User:Aitantv/Lisbeth Lipari (2014) Listening, Thinking, Being: Towards an Ethics of Attunement

Lipari, L. (2014) Listening, Thinking, Being: Towards an Ethics of Attunement. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Dtate University Press.

+ Lipari is using findings in quantum physics to dehierarchise the speaker/listener dichotomy. Preferring to see the act of listening as set ina complex web of relations each effecting the other. The idea that a subject/object impact one another. Indeed in clinical science it has been shown that by simply observing an object, it is influenced by the subject.

+ This is an exciting possibility for narrative filmmaking. We can imagine a world in which events in one area effect the others. It is of course build into the cinematic language, in which we can have shot reverse-shot, or cause and effect between images e.g. explosion > house on fire. This opens the plain of a cinema narrative to deal with multiple causes to an impactful moment rather than linear plot strategies.

• "misunderstanding reminds us, again and again, that our conversational partners are truly “other” than us; that each of us lives at the center of our own world; that we each arrive independently “on the scene” of communication with diff erent histories, traditions, experiences, and perspectives; that the self is not the world; that perfection is impossible; and that, although human language is infi nitely generative, there are important aspects of human existence that are, simply, ineffable." (Lipari, 2014, 8)
• "And along those lines, do I listen not only to words with my mind, but also to the music of the voice in my ears, the posture and gesture of the body with my eyes, the vibrational rhythm of the others’ pulsations, movements, and intonations in my body?" (Lipari, 2014, 9)

+ perhaps are general approach to social media is based on the hermeneutic understanding that to speak is to engage it as an active posture, while to listen is passive. To speak is to transmit; to listen is to recieve. Therefore the speaker is the producer

• "acts of communication do more than represent—they bring worlds into being. Your wife or husband takes their wedding ring off , and your whole world changes." (Lipari, 2014, 12)
• observer = observed ; "quantum physics revealed that the underlying mechanistic notions of “systematic observation” needed to be augmented with a more complex understanding of the interrelationship of observer to observed, wherein, at the quantum level at least, the observer and the observed were “a single indivisible entity.” As we will examine later, this insight gives us ground for questioning such atomistic separations as those between, for example, speaking and listening or listener and speaker." (Lipari, 2014, 16)

+ inter-dependence, inter-relational

• "To each of us, our bodies feel solid, as if they are “one” thing, but from the perspective of an atom, our bodies are an entire universe." (Lipari, 2014, 18)
• " Thus, the classical scientific view of the universe as a well-oiled machine composed of separate but interacting parts is increasingly being replaced by the view of the universe as a deeply complex, interrelated whole, which brings us to the third change in the underlying assumptions of the scientifi c method: the relationships between causality, nonlocality, and nonlinearity." (Lipari, 2014, 18)

+ reality is non-linear, it is responsive, part of a complex web of relations

• Rather than describing orderly, linear, sequential organization as the prototype standard of all life processes, chaos theory illuminates how both order and chaos interact in a dynamic and nonlinear process where an infi nite number of phenomena influence the whole, alternating between predictable and nonpredictable patterns. That is to say, causes are not linear, moving from a to b to c, but are instead recursive, feeding into the system and thereby building and changing it from there. In chaos theory, as in quantum physics, linear causality is replaced by complex relationships of probability, wherein everything effects everything, directly and indirectly." (Lipari, 2014, 25)
• "When we operate from a mechanistic model that sees the world in terms of single separated objects related only through linear causality, we fail to take into account all the nonlinear and interdependent relationships between all phenomena in the world." (Lipari, 2014, 26)