What Goes Down Must Come Up: Communication as Incarnation and Transcension
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Abstract
Abstract In this essay, I conceptualize incarnation from a communicative point of view by juxtaposing it with the concept of transcension. Subsequently, I reflect on the potential value of studying these concepts for communication research. Keywords: IncarnationTranscensionVentriloquismPresentification Acknowledgements This essay is dedicated to the wonderful monks of Rizong monastery who continue to protect the dharma by incarnating it and demonstrating its transcension through their daily interactions. I kindly thank François Cooren and Jennie Hwang are kindly thanked for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this text. Notes 1. William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," in The Pickering Manuscript (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 1807/2004), 15. 2. See also Lobzang Jivaka, Imji Getsul: An English Buddhist in Rizong Monastery (Ladakh, India: Rizong Monastery, 1961). 3. Janet Rizvi, Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia, 2nd ed. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983/1996). 4. See Boris H. J. M. Brummans, "Travels of a Buddhist Mind," Qualitative Inquiry 13, no. 8 (2007): 1221–26; "Preliminary Insights into the Constitution of a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery through Autoethnographic Reflections on the Dual/Nondual Mind Duality," Anthropology of Consciousness 19, no. 2 (2008): 134–54; "Travels of a Buddhist Mind: Returns and Continuations," Qualitative Inquiry 15, no. 6 (2009): 1127–33. 5. Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, ed. Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1995). 6. Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, ed. Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1995), 34. 7. See François Cooren, Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010). 8. See also David Goldblatt, Art and Ventriloquism: Critical Voices in Art, Theory, and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2006). 9. See François Cooren, "The Organizational World as a Plenum of Agencies," in Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations the Dynamic of Text and Conversation, ed. François Cooren, James R. Taylor, and Elizabeth J. van Every (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence-Erlbaum, 2006). See also Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004). 10. [See also Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1944/2009), 35–56. 11. [See François Cooren, "Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings," Organization 11, no. 3 (2004): 373–93. 12. [See Boris H. J. M. Brummans, "Death by Document: Tracing the Agency of a Text," Qualitative Inquiry 13, no. 5 (2007): 711–27. 13. [Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" trans. Mary Quaintance, Cardozo Law Review 11, no. 5–6 (1990): 920–1045. 14. [Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" trans. Mary Quaintance, Cardozo Law Review 11, no. 5–6 (1990): 965. 15. [See also Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. 16. [See Derrida, "Force of Law." 17. [Harold Garfinkel, "Two Incommensurable, Asymmetrically Alternate Technologies of Social Analysis," in Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology, ed. Graham Watson and Robert M. Seiler (London: Sage, 1992), 186. 18. See also Eleanor Rosch, "Beginner's Mind: Paths to the Wisdom That Is not Learned," in Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom, ed. Michel Ferrari and Georges Potworowski (New York: Springer), 153. The Rizong monks demonstrated Rosch's observation that "action out of wisdom means action (properly non-action or spontaneous action) fully in contact with the realties and needs of the situation and unencumbered by the strategies of the self centered ego or by preconceptions or methods." 19. Jacques Derrida, "Declarations of Independence," New Political Science 15 (1986): 7–15. 20. Cooren, "Textual Agency." 21. Gabriel Tarde, Monadologie et Sociologie (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond, 1893/1999); Les Lois Sociales (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond, 1898/1999). 22. Bruno Latour, "Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social," in The Social in Question: New Bearings in History and the Social Sciences, ed. Patrick Joyce (London: Routledge, 2002). 23. Francisco J. Varela, Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999). 24. Tarde, Monadologie et Sociologie; Les Lois Sociales. Additional informationNotes on contributorsBoris H. J. M. Brummans Boris H. J. M. Brummans is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it