Body-Vessel-Matrix: Co-Creative Images of Synergetic Universe
Abstract: In his essay “Goddesses of the Twenty-first Century,” R. Buckminster Fuller's use of woman and goddess as metaphor suggests a fruitful source of images illuminating synergetic principles. Using five images, clustered as odyvessel-matrix, the article suggests an epistemology and a heur...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
1990
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Zygon
Year: 1990, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-165 |
Further subjects: | B
Gaia
B Synergy B Ecology B Body B R. Buckminster Fuller B goddesses and goddess images |
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Summary: | Abstract: In his essay “Goddesses of the Twenty-first Century,” R. Buckminster Fuller's use of woman and goddess as metaphor suggests a fruitful source of images illuminating synergetic principles. Using five images, clustered as odyvessel-matrix, the article suggests an epistemology and a heuristic for connecting the personal-physical and the universal-metaphysical. These images are (1) the Egyptian goddess Nut, (2) the Greek earth goddesses, (3) Neolithic Maltese goddess temples, (4) the double spiral, and (5) the Apollo Mission's Earth photographs. These images are intended as transformational synergetic/ecofeminist figures to replace images of deprivation, alienation, and destruction with images of abundance, intimacy, and co-creation. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1990.tb00877.x |