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[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-21 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Loose documents including:
-article by Edwin Heathcote titled 'The bad and the beautiful '[2013]
-article by Simon Wilson titled 'Naked Ambition' [2004]
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'Amazing maths of the mosaic makers' [2007]
-review by Rachel Campbell-Johnston of the 'Beyond Measure' exhibition at Kettle's Yard
-obituary of Jean Baudrillard from The Times [2007]
-review by Alison Lurie titled 'When is a Building Beautiful' of books by Alain de Botton and Deborah Cohen [2007]
-exhibition listings with 'Eternal Woman: The female form in Antiquity' circled [2005]
-article by Philip Howard tutled 'Ara Kallipygos eimi' [2006]
-article by Alain de Botton titled 'Beauty and the beasts'
-photocopy of Charles' entry in the Dictionary of Cultural Theorists with corrections, and a letter from Rob Stone responding
-press release for and invitation to the Neuroaesthetics conference at Goldsmiths College [2006]
-press release for Artbrain.org 3
-correspondence [letters and printed out e-mails] between Charles and various correspondents including David Griffin, Charlene Spretnak, Michael Zimmerman, Linda Hutcheon
-typescript list of Portrack seminars 1992-1998 and their participants
-review by Charles of John Armstrong's The Secret Power of Beauty titled 'Beauty's comeback' [2004]
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'Experts figure out why men prefer Marilyn' [2004]
-news articles from the New Scientist [2008]
-article by Jason Cowley titled 'And the winner is?' [2006]
-article by Steve Yates titled 'The sound of capitalism' [2011]
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-19 · File · [1998-2008]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Loose documents including:
-typescript draft guestlist for a proposed Portrack symposium on Beauty to be held May 2003
-article titled 'Romping all over the world' by David Aaronovitch [2003]
-article titled 'Olympic physique' by Mary Beard [2004]
-annotated typescript titled 'Guide to Old Beauty' a review of John Armstrong's 'The Secret Power of Beauty'
-article by Susie Linfield titled 'Camera Lucida' reviewing 'Women' by Annie Leibowitz and Susan Sontag and 'On Beauty and Being Just' by Elaine Scarry [1999]
-review by Stuart Hampshire of 'On Beauty and Being Just' by Elaine Scarry
-review by Rachel Campbell-Johnston of John Currin at the Serpentine Gallery [2003]
-photocopied article by Roger Highfield sent to Charles with a covering note by [illegible] [2001]
-review by Lucy Hughes-Hallett of 'Cleopatra of Egypt' at the British Museum and the accompanying catalogue by Susan Walker and Peter Higgs [2001]
-article by Ros Miles titled 'Sexy women? Your eyes deceive you' [1998]
-article by Nancy Etcoff titled 'Survival of the prettiest' [1999]
-article by Richard Owen titled 'Art lovers practise the art of love' [2001]
-programme for the Royal Academy Forum 'Challenging Beauty' featuring Charles, Will Alsop, Mark Cousins and Wendy Steiner, annotated with Charles' manuscript notes
-invitation to a Graduate Student Symposium titled 'The Power of Beauty' at Yale Center for British Art [2008]
-review by Joanna Pitman of a Leni Riefenstahl exhibition at Atlas Gallery, London [2004]
-article by Stephen Bayley titled 'She walks in beauty' [2004]
-article by Lewis Smith titled 'What a waist - why all men have had one vision of the ideal woman' [2007]
-news page from New Scientist magazine [2007]
-article by Laura Spinney titled 'Blind to Change' [2000]
3: Metaphor and Grounding
CJA-PTK-5 · File · 1992-1995
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled '#3 Metaphor + Grounding'. The file consists mostly of correspondence from Charlene Spretnak, including:
-typescript letter on personal headed paper thanking Charles and Maggie for the hospitality and sending gifts, 1992
-manuscript letter on Grand Hôtel Jeanne-d'arc headed paper discussing plans to meet with Jonathon Porritt, 1992
-typescript letter discussing Matt [Matthew Fox], Petra [Kelly] and Gert [Bastian]; proposal for Charlene to speak to Charles' students at UCLA; proposal for future conferences [seminars] and suggestions of participants; suggests of interviewees for Charles' books on cosmology; request to delete material from their interview together on her spritual background, 1992
-typescript letter to Charles and Maggie sending cuttings and giving personal news, 1992
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, confirms meeting with Wm. Irwin Thompson (Bill) and making other arrangements to meet, 1993
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, sending a draft of an article 'Radical nonduality in ecofeminist philosophy', 1993
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, sending cuttings and referring to their visit to SF, 1993
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, sending cuttings and making suggestions for future conferences [seminars], 1993
-manuscript letter to Charles and Maggie on personal headed paper, sending a clipping for Charles and discussing a Vipassana retreat with Maggie, 1994
-typescript fax on personal headed paper, suggesting participants for the 'Reconsidering the Post-Modern' conference [seminar], 1995
-typescript fax on personal headed paper, sent to participants of the Symposium, discussing the relevant pages of her books in relation to postmodernism, 1992

Folder also includes:
-typescript form letter from Charles, on UCLA headed paper, to particpants of the 'Portrack Seminar' in Santa Monica March 1993, giving arrival instructions, 1993
-typescript fax proposal for Santa Monica seminar titled 'How is Meaning Grounded?: implications of the embodied mind' on California Institute of Integral Studies headed paper, 1993
-photocopied newspaper articles on Petra Kelly and Gern Bastian
-programme for the Bay Area Memorial Service for Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian, 1992
-manuscript notes, post-it notes and 'while you were out' messages
-handwritten list of contract details
-blank form for Charles' AUP 289-7 The Post-Modern Breakthrough course with a table headed 'Chaos Theory - Complexity theories - Los Angeles - Religion - Feminism'
-flyer for Charlene Spretnak's 'States of Grace' book
-flyer for William Irwin Thompson's classes at California Institute of Integral Studies, 1993
[Loose papers]
CJA-PTK-3 · File · 1995-2002
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of loose papers including:
-cutting 'But where are the great Scots these days?' by Deyan Sudjic, 2002, annotated
-manuscript notes, headings include 'Griffiths', 'R. Falk Historical Present', 'Saturday' [probably Charles' notes from Portrack seminar 8]
-photocopy published chapter 'Feminism Inverted: The Real Women and Gendered Imagery of Hindu Nationalism' by Amrita Basu
-photocopy article 'Development or Decolonization in the Andes' by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin from Interculture Volume XXVIII No 1, Winter 1995
-typescript titled 'A few Background Notes for Portrack ’95: “Confrontations and Synergies: Cultural interplay of the Indigenous, the traditional, the Modern and the Postmodern” (Richard Falk, 22/X/95'), annotated
-photocopy cover, index and introduction from 'The Challenge of the Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in the Global Perspective' edited by Amrita Basu
-typescript titled 'A commentary on ‘Indigenous Voices in the United Nations: Untying the Knot of Colonialism’" by Lester Edwin J. Ruiz (International Christian University, Tokyo) 1995
-photocopy typescript titled 'Meditation on Activism and Religious Fundamentalism as Antidotes to Post-Scientific/technological Disillusionment' by Robert Zuber (World Order Models Project) and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz (International Christian University, Tokyo)
-typescript titled 'Reading History as Resistance: Mayan Public Intellectuals in Guatemala' by Kay B. Warren (Princeton), Oct 1995
-faxed typescript titled 'The Politics of Community' by TU Weiming, Sep 1995 sent by Lianhb Zaobao, Oct 1995
7: P-M Ecology: Portrack Sem. March 10-12 1995
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
Action Research in Professional Practice
-CJA-PTK-9 · File · 1992-1994
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Comb-bound brochure for the University of Bath School of Management postgraduate programme 'Action Research in Professional Practice', used as a folder. Includes:
-manuscript fax from Charles to David Ray Griffin on Charles Jencks headed paper, making arrangements for overnight stays
-cutting on Anita Roddick's plans to open an alternative business school, annotated
-typescript fax from Matthew Fox to Charles making arrangements to meet, 1994
-published review of James Allen Smith's 'The Idea Brokers' by Walter Goodman
-manuscript notes
-typescript fax from Paul Davies to Charles on University of Adelaide headed paper, making arrangements to meet in London, 1993
-typescript fax from Leslee Holderness to Charles on VCH Publishers headed paper, regarding the publicity for Heteropolis, annotated plus post-it note, 1993
-printed flyer for 'Worldviews and Ecology' from the Bucknell University Press
-typescript names and addresses of participants in the Santa Monica conference, 1994 [Portrack seminar 5]
-manuscript notes on yellow paper headed 'One Day Cosmology in London July 6-8 [Portrack Seminar 4] including lists of potential participants and themes
-photocopy manuscript lists of contact details for Portrack Seminar attendees 13-17 July 1992 [Portrack Seminar 1]
-manuscript letter from Ihab Hassan making arrangements for dinner and for attending a Portrack seminar, 1993
