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The Walking Seminar. Embodied Research Methodologies in emergent Anthropocene Landscapes https:// | The Walking Seminar. Embodied Research Methodologies in emergent Anthropocene Landscapes https:// | ||
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+ | what walking means in cultural history: | ||
+ | * Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry | ||
+ | * the Peripatetic philiosophers who taught and discoured while walking back and forth in a Stoa | ||
+ | * Collonade; the walking poets of the Hellenistic world, who would leave a little poem behind them them at a brook or under a shade tree where other walkers from town to town would find them, extolling the shade of the tree, the clarity and coolness of the water in the brook, | ||
+ | * The Sky- walking or Cloud-walking Taoist poets and ages, who would high uo in the mountain peaks in cloud banks | ||
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+ | * The Buddhist walking meditation, in which excruciating slowness first the path then the heel of each foot gloms the ground. | ||
+ | * the Anabis, the great walk of the greek soldiers trapped in Persia under Xenophon | ||
+ | * the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete | ||
+ | * the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages | ||
+ | * Mao's Long March and Gandhi' | ||
+ | * the man who ritually walked the lenght, from end to end, of every streetin Mahattan. http:// | ||
+ | and so on | ||
+ | walking just aas a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of selfexpression or dicovery or exploration, | ||
+ | * The prostrating walk in Chine Buddhism. The monk enters a concentration or one pint-state as much as possible, faces in the direction he wishes to traverse, and lies flat on his face on the ground; when he gets up he plants his feet where his face had been when he was lying down, gathers his concentration again, and so on. It's much like the movement of an inch-worm, except that with each prostration he advances about five feet. For centuries Buddhist monks developing their vipassana concentration, | ||
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+ | The Graeta Wll Walk was based in the idea of the artists walking towards each other, in theirr early work, the pair walked toward each other over and over again with great physical concentration across a small space. in the great wall the while they converged across a fast distance, their walking invlved perhaps even more mental than physical effort. | ||
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+ | * Stanly Brouwn: takes walking, a man's step as his point of departure. the human measure against which all else can be compared. | ||
+ | check it out! plus pictures. | ||
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