More keywords citations hyperlinks and things for me to explore pls ty!Labyrinth = merging of domus and agrios
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I find these things interesting but mainly beyond me nowThe difficulty is knowing when to settle—a trade-off called explore-exploit. And the related problem: picking your patch of land. Perhaps: picking your co-gardener. There are formulas for this, called “stopping algorithms”: multi-armed bandits, Bellman equations and Bruss algos. Secretary problems, parking problems, halting problems.
Rich has decided his optimal algorithm involves never stoppingI find these things interesting but mainly beyond me now
Been doing a bit of reading on gardens as I’m teaching The Merchant’s Tale:
the idea of your own private, prelapsarian Eden where you can frolic.
Priapus, apparently, is the classical god of gardens which makes a kind of sense.
Mary is often depicted being visited by Gabriel in a garden, she herself being an enclosed garden herself.
In the Romance of the Rose it a locus amoenus - an idealised space for the chivalric to demonstrate courtly love virtues but in Metchant Chaucer uses it as a place of earthly desire with the heroine duping her husband while up a pear tree with his servant.
Been doing a bit of reading on gardens as I’m teaching The Merchant’s Tale:
the idea of your own private, prelapsarian Eden where you can frolic.
Priapus, apparently, is the classical god of gardens which makes a kind of sense.
Mary is often depicted being visited by Gabriel in a garden, she herself being an enclosed garden herself.
In the Romance of the Rose it a locus amoenus - an idealised space for the chivalric to demonstrate courtly love virtues but in Metchant Chaucer uses it as a place of earthly desire with the heroine duping her husband while up a pear tree with his servant.
Claude Monet did not like organized nor constrained gardens. He married flowers according to their colours and left them to grow rather freely.
With the passing years he developed a passion for botany, exchanging plants with his friends Clemenceau and Caillebotte. Always on the look-out for rare varieties, he bought young plants at great expense. "All my money goes into my garden," he said. But also: "I am in raptures."
Using the simple and easily grasped image of the garden (society) and gardener (social-engineer/manager), Bauman highlights the interrelated concepts of order and control. These are perennial concerns of the gardener, whether s/he is a real gardener pulling up weeds or a metaphorical social gardener rounding up human beings in the interests of a managerial plan. Drawing upon and extending the thinking of Hannah Arendt (1951) and Adorno and Horkenheimer ([1944]1997), Bauman's critique also warns us that attempts to equate society and nature and to manage the former according to the principles of the latter, have yielded catastrophically cruel results in the past. Bauman's thinking -- and my own resultant research -- is primarily concerned with the philosophical and ethical implications of the gardening metaphor. T he imagery has obvious crossovers to the realm of (critical) environmental management/managerial ecology, and this paper discusses few of these possibilities.