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MY NOTES, Portrack seminar 2
-CJA-PTK-12 · File · 1989-1992
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder titled 'MY NOTES, Portrack seminar 2'. Includes:
-typescript letter, signed J, [Jim Collins] on University of Notre Dame headed paper, thanking Charles and Maggie for the first Portrack seminar and enclosing the first two volumes of 'Deconstructo' [not enclosed], a copy of his paper and slides from the seminar and Jeanette Winterson's Sexing The Cherry [not enclosed], 1992
-typescript letter, signed, from C. J. Isham on Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine headed paper, thanking Charles for the invitation to the Portrack Seminar but declining, 1992
-typescript letter from Thomas Doherty, signed, on University of Dublin headed paper, thanking Charles and Maggie for the first Portrack Seminar, 1992
-typescript titled 'After the End of Early Postmodernism' by Jim Collins, University of Notre Dame with a colour scan of 35mm slides
-photocopy typescript titled 'Towards a New Science of Consciousness' by Dr Ian N. Marshall (annotated 'Athens Symposium, Jan 1992')
-typescript titled 'Evolution without Natural Selection: Further Implications of the Daisyworld Parable' by Peter T. Saunders, annotated 'Maggie Keswick's copy' with underlining.
-photocopy manuscript diagram headed 'Modernity; Modernism;Deconstructive Postmodernism; Ecological Postmodernism'
-photocopy typescript titled 'Towards a New Science of Consciousness' by Dr Ian N. Marshall (annotated 'Athens Symposium, Jan 1992') with covering notes from Danah Zohar to Charles, 1992
-typescript titled 'Evolution without Natural Selection: Further Implications of the Daisyworld Parable' by Peter T. Saunders
-manuscript names and address of attendees at the Portrack Seminar 7-10 Sep 1992, and photocopy
-manuscript notes of expenses
-faxed timetable for Portrack Seminar 2, annotated
-photocopy published article 'S=Consciousness and Bose-Einstein Condensates' by I.N. Marshall, published in New Ideas in Psychology Vol 7 No 1, 1989
-photocopy manuscript diagrams with headings including 'Early Modern; Late Modern; Constructive Postmodern; Theology; Naturalistic; Futurism; Narcisim [sic]; Reinhabit Time; Religion + Science'
-typescript titled 'The Organism as a Dynamical Syste,' by Peter T. Saunders, King's College
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper [not Charles' handwriting, possibly Maggie?] headed 'David R Griffin' with a sketch of a crucifixion
-photocopy manuscript diagrams with headings including 'Early Modern; Late Modern; Constructive Postmodern; Theology; Naturalistic; Futurism; Narcisim [sic]; Reinhabit Time; Religion + Science', annotated
-manuscript notes [not Charles' handwriting, possibly Maggie?] on plain white paper headings include:Mae Wan Ho; Paul Davies; Danah Zohar: Ian Marshall; Richard Falk; Katherine Keller; Charlene Spretnak
-ink and biro sketch portraits of people
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper [not Charles' handwriting, possibly Maggie?]
-manuscript notes on plain white paper [not Charles' handwriting, possibly Maggie?] including a diagram with headings 'Modernity; Modernism;Deconstructive Postmodernism; Ecological Postmodernism' and 'Margaret Rose' and 'Steven [Conner]'
CJA-PTK-2 · File · 1994-1995
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled '7: P-M Ecology: Portrack Sem. March 10-12 1995'.

Includes:
-fax from R to Charles, typescript titled 'How is meaning grounded: implications of the embodied mind', proposal for the Portrack conference in Santa Monica by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, 1993
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper, headings include: Mark Johnson; Children; Transformation; Just war; Consciousness raising
-manuscript notes on plain white paper, headings include [illegible] war; Paul Davies; Danah Zohar; list of names and addresses for Portrack seminar 7-10 Sep 1992 [Charlene Spretnak; Peter Saunders; Catherine Keller; Richard Falk; Charles and Maggie; Mae-Wan Ho; Danah Zohar + Ian Marshall; David Giffin/Ann Jaqua; Paul Davies; Evolution/Physics; Potential Coherence; History of Patriarchy/history of Feminism; Katherine Keller [sic]; Ecological/Quantum/Cosmological Post-Modernism; next summer.
-fax from Billy Grassie to Charles, suggesting a structure for a book on Post-Modern Ecology, 1995
-photocopy book review by Erik Davis titled 'It ain't easy being green: eco meets pomo', Voice Literary Supplement, 1995
-typescript titled 'Portrack Seminars' with a list of seminars, dates and participants
-typescript memo from Michael Zimmerman to colleagues at the Tulane University Department of Philosophy with details of the forthcoming Portrack seminar including a schedule, overview of topics and how the seminar will be structured.Includes a list of participants with biographies [annotated]
-fax from Billy Grassie to Charles requesting feedback on the introduction typescript titled 'Towards a Postmodern Ecology: a report on the March 1995 Seminar' attached, annotated, 1995
-manuscript letter on Michael E. Zimmerman headed paper to Charles and Maggie thanking them for the seminar, 1995
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper headed 'Portrack March 10-12, 1995'
-photocopies from 'Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intelligence, and other Modern Orthodoxies', 1995, and 'Critical Essays on Education, Modernity, and the Recovery of the Ecological Imperative',1993, with covering typescript letter from Chet Bowers to the other seminar participants on Portland State University headed paper, 1995
-typescript letter on William Grassie headed paper to the other seminar participants introducing his work, 1995
-manuscript [fax] from Charles to Michael Zimmerman on UCLA headed paper suggesting reading, 1995
-typescript titled 'Reinventing Nature: the problem of the literal and the figurative' by Billy Grassie with presentation outline, annotated, 1995
-typescript titled 'Michael Soulé - comments for Jencks meeting in Los Angeles', annotated
-typescript [fax] from Charles to colleagues, on UCLA headed paper, with practical arrangements for the Portrack seminar
-typescript and manuscript faxes [some badly faded] between Charles and Michael Zimmerman discussing the difficulties of arranging the seminar and suggesting participants, 1994
-typescript letter from Richard Falk to Charles listing expenses and making suggestions on future meetings, 1995