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May 09 2010

olishaw
14:36

It’s Complicated - Making Sense of Complexity - NYTimes.com

Tags: complexity nyt culture society simplicity

April 22 2010

olishaw
09:09

The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky

Tags: business complexity culture economics future society tv businessmodels future-tv clayshirky

December 02 2009

olishaw
15:16

RSA Design

Kevin Slavin, urban consultant and co-founder of New York computer games studio Area/Code presents a powerful argument for games as social systems with people at the centre; for the “software” of cities as what runs on the “hardware” of buildings and streets; for an “urban sport” that can educate behaviour by leaking from computers into the social world; and above all, for designers today to build the systems that will propagate and feed us, not the things we will consume.
Tags: games sport software society kevin slavin rsa

November 12 2009

olishaw
09:05

On Point: Claude Levi-Strauss

At the imperial dawn of the 20th century, there was the “civilized” world and the “savage” or “primitive” world, and one felt free to judge the other. By the century’s end, the whole idea of primitive man as separate from civilized man was pretty well gone. And with it, the “savage mind.” Much of the banishing was the work of the towering anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Levi-Strauss has died at 100 in his native France. We are all, he said, driven by deep myth and common structures of thinking — even to our own extinction. This hour, On Point: The mind and work of Claude Levi-Strauss. http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss
Tags: on point claude levi-strauss anthropology humans culture society primitive civilization structuralism evolution
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