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8 May 2024

  • 16:5716:57, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1,161 N Hui, Ko and Mujin Lending Circles in China and JapanCreated page with " =Description= Ed Mayo: "The idea of lending circles can also be traced back to thirteenth century Japan, in the form of Ko or Mujin, where groups of rural villagers, between twenty and fifty people, pooled savings and took turns to win credit. These may have been adapted from, or adapted into the Hui model from Southern China. This was smaller scale but, similar in terms of running until all have saved and borrowed before closing. In rural Korea, Kye emerged in the si..." current
  • 16:2016:20, 8 May 2024 diff hist +2,570 N Epicurean CommunitiesCreated page with " =Description= "“Epicurus, however, in a single household, and one of slender means at that, maintained a whole host of friends, united by a wonderful bond of affection. And this is still a feature of present day Epicureanism.” - From Cicero’s On Ends By the time Epicurus with his friends settled in Athens, he had a strong enough network to start competing with the other major philosophical schools of Plato and Aristotle. As the Epicureans gained converts and f..." current
  • 15:4615:46, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1,567 N Understanding MediaCreated page with " '''* Book: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. by Marshall McLuhan and Lewis H. Lapham. MIT Press, 2004 (reprint)''' URL = =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 (1964-199..." current
  • 15:3715:37, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1,383 Nordic IdeologyNo edit summary current

7 May 2024

  • 17:5217:52, 7 May 2024 diff hist +2,477 Mass FormationNo edit summary current
  • 17:4817:48, 7 May 2024 diff hist +2,941 N SafetyismCreated page with " =Description= Micha Narberhaus: "The Covid pandemic not only showed how quickly our Western governments can become authoritarian, it was also a moment when it became clearer than ever that large parts of Western societies now value their safety more than their civil liberties. Of course, this was not the first sign of a new safety culture in the West. Safe spaces on campuses were a warning sign years ago. A whole generation has now been brought up with the idea that s..." current
  • 17:4017:40, 7 May 2024 diff hist +1,909 N Global Disinformation IndexCreated page with " =Description= Micha Narberhaus: "For a deeper insight into how powerful the global fact-checking anti-disinformation industry has become, and what the consequences are, we need only look at the case study of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), brilliantly researched and recently published by the British heterodox media outlet Unherd. Founded in 2018, the UK company began with the ambition to disrupt the business model of online disinformation by starving offending..." current
  • 13:5113:51, 7 May 2024 diff hist +6,376 N Medium is the MassageCreated page with " * Book: The Medium is the Massage. by Marshall McLuhan. URL = =Contextual Quote= "All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences, they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered."  — Marshall McLuhan [https://omarmkhateeb.medium.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall-mcluhan-625264b7e7] More quotes from the book: Character no lon..." current

6 May 2024

  • 09:1509:15, 6 May 2024 diff hist +673 N Zak Stein on the AI Tutor ApocalypseCreated page with " Podcast via https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zak-stein-ai-tutor-apocalypse/id1057220344?i=1000610403148 =Description: Zak Stein - AI Tutor Apocalypse: ""Zak Stein and Daniel Thorson discuss the myriad risks of emerging AI tutoring technologies. '''AI tutoring is being developed now and will be deployed over the course of the next two to five years, bringing radical changes to our educational systems. This conversation explores the risks of this emerging technol..." current
  • 06:4606:46, 6 May 2024 diff hist +1,718 Listening SocietyNo edit summary current
  • 06:4106:41, 6 May 2024 diff hist +2,095 UmweltNo edit summary current
  • 06:3806:38, 6 May 2024 diff hist +1,727 N UmweltCreated page with " =Description= Tim Elmo Feiten: "Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) believed that every living creature inhabits a world of its own. The structure of this world is largely determined by the species to which a creature belongs, by its physiology, its behaviour, and its environment, but this world discloses itself only through individual subjective experience. As such, these worlds are both private and unique to each living subject. Uexküll coined the technical term Umwelt..."

