I’m producing PST this Thursday!
What is the effect of journalistic documentation on the events and people under observation? Should documentary photojournalism influence government policy and crisis management? What happens to these dynamics if the medium doesn’t mirror the message? Finally, how do thesis proposal and thesis research diverge as booming, buzzing reality unfolds? For THIS Thursday, July 12th, Poetry Science Talks is pleased to feature rising media scholar, PST house sprite and radiant presence, Denise Mangen, on the vagarities of documenting documentaries of civic crisis.
Intentionality Into Action: Deliberating Documentary Photojournalism from Kabul to New Orleans
“A follow-up to my first PST production (Media Ecology and Photography as Advocacy: A Practice-Led Ethnography, 6/1/06)), this discussion will touch upon the (somehow simultaneously comedic and poignant) routing of the best laid plans and delve into the process and products of my MA Thesis – an online learning project, multimedia video piece, and essay in which I deliberated the following:
“In a context of catastrophe, what is the potential of documentary photojournalism to enact positive social change? How do documentary photojournalists engage in photography as a social tool? And, what are the determinants of the educative and recuperative value of documentary photojournalism in post-disaster circumstances?
“A bit surprisingly, with this PST production comes a self-reflective replication of my Thesis – for both are stories of the storytellers and each aims to inspire some lively discussion of such storytelling. This isn’t at all what I set out to do – and certainly not how I set out to do it – but now I relish the perfection of its happenstance.”
POETRY SCIENCE TALKS BACKGROUND:
Our passion is for transformative ideas – and implications for action – that arise out of these topics, with their themes of technology, consciousness, business, media and communication, social organization and governance, mythology, ecology, ontology, healing… themes of a “poetry science.”
Our original “mission statement” for Poetry Science Talks had the following points:
- Ideas, analyses and solutions regarding the…
- Development, implementation, diffusion, use and positive and negative impacts of…
- New ideas, new technologies and new ways of interacting as a culture.
While we have evolved significantly since we crafted that statement five years ago, our general intent remains the same: We are working to forge a broader, more parsimonious and inclusive view of reality, one that is discriminating among concepts, flexible to change, reasoned in assessment and systematic in perspective. Our ultimate goal is a more curious, open, accepting intentionality toward the future – and present moment of humanity’s development.
BACK AND COMING TALKS:
2007
- Psychosynthesis, Applied [Scott Thompson, Ph.D., 12/6/07]
- Love [Karen Wanda "Wandsqueen" Gilbert, 11/8/07]
- The Psychology of Non-Perception [Robert Forte, 10/4/07]
- Feeding Absence: Food as Loss [Ame Gilbert, 9/13/07]
- Intentionality Into Action: Documentary Photography in the Post-Katrina Gulf [Denise O. Mangen, 7/12/07]
- A Conversation on Resources, Survival and the Future [Carleton Schade, Ed Rosenfeld, Seamus Moran, 6/14/07]
- The Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Gerd Stern and Isaac Abrams, 5/3/07)
- The Story and the Stone: Magic in Practice, or “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” (Alex Gordon-Brander, 4/12/07)
- Wealth, Class & Risk: Correlations… and Inverse Correlations (Alex Roy, 3/8/07)
- Birth Order and Liberation in Marital Relationships (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 2/8/07)
- Magick in Theory and Practice (Scott Von, Ph.D., 1/11/07)
2006
- Consciousness and the Quantum Vacuum (Ralph Abraham, Ph.D., 12/7/06)
- Thing Into Being (David Lincoln, 11/2/06)
- The Future of Psychedelic Policy (Thomas Roberts, Ph.D., 10/12/06)
- 6th Season Opener: Grace Wapner, Sculptor (Grace Wapner and Gerd Stern, 9/14/06)
- Suffering (Carleton Schade, 7/13/06)
