Civilization of the Dialogue
The Civilization of the Dialogue is the only civilization worth having and the only civilization in which the whole world can unite. It is therefore the only civilization we can hope for because the...
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Sugarcane seems to have originated in New Guinea and, between the fourth and eighth centuries, was grown in India and the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The peoples of the Middle East and...
View ArticleThe Machinic Structure of Institutions
What would a revolutionary academy be. It must, of course, have revolutionary aims; not just with respect to the academy itself, but with respect to the broader social world. At the level of its...
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inequality, poverty, corruption; The General; The President; The Presidential Palace; Parliament; the State TV; the international airport; the Army HQ; the Army garrison; the Place de la Nation; The...
View Articlefrom “Notes on Nationalism”
By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled...
View Articlenet.culture at mlab
Proposal for the net.culture course at the Media Lab of the University of Art & Design Helsinki (UIAH, which is now Aalto University): The computer is a creative tool in many situations where it is...
View Articlethe social algorithm and social engineering
This, an extract from an introduction to the Facebook-run study appearing in the current edition of the journal Science. It reminds us of the positive answer to the question of whether the...
View ArticleFrancis, bara að segja
[...] The misuse and destruction of the environment are also accompanied by a relentless process of exclusion. In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to...
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‘chaos-taking’ ‘grasping freedom’ 乱取 Cheap energy and the short-term bloom of humanity it has fueled have given rise to some social arrangements that are not destined to survive the onset of permanent...
View ArticleDoes Rejection Actually Hurt?
Though it may seem far-fetched to claim that social rejection can actually “hurt,” an overlap in the distress associated with physical and social pain makes good sense from an evolutionary perspective....
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As a college professor, I have repeatedly observed that far too many monsters of high school achievement possess blank, dull, and uncreative minds. Although they are accomplished, never having had a...
View Articleprescient: Amurikan Facism
Many writers on socioeconomic policy have warned that the old industrialized democracies are heading into a Weimar-like period, one in which populist movements are likely to overturn constitutional...
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