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    <title>[2210.02753] Communities as Vague Operators: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Heuristics of Community Detection Algorithms</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-21T12:25:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this article, we aim to analyse the nature and epistemic consequences of what figures in network science as patterns of nodes and edges called 'communities'. Tracing these as multi-faceted and ambivalent, we propose to describe the concept of community as a 'vague operator' related to Susan Leigh Star's notion of the boundary object but more loose, like a collection of hints, and propose that the ability to construct different modes of faceting that are both vague and hyper-precise, in semiotic, technical and social terms is core both to digital politics and the analysis of 'communities'. Engaging with these formations in terms drawn from mathematics and software studies enables a wider mapping of their formation. Disentangling different lineages in network science then allows us to contextualise the founding account of 'community' popularised by Michelle Girvan and Mark Newman in 2002. After studying one particular community detection algorithm, the so called 'Louvain algorithm', we comment on controversies arising with some of their more ambiguous applications. We argue that 'community' can act as a real abstraction with the power to reshape social relations such as producing echo chambers in social networking sites. To rework the epistemological terms of community detection, we draw on debates and propositions in the literature of network science to imagine a 'critical heuristics' that embraces partiality, epistemic humbleness, reflexivity and artificiality.
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    <title>Fact-Checking is Table Stakes - by Dorian Taylor</title>
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    <title>Structure of American Political Discontent | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford Academic</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We explore the role of “political discontent” as a second dimension of American public opinion. Others have shown that a second dimension tends to capture social and/or racial attitudes. What happens when indicators of discontent are included in such analyses? Using data from two surveys and the ordered optimal classification (OOC) procedure, we scale seven items from the “discontent” literature alongside a larger set of questions that has been shown to capture the two-dimensional structure of mass opinion. Discontent items dominate the second dimension in both data sets. Further, five of the seven items predict voting for “insurgents” in the 2016 presidential primaries. Second-dimension attitudes matter in elections and concern the political system writ large. By extension, the liberal-conservative heuristic gives an incomplete picture of mass political behavior.
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    <title>[2201.03582] The Cultural Transmission of Tacit Knowledge</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A wide variety of cultural practices take the form of "tacit" knowledge, where the rules and principles are neither obvious to an observer nor known explicitly by the practitioners. This poses a problem for cultural evolution: if beginners cannot simply imitate experts, and experts cannot simply say or demonstrate what they are doing, how can tacit knowledge pass from generation to generation? We present a domain-general model of "tacit teaching", that shows how high-fidelity transmission of tacit knowledge is possible. It applies in cases where the underlying features of the practice are subject to interacting and competing constraints, as is expected both in embodied and in social practices. Our model makes predictions for key features of the teaching process. It predicts a tell-tale distribution of teaching outcomes: some students will be nearly perfect performers while others receiving the same instruction will be disastrously bad. This differs from most mainstream cultural evolution models centered on high-fidelity transmission with minimal copying errors, which lead to a much narrower distribution where students are mostly equally mediocre. The model also predicts generic features of the cultural evolution of tacit knowledge. The evolution of tacit knowledge is expected to be bursty, with long periods of stability interspersed with brief periods of dramatic change, and where tacit knowledge, once lost, becomes essentially impossible to recover.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. What is involved in "explaining" a social event or circumstance?

We explain a social event when we show how it arose as a result of the actions and interactions of multiple social actors, engaged within a specified social, economic, political, and natural environment, to accomplish their varied and heterogeneous purposes. Sometimes the thrust of the explanation derives from discovering the surprising motives the actors had; sometimes it derives from uncovering the logic of unintended consequences that developed through their interactions; and sometimes it derives from uncovering the features of the institutional and natural environment that shaped the choices the actors made.
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    <title>Tools, Tricks, and Hacks: Exploring Novel Digital Fabrication Workflows on #PlotterTwitter | Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-22T09:54:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As digital fabrication machines become widespread, online communities have provided space for diverse practitioners to share their work, troubleshoot, and socialize. These communities pioneer increasingly novel fabrication workflows, and it is critical that we understand and conceptualize these workflows beyond traditional manufacturing models. To this end, we conduct a qualitative study of #PlotterTwitter, an online community developing custom hardware and software tools to create artwork with computer-controlled drawing machines known as plotters. We documented and analyzed emergent themes where the traditional interpretation of digital fabrication workflows fails to capture important nuances and nascent directions. We find that #PlotterTwitter makers champion creative exploration of interwoven digital and physical materials over a predictable series of steps. We discuss how this challenges long-running views of digital fabrication and propose design implications for future frameworks and toolkits to account for this breadth of practice.
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    <title>A Mess as a Queer Map | feministkilljoys</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-22T12:42:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps procedures are not just what exist on paper, they paper over what exists. Complaints procedures can be used rather like diversity: as a way of not addressing a problem by appearing to do so. My book Complaint! is profoundly indebted to the work of Black feminists and feminists of colour such as M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Heidi Mirza who have offered critiques of what diversity does not do.

