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The Union of Imaginable Associations is a collective initiative
that:
- elicits imaginative possibilities and explores the coherence
to which they may together give rise in practice -- the dynamics of their
union;
- favours the conceptually and creatively radical across
all disciplines and ways of knowing;
- has sympathies with the
mindsets of scientific research, with technical innovation, experimental
art, with the magic of Celtic and other cultures, with anarchistic ways
of knowing (as promoted by such as Paul Feyerabend), and with the exciting
possibilities evoked by cultural creatives and the New Age;
- is open
to the archetypal echoes of "lost
languages",
the knowledge of "golden
eras" past ,
and the future potential exemplified by the Glass
Bead Game;
- is especially concerned with new ways of enacting the "pattern
that connects" in
the present moment (as promoted by such as Francisco Varela) and the
subtle psycho-social nourishment that such imaginative patterns are able
to channel and anchor;
- is notably sensitive to "life as play and possibility" (as
advocated by James Carse regarding "infinite games") and to
insights more adequately carried by music and the other arts.
This initiative is consistent with the need to explore subtler and more
dynamic approaches to organization, beyond the unfocused "vision" of "networking" or "knowledge
management". The issues
are articulated in Consciously
Self-reflexive Global Initiatives: Renaissance zones, complex adaptive
systems, and third order organizations. The initiative is complementary
to three others --
each accessible via the logo above -- mutually counter-balancing echoes
of a central process in the moment and beyond time. Together these form
an emerging, overarching union of interweaving processes: a potential "pattern
that connects". The challenge to comprehension is discussed elsewhere
(Dynamic
Reframing of "Union": implications for the coherence of knowledge,
social organization and personal identity).
These issues are
further clarified in a table interrelating the four initiatives (In
Quest of "Meta-Union"?). The nature
of any union of significance is therefore not predefined by any form of
understanding but is progressively and continually to be (re)discovered
in time. Indeed, since "yoga" signifies "union" (in
Sanskrit), the corollary may be that the challenge of any "union" of
significance implies some form of "yoga".
Frequently asked questions about this initiative are addressed in a FAQ.
The web address of this site (www.un-imagine.org)
also offers a caution against overly hasty assumptions -- as discussed separately |
