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2024年5月8日 · Description. From the publisher: "Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of ...
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From Separation to Participation, a history of modes of thought and consciousness: Mythos, Logos, Theos, Mechanos Peter Reason summarizes the ideas of Henryk Skolimowski, on the evolution of western thought: "Henryk Skolimowski, in his book The Participatory Mind (Arkana, 1994), sketches out what he describes as the four great cycles of Western min...
Henryk Skolimowski
- Henryk Skolimowsky on the Participatory Mind "The astrophysicist John Archibald Wheeler may have been the first to announce, in an articulate way (in the early 1970s), the idea of the Participatory Universe. He wrote, "The universe does not exist 'out there' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a Participatory Universe." In the early 1980s, drawing from the insights of Wheeler...
David Skrbina
The Participatory Mind, as defined by David Skrbina in his PhD thesis: "As I conceive it, the concept of 'participation' is fundamentally a mental phenomenon, and therefore a key aspect of the Participatory Worldview is the idea of 'participatory mind'. In the Mechanistic Worldview mind is a mysterious entity, attributed only to humans and perhaps higher mammals. In the Participatory Worldview mind is a naturalistic, holistic, and universal phenomenon. Human mind is then seen as a particular...
In view of the above, how could we call a coming age of participation? Philippe Van Nedervelde suggests two possible names, also drawn from classical Greek: 1) Synergos, from "sun/syn" = together; "ergos" = work 2) Metechos, denotes sharing/participating
In 1994 Daniel co-founded Cerberus, whose CDJ (Cerberus Digital Jukebox) was the first system for copyright protected Internet-based music distribution. Drawing on video broadcast experience, Daniel specified MPEG compression, encryption and distribution technologies for the CDJ.
Outside of the ASI, she also served as President of the Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society (EDCS - now known as Oikocredit), Board Member of the De La Salle University System, East Asian Pastoral Institute and Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation. Dr. Ramirez is also a recipient of various awards like the Ozanam Award (given by the Jesuits ...
1. From UCLA: "David Wilkinson studies long-term and large-scale phenomena in world politics, including empires and systems of independent states. His research explores the fluctuations in the power structures of civilizations and world systems on very long time scales, while also touching on contemporary issues of multipolarity, unipolarity ...
Arguments for a New Left; Answering the Freemarket Right, 1994; Reclaim the State,Experiments in Popular Democracy, 2003; and Public Service Reform but Not as We Know It, 2009 (co-authored). Recent essays include: “The Commons, the State and
* Book: The Heart of Altruism. Kristen Monroe. URL = Description Jay Weinstein: "Political psychologist Kristen Monroe has provided a significant contribution to the literature on altruism. In The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity, she defines altruism as "behavior intended to benefit another, even when this risks possible sacrifice to the welfare of the actor."