Diversity can paper over racism. Paper matters. To make a complaint is often to make use of papers. An academic describes, “In every one of my complaints I used the policies that were given to us by the university.”  To make use of policies in a complaint is often to point to their failure to be followed. Having evidence of the failure of policies to be followed does not guarantee the success of a complaint. She described policy as a trip wire: “That was my experience of the complaint process.  As an employer of the university, the minute you try to enact policy that you are told when you are hired to be the vanguards of, to protect the quality of education and work at the university, that in effect it is a trip wire, and that in effect you become the person to be investigated. These policies are not meant.” When you try and use a policy to do what it was meant to do, your action sends out an alarm or an alert. To make a complaint is to find out what policies are not meant. You are stopped from using the policy rather like a trespasser is stopped from entering the building.  If a usage becomes an alarm, you are being told, you are not supposed to do that, you are not supposed to be here. You are stopped by becoming “the person to be investigated.”

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    <title>[2104.08636] Avoiding the bullies: The resilience of cooperation among unequals</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-19T10:41:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can egalitarian norms or conventions survive the presence of dominant individuals who are ensured of victory in conflicts? We investigate the interaction of power asymmetry and partner choice in games of conflict over a contested resource. We introduce three models to study the emergence and resilience of cooperation among unequals when interaction is random, when individuals can choose their partners, and where power asymmetries dynamically depend on accumulated payoffs. We find that the ability to avoid bullies with higher competitive ability afforded by partner choice mostly restores cooperative conventions and that the competitive hierarchy never forms. Partner choice counteracts the hyper dominance of bullies who are isolated in the network and eliminates the need for others to coordinate in a coalition. When competitive ability dynamically depends on cumulative payoffs, complex cycles of coupled network-strategy-rank changes emerge. Effective collaborators gain popularity (and thus power), adopt aggressive behavior, get isolated, and ultimately lose power. Neither the network nor behavior converge to a stable equilibrium. Despite the instability of power dynamics, the cooperative convention in the population remains stable overall and long-term inequality is completely eliminated. The interaction between partner choice and dynamic power asymmetry is crucial for these results: without partner choice, bullies cannot be isolated, and without dynamic power asymmetry, bullies do not lose their power even when isolated. We analytically identify a single critical point that marks a phase transition in all three iterations of our models. This critical point is where the first individual breaks from the convention and cycles start to emerge.
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:583bc79ffed3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07301">
    <title>[2008.07301] Computational timeline reconstruction of the stories surrounding Trump: Story turbulence, narrative control, and collective chronopathy</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-15T10:26:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07301</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Measuring the specific kind, temporal ordering, diversity, and turnover rate of stories surrounding any given subject is essential to developing a complete reckoning of that subject's historical impact. Here, we use Twitter as a distributed news and opinion aggregation source to identify and track the dynamics of the dominant day-scale stories around Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States. Working with a data set comprising around 20 billion 1-grams, we first compare each day's 1-gram and 2-gram usage frequencies to those of a year before, to create day- and week-scale timelines for Trump stories for 2016 onwards. We measure Trump's narrative control, the extent to which stories have been about Trump or put forward by Trump. We then quantify story turbulence and collective chronopathy -- the rate at which a population's stories for a subject seem to change over time. We show that 2017 was the most turbulent year for Trump, and that story generation slowed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Trump story turnover for 2 months during the COVID-19 pandemic was on par with that of 3 days in September 2017. Our methods may be applied to any well-discussed phenomenon, and have potential, in particular, to enable the computational aspects of journalism, history, and biography.
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<dc:subject>digital-humanities nonlinear-dynamics rather-interesting cultural-dynamics to-read hey-I-know-this-guy narrative politics chaos-engines</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:437d7b018bbf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/the-twin-insurgency/">
    <title>The Twin Insurgency - The American Interest</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-19T14:46:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/the-twin-insurgency/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By 1980, the reaction against the social modernist state had set in. Levels of economic inequality began to grow again, eventually reaching heights not seen since the 1920s—prompting one financier to celebrate the emergent economic order as a “plutonomy”, that is, an economy geared to the interests of plutocrats.2 When Communism collapsed in 1989, what died was thus not just the collectivist economic system and authoritarian politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Cremated along with the corpse of Communism was the civic-minded conception of development as the central responsibility of the state and allied elites—a conception shared by communists and liberals alike during the Cold War. It wasn’t just that the state “retreated” from the “commanding heights” of the economy, to use Daniel Yergin’s terms, but also that the very ambition of the state receded. Many states stopped even pretending they wanted to create a more egalitarian society and instead sought to legitimate themselves by claiming they were maximizing individual opportunity. For proponents of this perspective, the rise of new plutocrats counted not as a defeat, but as a success for the new model of governance. The best face that the World Bank could put on the new order was to say, in 1997, that henceforth the role of the state would be to “steer” rather than to “row.” By the turn of the millennium, even elements of the Left had come to doubt whether states could be relied on to effectively and disinterestedly promote the public interest.

