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First
Vision: Reading/Being...
We
are what we read, or rather, what we take in, and what we are
able to digest in full or in part. We are, beyond what is read,
the extent to which we read the world. Our self depends
almost entirely on our ability to make sense of information we
encounter in the course of our existence. We are the extent to
which we achieve a reading of the world that works and
fosters new beauty and new readings.
Media
literacy is implied not only by the medium itself, but by the
nature of the function of communications media in general. It
can be said that a pre-eminent expectation of journalists, editors,
producers and directors requires of viewers, readers, and consumers
a certain amount of cultural and political savvy. The extent to
which we know the truth may depend entirely upon our ability to
fulfill this expectation. [Read
more...]
How
do we encounter selfhood in the mix and mire of the world? How
to we act upon this discovery and within its potency? The texts
within Dharma Visions will serve as inaugurations of a theme for
debate, which will be carried out in the essays, and other expressions
published across both the Visions and Text sections.
Second
Vision: Fixations
& Social Harmony...
It
must be inherent in the nature of consciousness, in the nature
of the ability to focus and to discern complex patterns, that
certain fixations (on the pleasurable and the undesirable alike)
will take hold. Fixations within the mind, within one's world-view,
become more than preferences or tastes: they specifically serve
to engender a relationship with the world in which one's consciousness
feels more warranted in resting, because certain dangers have
been weeded out, as certain knowledge has been established.
What
may be most vital to this examination of psychological totems
and social structures is this notion of the bifold will of intelligent
consciousness to labor endlessly and to rest. [Read
more...]
Third
Vision: Imagining
the World...
It may be that we can only imagine the world, that we craft
it as we examine it, and that we ourselves are crafted (in our
limits and our liberties) by this process of imagining the realm
we inhabit. It may be that such imagining is not to fictionalize
existence, but rather to conjure images which allow for a more
sound understanding [Read
more...]
Fourth
Vision: Sound-bite
Themepark TV-dinner...
A
vibrant media culture, also known as a Free Press, is vital to
the full and healthy functioning of a democracy. But in the zeal
to push boundaries, much is being done to undermine both the value
of the media and the value of language as the fundamental medium
of free expression. [Read
more...]
Fifth
Vision: A Question
of Questions
Time
is a by-product of movement through space. It is linked to the
relativity of physics as we have come to understand it. It can
change according to the speed at which one's narrow perceptive
sphere moves through the larger material world. Wealth corresponds
not to natural value, but to an accumulation of coded influence.
That influence depends entirely upon how widely accepted is the
code of valuation through which one wields one's influence. Liberty
is based not strictly on natural truth, but on circumstance. There
is a radical existential freedom, but it must be applied to a
world of facts and obstacles, and it must be borne out among the
ideas and desires of others. The time and scope of the individual
is linked to the surrounding world, but informed with the responsibilities
of intellect and free will. [Read
more...]
Fundamental
questions about what truth is and how it is portrayed are related
to every aspect of our daily lives.
Dharma's Visions section is devoted to putting forth theoretical
arguments about such trends, and to publishing artistic and visual
expressions of unique, frustrated, or revealing points of view.
Dharma
is a digital community devoted to the pursuit of knowledge
and the expansion of cultural exchange and comprehension.
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