- Media Ecology and Photography as Advocacy: A Practice-Led Ethnography (Denise O. Mangen, 6/1/06)
- Psychedelia (Scott Von, Ph.D., 5/11/06)
- The Strength of The Weak (Karen Wandsqueen Gilbert, 3/2/06)
- Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity – A Sufi Perspective on the Nature of Being (Alex Gordon-Brander, 2/9/06)
- Heartbeat a Compass (Anice Jeffries, 1/12/06)
2005
- Sexual Healing (Betty Dodson, Ph.D. and Sylvia Rosenfeld, LCSW, 12/1/05)
- Current Ideas (David Peat, Ph.D., 11/10/05)
- NO-THING: The Desire Path to Enlightenment (Scott Von, Ph.D., 10/13/05)
- Conversations on Conversations (Neal Goldsmith & Ed Rosenfeld, 9/8/05)
- American Scream: The Genesis, Evolution and Birthing of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (Jonah Raskin, Ph.D., 7/7/05)
- Affect as a Mode of Cyborg Communication (Karen Wendy “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 6/2/05)
- “Analog Waves Along the Digital Divide – A State of the Artifice Address” and “Poemthink” (Gerd Stern, 5/5/05)
- Psychedelic Experience and Poetic Experiment (Chris Gremmels, 4/1/05)
- Die-Back and Culture: Toward a New Mythology (Carleton Schade, 3/10/05)
- The Next Stage in the Evolution of Consciousness (Swami Allan Ajaya, Ph.D., 2/10/05)
- Political Ecosystems: Modernity, Complexity and the Eco-Left (J.P. Harpignies, 1/13/05)
2004
- Mobility Lounge: A Novel (David Lincoln, 12/09/04)
- Do It With Deliciousness: Science, Art, Pop Culture, and Omnisensual Media (Howard Bloom, 11/04/04)
- Liminal Parks (Liz Rymland, 10/14/04)
- 4th Season Opener: Why I Love Poetry Science (Regulars, 09/09/04)
- Dualism, Psychosynthesis and Yoga Psychotherapy (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 07/01/04)
- The Most Important Problem in the World (Ed Rosenfeld, 06/03/04)
- “Psycho-analysis and Psycho-catalysis: Substance, Set, and Setting in Clinical and Cultural Practice” (Scott Von, 05/13/04)
- The Distributed Mind (Karen “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 04/01/04)
- Earthscore: The Poetic Science of Charles Peirce (Paul Ryan, Ph.D., 03/04/04)
- Peyote Research and a New World View (John Halpern, M.D., 02/05/04)
- Finnegans Wake: A Turn of the Collideorscape (Chip Benjamin, Ph.D., 01/08/04)
2003
- Post-Modern Physics 101 (Richard Alan Miller, 12/11/03)
- Why Do Living Things Get Old and Die? (Josh Mittledorf, Ph.D., 11/06/03)
- Rage (Michael Eigen, Ph.D., 10/02/03)
- 3rd Season Opener: A Shaman, a Peruvian and a Bunch of New Yorkers: Adventures of an Urban Warrior in the Amazon (Jackie Bobrowsky, 09/11/03)
- Lost Cabaret OR Katandogastrophic (Gerd Stern, 07/10/03)
- Democracy, Liberty, Freedom (Ed Rosenfeld, 06/05/03)
- Stories: Being, Knowing, Doing (Liz Rymland, 05/01/03)
- ReView (Ed Rosenfeld, 04/03/03)
- Integral Medicine (Scott Gremmel, Ph.D., 03/13/03)
- Healing (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 02/06/03)
- Fugue States (Lizbeth Rymland, 01/09/03)
2002
- Slowness: An Economy of Différancial Rates of Being (Karen “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 11/05/02)
- Who Is I?: Toward a New Mythology (Carleton Schade, 10/10/02)
- 2nd Season Opener, 2002-03: What We Are About (09/12/02)
- Blogs, Personal Journalism and the Free Internet (Dan Sieradski, 07/11/02)
- The Stupid Network (David Isenberg, Ph.D., 06/06/02)
- Innovation in an Online Corporation (IBM’s WorldJam) (Mike Wing, Ph.D., 05/02/02)
- Collage: Digital/Analog (Gerd Stern, 04/11/02)
- Tomorrow: Sustainable Technology for Spaceship Earth (Carleton Schade, 03/07/02)
- The Core Group (Art Kleiner, 02/07/02)
2001
- bin Laden, Kaczynski and the “Borgification” of Humanity (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 12/06/01)
- MK-ULTRA (Ed Rosenfeld, 11/06/01)
- Technology Futures (Dave Sarlin, 10/11/01)
- The Omnicompetent Communicator (Thatcher Drew, 09/06/01)
- Democracy and Technology (Bernd Hendricks, 07/05/01)
- Acceleration in Novelty (Ed Rosenfeld, Scott Campbell, 06/07/01)
- The Carriage House Talks – First Meeting, 04/05/01)
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