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[Untitled folder]
CJA-PTK-14 · File · 1992-1995
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of an unbranded dark blue/grey folder. Includes:
-typescript letter from Charles Correa to Charles enclosing a write-up of a studio he is teaching at MIT and an article in Daedelus titled 'Another India' [both enclosed]; reply typescript fax from Charles inviting him to a forthcoming seminar, 1992
-photocopy handwritten contact details for participants at the Portrack Seminar 13-17 July 1992
-photocopy diagram with line labelled Pre-Modern, Modern, Post-Modern, High, Middle, Low
-copy fax from Charlene Spretnak to multiple recipients ahead of a seminar, detailing her take on postmodernism, 1992
-photocopy manuscript diagram headed 'Modernity; Modernism;Deconstructive Postmodernism; Ecological Postmodernism'
-typescript letter from [Michael Zimmerman] on Tulane Department of Philosophy headed paper discussing Charles' recent writings, his own forthcoming books, Silence of The Lambs, and ecology, 1992; annotated on reverse with a reading list
-typescript titled 'Public lectures re The Quantum Self: Danah Zohar, [c1992]
-typescript letter from [Mae-Wan Ho] on Open University:Department of Biology headed paper thanking Maggie and Charles for their hospitality and introduction to postmodernism, 1992
-copy handwritten fax [faded] from Charles to Malcolm Bradbury, with a note to his PA to send it typed, reiterating the invitation to the Portrack Seminar and the themes that will be discussed, 1992
-typescript fax from Paul Davies to Charles, detailing his travel arrangements for Portrack, 1992
-internal envelope, last addressed to Prof. P. T. Saunders, containing 11 copies of 'Mathematics, Structuralism and Biology' offprint from Acta Biologica Hungarica and 4 copies of a chapter titled 'Mathematucs, Structuralism and the Formal Cause in Biology'
-manuscript fax [faded] from [Michael Zimmerman] on Tulane Department of Philosophy headed paper suggesting a guest for a Seminar [incomplete], 1992
-typescript note regarding Professor Isham's availability
-typescript document titled 'The Society for Process Thought: The Mind of God: Open Forum 6.6.1992: Select Bibliography'
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles on Princeton University headed paper [faded] suggesting an additional participants for the seminar, and reply, 1992

Plastic folder labelled 'Portrack Seminar; September' includes:
-memo slips with handwritten contact details
-typescript list of acceptances and possibles for the 1992 seminars
-typescript fax from Charlene Spretnak to Charles [faded] discussing potential participants, her own travel arrangements, and the distinction between constructive and deconstructive postmodernism, 1992
-manuscript fax [faded] from George Lakoff to Charles, declining to attend due to his schedule, 1992
-private view card for the Franz Gertsch: new works exhibition at Turske Hue-Williams, 1992
-typescript fax [faded] from Jim Collins to Charles, describing in detail his proposed talk for the seminar on the development of Postmodernism and the structure of his proposed slide lecture on the topic, 1992
-typescript letter from Charles to Prof Paul Davies on personal headed airmail paper giving details of the forthcoming seminar, other participants and arrangements for speaking at the event
-typescript fax [very faded] from Zygmunt Bauman to Charles, detailing his views on postmodernism
-typescript fax to Charles on Academy Group Limited headed paper sending addresses, 1992
-typescript fax [faded] from Third Eye Production to Charles giving details of a forthcoming television series that they wish to interview him for, produced and directed by Mark Kidel, 1992
-typescript fax from an unidentified sender for the attention of Charles titled 'Postmodern and the Value of Value', labelled 'Birkbeck College, London' at the bottom, incomplete, annotated
-manuscript letter on European Planning Studies headed paper from Philip Cooke to Charles, commissioning a piece for the journal, 1992
-typescript letter from Charlene Spretnak on personal headed paper to colleagues attending the symposium giving details of her engagement with postmodernism, 1992
-typescript fax (faded) from Charles to David Bohm inviting him to the Portrack Seminar 7-11 September, 1992
-typescript letter from Zygmunt Bauman to Charles, discussing his views on postmodernsim and explaining why he has to decline the invitation to Portrack, 1992
-typescript fax (faded) from Charles to Zygmunt Bauman inviting him to the Portrack Seminar 7-11 September, 1992
-manuscript letter from Zygmunt Bauman to Charles, explaining that it is too late for them to meet but asking him to keep in touch, 1991