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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9973a97cc03c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49583/">
    <title>Innovations and technological comebacks - Nottingham ePrints</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-19T01:19:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49583/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Motivated by the comeback of the vinyl, we explore the idea that the success of a third-generation technology (digital music) can have adverse effects on the second generation (CD) but positive effects on the first one (vinyl). This phenomenon arises in a market if the process of innovation is not transitive. In particular, we identify a condition such that the second generation completely substitutes the first one, the third generation completely substitutes the second one, but the first and the third generations have enough complementarities to coexist. Beyond the case of music industry, our model has implications on product positioning and product design.
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<dc:subject>technology cultural-dynamics rather-interesting the-mangle-in-practice illusions-of-progress</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bcc6ecca82f2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.claireryanauthor.com/blog/2019/12/27/the-implosion-of-the-rwa">
    <title>The Implosion of the RWA — Claire Ryan</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-01T12:53:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.claireryanauthor.com/blog/2019/12/27/the-implosion-of-the-rwa</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s interesting to watch a major organization collapse in real time. I’m not involved, thankfully, but seeing the fall of the Romance Writers of America has been something. Whether it truly does cease to be still remains to be seen—a lot of its members are not on social media, and probably have no idea what’s going on—but for the online writing community, it seems the RWA will come to an end, going the way of all dinosaurs.

But to those authors on Twitter who are aghast—AGHAST, I tell you—that there could racism and bigotry in the RWA, I have to ask: why is this news to you? Courtney Milan has been fighting for marginalized romance authors in the RWA for quite some time. What exactly do you think she’s been fighting against?

But I digress.

Here are the facts, as best I can compile them.

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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0fd120f54344/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2019/12/31/the-new-rude-masters-of-science-fiction/">
    <title>The New Rude Masters of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction – and Romance | The World Remains Mysterious</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-01T12:18:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2019/12/31/the-new-rude-masters-of-science-fiction/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many SF writers are used to being the most liberal voice in the room, the proponents of the wildest and wackiest things. But as time has passed, as is the way of things, the boundaries have been stretched farther, and what was once-wild now looks tame at times. There are new forces in the world. And now some of those previously outrageous, convention-challenging voices are putting their energy into protecting the conventions and social mores they created from any further change.

]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7e954cd9b200/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/trump-johnson-impeachment-edmund-ross/">
    <title>Trump’s Not Richard Nixon. He’s Andrew Johnson. – Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-11T12:59:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/trump-johnson-impeachment-edmund-ross/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At this point, it’s a cliché to compare President Donald Trump’s present predicament to Richard Nixon and Watergate—the pathetic desperation of the crime itself, the bungling attempt at a cover-up, the release of an incriminating transcript. Fair enough. But the best parallel to Trump isn’t Nixon; it’s Johnson, a belligerent and destructive faux-populist who escaped conviction by the thinnest of margins. Though popular critics like Kennedy have long framed the Johnson impeachment as a fight over something small—an act of legalistic nitpicking—the stakes could not have been bigger. It was about what kinds of transgressions and values were worth fighting over in a country that in many ways was still at war with itself. Sometimes the biggest crimes aren’t criminal at all.