-copy typescript document headed 'possible contributors to post-modern conference: science & Religion....cosmology & new aspects of divinity' with lists of names, annotated
-typescript document titled 'List of members of Portrack seminar attenders and possible attenders', with contact details; manuscript list of names on yellow lined paper
-typescript [letter] from 'Val' to Charles concerning Professor Isham's attendance at the Portrack seminars
-typescript fax on Academy Group Limited headed paper to Charles with a list of names and addresses
-typescript letter from Danah Zohar to Charles and Maggie, on personal headed paper, thanking them for the evening and sending Charles information on 'the vacuum' and sending Maggie a list of recent speaking engagements [not enclosed], 1992
-printed document titled 'The Society for Process Thought: The Mind of God: Open Forum 6.6.1992: Select Bibliography'
-manuscript list of names on green paper
-typescript letter from Patrick T. C. Lewin on The Society for Process Thought headed paper, reporting on a meeting which Charles missed due to an operation, and the speakers who were substituted in place of both Charles and John Gray, 1993
-typescript letter from Dr Peter Reason on University of Bath School of Management headed paper sending details of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice at the request of Charlene Spretnak; includes autumn 1993 syllabus (Emerging Patterns of Thought and Belief), a 1994 experiential conference (Emerging Approaches to Inquiry 5), published article 'Reflection on Sacred Experience and Sacred Science' by Peter Reason.
Post-Mod
-CJA-PTK-8 · File · 1995-1997
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Folder for the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg annotated 'Post-Mod' and 'Invitation 23 Nov'. Includes:
-typescript document titlerd 'Reconsidering Post-Modernism: Portrack Seminar [crossed out] or May 17-19 or June 28-30 with a list of potential participants, annotated
-typescript letter from Douwe Fokkema on Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek headed paper, sending condolences to Charles after Maggie's death and inviting him to read a paper at a forthcoming symposium titled "Postmodernity and Postmodernism', 1996
-typescript letter from Hans Bertens on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper, discussing his contribution to the Portrack seminar and his religious viewpoint, 1997, annotated with Charles' draft reply
-typescript letter from Douwe Fokkema on Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek headed paper, co-ordinating the publication of papers from the symposium in the European Review, 1997, annotated with draft reply; attached letter from Arnold Burgen on European Review headed paper requesting the articles, 1997
-manuscript letter from Douwe Fokkema discussing the European Review, 1997
-manuscript notes, some on the reverse of a timetable for the Academia Europaea 1997 Annual general Meeting, headings include 'Hans', 'Mihály Szegedy-Maszák' and 'Flotzinger'
-photocopy from a publication titled 'Lost Goddesses of Early Greece', annotated 'Research into the myth of Hera: re Olympic Games'
-typescript letter from Hans Bertens to Charles, on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper, making arrangements to meet, 1997
-manuscript letter from Ihan Hassan to Charles on personal headed paper enclosing typescript titled 'The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times: Between Nihilism and Belief', 1997
-manuscript fax from Ihab Hassan to Charles agreeing to Charles' topics 'for our little transcontinental chat', 1997
-typescript fax from Umberto Eco's secretary to Charles informing him that Eco is out of the country, 1997
-manuscript fax from Charles to Ihab Hassan with a list of topics he'd like to discuss during a telephone interview, 1997
-manuscript letter from Ihab Hassan to Charles on personal headed paper, enclosing the text of the talk he gave at the ICA which is to be published in Hungarian; enclosed typescript titled 'Postmodern Revisited: a personal account'
-brochure for 'Reconsidering the Postmodern' conference at the ICA, 18 & 19 May 1996; inserted typescript document titled 'Reconstructive Post-Modernism', two copies, one annotated
-postcard advertising a lecture by the architects of RMIT titled 'Re-inventing Storey Hall'
-typescript letter from Hans Bertens to Charles on Universiteit Utrecht headed paper inquiring about the Ghent symposium, 1997, annotated with draft reply
-typescript letter from Academia Europaea inviting Charles to present a lecture during the Postmodernity and Postmodernism seminar with details of lecture length and travel arrangements, 1997
-typescript fax from Charlene Spretnak to Charles, David and Richard discussing a new Library of Congress subject headings for postmodernism, 1997
-fax copy from 'The Culture of Denial' by Chet Bowers discussing David Ray Griffin, Charles Jencks and Charlene Spretnak as a separate tendency in postmodernism, 1996
