The Military
(extracted and edited from The Regime of Amplification) The second example — though it is a much more complex combination of pathways in its geo-political and material deployments and in its...
View ArticleMEP and other things
Presuming the Terran system is a (fully) self-regulating system, then the hypothesis would have to include the entire evolutionary process which produced human beings among other biota under the...
View Articleon participation, part one
I was telling someone the other day that I am a good participant. I know how to jump into a situation and contribute in a way that is sensitive to the ambient flows that are happening at the same time...
View ArticleRedirecting the Flows of Energy in Natural Systems
(but wait a minute, LIFE is, by definition, a redirecting of the flows of energy in a natural system — a redirecting that is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of living systems — according to...
View Articleabuse of power
Mills, using the key word, power, sketches out the relation between the individual and small groupings of people and their often problematic relation to those exercising power within The State. It is...
View Articlethe American Dream is only to survive
David Brooks, columnist at the New York Times writes in this commentary on New Years Day: Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology,...
View Articleconduct: opinions and sentiments
Men’s opinions, accordingly, on what is laudable or blamable, are affected by all the multifarious causes which influence their wishes in regard to the conduct of others, and which are as numerous as...
View Articledesire, complexity, simplicity, determinism (mix-up mash-up)
Today, mulling the difference between technological determinism (as a self-propagating system on its own immutable trajectory) and the reciprocal idea that human social systems selectively construct...
View Articlefinal leg
Arrive at CLUI mid-afternoon, after a slow and cold morning with a walk among the juniper and the outcrops of limestone there in the Goshute Mountains, looking for something, not sure what. The final...
View ArticleCLUI residency — Energy of Situation
Some final words on the residency period: Energy of Situation Rather than producing new material configurations of the energized world as a tool for individual continuance and relevance to the wider...
View Articlearrival and meditation
Have an incredibly erotic dream with Jennifer D., back from the Culture Capitals 2000 project in Prague. Will have to email her. Otherwise watery squint-eyed watching of rotating the stellar field....
View Articletriage
back in the CMAI office a few weeks ago thanks to Meghan — UTS Ultimo, the place hadn’t been touched (not even the white board) since I was here last December. the organization is in deep hibernation...
View Articlebirth of the DMA
History: National Military Establishment (NME), headed by Secretary of Defense, created by the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), July 26, 1947, which divided the War Department into...
View ArticleDistance versus Desire :: Clearing the ElectroSmog (Eric Kluitenberg)
The desire to transcend distance and separation has accompanied the history of media technology for many centuries. Various attempts to realize the demand for a presence from a distance have produced...
View ArticleStatement of Multi-Cultural Experience and Practice
With 20 years of experience with students from more than 40 countries and with educational organizations in 25 countries, I have a deep appreciation of the issues involved in multi- or trans-cultural...
View Articlemore on control and autonomy
A techno-social system is predicated and constructed on a system of control exerted on the flows of energy that are antithetical to its ordered existence or that simply exist ‘out there.’ Within a...
View Articleteaching, and prayers
jump into the Multi-Platform Story-Telling course to join Jan in the first day of audio work. the students seem quite activated as they continue on the projects that they started in video, moving to...
View Articledownhill? uphill?
The overall direction of change in the universe is from less probable (more organized) states to more probable (less organized) states. Life does not “oppose” this but rather makes use of it. The...
View Articleurban energy organization
Hypothesis I. The self-sufficiency of urban areas with respect to their source of emergy decreases with the urbanization process. During the urbanization process, the diversity of emergy sources...
View Articletowards self-organization, or else what?
The maintenance of the organization in nature is not — and can not be — achieved by central management; order can only be maintained by self-organization. Self-organizing systems allow adoption to the...
View Articlecurrent Capra
Lesson #1 A living social system is a self-generating network of communications. The aliveness of an organization resides in its informal networks, or communities of practice. Bringing life into human...
View ArticleListasafn Íslands
drop by for a visit with Val to catch up on her work updating the database of the National Gallery of Iceland. meet for a bit with old friend Posi who is now the director of the museum and Rakel who I...
View Articlemassive transit
hurdles to decent mass transit. it’s far easier to drive into New York City than to take the train. The Town of Bedford controls the parking area for the train. to get a day permit one has to show...
View Articlethesis proposal :: Background
Background for Research While individual human presence in this world has fundamental repercussions on be-ing, it is the ever-present and synergistic exchange between humans — forming what I call a...
View Articletools to thrive
spend the afternoon at a meeting with a group of about 15 enthusiastic Mizzou students who are interested in fundamental issues around sustainability and social activism. the meeting (01:20 audio) was...
View Articlestructural organization
structural organization. weaving this space of inquiry, exposé, or a web of deceit. a fabric of cloaking, or a dust cover for an old arm chair. Van Leeuwen’s overview (in Multimodal Discourse) of an...
View ArticleEnergy and Society
Excellent resource which will allow me to trace both forwards and backwards in time on this particular worldview which, although the definition of energy is strictly based on contemporary physics and...
View Articlemany impressions, no time
where to start. what to write about (if there ever is time to write here). impressions, expressions, observations, actions. food shopping: Woolworths, Coles, and the thousand-and-one small Asian food...
View Articleenergy/complexity
Energy has always been the basis of cultural complexity and it always will be. The past clarifies potential paths to the future. One often-discussed path is cultural and economic simplicity and lower...
View Articlenotes prior to Memory Seminar with Andrew Hoskins
The concept of memory is related to my own work and practice — as an artist, part of my work does relate to the creation and preservation of my personal archive. Also, memory is a feature of collective...
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