This Reader

This Reader explores the subject of the human mind, and its limitations to control and manipulate physical and future events. The following series of art references, texts, projects, films and websites shape the essential question, what is human? Each reference addresses issues and forms examples and arguments which suggest that the human mind has a direct effect upon external factors, in both individual and mass scale. The gathered material proposes a greater self power over physical circumstances, and questions the individual and mass collected power, to control and change reality. This knowledge could then be asserted to address larger issues which may confront our current reality. The choice of material is in no chronological order, but explores varied approaches and methodologies all with similar concepts. The varied size and form of the material allows the information to be considered in the form the viewer finds most effective, it also allows for the choice of both brief viewing and more careful consideration. All the references suggest how the human mind holds a greater significant influence than we normally percieve, through intention, imagery, spiritual connections, altered states of conciousness and simple observation.



Tuesday 5 April 2011

The Socially Constructed reality

'The Social Construction of Reality' is a book about the sociology of knowledge written by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. Social constuctivism looks at how social phenomena develops and is shaped by social context. A social construct for example is good and evil, formed by countless human experiences and choices. The book questions what reality is, and how important the the human consciousness is in forming what we perceive as reality.It is a concept which is also explored in The Double Slit Experiment, but is approached in a sociological method rather than a scientific one.