic flawed leader. Although tested thoroughly and proved in many societies over many decades, management did not prevent the second great depression. It turned out to be the cause.
The free market is unofficially a shattered...
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The USA Isn't Christian. MGT Society Failed.
From “America Is Not a Christian Nation” (Lind, for Salon):
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility [sic], of Mussulmen [Muslims]; and, as the said States never have entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is...
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The Progress of Dimensional Man
Like many of the 20th Century’s great historical figures, Peter Drucker lived on the cusp in man’s perceptual evolution. The 1900’s can in hindsight be seen as a time for which the old tools of perception and conception were inadequate, and the new tools were exponentially more dangerous than any that had existed before.
Oppenheimer, Freud, Hitler, Drucker: all possessed means for which...
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MGT and the Superclass
When I pine for Peter Drucker, wishing to add a few decades to his tenure, it is because I [might] prefer Drucker’s analysis to David Rothkopf’s. [Or at least, I would very like to interrogate Herr Drucker on the relativity of Management theory to the New Gilded Age and perpetuation of a Super Class. - 02.03.10]
From “The Rise of the Superclass,” a Salon review of Rothkopf’s...
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"2nd Wave Eugenics" & the New World Order
Eugenic Nation: Blood, Sex and Marriage in the Japanese Empire
Jennifer Robertson
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Abstract
During the heady, nationalist decades (1880-1945) of empire-building, “blood” was invoked by Japanese ideologues not only as a metaphor for “shared heredity” or “shared ancestry,” but also as the essential...
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IN CONCLUSION
Peter Drucker famously walked away from a John Maynard Keynes lecture having “suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economics students in the room were interested in the behavior of commodities while I was interested in the behavior of people.” Unfortunately, the behavior of commodities is still linked in the property-based world of corporate, artificial or...
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Drucker's Means and Value
The root cause of Drucker’s failure to discern the connection between Japanese content and context, and their relativity to the Nazi phenomenon, is not perceptual. Obviously, as is demonstrable in his commentary, Peter Drucker was a capable seer. In fact, he was and is broadly celebrated as a visionary.
Drucker was also a marvelous conceptualist. He was very proud of his invention of terms like...
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On Meaning and Value
In art, meaning and value are identical. They are mathematical in their applications.
When the Epistemological seer cannot control seeing, he seeks to manage meaning and value.
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Drucker's Crisis of Meaning
It is disquieting to compare the Peter Drucker of The End of Economic Man and the Peter Drucker of “A View of Japan through Japanese Art.” In the former, Drucker wrote resoundingly:
If the economic, social, and military consequences are serious, the metaphysical and ideological weakness of a system that bases itself on organization as a substitute for order and creed is fatal. Organization...
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About artificial persons [Parts 1 & 2]
About artificial persons [Part 1]
ARTIFICIAL PERSONS JUST WANT YOUR MONEY! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS AREN’T REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS DON’T CARE ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS DON’T LOVE AMERICA! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS DON’T CARE ABOUT WHAT’S IN YOUR FOOD! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS DON’T VOTE! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS DON’T CARE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE! ARTIFICIAL PERSONS DON’T...
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Genocide/Ethnocide: MGT
In “A View of Japan through Japanese Art,” Peter Drucker’s impression of the cultural dynamics of Japan is problematic, in his parsing of elements within the composition of Japanese social topology. It is not that Drucker parses. It is to what end.
The contradictions go unresolved, which – recalling Lao Tzu – might seem to indicate truth. However, lack of literary resolution can be used as a...
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Art As Hedge
What motivation, other than guilt of conscience or domination by hatred, would drive an individual or collective to wipe out the memory of another? Art is a hedge against both guilt without accountability and unmitigated hate, in its requirements for preservation and conservation. A civilization is judged by the art it chooses to conserve and the art it chooses to obliterate.
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“Some of the great teachers of China appear to have had a similar view of the...”
– From The Story of Art (Gombrich, pg. 104-5)
Illus., Boy Scouts Manual [original, date, unk.]
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“…(A) sett stick was treasured in great houses as a visible standard for...”
– From The Setts of the Scottish Tartans (Stewart, pg. 4)
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ON VISION AND FUNCTION
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Does Environmental Threat Preclude Choice?
To be fair, Japan has always been threatened by powerful neighbors. Still, Japan is not a small country. It is larger and more populous than most European nations. Not all islands – whether the literal kind or the geographically, politically or economically figurative kind have the same proclivity for control and singularity. Hawaii, Scotland and Israel provide divergent models.
Resistance to...
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Education and Social Topology: A Review of Choices
Prior to American occupation, and the attendant commencement of social transfiguration of Japan by the principles of equality and free speech, nearly any function of the society could be judged as Peter Drucker judged a favorite Japanese painting and artist: “___________ (fill in the blank), power, total compelling control.” Power and control define the Japanese social topology. Japan’s emblem...
