Ruby, In this three minutes video clip Brian Eno discusses "scenius" in relation to Basic Income. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkD7JBspgas
Harry On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Ruby <r...@hush.com> wrote: > Love this vocabulary. > Been a fan of Eno for decades, never heard this! > Ruby > > On 4/19/16 5:19 PM, H LV wrote: >> >> In exchange for a small royalty fee, the State could provide free >> patent services. The royalties would affirm the existence of a >> collective intelligence or what the artist Brian Eno calls "scenius" >> from which an individual genius emerges. >> >> Brian Eno on genius vs “scenius”: >> >> What really happened was that there was sometimes very fertile scenes >> involving lots and lots of people – some of them artists, some of them >> collectors, some of them curators, thinkers, theorists, people who >> were fashionable and knew what the hip things were – all sorts of >> people who created a kind of ecology of talent. And out of that >> ecology arose some wonderful work. >> >> ... >> >> So I came up with this word “scenius” – and scenius is the >> intelligence of a whole… operation or group of people. And I think >> that’s a more useful way to think about culture, actually. I think >> that – let’s forget the idea of “genius” for a little while, let’s >> think about the whole ecology of ideas that give rise to good new >> thoughts and good new work." >> >> Harry >> >> >> >> http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/2016/04/19/cold-fusion-class-action-lawsuit-puts-uspto-in-heavy-water/ >> > > -- > Ruby Carat > Eureka, CA USA > r...@coldfusionnow.org > www.coldfusionnow.org > lenrexplained.com > >