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<dc:subject>history politics fascism cultural-dynamics culture-war American-cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a22143ac71c6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode">
    <title>Atomization: the kaleidoscope of meaning | Meaningness</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-06T09:27:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The previous, subcultural mode failed because individual subcultures did not provide enough breadth or depth of meaning; and because cliquish subsocieties made it too difficult to access the narrow meaningness they hoarded.
The global internet exploded that. Everything is equally available everywhere—which is fabulous! Now, there are no boundaries, so bits of culture float free. Unfortunately, with no binding contexts, nothing makes sense. Meanings arrive as bite-sized morsels in a jumbled stream, like sushi flowing past on a conveyer belt, or brilliant shards of colored glass in a kaleidoscope.
With no urge for context to make culture understandable, everything is equally appealing everywhere. The atomized mode returns to the universalism of the countercultural mode—but by default, rather than design. In the 1960s, for the first time, everyone in an American generation listened to the same music, regardless of genre—as an expression of solidarity. Now, everyone in the world listens to the same music, regardless of genre, again—just because it’s trending on YouTube.
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<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics cultural-norms Dunbar-all-the-things rather-interesting to-write-about fluidity humanities where-I-come-from... self-definition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7b845b8c3ff2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09561">
    <title>[1809.09561] Evaluating stochastic seeding strategies in networks</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-24T11:09:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09561</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When trying to maximize the adoption of a behavior in a population connected by a social network, it is common to strategize about where in the network to seed the behavior, often with an element of randomness. Selecting seeds uniformly at random is a basic but compelling strategy in that it distributes seeds broadly throughout the network. A more sophisticated stochastic strategy, one-hop targeting, is to select random network neighbors of random individuals; this exploits a version of the friendship paradox, whereby the friend of a random individual is expected to have more friends than a random individual, with the hope that seeding a behavior at more connected individuals leads to more adoption. Many seeding strategies have been proposed, but empirical evaluations have demanded large field experiments designed specifically for this purpose and have yielded relatively imprecise comparisons of strategies. Here we show how stochastic seeding strategies can be evaluated more efficiently in such experiments, how they can be evaluated "off-policy" using existing data arising from experiments designed for other purposes, and how to design more efficient experiments. In particular, we consider contrasts between stochastic seeding strategies and analyze nonparametric estimators adapted from policy evaluation and importance sampling. We use simulations on real networks to show that the proposed estimators and designs can dramatically increase precision while yielding valid inference. We then apply our proposed estimators to two field experiments, one that assigned households to an intensive marketing intervention and one that assigned students to an anti-bullying intervention.
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<dc:subject>social-networks feature-construction rather-interesting social-engineering network-theory to-understand to-write-about epidemiology cultural-dynamics to-simulate</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:efa09139274d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://evolution-institute.org/on-the-origin-of-socialist-darwinism/">
    <title>On the Origin of Socialist Darwinism – The Evolution Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-13T11:44:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://evolution-institute.org/on-the-origin-of-socialist-darwinism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Socialist Darwinism is the idea that natural selection promotes societies that cooperate as moral communities. This concept actually predates Social Darwinism, which later emphasized competition and individualism. Socialists throughout the 1860s-70s praised Darwin’s theory as promoting progressive social change.
As Eric Michael Johnson has documented in The Struggle for Coexistence (pdf here), the earliest consistent application of Darwin’s ideas for human society can be classified as Socialist Darwinism. For these authors, evolution demonstrated that the inequality maintained by institutions of God and State were not facts of nature but were imposed by power and privilege. It was therefore necessary for society to be redesigned from the bottom-up following scientific principles.
“I am a Socialist because I am a believer in Evolution,” wrote the women’s rights activist Annie Besant. She saw in Darwin’s work the clearest evidence yet that the status quo was not divinely ordained. Social species had evolved traits for cooperative behavior and humans, the most social of all animals, displayed the most elaborate moral instincts. Because evolution had shaped human physiology, behavior, and mind, Besant concluded, “it was not possible that Evolution should leave Sociology untouched.” Like Besant, many nineteenth-century socialist scholars, scientists, and activists quickly deployed Darwin to challenge the status quo.
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<dc:subject>history-of-science rather-interesting social-dynamics cultural-dynamics to-read political-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3390a408b4e7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-philosopher-redefining-equality">
    <title>The Philosopher Redefining Equality | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-17T10:00:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-philosopher-redefining-equality</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In general, Anderson is outgoing when conversation turns to ideas and shy about other things. (“If you want to make her totally uncomfortable, tell her she has to go to a fancy function in a cocktail dress,” her husband says.) Now she cleared her throat noisily. “If you look back at the origins of liberalism, it starts first with a certain settlement about religious difference,” she said. “Catholics, Protestants—they’re killing each other! Finally, Germany, England, all these places say, We’re tired of these people killing each other, so we’re going to make a peace settlement: religious toleration, live and let live.”

