| Foreword: As requested
by many.... I will try to present myself here in my shortest possible format,
just on one page with a few pictures. You can request to boil it down to
one sentence or message and then I would say based on Patrick
Stalinski: "it is all about love and respect" but such a statement
is much too "shallow" for this purpose, it would not help the mattes and
issues I WANT TO TACKLE WITH YOU !!.
Einstein is reported to have said: "Man soll die Dinge einfach machen, aber nicht einfacher" (You should make things simple, not simpler" - (there is no "simpler" or superlative to the term "simple"). I hope and feel I am on this way - it is like a future something you not can plan or achieve, it is a way and directions, and visions connected with ideas and values we need to weave together, share and improve on a daily basis to guide our behaviours and life-styles -... PLEASE - you can help, advise and comment to guide me and others on the way towards shared and greater tolerance and harmony... THANK YOU heiner |
So here we go:
My work is about the issues of
the modern media and cyberculture and how this transforms our ways to perceive,
think and share and communicate (12). My concern is that we do not get
lost or caught, as can happen when you get into the
magnetic
attraction of one "portal" with no idea where the door (portal) might lead
to... (2) or feel
without orientation (1) and surrounded by "doomsday
metaphors", but to change
the models and maps, change the distance
and positions in relation to the matters and issues, (3) and
opting for a deeper reflective Schau or Gestalt in an "Age
of Show".
The resulting
glut or magnetism of insular interests (one eye ego) have much to do with
the impacts around the
"Global Brain" discussion - the danger
of using just one metaphors/model (7-8) or having just one view, one
approach, and how to combine,
share and "move" between realities, if we transform
or have a battle over perspectives (7), and that we need to share
realities and virtualities by making them more concrete, and
in this way share not only where we are,
but what the issues, agendas and matters are, maybe even come to shared
integral
agendas! (7-9)
I have
presented some of these issues, asking what Ptolemy
might be doing today (4) and for the World of Learning, see LEARNDAY
and what this would mean to new alternative and additional "search
machines" (10).
On my pages you can not find one issue or one message as is typical for homepage, you have to expect in the links below jump-pages and consider the whole enterprise a "hub", or a collection of annotated links which might help to get started and provide a more comprehensive picture, open "doors" and "eyes". As a picture is more than 10 000 words, as the Chines say, I invite you to see some of my pictures and maybe go first to: Show or Schau? or how all began in the field of mapping and modeling - first the real environment /world and later worlds of knowledge and what we do not know - see KnowMap.
(1) - (12) a selection in addition
to the links above to help you get a picture of "what Benking's message
is about"
