A LYRICAL VITALISM, OR DANCING IN THE CREATION: FROM ME TO US (with thanks to Naomi Simson, paraphrasing her work, Peter Watson for his 'Ideas' and to sundry authors): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCotV86izh0

(THIS IS A DRAFT)!!!!___

DANCING IN THE CREATION: FROM ME TO US___

'The Oriental Renaissance'___

A replay of Opium Wars or new way??___

FUSHE (Renewal) in China___

- Equal Tempered (Essence of Music), Zaiyu___

EAST + WEST___

- But tension between modernism + past in China. Will this lead to ‘post’-modern splitting/splintering of identities? (Cf Ming)___

- LYRICAL vs POSITIVIST movement___

- BIG DATA + GLOBALISM/SINICISM = BOTH??___


- ‘ LYRICAL VITALISM’___

ABUFAZL – a ‘Gentling’ of relations  CONCILIATION (Cf Huntingdon)___

IRAN-US tension  rapprochement___

 INTERNATIONALIST expertise to China/SEA (eg Manucci)___

(See SCHLEGEL, SCHELLING, JONES)

NOTION OF ‘BECOMING’___

‘Virile link with romanticism’___

REDUCE SECRECY Cf Snowden___

Portugese, Padroado___

{SHAKUNTALA = ‘ALL-IN-GOD’___



Contradictions +/-___

But dangers of PATRIOTISM + NATIONALISM leading to MILITARISM___

(Cf Japan - Meiji Restoration)___

- BERNARD LEWIS vs SAID___

 SYNCRETISM/Sufism vs WAHABBISM___


Common Paths
+ PATH of Common Law___

‘Outside politics, the topics which attracted most interest of the envoys were the status of women, science and music’___

CROSS-INVENTION/CROSS-POLLINATION___

Incubators were invented in Egypt (GE)___

ASYMMETRY (OPENING-UP)___

‘And the wider answer’..___

Jesuit LETTERBOOKS___
RITES MALABARS, CEREMONIES CHINOISES___

[INDIAN MISSIONS
Now INDO-PACIFIC
(Cf Lowy Institute)___

Quest or battle for ‘Reality’ (Cf Berlin, Vico)___

DOLLARS + SENSE = GLOBAL SENSIS COMMUNIS___

‘RECORD OF (GLOBAL) HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS’ (and conscience_ ___

HARMONISATION/globalisation vs SUPRA-ROMANITICISM___

BERLIN: “Shift uneasily from foot to foot” or dance___



‘DANCE IN THE CREATION’

Cf SHIVA + SIMSON)