Ptolemy { the ancestors, the outer space }
Ptolemy: maps: the city of the social custom: symbolic meal: the family: and the table: genesis: concentric process: orbits: of the sauces and the planets: he casts: arrays: the military religious...
View ArticleThe Welfare Model
In America as in Europe, Republicans argue, the welfare state is failing to provide either security or dynamism. The safety net is so expensive it won’t be there for future generations. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleEmpire? so what!
Yeah, waning Empire, waxing Empire. Who cares? What if we could suddenly subtract the military from the equation of the Great American Experiment? Where would that leave the world? Where would it leave...
View ArticleFarenheit 451 (or, the ridges of thumbprint)
re-reading a yellowed paperback version whose spine has cracked, letting pages loose at every turning. shall I burn it in the next sacrifice action, in a camp-fire in some wild place? Bradbury dances...
View Articleweird phenomena: spectacle for the commoner
Deep in the age of media saturation comes this live feed… hundreds, thousands, millions of people, most with colored (or coloured) hair making videos and snappies of the spectacle with phones, digital...
View ArticleDialogue and Learning
My educational philosophy is built on the existence of a simple phenomena that I observe on a daily basis while moving through life. It is this — where two people can come together and have an...
View Articlekudos to NASA
NASA does it again! The intensity and rigor of control necessary throughout the entire process of planning, fabricating, and executing such an expression of the techno-social system is remarkable....
View Articleshifting life-focus
it occurs to me, on the eve of shifting life-focus in a big way, that the blather of the politicos about conducting a war with only symbolic (socio-political) goals is absolute rubbish. the warring...
View ArticleTrans-disciplinary Dialogue and Holistic Knowledge Generation
At its core, trans-disciplinary collaboration is chiefly a test of how to find the words, and within the words, the cumulative meanings that might span what is often a wide gulf in understandings. In...
View Article1493: Homogenocene
It looked an ice cream cone. But when I came closer, I realized that the boy was eating a raw sweet potato. His father had whittled at the top to expose the orange flesh, which the boy was licking; the...
View ArticleBogoTrax: Berlin/Bogota
Tapping in to the network started by the bogotrax crew, neoscenes sends an ambient mix signal to the street party in Bogota via Berlin. (68:00, stereo audio, 163 mb) Since 2004 Bogotrax is a self-made...
View Articlesystems
The basic idea behind the systems approach is that all relevant interests or values should be served by the kinds of change we can institute in our society and in nature. — Churchman general systems...
View Articlequick notes
The N-1 event is curious — I wasn’t aware it was a pedagogic exercise to be acted out in front of (!) students at Arcada. This makes it a bit awkward with some of the invited people, though I simply...
View ArticlePost-Growth Institute
Donnie was a colleague at UTS: Dear Friends, I’m really excited to share that, as part of my work at the Post Growth Institute , we’ve just launched a crowd-funding campaign to support development of a...
View Articlewithin the mean(s)
Comparison is a parasite endemic to the gut space of creativity (or is it?). In the creative moment churning presence is complete (or is it?). To compare is to step out of that moment. Attention moves...
View ArticleFace-to-Face Communications
The variable most closely associated with a wide range of positive social feelings was the same variable consistently omitted in studies of media use: time spent in face-to-face communication. Higher...
View ArticleMiles
Sonya’s current jazz trumpet fav is Nicholas Payton (@paynic), so Chris writes. It’s her birthday and Payton’s in town (Denver) playing, great! Afflatus that arrives with first-person experiencing ones...
View Articleyou got problems? Let me tell you …
The dialectical process whereby a solution to one problem generates sets of new problems that eventually preclude solutions is summarized in the five steps of techno-social development. 1. Because of...
View Articlewe’re talking final causes here…
[C]urrently espoused, ecosystem management is a magical theory (see Ludwig 1993) that promises the impossible — that we can have our cake and eat it too. Worse, however, it addresses only the symptoms...
View Articleflip the switch and everybody will feel …
faugh. Where does this lead? Emotional manipulation by secretive corporate entities who are not responsive to any measures of civil society. Privacy is gone, now emotional authenticity is being eroded....
View Articlecutting room floor
The cumulative fabric of the social system evolves through a constantly shifting, hybrid, and continuous field of change, affected by all flows: we might call it simply a net/archy. The differences...
View Articlecutting room floor
Within any life system there exists a deep and continuous tension between change and stasis. A system tends to be conservative and traditional for two reasons, possibly more: 1) that optimization is...
View ArticleJaromil’s Law
Long story short — with trolls on the bricolabs list, Jaromil suggests: You see: if you want to create an un/common ground of discussion among very different people, minimalism is your friend. So to...
View Articlecontinuance
looking at the blog, looking at life, comparing the two. also understanding how Facebook has almost completely sucked the life out of other online interactions. trying to decide whether or not to go...
View ArticlePrince Ihaav Been ….
*The war which funds:* *the inflorescence **of artilleries:* *(as symbolon cast:) soon loots: * *soots and bares: the ganglia the marrows:* *which the social clubs have long:* *forgotten:* * * *...
View Articlemuito obrigado
Victoria (Co-ordinator of the Hackademia Festival) invites some of us bricoleurs to jump into an IRC discussion on technoshamanism connected to the technomagias festival in Maua in Rio de Janeiro...
View ArticleFull dissertation text: The Regime of Amplification
Well, I guess it’s about time to put the PhD dissertation text out there in .pdf form, so, here it is: The Regime of Amplification. Have at it, be polite, no grabbing, pushing, or shoving. Do not fold,...
View ArticleThe Field of Attention, The Field of Flows
Slipping through a day, from dawn to late evening, time is a field of flows. Attention calls flow from its progress, delineating it temporarily as distinct and heterogeneous. Pass through...
View Articlea phase shift of moral ambiguity
Will the internal dialogue that informs social behavior be altered by the presence of surveillance and data collection?
View Articleend of week 1
The theater of the ‘working world’ — as random humans come together in earnest efforts to optimize the success of some shared and cooperative activity — this becomes my reality. Sacrificing personal...
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