Operative Traditions and Sacred Craft with Miguel A. Fernandez

The Technosocial Institute

Miguel A. Fernandez is the author of the Operative Traditions book series and an industrial engineer. In this conversation we explore: how tools and creative disciplines shape human beings; how literacy has replaced the intelligence of other senses; the way a craftsman's nervous system fuses with his tools; Eastern traditions, why Westerners seek them, and how they have been coopted by capitalism; how ancient cosmologies cannot easily be applied in cybernetic or industrial cultures; the heroic path; knights templars and freemasons and their legacy in crafts; technique and technology; the constraint of bourgeois values; art as more than entertainment; approaching the internet as a raw material; using paradigms as materials; belonging to something greater than oneself; wholeness as the maximum expression of what is possible in the moment - as opposed to perfection; suffering, guilt and the myth of paradise; approaching power structures themselves as raw materials that can be learned from.

Find his work here: https://www.thesolarwarrior.com/

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Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial