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Arcology
School of Thought

 

Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms

Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)

An abused label hiding a "fundamental" deception. By now we know that the whole of reality is the only instance of self-sufficiency , but only if one accepts the fact that it is a dynamic , a process of self-sufficiency, almost as if chasing after a constantly receding fullness, the fullness of a true self-sufficiency.

If a maker intruded in the scenario then poor reality would for ever be not a sufficient agent for its own becoming , let alone its being. Would this maker, God, be a self-sufficient agent? Not if it is caught (trapped) in the becoming of which is supposedly the generator.

 

Animism
Art
Artisan
Becoming
Being
Big Bang (B.B.)
Big Crunch (B.C.)
Closed Reality
Complexification, C
Complicated (versus the complex)
Craftsman
Creation
Desirable
Determinism
Duration ,D
Equity
Eschatological Hypothesis
Esthetic Creation
Esthetogenesis
Feasible
Frugality
The Future
Grace
Interiorization
Love Project
M.C.D.
Means and Ends
Memory
Mind
Miniaturization, M
Nature (Reality)
Omega Seed
Open Reality
Opportunism
The Past
The Present
Probabilism
Religion
Residual Anguish
Resurrection
Second Coming
Self-Reliance
Self Revelation
Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)
Spacetime
Stewardship
Technology
Theology
Truth
Urban Effect
Utopia