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Teaching systems and foresight at Pacific Northwest College of Art (@pnca). Taking one day at a time.

Portland, Oregon
Joined December 2008
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The dynamics of purposeful change: a model ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/…
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Fantastic #Anticipation22 demo of Investing in Futures game: negotiating/navigating completely new worlds. investinginfutures.world
Great interview
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"My thesis is that paradox also has important morphogenetic dimensions and might be a stimulus, if not the stimulus, for human cognitive growth and for social-organizational development including the destruction of the orthodox."
The late Klaus Krippendorff (of Krippendorff's alpha) was a legendary philosopher-scientist. Rich morsels on cognitive dissonance in this 1982 work on paradox and information: repository.upenn.edu/cgi/vie…
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Fantastic opportunity to learn participatory narrative inquiry cfkurtz.com/pnipracticum/
Good @moneyontheleft conversation abt #publicbanking, municipal money, experiences in Austin, Tx
FEATURED - Money on the Left - Mike Siegel and Mike Lewis join Money on the Left to discuss municipal currency politics. mronline.org/2022/06/01/muni…
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Tim Snyder on Putin's cosmology, Ukrainian identity, and the West's self-defuturing in a "politics of inevitability" (TINA) #imageofthefuture nytimes.com/2022/03/15/opini…
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Highly recommend this opportunity to learn with Tony Hodgson -->
Search for personal meaning in a post-truth world is confusing. Here is a navigation aid h3uni.org/the-cosmic-ecology…
Good set of Qs for upcoming Anticipation 2022 conference anticipationconference.org/
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Universal property and common wealth -- the latest in a multi-decade conversation btwn @PeterBarn and @davidbollier david-bollier.simplecast.com…
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Gaian discourse -- homeostatic and autopoietic, Lovelock and Margulis. Fantastic interview with Bruce Clarke: newbooksnetwork.com/gaian-sy…
Open calls for papers: (Neo)Cybernetic Paths for an Epistemology of Digital Cultures degruyter.com/journal/key/op… h/t @antlerboy
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"what if lower birthrates are a good thing?" nytimes.com/2021/06/27/opini…
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Discussing documentary history, 1973-2001: Combahee River Collective Statement, ACT UP AIDS Action Pledge, Black Radical Congress Freedom Agenda, writings of Mab Segrest, John Trudell ++
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Cybernetic-Existentialism - Tom Scholte interview w/Steve Dixon Sartre: I am for others, the Other is revealed to me as the subject for whom I am an object. von Foerster: It is the other, through whose eyes we may see ourselves. newbooksnetwork.com/cybernet…
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"If you are asking people to tell you stories, why not ask them what their stories mean?" @chriscorrigan on using Participatory Narrative Inquiry chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot…
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The problem is not to derive an ought from an is but to see how innumerable oughts already are. -- @shaviro youtube.com/watch?v=VgrwEHuE…
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"Ecosocialism without anti-imperialism is not an ecosocialism worth having." sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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