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Unattributed Notation
A roughly identical assessment of the Japanese educational method might be levied, thus: “education, power, total compelling control.” The stringent controls on curriculum, and the directional, cutthroat nature of academic success in Japan are indicators that should explain why conceptual facility is impeded by the social ecology or infrastructure.
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Democratic Dimensionist Realism [As a Means of...
The most effective preventative mechanism for preserving individual and collective identity from globalist corporate ownership is education in the principles and applications of democratic dimensionist realism. These are:
· Science
· Mathematics
· The Arts (Humanities)
o Perceptual
o Conceptual
o Dimensional
o Technical
· Representative, Constitutional...
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THE GREATEST THREAT TO ART TODAY
Globalist corporate ownership – of property, the means of production and the shaping of identity – is the greatest threat to art.
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Hope
The election of President Obama suggests the possibility of a good result. How?
The social topology of Japan provides a clue. The pervasive exclusion of foreigners from the substantive internal functions of Japanese social concourse is as effective today as it has ever been. Japan is no democratic melting pot. The influence of the outside on the inside is not a facet of tension or polarities,...
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CULTURAL INSULATION
Finally, in “A View of Japan through Japanese Art,” Drucker fails to acknowledge the insular nature of Japanese social topology, which is reflected in the country’s demographic of racial homogeneity. Homogeneity in a social topology deeply affects the ability of the collective to innovate.
The principle of social equality is inextricable from social identity. In Japan’s case, the behavior of...
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MANAGING IDENTITY [GENDER]
Managing identity is often indicated by gender definitions in the collective. In “A View of Japan through Japanese Art,” Drucker engages in gross distortion in his descriptions of the roles women have played historically in the Japanese social topology.
Despite some pre-War Westernization, it took the American occupation to provide Japanese females with the freedom to participate and be...
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TRANSMISSION POINTS
The rewriting of textbook accounts of the civilian suicides on Okinawa is a modern example of identity management. Alternative interpretations or versions of events contained in the context of “objective” documentation of actual events are the fourth order of Epistemological control on seeing. The control of news or media is therefore essential to the management of popular or collective response...
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On Identity and the Dimensional
Identity is perceptual and conceptual and dimensional.
Identity draws from the past, exists in ‘real time’ and ‘real space,’ and projects into the future. These are the individual manifestations of identity. The collective manifestation of identity is the viewer, or witness. The collective is the 4D element of identity.
The analogs for identity in art are, in order, drawing, sculpture and...
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On Identity and Social Topology
Identity is a woven form that occurs in a topology. This is true for the individual and the collective.
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REVISIONIST HISTORY
Epistemological control of seeing can and often does occur in reverse. It is commonly referred to as “revisionist history.” In “A View of Japan through Japanese Art,” Drucker ignores censorship and the redesign of history in the Japanese social topology.
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“The third characteristic of creative individuals is the acquisition of cognitive...”
– From the HOTEOAAC (pg. 511)
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ON REDESIGNING SOCIAL TOPOLOGIES
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The Dimensionist Art School
I have proposed the 4D art school and written about it extensively elsewhere. It is essentially a multi-use facility. The basic elements are these:
· Three galleries
o Exhibition hall
o Projection hall
o Project space
· Instruction and working studio
o Painting
o Drawing
o Sculpture
· Office
· Library
· Social area (café)
· Performance...
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Art School Type/Profiles [Propositions]
The best way to learn art is one-on-one instruction, master to student/apprentice/assistant.
Epistemological schools are organizations for collective indoctrination. They have no place in the democracy.
Technical schools are organizations for the teaching of skills.
Technical art schools for dimensional realism would teach the crafts of painting, sculpture and drawing. All instruction would be...
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“The Kano school was the longest lived and most influential school of painting in...”
– - From the Metropolitan Museum website [More on the Kano school (Why it is not Epistemological)]
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“Fine art instruction in Europe is a long and prestigious tradition. It began in...”
– The Pre-American Art School [From Ecole des Beaux-Arts website]
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On “Schools” and Art (Axioms)
Epistemological schools are descendents of the Roman Catholic College of Propaganda.
Beyond that, the Epistemological model originates in Western civilization with the Greeks (such as the Peripatetics of Aristotle, or the Platonic Academy).
The general form is common throughout human history and across cultures, wherever the few control the many.
The Kano school in Japan is an analog, but...
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On Epistemology and Obscenity
“Obscenity” is the third order of Epistemological control over seeing. The determination of obscenity is harmful to the democracy, to free speech and to art. As such, it undermines and endangers the democratic collective’s survival.
In the American democracy, therefore, art should not be owned by individuals or by organizations, commercial or social. Art in the democracy must be held in trust...
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On American Democratic Art and Ownership
Free speech by definition cannot be owned. It belongs in the Commons.