5 May 2024

  • 16:4516:45, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1,772 N Post-Open LicensesCreated page with " =Discussion= ==Towards Post-Open Licenses== Bruce Perens: "Another straw burdening the Open Source camel, Perens writes, "is that Open Source has completely failed to serve the common person. For the most part, if they use us at all they do so through a proprietary software company's systems, like Apple iOS or Google Android, both of which use Open Source for infrastructure but the apps are mostly proprietary. The common person doesn't know about Open Source, they do..." current
  • 16:4016:40, 5 May 2024 diff hist +585 Category:LicensingNo edit summary current
  • 13:3313:33, 5 May 2024 diff hist +3,577 N How Worlds CollapseCreated page with " * How Worlds Collapse. What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Future Edited By Miguel Centeno, Peter Callahan, Paul Larcey, Thayer Patterson. Routledge, 2013 URL = https://www.routledge.com/How-Worlds-Collapse-What-History-Systems-and-Complexity-Can-Teach-Us-About-Our-Modern-World-and-Fragile-Future/Centeno-Callahan-Larcey-Patterson/p/book/9781032363219 =Abstract= "As our society confronts the impacts of globalization a..." current
  • 13:2113:21, 5 May 2024 diff hist −2 Greening World-Systems AnalysisNo edit summary current
  • 13:2013:20, 5 May 2024 diff hist +7 Greening World-Systems AnalysisNo edit summary
  • 13:1913:19, 5 May 2024 diff hist +2,187 N Greening World-Systems AnalysisCreated page with " '''* Article: For Nature: Deep Greening World-Systems Analysis for the 21st Century. Sing S. Chew. https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/99''' URL = https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/99 [https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.1997.99 DOI] '''"From the economy in command to ecology in command."''' =Abstract= "From its conception the world-systems perspective has been preoccupied with the study of long term global transformations. To this extent, the various st..."
  • 13:1213:12, 5 May 2024 diff hist +537 N Cooperation GroupCreated page with "'''= Project of the Berkman Klein Center on Internet and Society at Harvard University''' URL = https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/cooperation =Description= "The Cooperation Group is '''an interdisciplinary community of scholars studying networked cooperation'''. Our current activities include a variety of empirical research projects on online collaboration, as well as a weekly meeting in which we present and discuss research on cooperation from a variety of academic..." current
  • 13:0213:02, 5 May 2024 diff hist +2 Cycles of Accumulation and Hegemony Between Private Accumulating Classes and State Accumulating ClassesNo edit summary current
  • 10:5610:56, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1,698 N Autopoiesis and CognitionCreated page with " '''* Book: AUTOPOIESIS AND COGNITION. THE REALIZATION OF THE LIVING. By Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, 1972''' URL = https://archive.org/details/autopoiesiscogni0042matu/mode/2up =Description= 'What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold..." current
  • 10:5110:51, 5 May 2024 diff hist +13 Human Dignity and World OrderNo edit summary current
  • 10:4810:48, 5 May 2024 diff hist −5 Human Dignity and World OrderNo edit summary
  • 10:4810:48, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1,759 N Human Dignity and World OrderCreated page with " '''* Book: Human Dignity and World Order. The Holistic Foundations of Global Democracy. One World Renaissance,'2024'' URL = https://oneworldrenaissance.com/human-dignity-and-world-order/ =Description= "This book goes deeply into the question of what constitutes our common human dignity from which all our human rights are derived. It investigates the reasons why persons are recognized as having limitless value or dignity. It shows that the current world system as..."
  • 10:4110:41, 5 May 2024 diff hist +2,891 N Transcultural Policies of the Belgian City of MechelenCreated page with " =Discussion= Hanzi Freinacht: "An Example of Transculturalism: Mechelen Mechelen is a Belgian town of some 80,000 inhabitants. In the early 2000s, the city had high unemployment, a large immigrant (mostly Muslim) minority, and high crime rates, with ethnic tensions as a result. This development was turned around with a comprehensive plan to adjust ethnic relations, which arguably serves as a case of Gemeinschaft Politics and Transculturalism. When ISIS exploded acros..." current
  • 10:4010:40, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1 Transculturalism→‎Cases current
  • 10:3910:39, 5 May 2024 diff hist +2,863 TransculturalismNo edit summary
  • 10:3510:35, 5 May 2024 diff hist +3,974 TransculturalismNo edit summary
  • 10:2810:28, 5 May 2024 diff hist +6,492 Transculturalism→‎Discussion
  • 10:2710:27, 5 May 2024 diff hist +11,384 N MulticulturalismCreated page with "=Discussion= ==The Paradoxes of Multiculturalism== Hanzi Freinacht: "I thus hold that societies need to increasingly cultivate and establish institutional practices informed by Transculturalism. This is in keeping with the idea that societies around the world would do well to develop more “metamodern” institutions in order to thrive and survive in the face of mounting disruptions that come with systemic shifts. Transculturalism is a social process (or set of socia..." current
  • 10:2310:23, 5 May 2024 diff hist +29 Nordic IdeologyNo edit summary
  • 10:2110:21, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1,519 TransculturalismNo edit summary
  • 10:2010:20, 5 May 2024 diff hist +19 Transculturalism→‎Description
  • 10:1910:19, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1,565 N TransculturalismCreated page with " =Description= the view we shall be exploring here, and which I hold can and should be a part of an effective Gemeinschaft Politics. The transculturalist position holds that it is both true that diversity is good, that racism, inequality, and discrimination are real issues with their own respective (often postcolonial) historical roots, and that there are real problems of integration and inter-cultural relations, as well as real limitations to and problems inherent..."
  • 10:1810:18, 5 May 2024 diff hist +4,437 N Nordic IdeologyCreated page with " '''* Book: Nordic Ideology. Hanzi Freinacht.''' URL = =Discussion= Hanzi Freinacht: "In my book, Nordic Ideology, I outline six new forms of politics that I feel must become institutionalized parts of societies across the world for the core challenges of late modern life to be properly managed. One of these I call Gemeinschaft Politics — “Gemeinschaft” being a German word that sociologists use to denote the aspects of society that are not formalized i..."
  • 10:1410:14, 5 May 2024 diff hist +787 N Gemeinschaft PoliticsCreated page with " =Description= Hanzi Freinacht: "Gemeinschaft Politics — “Gemeinschaft” being a German word that sociologists use to denote the aspects of society that are not formalized into rules, regulations, and bureaucracies. It’s the informal weave of relationships in society: friendships, family and courting practices, inter-citizen trust and solidarity, religious, cultural, and ethnic or racial relations. It’s the politics of “fellowship” — the active a..." current
  • 09:4809:48, 5 May 2024 diff hist +6,030 N Confucian New Tian Xia ModelCreated page with " =Discussion= Tongdon Bai: "Internationally, I have proposed what I call a Confucian New Tian Xia Model of state identity and international relations; let me offer a brief introduction to it. If we apply the aforementioned notion suggested by Mencius of expanding care to the issue of state identity and international relations, a weak form of patriotism can be justified. That is, if there is a tension between the interests of one’s own state and the interests of othe..." current

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