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Associate Professor of Religious Studies,
Morningside University |
I want to resist the idea that we must crush the other aspects of a life to create a good scholar of interdisciplinary work.
Rather, to host emergences, one must have room in one’s life to find those connections. That is not to say that I do not place immense and intense value on significant cultural moments and objects— the study that I have started here makes me want to do more.
It is in our nature as curious scholars to want more knowledge, more insight,
more more more.
And then give it all away as best we can ...
I submit that we are not flat characters.
I submit that hosting emergence is first hosting it within ourselves, acknowledging and occasionally breaching the natural compartments that we have set up to defend parts of our lives from each other--in other words, honesty about our sense of self.
(From my comments on a panel on the work of Timothy Beal)
Rather, to host emergences, one must have room in one’s life to find those connections. That is not to say that I do not place immense and intense value on significant cultural moments and objects— the study that I have started here makes me want to do more.
It is in our nature as curious scholars to want more knowledge, more insight,
more more more.
And then give it all away as best we can ...
I submit that we are not flat characters.
I submit that hosting emergence is first hosting it within ourselves, acknowledging and occasionally breaching the natural compartments that we have set up to defend parts of our lives from each other--in other words, honesty about our sense of self.
(From my comments on a panel on the work of Timothy Beal)