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2023年12月14日 · The core of mature socialism is a system of multilevel democratic iterative coordination (MDIC), involving mutually supportive and mutually defining roles for a central authority and enterprises. This conception clarifies the relations between the socialist core and various precursor forms in existing transitional societies."
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The End of the Megamachine brings to light the roots of the destructive forces threatening thefuture of mankind today. Investigating five thousand years of human history, the book leadsus to the very origins of economic, military and ideological power. The author retraces theprehistory and formation of the modern world-system, which has subjected m...
Structure: PART I: PRELUDE (THE 4 TYRANNIES) 1. POWER: The formation of military, economic, and ideological power in ancient history 2. METALS: The roots of the metallurgical complex and the concept of dominance over nature 3. MARKETS: The birth of coinage, early market systems and standing armies 4. POWERLESSNESS: Collective traumatization and the...
1. POWER.
Chapter one points out that the power of people over people is a relatively recentinvention. For most of human history, our ancestors were not able to assume command,neither over nature nor over other people, they were – willy-nilly – obliged to cooperate. However, a significant change occurred in ancient Mesopotamia 5000 years ago when thefirst militarized city-states emerged (the first tyranny). The chapter narrates how a small classof leaders step by step managed to assume a certain amount...
2. METALS.
The power over metals – and the threats that it poses – is a recurring motive inWestern mythologies. But not only in myths and fantasy metals play a key role: Sinceantiquity, economical and military power was founded to a large extent on the control of gold,silver, copper, iron and today aluminum and uranium. The metallurgical complex is the originof the arms industry: From the bronze axe to the aircraft carrier, it delivers the weaponsindispensable to the creation of states and armies. The c...
3. MARKETS.
Today markets are considered a kind of natural force. Whoever dares to opposethem will be wiped away. Markets, so the Darwinist logic goes, reward the brave and punishthe weak – like nature itself. Markets are seen as the epitome of freedom where the homoeconomicus can thrive, unhindered by the chains of morals and the state. But are marketsreally as free and natural? Have they evolved, as common economic textbooks claim, from a„natural propensity of human beings to truck, barter and exchange...
"Fabian Scheidler, born in 1968, studied history and philosophy in Berlin and theatre directingin Frankfurt/M. He works and lives in Berlin as a writer for print media, television, theatreand opera. In 2009 he co-founded the independent newscast Kontext TV, producing amonthly broadcast on global justice issues; guests include Noam Chomsky, Vandana ...
Video interview with the author (in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_2hScMJj1I&t=251sA series of video talks with prominent guests, including Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva, highlights key aspects of the book:Glyphiti. by Andy Deck. Andy's Deck's Glyphiti is an artistic experiment in extending the reaches of public art. Converting the clandestine creativity of the graffiti artist into something more openly available, Deck developed a globally accessible drawing wall. Built of editable 'glyphs' - squares simultaneously reminiscent of hieroglyphics ...
2014年1月12日 · The vectoral class comes into its own once it is in possession of powerful technologies for vectoralising information. The vectoral class may commodify information stocks, flows, or vectors themselves. A stock of information is an archive, a body of information maintained through time that has enduring value.
Learning II is learning to learn. Learning III - Hyper-complexity: Learning III is a change in the process of Learning II, e.g. a corrective change in the system of sets of alternatives from which a choice is made. It works much as Learning II but on a higher level of abstraction. Bateson points out that this level of learning is never achieved ...
The History of the Cybernetisation of Production. Simon Schaupp and Ramon Diab: "The introduction of scientific management to the assembly line in the early twentieth century focused initially on the production of a greater mass of products in the same or smaller amount of time by calculating the number of products produced within the labour ...
