Exhibit 1: The Spiral Ladder of Cultural Competitiveness

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ART
Literary, Media, Performing, Visual, Heritage
 
Arts Spiral
ascent preceded by descent; aesthetic; holistic; increasing tolerance; qualitative; subjective testing; value laden; why?
 
 
SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES (SSH) 
Social Sciences
Administrative Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Communications &Journalism, Criminology, Demography, Economics, Education, Geography, Industrial Relations, Information Sciences, Law, Library Science, Mathematics, Political Science, Psycho-linguistics, Psychology, Recreology & Physical Education, Science Policy, Social Work, Sociology, Urban & Regional Studies, Interdisciplinary, Other
Humanities
Fine & Applied Arts, Folklore, History, Languages & Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Women Studies, Other

 

SSH Spiral
ascent preceded by descent; contextual; mixed testing; normative; synthetic; value mixed; what?
 
NATURAL & ENGINEERING SCIENCES (NES)
General, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Other
 
NSE Ladder
cognitive; fact-based;  decreasing tolerance; objective testing; reductive; replicability is all; 
value free; vertical ascent; how?
ART
for subjective truth
for kosmos or the right ordering of the multiple parts of the world
 
SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES (SSH)
for reconciliation of objective & subjective truth
for understanding and  molding the human world
 
NATURAL& ENGINEERING
 SCIENCES (NES)
for objective truth
for understanding and controlling the physical world
 
 
TECHNOLOGY
ART
aesthetic or design technology
how to manipulate emotion and sensation
 
SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES (SSH)
organizational technologies
how to combine capital, labor, physical technology and information
 
NATURAL & ENGINEERING 
SCIENCES (NES)
physical technologies
how to satisfy human physical wants, needs & desires
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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