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Dr. Scholz holds a grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.He chaired seven major conferences and chaired the MobilityShifts summit in 2011." The following bio from collectivate.net, 2017. "Trebor Scholz grew up in East Berlin and is currently based in New York where he works both collaboratively and individually as an artist ...
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"Don't you stumble, sometimes, into something that seems to make a lot of sense but you can't say exactly why? For a long time, I had in mind the idea that when things start going bad, they tend to go bad fast. We might call this tendency the "Seneca effect" or the "Seneca cliff," from Lucius Anneaus Seneca who wrote that "increases are of sluggish...
* Book: The Seneca Effect. Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid. By Ugo Bardi. Springer, 2017 URL = https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319572062 "The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the...
The Seneca Rebound
Nafeez Ahmed: "Bardi’s analysis of Tainter’s work extends the argument he first explored in his 2017 peer-reviewed study, The Seneca Effect: When Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid. The book is named after the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who once said that “fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid.” Bardi examines a wide-range of collapse cases across human societies (from the fall of past empires, to financial crises and large-scale famines), in nature (avalanches) and...
2023年7月22日 · In the post-tragic we have fully faced the tragic and live within it, but are able to transcend and transform it. The move from pre-tragic to tragic is simply the movement in which we—to borrow Robert Jay Lifton’s phrase—“face the apocalypse.”. We step out of the potentially fatal illusion that things will just continue on as they are ...
2008年3月14日 · Description. What is the GaiaField Project? Many people intuitively recognize the power of uniting millions of people from diverse spiritual traditions around the globe in meditation and prayer for peace. Several well-organized global meditation and prayer events, such as the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, the GaiaMind meditation of 1997, James ...
Description. From the Wikipedia: "Zooko's triangle is a diagram named after Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn which sets out a conjecture for any system for giving names to participants in a network protocol. At the vertices of the triangle are three properties that are generally considered desirable for such names: Secure: The quality that there is one ...
When Milosevic refused to concede defeat to opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica, Otpor's example of disciplined nonviolence, along with its masses of activists, were crucial in convincing Serbia's security forces to defy Milosevic's orders to shoot at the protesters. On Oct. 7, the embattled president resigned. The unthinkable had happened.
The first is the classic capitalist economy based on labor value and proprietary forms of knowledge, which dominated the industrial phase of capitalism. The value model of the traditional proprietary capitalism is based on the premise that workers create value in their private capacity as providers of labor (Figure 2.2).
