Cottrell Barry
The Clock House, Widford, Burford, Oxon OX18 4DU, UK.
Explore (NY). 2017 Nov-Dec;13(6):400-406. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2017.05.002. Epub 2017 Sep 1.
This paper describes my experiences exploring consciousness as an artist-engraver, in particular the sense of reawakening the participatory primal mind, which came about through the act of engraving. This 'original participation' is viewed as a fundamental characteristic of our early Acheuelan ancestors and evidence is presented to show that they possessed both a 'modern' esthetic sense and also a prayerful, sacramental consciousness. It is suggested that this primal consciousness is a fundamental human quality that became eclipsed in the modern mind by the denial of participation and the Cartesian split between subject and object during the Scientific Revolution. It is upon this denial of participation and the illusion of objectivity that the whole methodology of natural science and the alienated outlook of contemporary culture is based. A re-enchantment of the world can take place through the re-mythologizing of consciousness and the re-apprehension of original participation.
本文描述了我作为一名艺术家雕刻师探索意识的经历，特别是通过雕刻行为重新唤醒参与性原始思维的感觉。这种“原始参与”被视为我们早期阿舍利文化祖先的一个基本特征，文中提供了证据表明他们既拥有“现代”审美意识，也拥有虔诚的、圣事性的意识。有人认为，这种原始意识是一种基本的人类特质，在现代思维中因科学革命期间对参与的否定以及主体与客体之间的笛卡尔式分裂而黯然失色。整个自然科学方法论和当代文化的异化观点正是基于这种对参与的否定和客观性的幻觉。通过意识的重新神话化和对原始参与的重新理解，可以实现世界的重新 enchantment（此处“enchantment”暂未找到确切中文对应，可根据语境理解为某种魅力、魔力等含义）。
