[FRIAM] wordcrafting

Prof David West profwest at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 8 11:55:47 EST 2007


Gentlefolk,

I need a word.

I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a
possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related
activities for 632.

What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
enlightenment?

And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
discipline / degree / body of knowledge?

Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
ugly as a word.

Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
used by Charles Darwin in his travels).

Ideas??

dave west



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