-typescript fax (faded) article by Charles titled 'Preface: Post-Modernism - The Third Force'
-typescript titled 'Postmodern Reader: Edited by Charles Jencks: update 25 Nov 91' with a list of chapters, authors and word counts
-typescript letter on Academy Group Limited paper from Lucy Baxter to David Ray Griffin seeking permission to re-publish an extract of 'The Reenchantment of Science'
-compliment slip from M. A. Noble addressed to Mrs Jencks regarding the placement of a new fax machine
-manuscript notes headings include: political, early modern, arch. and ecology, parapsychology, 1871-1914
-typescript fax (faded) from Paul Davies to Charles, regarding arrangements for Portrack, annotated
-manuscript letter from Charlene [Spretnak] on a greetings card of 'The Huichol Peyote Tradition Brings Life and Abundance' by Mariano Valadez, detailing arrangements for her travel, thoughts on 'The Mind of God' and The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability, 1992
-manuscript notes, headings include: Hard Core PM
-page two of a typescript letter from Charlene [Spretnak] with her thoughts on the second round of Portrack Seminars
-manusctipt and typescript notes from Val to Charles about trying to contact Brian Goodwin
-typescript advertisements for The Society for Process Thought 'Mind In The Cosmos 7' Autumn Programme 1992 [multiple copies]

-typescript fax titled 'Participants, Portrack Seminar 'Confrontations and Synergies: The Culture Interplay of the Indigenous, the Traditional, the Modern and the Post-Modern', with contact details 1995
-typescript and manuscript fax titled 'List of participants, Portrack Seminar 1995 with travel arrangements
-typescript letter from Charles to Malcolm Bradbury inviting him to the Portrack Seminar in July, 1992
-typescript document titled 'Post-Modern Architecture - The Four Stages'
-photocopy typescript with annotations titled '"Historical Resistance to Modernity" - Charlene Spretnak'
-manuscript notes titled 'Ecological Postmodernism (a focus on Philosophy) - Charlene'
-photocopy directions to Portrack House [multiple copies]
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper from Ihab Hassan to Charles, thanking him for the critique in Zeitgeist in Babel and discussing the Stuttgart Seminars, 1992
-manuscript letter from Michael E. Zimmerman on Tulane Department of Philosophy headed paper, suggesting Carl Sway for a future seminar and discussing his new book on radical ecology and postmodernity, 1992
-typescript fax (faded) from Richard Falk on Princeton University headed paper sending contact details for William Irwin Thompson, 1992
-typescript fax (faded) from Walter Truett Anderson to Charles with his expenses for the July 1992 Portrack Seminar, annotated.

Portrack Conferences
-CJA-PTK-22 · File · 1997-1999
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'Portrack Conferences'. Includes:
-typescript titled 'Portrack EP draft 9/1/98' and annotated 'Being + Becoming' and 'St. Rose' - file title indicated on print-out 'Steven ep draft', annotated
-typescript titled 'Evolutionary Psychology, Social Darwinism and the SSSM; Hilary Rose - Portrack draft (feedback from Pat Bateson not yet incorporated'
-printed out email from Tom Shakespeare to Charles sending his paper for Portrack and detailing travel arrangements, alongside a typescript titled 'Crippled by biology or disabled by society? Darwinism, ultra-Darwinism, and the issue of impairment', 1998
-typescript letter from Gabby Dover on University of Leicester headed paper sending papers relating to his talk 'Anti-Dawkins, alongside a typescript titled 'Human Evolution: Our Turbulent genes and Why We Are Not Chimps'; and photocopies from the Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management titled 'Molecular drive theory of evolution', from Trends in Ecology & Evolution titled 'Evolving the Improbable', and a review of Stuart A Kauffman's :the Origins of Order' from Nature titled 'On The Edge', 1998
-printed out email from Steven Rose to Charles, sending the text of a review of Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works', annotated,1998
-fax [faded] list of addresses, annotated
-business card for the General Manager, Byzantium, Bristol
-printed out email from Charles to Brian [Goodwin] explaining delays for arrangements with the Portrack conference including the death of Lady Keswick, and another conference he is arranging with Steven and Hilary Rose, 1998
-typescript letter on Open University headed paper from Steven Rose to Brian Godwin, commenting on his proposal for the conference, 1998
-manuscript fax [faded[ from Brian [Goodwin] to Charles enclosing his proposal, typescript titled 'Will participatory science relace [replace] Manioulative Science?'.
