Category: Reflections
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We need tools for building sustainable collectives
Building a collective is about listening to the other, about trying to understand the other’s world, and try to find a ground for building a new common world. We usually do this through words. This is smart when we talk with people that we are already agreeing with. But what about those with whom we…
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Can social media help us build our collectives?
Can the social media help us build and sustain our collectives? No. The way we have chosen to design our social media, they are good at serving commercial purposes. Therefore they are build on linear thinking, and their consequence is digital autism. Our social media fail to help us build culturally sustainable collectives. Still, we…
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What makes us a collective?
The current discourse around sustainability has a tendency to focus on either the level of the individual or “society” as a whole. We need to take into account the level of the collective. We need to understand the workings of our everyday life connections in larger and smaller circles and find ways to connect them…
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” The reduction of listening–as an embodied practice–to the quantification and control of the audible spectrum, is, in other words, the history of compression”, – this post is relevant for the discussion about how to store ‘ the analogue’. I would argue that not only the mp3 is an expression of a tendency towards efficiency…
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Bruno Latour: Deployment, stabilization, composition
Bruno Latour emphasizes three essential duties for faithfully engaging with social experiences: deployment of controversies to attract new participants, stabilization of uncertainties through actors’ standards and formats, and finally, understanding how these assemblages can enhance our collective identity. This framework aims to strengthen our social connections.
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Henri Lefebvre: Audio ressources on the Web
Interview, 56’41” 1975-10-02 – Henri LEFEBVRE, sociologue : pourquoi il se définit comme “méta-philosophe”, le concept de mondialité ; ses origines, ses parents, ses rapports avec ses étudiants (allusion à Daniel COHN-BENDIT). Son activité d’opposant au sein du PCF pendant 10 ans, son exclusion du PCF, ce qu’il pense de Herbert MARCUSE, ce qu’il pense…
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Organisation’s lethal selfpreservation
Luhmann argues that every autopoietic system has this sort of intra-systemic dimension. Autopoietic systems are, above all, organized around maintaining themselves or enduring. This raises serious questions about academic political theory. Academia is an autopoietic system. As an autopoietic system, it aims to endure, reproduce itself, etc. It must engage in operations or procedures from…
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Quotation: H. Marcuse on the individual’s loss of autonomy
“It is not only the speed and range which distinguishes the means of mass communication from their predecessors. The new quality is introduced by the progressive transfer of power from the human individual to the technical or bureaucratic apparatus, from living to dead labor, from personal to remote control, from a machine or group of…