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Time Between Worlds are "the pivotal epochs in world system transformation as times involving profound educational disruption and innovation. These were times when all four of the major crisis vectors—sense-making, meaning making, legitimacy, and capability—are beset by disruptions of intergenerational transmission.A time between worlds is turbulent to say the least.
Michael Hogan: "David McClelland described two types of power needs, p-power (power needs for personal goals) and. s-power (power needs focused on goals for an institution, a group or a society). While p-power people tend to see life as a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers, s-power people are regulated by reflective judgment ...
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David de Ugarte: “Swarming is the conflict mode in the network society,the way in which power is controlled in the new world,and at the same time the way in which the new worldachieves the translation of the virtual into the material.How can action be thus organised in a distributednetwork world? How can civil swarming be achieved? Firstly, by givi...
How to Swarm
Jeff Vail at http://www.jeffvail.net/2005/01/swarming-open-source-warfare-and-black.html Swarming depends on a few very simple principles: achieve them, and it will succeed, but deny these principles to a swarming force and it will be defeated: 1. Elusiveness, in the form of mobility or concealment 2. Standoff Firepower, relative to the opposing force 3. Situational awareness of the local environment, relative to the opposing force(http://www.jeffvail.net/2005/01/swarming-open-source-warfare-...
On the influence of Deleuze and Guattari
Excerpted from http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/8192 It refers to the Israeli tactics mentioned below. “Naveh, a retired Brigadier-General, directs the Operational Theory Research Institute, which trains staff officers from the IDF and other militaries in ‘operational theory’ – defined in military jargon as somewhere between strategy and tactics. He summed up the mission of his institute, which was founded in 1996: ‘We are like the Jesuit Order. We attempt to teach and train soldiers to thi...
Swarming is not enough
An essay by Brian Holmes, which argues that swarming is not enough to explain self-organized emergent human behaviours, and that a set of additional factors are needed: URL = http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Network-swarm-microstructure.html 1 - The Necessity of a Shared Horizon "I am beginning to think that there are two fundamental factors that help to explain the consistency of self-organized human activity. The first is the existence of a shared horizon - aesthetic, ethical, philosophical,...
Military Swarming
"Swarming occurs when the dispersed units of a network of small (and perhaps some large) forces converge on a target from multiple directions. The overall aim is sustainable pulsing—swarm networks must be able to coalesce rapidly and stealthily on a target, then dissever and redisperse, immediately ready to recombine for a new pulse."(Arquila and Ronfeldt cited in http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Network-swarm-microstructure.html) "Swarming is a concept that owes its existence not just to Howar...
Analysis by Jeff Vail at http://www.jeffvail.net/2005/01/swarming-open-source-warfare-and-black.html Good article called Swarming Theory at the National Geographic, athttp://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/
Capitalism, he says, is a system in which “economic units—unlike those in previous historical epochs—must depend on the market for everything they need.”3 His argument then proceeds on that basis, building on the premise that what distinguishes capitalism from all other social forms is the market-dependence of all economic actors, and ...
Stan Stalnaker: "Cellular economic theory suggests an alternative to linear growth: circular growth. In the body, cells grow. Cells die. New cells grow. New cells die. On and on. We sustain ourselves through regeneration. In business, a form of staged, regenerative growth could become the norm.
2014年2月11日 · Description. "From the smartphones in our pockets and the cameras on the lampposts to sensors in the sewers, the sidewalks and the bike-sharing stations, the contemporary city is permeated with networked information technology. As promoted by enterprises like IBM, Siemens and Cisco Systems, the vision of the "smart city" proposes that this ...
Cognitive capitalism refers to the process by which information (data, knowledge, design or culture) is privatized and then commodified as a means of generating profit for capital. In this new phase of capitalism, traditional processes of material production and distribution are overtaken by the control of information as the driving force of ...