She spread her hands wider. “Then something remarkable happens,” she said. “People now have the freedom to have crosscutting identities in different domains. At church, I’m one thing. At work, I’m something else. I’m something else at home, or with my friends. The ability not to have an identity that one carries from sphere to sphere but, rather, to be able to slip in and adopt whatever values and norms are appropriate while retaining one’s identities in other domains?” She paused. “That is what it is to be free.”

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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-meet"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://vividness.live/2019/03/27/ann-gleig-american-dharma/">
    <title>Enlightenments beyond the Enlightenment – Vividness</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-29T12:44:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://vividness.live/2019/03/27/ann-gleig-american-dharma/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I care mostly about that last one. American Buddhism is at a turning point, and I want the people steering it to take what Gleig has to say seriously. This post is about why.

Because I’m extremely self-centered, I’ll also explain how her work relates to what I was trying to do with Vividness, and how it may influence what I may do with it later.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Buddhism to-read cultural-dynamics social-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5007a56024e0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Buddhism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/">
    <title>Patterns for… by Richard D. Bartlett [PDF/iPad/Kindle]</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-24T15:34:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a book about working in groups, based on 7 years experience in community projects and startups.

I’m not so interested in what you’re working on together, I’m just going to focus on how you do it. To my way of thinking, it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a better electric vehicle, or develop government policy, or blockade a pipeline; whenever you work with a group of people on a shared objective, there’s some stuff you’re going to deal with, some challenges. How do we decide what we’re working on? who does what? who can join our team? what are our expectations for each other? what happens when someone doesn’t fulfil those expectations? what do we do with disagreement? how do decisions get made?

I’m convinced there is not a “one size fits all” recipe, a management structure that you can take off the shelf and install in your collective or your company. But my hypothesis is that there are patterns: common design elements you can draw on as you construct a recipe that’s right for you. Each pattern in this book names a challenge that you are likely to face, and offers tools and techniques you can try in response to that challenge.

This is a book for community organisers, leaders, managers, consultants, coaches, facilitators, founders... if you work with groups of humans, these patterns apply to you.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics cultural-engineering to-read organization organizational-behavior disintermediation-in-action activism how-to</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8eb3cb24c563/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:organizational-behavior"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:how-to"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2018/11/27/democracy-as-an-information-system/">
    <title>Democracy as an information system — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-11T12:55:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2018/11/27/democracy-as-an-information-system/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Democracy is an information system.

That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the lens of information security, trying to understand the current waves of Internet disinformation attacks. Specifically, we wanted to explain why the same disinformation campaigns that act as a stabilizing influence in Russia are destabilizing in the United States.

