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.................................... ...................................................................... These videos present the basics of a new flow-cartoon language, and apply it to different topics. ...................................................................... Why try to do this? ...................................................................... Because the world is in trouble! It is getting more crowded and more complicated, with a lot more problems. But we are not finding a more integrated comprehension of it all. We need a way to combine ecology and economics in the same image. It must start simply, it must be based on real things, it must accelerate learning, and it must be easily translated. ...................................................................... But how can we accelerate learning? --By taking a new look at language: Visual animation allows a new degree-of-freedom for a regular grammar, and this makes it possible to increase comprehension. ...................................................................... This is an attempt to create such a language. ...................................................................... Ecolanguage introduces a few new things: (1) the use of regular motion as a part of standard grammar, and (2) the use of a visual symmetry -- the hexagonal snowflake -- to stand for an organization of any kind, at any level of nature and society. In the center, we put the ruler. ....................................................................... Everything else is based on things which came before. ...................................................................... By using old and new things, Ecolanguage comprises: ...................................................................... (A) an international systems language, ...................................................................... (B) an accelerated learning strategy, ...................................................................... (C) an integration of important and crucial topics, and ...................................................................... (D) a scientific philosophy, emerging from many thinkers and writers over the last century, that brings the life, social, and cognitive sciences into the same picture as the physical sciences. We put the new basics of INFORMATION and ORGANIZATION alongside the established basics of MATTER and ENERGY. Now we can represent contexts, purposiveness, intention, relationship, agreement, and belief. We can locate the position of mathematical and physical deduction within a larger picture of communication and exchange. We can indicate both analysis and synthesis, including the redundancy of parts and their transcendence into wholes. It is a picture of our perceptual framework, no matter where we look. For a fun primer on this philosophy, please watch: New Chart, for Descartes. (For the old pointers, see the following bibliography.) ...................................................................... Note on these videos: the symbols were drawn in Adobe Illustrator, then animated in Adobe After Effects. ...................................................................... ......................................................................

Charles Chaplin, "The Gold Rush" (1925) and "City Lights" (1931), Buster Keaton, "The General" (1926) and "Steamboat Bill Jr." (1928), Ernst Lubitsch, "Trouble in Paradise" (1932) and "To Be or Not to Be" (1942), Jean Renoir, "The Grand Illusion" (1937) and "The Rules of the Game" (1939), Frank Capra, "Meet John Doe" (1941), Jean Cocteau,"Orpheus" (1950), Yasujiro Ozu, "Tokyo Story" (1953) and "Good Morning" (1959), John Ford, "The Searchers" (1956), Orson Welles, "Chimes at Midnight [Falstaff]" (1965), Robert Bresson, "Au hasard Balthazar" (1966), Stanley Kubrick, "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), Arthur Penn, "Little Big Man" (1970), Federico Fellini, "Amarcord" (1973), Andrei Tarkovsky, "Stalker" (1979), Errol Morris, "The Thin Blue Line" (1988), Terrence Malick, "The Thin Red Line" (1998), Hirokazu Koreeda, "After Life" (1998), David Lynch, "Inland Empire" (2006), Abbas Kiarostami, "Where is My Romeo?" (2007), Adam Curtis, "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom" (2007) and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (2011).

Hildegard of Bingen, Perotin, Ciconia, Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Tallis, Byrd, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schoenberg, Vaughan Williams, Krenek, Messiaen, Xenakis, Scelsi, Ligeti, Morton Feldman, James Tenney, Alvin Curran, Steve Reich, Pete Townshend, Gerard Grisey, Ingram Marshall, Tristan Murail, David First, Kaija Saariaho ...................................................................... ...................................................................... .........--ECOLANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY--......... ...................................................................... HOWARD T. ODUM, Environment, Power, and Society (1971, 2007) ...................................................................... GREGORY BATESON, Form, substance, and difference (1970), a lecture reprinted in: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972, 2000) ...................................................................... GREGORY BATESON, Mind and Nature, a Necessary Unity (1979, 2002) ...................................................................... GEORGE A. MILLER, The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. (1956) ...................................................................... FRANCES A. YATES, The Art of Memory (1966) ...................................................................... HERBERT A. SIMON, How big is a chunk? (1974) ...................................................................... ERICH JANTSCH and CONRAD H. WADDINGTON (eds.,) Evolution and Consciousness: Human Systems in Transition (1976) ...................................................................... And see also: ............................................... ...... QUINTILIAN, Institutes of Oratory (c. 90 C.E.)...... PLOTINUS, Enniads (c. 260)...... MONTAIGNE, Essays (1580)...... LOCKE, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)...... SWIFT, A Tale of a Tub (1704)...... SMITH, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)...... BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)...... KANT, Critique of Judgement (1790)...... ADAMS and JEFFERSON, Letters, 1812-1826 (edited by Lester J. Cappon, 1988)...... CHARLES BABBAGE, On the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning. (1827)...... CHARLES BABBAGE, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1835)...... JOHN STUART MILL, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (1843)...... ERNST MACH, The economy of science. - chapter 4, section 4 of: Science of Mechanics (1883)...... ALFRED JARRY, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1895)...... GEORGES POLTI, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (1921)...... SCUDDER KLYCE, Universe (1921)...... PAUL KLEE, Pedagogical Sketchbook (1923)...... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Science and the Modern World (1925)...... HERMANN WEYL, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science (1926, 1947)...... BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Analysis of Matter (1927)...... L.E.J. BROUWER, Mathematics, science, and language. (1929)...... JEAN COCTEAU, Opium: the Diary of a Cure (1930)...... JOHN R. COMMONS, Institutional economics. (1931)...... E.A. BURTT, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (1932)...... GEORGE PERRIGO CONGER, The Horizons of Thought: a Study in the Dualities of Thinking (1933)...... RAYMOND ROUSSEL, How I Wrote Certain of My Books (1935)...... ARTHUR O. LOVEJOY, The Great Chain of Being: a Study of the History of an Idea (1936)...... RONALD H. COASE, The nature of the firm. (1937)...... JAMES JOYCE, Finnegans Wake (1939)...... EDMUND HUSSERL, Experience and Judgement (1939)...... MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS, Economic Anthropology: the Economic Life of Primitive Peoples (1940)...... C.S. LEWIS, The Abolition of Man (1944)...... MAX WERTHEIMER, Productive Thinking (1945)...... LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, The Next Development in Man (1948)...... LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology (1949)...... CHUCK JONES, the Road Runner cartoons (1949-1964)...... CARL B. BOYER, The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development (1949)...... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Philosophical Investigations (1953)...... W. ROSS ASHBY, An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956)...... J.M. BOCHENSKI, A History of Formal Logic (1956)...... FRANK CAPRA, Our Mister Sun (1956)...... NOAM CHOMSKY, Syntactic Structures (1957)...... KARL POLANYI, The Great Transformation: the Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1957)...... KARL POLANYI, Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies (1968)...... FRITHJOF SCHUON, The Transcendent Unity of Religions (1957)...... WILLIAM KNEALE and MARTHA KNEALE, The Development of Logic (1962)...... RALPH BORSODI, The Education of the Whole Man (1963)...... RALPH BORSODI, The Definition of Definition (1974)...... LEONARD B. MEYER, Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture (1967)......