-printed-out email from Brian Goodwin to Charles detailing his proposals for a Portrack conference, annotated, 1998
-manuscript lists of potential participants
-manuscript letter on University of Cambridge headed paper from Nancy J Lane thanking Charles for the evening and giving personal news, 1997
-printed-out email from Nancy J Lane to Steven Rose proposing themes and dates for the conference, with manuscript covering note to Charles explaining some of the abbreviations
-photocopy from Biology and Philosophy 13, 'The Tragedy of a priori Selectionism: Dennett and Gould on Adaptationism' by Jeremy C. Ahouse, 1998
-typescript titled 'Lending a sympathetic ear to adaptationism of the road to Hell is paved with good intentions' by Jeremy C. Ahouse, annotated
-typescript titled 'Why Memes?' [by Mary Midgley], annotated
-photocopy typescript letter on University of Leicester headed paper from Gabriel Dover to Steven Rose, sending the title and abstract for his talk, and a short autobiography, 1998
-typescript fax on University of Leicester headed paper from Gaby Dover confirming travel arrangements, 1998
-photocopy of 'Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders' by Arnette Karmiloff-Smith with a covering note to all Portrack participants, 1998
-manuscript letter from Hilary Rose on personal headed paper, discussing the democratisation of science, 1998
-typescript titled 'Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of New genetics' by Hilary Rose
-typescript titled 'Science as a Culture of No Culture' by Hilary Rose, presented at the Science and Technology Awareness in Europe: New Insights conference 1997
-cutting titled 'Why kindness is all part of being selfish', 1998
-[typescript [letter] from [Ted Benton] to Hilary and Steven [Rose] proposing his contribution to the conference and photocopy 'Biology and Social Science: why the return of the repressed should be given a (cautious) welcome'.
-printed-out email from Tim Ingold to Hilary and Steven Rose sending his mini-autobiography, 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Pat Bateson'
-typescript titled 'Eugenics, Scientific Humanism and Social Medcicine in Britain in the Interwar and Early War Years' by Dorothy Porter
-photocopy manuscript letter on The University of Manchester headed paper from Tim Ingold sending a review and unpublished papers for other Portrack participants, alongside a photocopy of Tim Ingold's review of Barkow, Cosmides and Tooby eds 'The Adapted Mind'; typescript titled 'From the transmission of representations to the education of attention' and 'From complementarity to obviation: on dissolving the boundaries between social and biological anthropology, archeology and psychology', both by Tim Ingold, 1997
-typescript titled 'Text of a review that appears, with a few very minor changes, in the February 20 1998 issue of the Times Literary Supplement under the titled 'Is it really a computer?'' by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, reviewing Pinker's 'How the Mind works'.
-typescript titled 'Abstract: Inappropriate and appropriate uses of evolutionary theory in understanding human psychology' by Patrick Bateson
-typescript titled 'Abstract: People with impairment: crippled by biology or disabled by society?' by Tom Shakespeare
-fax announcing the Drawin seminars at the LSE, 1998
-printed-out email from Hilary Rose and Steven Rose to multiple recipients, inviting them to take part in a seminar titled 'Beyond Fundamentalist Darwinism' at Portrack, with the business card from Robert C. Berwick attached.
-interview with Peter Singer titled 'Views for the left' from the Independent on Sunday, 24 May 1998
-leaflet for Schumacher College course programme, June 1998-March 1999
-typescript titled 'Hilary Rose and Steven Rose *working title only'
-typescript fax [faded] from Arnette Karmiloff-Smith detailing travel arrangements
-typescript letter from Charles to seminar participants detailing nearby attractions and an outline of the programme,1998
-printed-out email from Steven Rose to Charles, suggesting a running order, 1998
-typescript titled 'Portrack workshop: Titles of contributions received so far', annotated
-handwritten postcard from Annabel at Weidenfeld & Nicholson giving contact details for Joel Peck
-typescript fax [faded] from Evelyn Fox Keller withdrawing from the conference due to visa issues, 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Peter Singer: How Evol helps us to understand ethics'
-manuscript notes headed 'Steven Rose: Neurogenetic Determinism'
-cutting: review of Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works' from The Times 15 Jan [1998]
-cutting: 'Very grey matter' by Bryan Appleyard, The Suday Times 18 Jan 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Lee Silver' on the back of a letter inviting Charles to a dinner after the Darwin Seminar double bill featuring Lee Silver, Mark Ridley and Steven Pinker on 22 Jan 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Steven Pinker' on the back of a typescript titled Kurokawa's double vision: from metabolism to fractals' by Charles
-A4 flyer and programmes for 'Evolution Revolution' at the ICA Cinema, annotated on reverse, 1998
-typescript titled 'Crippled by biology or disabled by society? Darwinism, ultra-Darwinism, and the issue of impairment' by Tom Shakespeare
-typescript titled 'This review will appear in a few weeks in the Los Angeles Times, working titles 'L'homme Machine', annotated 'Bob Berwick
-cutting: review of Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works' from Time, 20 Oct 1997