Autopoiesis Sample Clauses

Autopoiesis. Having unmoored the performer from traditional learning strategies and instrumental techniques, the question then arises, what will fill this void? Having witnessed a situation that absents or even annihilates standard interpretive strategies, is the performer then adrift in a sea of solutions in which anything and everything is valid? Or are there certain strategies that may prove more efficacious than others in assimilating the specialized demands of the situation? The responsibility lies ultimately with each individual performer to answer these questions independently—a responsibility that is equally and crucially also an opportunity—but herein I will demonstrate one such approach, one which uses a non-musical theoretical model to develop a learning strategy that can undergird a coherent approach to Sijo_241015, the rigors of its notation, and its varied technical demands. This theoretical model, autopoiesis, is an example of a different hermeneutic paradigm that may be incorporated into practice and performance, and as an example, is designed to show the nature of the search rather than an ideal (or single) solution. The biologist, cognitive scientist, and cybernetician Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx developed the concept of autopoiesis in the 1960s, first presented in Biology of Cognition (1970), and later with the psychologist and biologist Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx in Autopoiesis (1972) and The Tree of Knowledge (2008). Later publications and experiments have continued to elucidate and expand the principles and implications of autopoiesis, but the fundamentals of the concept are presented clearly and explicitly in these original works. Autopoiesis provides a means of conceiving systems of relationships that allow for the recognition and identification of unities (entities, organisms, etc.) dynamically. For Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx, there is no established, Parmenidean truth or entity that is then engaged with the environment around it. Unities are established and maintained by the preservation of relationships, and any unity can be described by the organization of relationships that contributes to the maintenance of its homeostatic nature: such an entity is “organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production, transformation and destruction of components that produces the components which … through their interactions and transformations regenerate and realize the network of processes (relations) that produced them” (1972, p. 135). The perforation or disi...