CTHEORY.NET > Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie: "The Web is a postmodernist tool that inevitably produces a postmodernist perspective"
Amen.brother. But is it really a tool? A tool implies specific use and a deconstructionist reading makes it rather toolish to be that tool.
Thursday, May 20, 2004
How communities work?
: "Additionally, in many case studies, networks and swarms co-exist. The 'Battle for Seattle' is one case in point. On one level, there were the self-organized affinity groups of the protesters coordinated by Direct Action Network. This level involved a swarming of bodies at particular physical locations (intersections, roads, buildings). Yet, as numerous commentators have noted, this swarming would not have been as successful without the layer of networks that, in part, enabled protesters to coordinate their local movements. This layer was composed of mobile and wireless gadgets, police scanners, and even streaming video. Therefore, in this case there is a combination of swarming bodies with a network of data transmissions. Similar instances of the co-existence between swarms and networks can be seen in the biological domain. In ethology, the study of ant foraging involves not just the corporeal swarming of individual ants, but what enables the swarm to achieve its goal of finding a food source is the informational content of the pheromone trails. The laying of pheromone trails constitutes a network of data exchanges, which both communicates a message ('go this way') as well as enabling the swarm to achieve its overall goal. At an even smaller level, the study of antibody production in the immune system shows that, in addition to a swarming of antibodies and other enzyme co-factors, there is an informational network that exists through the signaling of molecules in relation to each other."
What is the common element behind all this activity? Trust. So the question begs itself: "What is trust? Is it related to belief? Are believers and unbelievers and non-believers all needed in this trust system?"
What is the common element behind all this activity? Trust. So the question begs itself: "What is trust? Is it related to belief? Are believers and unbelievers and non-believers all needed in this trust system?"
Monday, May 17, 2004
Water Cooler Games - Education Arcade, day 1
Water Cooler Games - Education Arcade, day 1
Laurel pointed out that schools are incredibly immune to change. Gaming can't change schools. The kind of learning kids need is not going to come up in schools. When used in classrooms, games become an accessory to the same hierarchy; they don't puncture the spectacle of culture of politics.
Amen to this. Now what do we do? Fucked if I know. Keep on or get out.
Laurel pointed out that schools are incredibly immune to change. Gaming can't change schools. The kind of learning kids need is not going to come up in schools. When used in classrooms, games become an accessory to the same hierarchy; they don't puncture the spectacle of culture of politics.
Amen to this. Now what do we do? Fucked if I know. Keep on or get out.
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'equaintance'
A brand new word on the horizon. I love neologisms like this. When I hear them I feel the satisfying click of brass-on-brass in my mind and know they are 'true'.
A brand new word on the horizon. I love neologisms like this. When I hear them I feel the satisfying click of brass-on-brass in my mind and know they are 'true'.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
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Monday, February 02, 2004
O'Reilly Network: Some Nice Editorials on Dean and Blogs [Feb. 01, 2004]
O'Reilly Network: Some Nice Editorials on Dean and Blogs [Feb. 01, 2004]
expertise trumps enthusias,? I think that is pretty limited view of how one becomes an expert--by becoming enthusiastic about a useful tool whether that tool is an idea or a new technology or a skill.
expertise trumps enthusias,? I think that is pretty limited view of how one becomes an expert--by becoming enthusiastic about a useful tool whether that tool is an idea or a new technology or a skill.
Monday, January 19, 2004
Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid
Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid
Another bubble burst. The only best practice is your best practice.
Another bubble burst. The only best practice is your best practice.
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
The Atlantic | January/February 2003 | The New Continental Divide | Lind
The Atlantic | January/February 2003 | The New Continental Divide | Lind: "The nightmarish result might be an America in which the same wealthy elite lords it over both a largely nonwhite proletariat of maids, nannies, gardeners, and janitors in the coastal cities and over a mostly white working class of janitors, dude-ranch employees, and tourist-trap workers in the interior. This, in turn, might produce a hardening economic and racial hierarchy or even a class war. Whatever the outcome, the American dream of a middle-class society might be threatened."
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Gropinator
Gropinator: "Of course, Walmart cares not about a level playing field. To quote the president of thread maker Carolina Mills: 'We want clean air, clear water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world--yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.'"
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin: "Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself - as I know you already have - in dark places, alone, and afraid."
Fabulous commencement address by Ursula Leguin at Mills College
Fabulous commencement address by Ursula Leguin at Mills College
Saturday, October 18, 2003
OJR article: NY Times Reporter Has Seen It All Before, and He's Still Pessimistic
OJR article: NY Times Reporter Has Seen It All Before, and He's Still Pessimistic
Quote: it sometimes seems we have a world full of bloggers and that blogging is the future of journalism, or at least that's what the bloggers argue, and to my mind, it's not clear yet whether blogging is anything more than CB radio.
And if that doesn't rile you, how about this?
Quote: When I tell that to people … they get very angry with me. ... I also like to tell them, when they (ask) when I'm going to start a blog, and then, 'Oh, I already have a blog, it's www.nytimes.com, don't you read it?'
Quote: it sometimes seems we have a world full of bloggers and that blogging is the future of journalism, or at least that's what the bloggers argue, and to my mind, it's not clear yet whether blogging is anything more than CB radio.
And if that doesn't rile you, how about this?
Quote: When I tell that to people … they get very angry with me. ... I also like to tell them, when they (ask) when I'm going to start a blog, and then, 'Oh, I already have a blog, it's www.nytimes.com, don't you read it?'
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
USM Center for Writers - The 39 Steps:Â On Story Writing
USM Center for Writers - The 39 Steps: On Story Writing
Of if you don't like Elmore Leonard, try Donald Barthelme's 39 steps.
Of if you don't like Elmore Leonard, try Donald Barthelme's 39 steps.
Bucks County Writers Workshop
Bucks County Writers Workshop
Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules. I love rule number ten: try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules. I love rule number ten: try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
universal education -- YES! A Journal of Positive Futures
universal education -- YES! A Journal of Positive Futures
Powerful guidelines for education here taken from private schools, the Amish, and Gatto's own life.
Powerful guidelines for education here taken from private schools, the Amish, and Gatto's own life.
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
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