-typescript letter from Margaret Rose to Charles giving a detail response to What is Post-Modernism 4th edition, 1997
-manuscript fax from Charles to Charlene Spretnak, responding to her fax on the Library of Congress, 1997
-business card from Indra K. Ramanathan, Design Nexus Architect, Malaysia
-fax typescript list of participants in the Portrack Seminar 'Confrontations and Synergies: the Culture Interplay of the Indigenous, the Traditional, the Modern and the Post-Modern' with biographies
-manuscript letter from [Charlene Spretnak] enclosing a copy of her published 'Embodied, Embedded Philosophy' to be circulated to participants at the next seminar
-review of Anthony Giddens' 'Modernity and Self-Identity' by Alan Ryan from the TLS 10 Jan 1992, annotated
-review of Anthony Giddens' The Consequences of Modernity' by Richard Sennett from the TLS 8 Feb 1991, annotated
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles confirming participants for the next seminar [Portrack Seminar 8]
-manuscript fax from Charles to Charlene making arrangements for the seminar
-typescript letter from David Griffin on School of Theology at Claremont headed paper to Charles, Charlene and Richard discussing the proposals for a conference on Reconsidering Postmodernism, 1995
-typescript fax from Charles to Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin and Charlene Spretnak updating them on plans for The Post-Modern Reconsidered at the ICA, 1995
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles, mentioning his recent travels and particularly the influence of post-modernism on Tokyo, 1995, annotated with draft reply
-handout from Siobhán Hapaska's exhibition 'Saint Christopher's Legless' [at the ICA]
-manuscript [fax] from Charles to Richard Falk, discussing the Portrack seminars and his recent work and reading, 1995
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles thanking him for the Portrack semimnar, 1995
-manuscript fax list of names, annotated
-typescript fax from Charlene Spretnak to Richard Falk, cc Charles discussing themes, participants, dates and logistics for the forthcoming seminar [Portrack Seminar 8], 1995
-typescript fax from Richard Falk to Charles, cc Charlene Spretnak, suggesting title, dates and participants for the next seminar [Portrack Seminar 8], 1995, annotated
-fax typescript and annotated list of Portrack seminar [8] participants and the rooms they've been assigned, annotated
Cranfield: International Ecotechnology Research Centre
-CJA-PTK-7 · File · 1991-1994
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Brochure for Cranfield: International Ecotechnology Research Centre used as a folder. Includes:
-photocopy typescript titled 'The Agenda, The "Neo-Luddite" summit?!, May 22-23 1993, San Francisco" and annotated 'Conference on Mega Technology (at Doug Tompkins' house in SF)' with list of participants contact details and biographies
-typescript syllabus titled 'Embodied Philosophy: An Ecofemininst Approach' By Charlene Spretnak, visiting professor, Fall 1993
-typescript letter from John [Biggen?] on UEA Norwich, School of Modern Languages and European History headed paper, thanking Charles for his contribution to the Moscow symposium and making arrangements for expenses.
-typescript syllabus titled 'Historical Resistance to Modernity' by Charlene Spretnak, Spring 1994
-letter from Peter Allen on Cranfield University headed paper to Charles and Maggie thanking them for the chance to participate [in Portrack Seminar 6] and reflecting on the discussion and on complex systems, enclosing a brochure for Cranfield and some of his papers, June 1994
-published article titled 'Transformations: The Eight New Ages Of Capitalism' by Ernest Sternberg from Futures, Dec 1993
-typescript draft book chapter titled ' Intelligent, Self-Organising Models in Economies and Finance' by Peter M. Allen
-typescript titled 'Evolutionary Models of Human Systems: Urban and Rural Landscapes as Self-Organising Systems' by Peter M. Allen, 1991
[Loose papers]
-CJA-PTK-21 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Material found loose and grouped together. Includes:
-manuscript notes [for introductory speech]
-typescript titled 'Portrack Seminar 1' listing arrivals and departures, arrangements for meals, accomodation for participants, possible day trips and walks
-typescript titled 'Post-Modern Architecture - The Four Stage' [annotated] and 4 photocopy versions
-manuscript notes including headings 'Role of Theory' and 'Whither PM?'
-manuscript notes headed 'Portrack Seminar - Prepare for 1st 2 - Whither PM?'
-plastic folder labelled 'Portrack Seminar July' containing bundles of duplicates of the programme; original colour pen and pencil map of the garden at Portrack [by Maggie] with colour copies; fax from Charlene to colleagues attending the symposium with photocopies.