The answer revolves around the different ways autocracies and democracies work as information systems. We start by differentiating between two types of knowledge that societies use in their political systems. The first is common political knowledge, which is the body of information that people in a society broadly agree on. People agree on who the rulers are and what their claim to legitimacy is. People agree broadly on how their government works, even if they don’t like it. In a democracy, people agree about how elections work: how districts are created and defined, how candidates are chosen, and that their votes count­—even if only roughly and imperfectly.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-norms democracy cultural-dynamics propaganda public-policy political-economy rather-interesting epidemiology feature-construction discriminators fascism signaling</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:efd21a622007/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:propaganda"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:political-economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:epidemiology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:feature-construction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:discriminators"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:signaling"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://psyarxiv.com/kgxt3/">
    <title>PsyArXiv Preprints | Cognitive attraction and online misinformation</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-01T09:41:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyarxiv.com/kgxt3/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The spread of online misinformation has gained mainstream attention in recent years. Here I approach this phenomenon from a cultural evolution and cognitive anthropology perspective, focusing on the idea that some cultural traits can be successful because their content taps into general cognitive preferences. I analyse 260 articles from media outlets included in two authoritative lists of websites known for publishing hoaxes and ‘fake news’, tracking the presence of negative content, threat-related information, presence of sexually related material, elements associated to disgust, minimally counterintuitive elements (and a particular category of them, i.e. violations of essentialist beliefs), and social information, intended as presence of salient social interactions (e.g. gossip, cheating, formation of alliances), and as news about celebrities. The analysis shows that these features are, to a different degree, present in most texts, and thus that general cognitive inclinations may contribute to explain the success of online misinformation. I conclude discussing how this account can elucidate questions such as whether and why misinformation online is thriving more than accurate information, or the role of ‘fake news’ as a weapon of political propaganda. Online misinformation, while being an umbrella term covering many different phenomena, can be characterised, in this perspective, not as low-quality information that spread because of the inefficiency of online communication, but as high-quality information that spread because of its efficiency. The difference is that ‘quality’ is not equated to truthfulness but to psychological appeal.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-dynamics critical-thinking rather-interesting anthropology to-read cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fd356074965a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:critical-thinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2018/10/evil-online-and-the-moral-fog/">
    <title>Evil Online and the Moral Fog | Practical Ethics</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-20T11:49:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2018/10/evil-online-and-the-moral-fog/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I see Evil Online as in the same tradition as Hannah Arendt’s crucially important book The Banality of Evil, which attempted to explain and characterize the behaviour of apparently ‘ordinary’ people – rather than probable psychopaths like Himmler – in the Holocaust. As Cocking and van den Hoven note, whether their idea of a moral fog is a development of the banality thesis or something entirely new doesn’t matter much, since even if it is a development they are taking it further and using the idea of a moral fog to elucidate the way that the online environment we are in can make us insensitive to moral facts we’re otherwise perfectly capable of recognizing. Certainly the particular mechanisms of totalitarianism identified by Arendt aren’t straightforwardly going to explain evil online, but the general issues at stake do have similarities. How is it that Eichmann and the non-psychopathic perpetrators of evil online come to ignore their duty, or arrive at such a distorted view of what duty requires?

The book is also in some ways analogous to Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, first published in 1651, in which Hobbes tries to explain how the natural state of human beings is amoral – a war of all against all – and how morality can be seen as a human creation enabling us to escape that state and build a civilization. The online world is something like a state of nature, but the difference between the Hobbesian situation and our own is that we already have a morality. The puzzle is how to disperse the fog, and it is a puzzle we need urgently to think about before it is too late and the fog begins to thicken and drift even further than it is already doing from the online into the real world.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics ethics internet politics to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7b7824a9f0a9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:internet"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://harpers.org/archive/2018/10/the-printed-word-in-peril/">
    <title>[Essay] The Printed World in Peril | Harper's Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-24T11:38:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://harpers.org/archive/2018/10/the-printed-word-in-peril/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the exiled hoboes return to the cities, which have been destroyed by the nuclear conflicts of the illiterate, bringing with them their head-borne texts, ready to restart civilization. And it’s this that seems to me the most prescient part of Bradbury’s menacing vision. For I see no future for the words printed on paper, or the art forms they enacted, if our civilization continues on this digital trajectory: there’s no way back to the future—especially not through the portal of a printed text.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:mymarkup publishing literary-criticism media book-culture cultural-dynamics nostalgia the-many-discomforts-of-change</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b701d67104ff/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:literary-criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:book-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nostalgia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-many-discomforts-of-change"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://hapgood.us/2018/08/04/a-note-about-cognitive-effort-and-misinfo-oh-and-also-im-a-rita-allen-misinformation-solutions-forum-finalist/">
    <title>A Note about Cognitive Effort and Misinfo (Oh, and also I’m a Rita Allen Misinformation Solutions Forum Finalist) | Hapgood</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-09T11:46:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hapgood.us/2018/08/04/a-note-about-cognitive-effort-and-misinfo-oh-and-also-im-a-rita-allen-misinformation-solutions-forum-finalist/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m not necessarily sold on the Pennycook and Rand version of this idea, but I’m interested in the broader insight. I know it doesn’t explain the worst offenders, but I’ve found with those I work with that cynicism (“Pick what you want, it’s all bullshit!”) is often driven by the cognitive exhaustion of sorting through conflicting information. This insight also aligns with Hannah Arendt’s work — totalitarianism wins the information war by deliberately overwhelming the capacity of a population to reconcile endless contradictions. The contradictions are a tool to increase the cost of pursuing truth relative to other options.

