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Readings on the rhizomatic structure.
Updated on May 19, 13
Created on Jan 15, 10
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Collective impact works differently. The process and results of collective impact are emergent rather than predetermined, the necessary resources and innovations often already exist but have not yet been recognized, learning is continuous, and adoption happens simultaneously among many different organizations.
What is nothing?
The simplest kind of nothing is "an infinite empty space," Krauss tells Big Think. This type of nothing, the dark infinite void of the Bible, is not filled with any particles or radiation. It's just nothing. However, due to the laws of quantum mechanics and relativity, Krauss says, "we now know that empty space is a boiling bubbling brew of virtual particles that are popping in and out of existence at every moment."
Though Jung paved the way with this quote, the figures responsible for rhizome as a term in media theory are French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (inspired by Jung) and clinical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, who together developed an ontology based on the rhizome in works such as Rhizome: Introduction (1976) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). In the latter volume, Deleuze and Guattari begin the discussion of rhizome with an expansion of its traditional botanical one, noting that "even some animals are [rhizomes], in their pack form. Rats are rhizomes. Burrows are too, in all their functions of shelter, supply, movement, evasion, and breakout."
Here, we describe our journey exploring Deleuze and Guattari's conceptual Rhizome. It was an experiment, undertaken in order to bring new ideas to bear on our current and future ethnographic research relating to bioethics, clinical trials and the complexities of international science collaborations in Sri Lanka. In working to bridge a perceived gap between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and our familiar anthropological canon, we made real the abstract rhizomatic thinking they describe, through interaction with a physical rhizome, or plant root.
highly visual introduction to rhizomatics & networking with strong implications for connectivism.
Boundaries are an inevitable consequence of cognitive categorisation, a basic cognitive process through which individuals simplify complex stimuli into meaningful categories (Abrams & Hogg, 1999). Boundaries are generally understood as the physical, temporal, emotional, cognitive, and relational demarcations that separate one entity from another (Ashforth, Kreiner, & Fugate, 2000; Nippert-Eng, 1996; Zerubavel, 1993). For instance, a national boundary usually refers to the border of a nation or country. In contrast, socio-psychological boundaries refer to different cultural norms used by members to guide their thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Boundaries have varying levels of permeability. Boundary permeability refers to the ease with which individuals can either mentally or physically enter or exit the group.
Role boundary permeability is a way of describing the phenomenon that happens when a person experiences emotions from one place in another because of a connection to a mobile device.
Planetary boundaries provide a useful way of thinking about environmental change, because in many cases they give scope for further change that has not already happened.
Intro to David Eagleman's Laboratory for Perception at the Baylor College of Medicine.
When you're managing software development projects, you need to know the difference between complex and complicated. Not knowing this difference means you might apply exactly the wrong approach to the right problem. It's a simple message, really. But if you don't get it, you're headed for chaos.
Simple = easily knowable.
Complicated = not simple, but still knowable.
Complex = not fully knowable, but reasonably predictable.
Chaotic = neither knowable nor predictable.
The simplest description of a black hole is a region of space-time from which no light is reflected and nothing escapes. The simplest description of consciousness is a mind that absorbs many things and attends to a few of them. Neither of these concepts can be captured quantitatively. Together they suggest the appealing possibility that endlessness surrounds us and infinity is within.
It should be stressed that although many phenomena are complex,15 the concept of ‘complexity’ is more specific. Complexity is the study of complex adaptive systems. These have been defined as ‘a collection of individual agents with freedom to act in ways that are not always totally predictable, and whose actions are interconnected so that one agent's actions changes the context for other agents’.16 Such systems include living cells, the brain, the immune system, the financial markets, ecosystems, and human populations. They are complex in the sense that there are a great many apparently independent agents interacting with each other, but the richness of these interactions allows the system as a whole to undergo self-organization.
When you meet with a situation you experience as complex you need to think about yourself in relation to the process of formulating a system of interest. Only with this awareness, can you increase your range of purposeful actions in the situation which are ethically defensible. To do so is the hallmark of systemic thinking and practice compared to systematic thinking and practice. The metaphor of the systems practitioner as a juggler of four balls is introduced as a device to explore skill development for effective systems practice – the balls are ‘being’, ‘engaging’, ‘contextualising’ and ‘managing’.
According to Timothy O’Conner and Hong Yu Wong, emergentists are ‘physical substance monists,’ because they believe that fundamentally there is one homogeneous ‘stuff’ that underlies all of reality. However, uniform units of stuff may aggregate hierarchically into various orders of organization. To each strata belong its own unique, characteristic, fundamental, and irreducible properties & laws that emerge from the lower-levels of organization. As unique, these properties & laws are only found within their respective levels, and not in the layers below
In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location. Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples…
…but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads.
A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work.
Filtering is what helps us deal with the vast amount of information available to us. We try to filter information so that we end up with something that is relevant to us – it helps us learn something, it helps us solve a problem, it helps us develop a new hypothesis about the world around us. These are all connections – and this is what really drives value creation. However, we can’t connect without some filtering going on.
By refusing so-called “representative democracy”, with its inherent tendency towards manipulation of the populace, and construing the body politic as an aggregate of desiring machines, the flows of democratising desire can be harnessed against the forces of political and economic repression.
Integration, the vital connection with all our parts that leads to balance, is composed of both differentiation and linkage, he says, and the absence of either impairs it: “Relationships, mind and brain aren’t different domains of reality—they are each about energy and information flow. The mechanism is the brain; subjective impressions and consciousness are mind. The regulation of energy and information flow is a function of mind as an emergent process emanating from both relationships and brain. Relationships are the way we share this flow. In this view, the emergent process we are calling “mind” is located in the body (nervous system) and in our relationships. Interpersonal relationships that are attuned promote the growth of integrative fibers in the brain. It is these regulatory fibers that enable the embodied brain to function well and for the mind to have a deep sense of coherence and well-being. Such a state also creates the possibility of a sense of being connected to a larger world. The natural outcome of integration is compassion, kindness, and resilience.”16
A video overview of contemplative neuroscience, or the study of the effects of contemplative practice on the brain and mind.
What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet? in preparation for the Contact summit in NYC october 20, we want to understand the current landscape of projects/initiatives building a distributed internet and the fundamental requirements so we can better coordinate efforts.
49 items | 3 visits
Readings on the rhizomatic structure.
Updated on May 19, 13
Created on Jan 15, 10
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: