Published in unpsychology voices

·Pinned

Keeping it real: a warm data ‘UNtopia’

Unpsychology Magazine’s issue number 8 — An Anthology of Warm Data — is out now and is available FREE to download from www.unpsychology.org. — Warm Data is information that is alive within the transcontextual relating of a living system. (Nora Bateson) When I approached Nora Bateson to suggest that we devote the 8th edition to Unpsychology Magazine to Warm Data — the growing field of complexity inquiry, theory and practice that she is building…

Warm Data

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Published in unpsychology voices

·Jun 19

Patterns of fluidity in Humanity

PART OF UNPSYCHOLOGY’S WARM DATA ANTHOLOGY SERIES BY MAINUNAH MOSLI You can find a version of this article in Unpsychology #8: an anthology of warm data. Download the full magazine FREE from www.unpsychology.org This piece is my way of combining multiple contexts that exist for most of us. Water in its abundance…

Warm Data

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Published in unpsychology voices

·May 25

Oika Interpretations

PART OF UNPSYCHOLOGY’S WARM DATA ANTHOLOGY SERIES BY RICH BLUNDELL AND RITA LEDUC The following video project comprises ecological interpretations, by ecologist Rich Blundell, of artworks by Rita Leduc. You can find a version of this article in Unpsychology 8: The Warm Data edition. Download it free from www.unpsychology.org Oika is the relational intelligence of nature …

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·Oct 26, 2021

Unpsychology issue 8 submissions call: Warm data

Submissions deadline: 31st December 2021 — Dear friend of Unpsychology Magazine, Unpsychology Magazine is a labour of love. We (that is co-editors, Steve Thorp and Julia Macintosh — and past co-editor, Cae Hawksmoor) have been working on it since 2014. We have been fortunate enough to have curated an impressive body of ‘mind-related’ art, writing and…

Unpsychology

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Oct 26, 2021

Unpsychology issue 8 submissions call: Warm data

Submissions deadline: 31st December 2021 — Unpsychology Magazine Issue 8: Warm Data We are now inviting submissions for Issue 8.This open call is for submissions of fiction, poetry, artwork, video and creative expressions. Essays and non-fiction are not requested in this instance in this open call. This issue will be published in Spring 2022 as a digital and online anthology and will…

Warm Data

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Published in COVID poetics

·Updated Jul 1, 2021

22 — Storm-taken

Emergence poems #2 As COVID was emerging, and just before the lockdowns that have changed our lives, I read this new poem at a Campfire Convention Winter Gathering in Frome. The days around it, in February 2020, were literally stormy, and the roads around the town were all flooded. …

Poetry

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Published in unpsychology voices

·May 27, 2021

Climate Complexity Change

Download Unpsychology Magazine issue 7 FREE here — Download the FREE seventh issue of Unpsychology Magazine from www.unpsychology.org and get the six previous editions as digital pdf publications — also completely free. Preface to the magazine by Julia Macintosh and Steve Thorp We live in days of complexity and change. We live in times of crisis. Since the inception of Unpsychology Magazine in 2014, the climate emergency has…

Unpsychology

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Published in COVID poetics

·Apr 10, 2021

21 — Influencers

Emergence poems #1 “Emergence is beautiful and dangerous” (Nora Bateson) What will life be like as we emerge out of this particular crisis and move into the next? It probably will not be like anything that is being planned for and designed by the ‘grown ups’. And it certainly won’t…

Covid Poetry

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Published in COVID poetics

·Nov 12, 2020

20 — intention

Warm Data reflections #6 I found this poem when going back over my notes from the Warm Data Host training I attended over the summer. In the session, we’d been talking about ‘conscious purpose’ — what Gregory Bateson described as “a short-cut device to enable you to get quickly at…

Warm Data

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20 — intention

Warm Data reflections #6

I found this poem when going back over my notes from the Warm Data Host training I attended over the summer. In the session, we’d been talking about ‘conscious purpose’ — what Gregory Bateson described as “a short-cut device to enable you to get quickly at…

Published in unpsychology voices

·Oct 12, 2020

Soulmaking — a dialogue on emergence

JULIA MACINTOSH AND STEVE THORP One of the features of Unpsychology Magazine — both online and in the published editions — has been a series of continuing dialogues between ourselves, Julia and Steve, as editors of Unpsychology, and as explorers of meaning and mind. Our first series, on Healing was…

Unpsychology

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