..................... continued: ..................... ................................................................. ROY A. RAPPAPORT, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People (1967)...... ROY A. RAPPAPORT, Ecology, Meaning, and Religion (1979)...... JAMES LIPTON, An Exaltation of Larks (1968)...... RAMON MARGALEF, Perspectives in Ecological Theory (1968)...... JOHN C. LILLY, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer (1968)...... ARTHUR KOESTLER, Some general properties of self-regulating open hierarchic order. (1969)...... JEAN PIAGET, Genetic Epistemology (1970)...... NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971)...... G. SPENCER BROWN, Laws of Form (1972)...... ANTHONY WILDEN, System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange (1972)...... FRANKLIN MERRELL-WOLFF, Pathways Through to Space (1973)...... LEWIS S. FEUER, Einstein and the Generations of Science (1974)...... STEWART BRAND (editor,) The CoEvolution Quarterly (1974-1984)...... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)...... GIAN-CARLO ROTA, Husserl and the reform of logic. (1975)...... STANISLAV GROF, Systems of condensed experience. - in chapter 3 of: Realms of the Human Unconscious (1975)...... HOWARD H. PATTEE, Dynamic and linguistic modes of complex systems. (1977)...... FRANKLIN LE VAN BAUMER (editor,) Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present, 4th edition (1978)...... GREGORY BATESON, personal communication (1979)...... HEINZ VON FOERSTER, On constructing a reality. (1979)...... HUMBERTO R. MATURANA and FRANCISCO J. VARELA, Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living (1980)...... HAZEL HENDERSON, The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics (1981)...... HAZEL HENDERSON, Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare (1996)...... ILYA PRIGOGINE and ISABELA STENGERS, Order Out of Chaos (1984)...... NORMAN CORWIN, Trivializing America (1983)...... GREGORY BATESON and MARY CATHERINE BATESON, Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred (1987)...... GERALD PRINCE, A Dictionary of Narratology (1987)...... ALLEN W. JOHNSON and TIMOTHY EARLE, The Evolution of Human Societies: from Foraging Group to Agrarian State (1987)...... ROBERT McKEE, Story Seminar, Los Angeles (1990)...... JOHN TRUBY, Story Structure class, Los Angeles (1990)...... BRIAN COTTERELL and JOHAN KAMMINGA, Mechanics of Pre-Industrial Technology (1990)...... ELINOR OSTROM, Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990)...... ELINOR OSTROM, et al. (editors,) The Drama of the Commons (2003)...... MURRAY GELL-MANN, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (1994)...... MURRAY GELL-MANN, Fundamental sources of unpredictability. (1996)...... CARL MITCHAM, Thinking Through Technology: the Path Between Engineering and Philosophy (1994)...... HOWARD T. ODUM, personal communication (1994)...... MARK BLAUG, Economic Theory in Retrospect, 5th edition (1996)...... HERMAN E. DALY, Beyond Growth: the Economics of Sustainable Development (1996)...... PAUL R. EHRLICH and ANNE H. EHRLICH, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (1996)...... HAO WANG, A Logical Journey: from Godel to Philosophy (1996)...... JAMES K. GALBRAITH, Created Unequal: the Crisis in American Pay (1998)...... MELVIN W. REDER, Economics: the Culture of a Controversial Science (1999)...... ROBERT D. PUTNAM, Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000)...... STANLEY N. SALTHE, Summary of the principles of hierarchy theory. (2001)...... VLADIMIR TASIC, Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought (2001)...... STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER and TERRY L. ROOT (editors,) Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies (2002)...... MARTIN H. KRIEGER, Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003)...... DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Perfectly Legal: the Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System (2003)...... JAMES GUSTAVE SPETH, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (2004)...... THOMAS O. McGARITY, SIDNEY SHAPIRO, and DAVID BOLLIER, Sophisticated Sabotage: the Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation (2004)...... PETER H. LINDERT, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, volume 1 (2004)...... DANIEL W. BROMLEY, Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions (2006)...... AL GORE, The Assault on Reason (2007)...... MARK LYNAS, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (2008)...... STUART A. KAUFFMAN, Reinventing the Sacred: a New View of Science, Reason, and Religion (2008).