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Theodore Roszak war ein US-amerikanischer Historiker, Hochschullehrer und Autor mehrerer Sachbücher und Romane. Als Sozialkritiker prägte er in den 1960er Jahren den Begriff Gegenkultur, counterculture. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. November 1933 – 5. Juli 2011
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„Die Information hat in den letzten vierzig Jahren im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch die erstaunliche Wandlung vom Aschenputtel zur Prinzessin erfahren.“

Der Verlust des Denkens. Über die Mythen des Computer-Zeitalters. München, 1986. Übersetzer: Christa Broermann. ISBN 3-426-03915-X

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“It tells us the world is… deserving of reverence.”

with Betty Roszak, "Deep Form in Art and Nature" Alexandria 4, Vol.4 The Order of Beauty and Nature (1997) ed. David Fideler
Kontext: Our goal should not be to borrow from elsewhere, but to search among our own cultural resources, perhaps even in modern science and industrialism, for ways to restore art to the status it has always held in traditional societies as a form of knowledge.... art adds to what we learn from any combination of physics, biology, geology, and chemistry. It tells us the world is... deserving of reverence.

“That is what Castle's work needed: a beginner's eye”

Theodore Roszak buch Flicker

Flicker (1991)
Kontext: That is what Castle's work needed: a beginner's eye—my eye, before it became too schooled and guarded, while it was still in touch with the vulgar foundations of the art, still vulnerably naive enough to receive that faint and flickering revelation of the dark god whose scriptures are the secret history of the movies.

“The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal. …Cells …need to be "encouraged" to live.”

Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Kontext: Without apoptosis, life would not be possible.... when cells lose their ability to die, they run rampant, assuming that life-threatening form we call cancer.... The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal.... Cells... need to be "encouraged" to live.

“It is characteristic of the technocracy to render itself invisible.”

Its assumptions about reality and its values become as unobtrusively pervasive as the air we breathe. ...the technocracy increases and consolidates its power... following the dictates of industrial efficiency, rationality, and necessity. ...the technocracy assumes a position similar to that of the purely neutral umpire in an athletic contest. ...we tend to ignore the man ...Yet ...he alone sets the limits and goals of the competition and judges the contenders.

“Women enter the sciences, but "womanliness"—those qualities that have always been stereotypically attributed to females—is not yet entirely welcome”

Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect
Kontext: Women enter the sciences, but "womanliness"—those qualities that have always been stereotypically attributed to females—is not yet entirely welcome, whether it comes into the laboratory wearing pants or a skirt.

“It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.”

Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Kontext: Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes among which only this one has by sheer accident produced the conditions for life and mind. It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.

“Without apoptosis, life would not be possible.”

...when cells lose their ability to die, they run rampant, assuming that life-threatening form we call cancer. ...The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal. ...Cells ...need to be "encouraged" to live.
Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

“In four centuries of taking wealth and comfort from the body of the Earth, modern science has not troubled to produce a single rite or ritual, not even a minor prayer, that asks pardon or gives thanks.”

Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature
Kontext: In four centuries of taking wealth and comfort from the body of the Earth, modern science has not troubled to produce a single rite or ritual, not even a minor prayer, that asks pardon or gives thanks. But then what sense would it make to ask anything of a dead body?

“The final stage of life… offers us the opportunity to detach from competitive, high-consumption priorities… At that point, life itself—the opportunity it offers for growth, for intellectual adventure, for the simple joys of love and companionship, for working out our salvation—comes to be seen as our highest value. …That is what I have always assumed it means to be countercultural.”

The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)
Kontext: The final stage of life... offers us the opportunity to detach from competitive, high-consumption priorities... At that point, life itself—the opportunity it offers for growth, for intellectual adventure, for the simple joys of love and companionship, for working out our salvation—comes to be seen as our highest value.... That is what I have always assumed it means to be countercultural.

“If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness.”

The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)
Kontext: If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness. But as the prevailing reality principle would have it, nothing could be greater madness than to believe that beast and plant, mountain and river have a "point of view." …minds exist, so we believe, nowhere but in human heads.

“Or perhaps… there is actually an infinity of universes”

Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Kontext: Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes among which only this one has by sheer accident produced the conditions for life and mind. It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.

“Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.”

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Kontext: Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.

Afterword: The Idols of the Bedchamber

“The macho is in the metaphors, not the phenomena.”

Quelle: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

“"Technocracy," in The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American Sources (2004) ed. Montserrat Ginés Giber”

Variante: "Technocracy," in The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American Sources (2004) ed. Montserrat Ginés Giber

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