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1993 Poetry-making and Policy-making Arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast - / - Presentation prepared for the Schule für Dichtung in Wien / School of Poetry in Vienna (Vienna, 13th September 1993) This paper constitutes an unusual opportunity to venture where few care to tread. It therefore calls for special attention to the structure of the presentation. This is organized in three major parts. This first part might be thought of as a meta-reflection about the challenges of presenting the theme. The second is the core content, whose structure is reviewed in the first. The third part contains the many detailed notes to underpin the arguments and suggest future lines of enquiry. These have been removed from the other parts to facilitate presentation and comprehension of the basic points and their interrelationship. The second part could be read independently of the first. [complete PDF version] Summary [PDF version] Part I: Possibilities of a marriage between Beauty and the Beast [PDF version] Prospects for an arranged marriage (18k) Similarities between poetry-making and policy-making Viability of a marriage Urgency Creating a new nexus Challenge of the marriage Differences between poetry-making and policy-making A marriage of opposites Need for recognition of limitations Overtures and inversions Overtures of the Beast (9k) Military and sporting events Corporations Politics Work Advertising Religion Sciences Education and training mnemonics Overtures of Beauty (22k) Challenge to the subculture Isolation from public life Institutionalization of poetry Why poetry matters Poetry and corporate life Poetry in a divided world Liberation poetry Product or process: the challenge of how? Voice of the Matchmaker (36k) Quality vs Complexity Autopoiesis and self-organization Systems of knowledge: Techne vs Episteme Cycles and Phasing Cognitive function and metaphor Organizational science in a postmodern context Metaphor and policy-making Mathematics and poetry Poetics of scientific hypothesis formation What is meta for? Therapeutic metaphors Light of the mind Articulation of policy guidelines in poetic form Complementarity Interwoven alternatives: resonance hybrids Part II: Mutual Entrainment [PDF version] Poetic configuration of policy guidelines (16k) Thematic choice Appropriateness Imagination and originality Challenge Insight capture and control Acknowledging / Honouring / Dignifying Coherence and integrity Energy holding / Enthralling Focus Resonance and relevance Rhythm and pacing Image-building Metaphor Poesis: Enhancement of policy through key poetic insights (37k) Poetic language Multiple meanings Hidden effects of syntax Perspectives-orientation and context creation Metaphor and enhanced perspective Liberating images and comprehension Evoking imaginative involvement Handling complexities beyond ordinary language Handling contradictions Modelling patterns of relationship Suggestive associations Higher forms of order Avoidance of polarization into excess detail or over-generalization Meter and rhythm From explication to motivation Interlocking lines of significance Creative confrontation of differences Integrative comprehension Challenging paradigms Working with polarizations and irrationality Poetic discourse as a metaphor of future policy-making Part III: Marriage Consummation and Progeny [PDF version] VISION of a poetic policy GROUP INITIATIVE (6k) New modes of discourse Templates, keystones and catalysts Envisaging meetings of the future Styles of aesthetic and policy endeavour PROPOSAL for an exploratory INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (12k) Preamble Considerations of scope Considerations of focus: vital distinctions Practical steps Comment Envisioning the policy-making experience of the future (16k) Paradigmatic courtship Language creation New forms Engagement of attention Mnemonic features Beyond text to multi-media Learning from harmony Musical organization Cyclic organization of policies and programmes Adaptation of musical notation Differences and dissonances Group creativity Cultivating new conceptual languages (17k) Language cultivation Pattern and configuration "Deep epistemology" Examples of language development Influence of peotry Criteria for selection of metaphors Adequate to capture the variety of options Opening options Recognition of limitations Dynamic system of complementary metaphors Recursive nature of metaphors selected Policy discourse through metaphor (8k) Guidelines 1 to 7 Inventing reality: "talking it up" through configured imagery (9k) "Talking it up" Creating more complex realities Succumbing to illusions Invented realities Dependence on a single metaphor Dialogue experiments Need for further experiment Magic, miracles and image-building (19k) Magic as an interface between poetry and policy-making Image-building, policy-making and science How is magic to be understood? Sharing metaphors towards transformation Worldviews and transformations Magical arts Spell-casting Guided visualization Ritual pattern-making Magical perversions Future role of multi-media technology (9k) Multi-media environments Multiplicity of alternate representations Collective "composition" Conceptual bridge-building through "morphing" Virtual reality Transformative moments enabled by computer Part IV: Clues towards Transformative Congressing [PDF version] Comment Envisioning the perfect meeting Integrative failure Integrative skills Meeting focus: a description Meeting focus: a checklist Part V: Bibliographical References and Notes [PDF version]

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