This is a solo talk by Johannes Jaeger, held on Mar 12, 2022, at "Hope Recycling Station" (http://www.h-r-s.cz) in Prague as part of an arts & science event organized by the "Transparent Eyeball" collective (Adam Vačkář and Jindřich Brejcha).

It centers around William Irwin Thompson's concept of "wissenskunst," which deeply infuses and informs our creative efforts in THE ZONE. "Theory art" does not quite capture it. Through wissenskunst, we attempt no less than to establish a new narrative order for the 21st century by engaging in a secular kind of mythopoiesis. Mind you, we are not likely to succeed. In fact, our quixotic quest is highly paradoxical, since proper myths cannot be deliberately created. They must grow in the context of a suitable set of cultural and historical conditions. To create such conditions, we must first understand the meaning-making engine that underlies all attempts at philosophically sound and scientifically informed myth-making. In this presentation, Jaeger explores the evolution-like process of relevance realization as the medium in which a new mythology may grow.

The talk is also available as a blog post: http://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/wis...