If this is the case, one approach might be to encourage people to be more effortful when looking at online media. (Meh.) But the approach I favor is to reduce both the real and perceived cost of sorting through the muck through finding cheap, good enough methods and popularizing them. Doing that — while fostering a culture that values accuracy — might cause a few more people to regard the cost of checking something to be worth it relative to other seemingly more economical options like partisan heuristics, conspiracy thinking, or cynical nihilism.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics politics reality-criticism affordances user-experience social-psychology argumentation rather-interesting to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fbaf39c9b888/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:reality-criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:affordances"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:user-experience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:argumentation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-write-about"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf">
    <title>&quot;Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right&quot; (PDF)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-02T11:26:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Abstract. Using post-electoral surveys from France, Britain and the US, this paper documents a striking long-run evolution in the structure of political cleavages. In the 1950s-1960s, the vote for left-wing (socialist-labour-democratic) parties was associated with lower education and lower income voters. It has gradually become associated with higher education voters, giving rise to a “multiple-elite” party system in the 2000s-2010s: high-education elites now vote for the “left”, while high- income/high-wealth elites still vote for the “right” (though less and less so). I argue that this can contribute to explain rising inequality and the lack of democratic response to it, as well as the rise of “populism”. I also discuss the origins of this evolution (rise of globalization/migration cleavage, and/or educational expansion per se) as well as future prospects: “multiple-elite” stabilization; complete realignment of the party system along a “globalists” (high-education, high-income) vs “nativists” (low- education, low-income) cleavage; return to class-based redistributive conflict (either from an internationalist or nativist perspective). Two main lessons emerge. First, with multi-dimensional inequality, multiple political equilibria and bifurcations can occur. Next, without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it is difficult to unite low- education, low-income voters from all origins within the same party.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:several inequality sociology economics political-economy cultural-dynamics cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bc062b72cf2a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:political-economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://ajps.org/2018/01/30/author-summary-political-stability-in-the-open-society/">
    <title>Author Summary: Political Stability in the Open Society – American Journal of Political Science</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-04T13:30:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ajps.org/2018/01/30/author-summary-political-stability-in-the-open-society/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Given these challenges, we distinguish two different kinds of stability that apply at different levels of social organization. The first kind of stability applies to constitutional rules that set out the general legal rules within which our lower-level institutional rules operate. These constitutional rules must remain in equilibrium despite challenges and threats in order to preserve the social conditions that foster experimentation. But we reject a similar form of stability for lower-level legal and institutional rules. Experimentation at that level can be productive in ways that constitutional experimentation is not. Instead, lower level legal and institutional rules need to be robust in the sense that, when challenged, old rules can be replaced by stable new rules without undermining the system of rules as a whole.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>philosophy social-norms public-policy cultural-dynamics political-economy to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1c8ab0cff32d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-read"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/11/10/complaint-as-diversity-work/">
    <title>Complaint as Diversity Work | feministkilljoys</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-27T14:10:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/11/10/complaint-as-diversity-work/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another academic described to me how she participated in a complaint because she “wanted to help” the institution deal with a problem that had already been recognised because there had been other cases in which the problem came up. But the complaint was still treated as a problem; just as it had in the other cases. This is important because the organisation had developed new procedures as a result of earlier cases. The conduct surrounding the complaint had not been changed by a change to the procedure (2). A wall can be a matter of conduct. Conduct refers not simply to behavior; conduct derives from “leading.” Conduct is how a group is directed.

A complaint teaches about institutional direction because a complaint is often treated as misdirection by the institution. Another way of saying this: to locate a problem is to become the location of a problem. Diversity work: becoming the location of a problem. The accounts of becoming the problem in this study are descriptions of institutional violence. One person spoke of how “the viciousness started to kick in.” The institutional response to complaint is to treat the complaint not necessarily as malicious (although many complaint policies do in fact include warnings about malicious complaints) but as being motivated in some problematic way: as if the complainer has some other agenda such as a desire to target others or to damage the university or to elevate themselves. Simply put: the efforts to stop a complaint include attempts to discredit the complainer. Indeed many of those I have spoken to have spoken of how they became the complained about; a complaint can be redirected to the complainer; as if she says something is wrong because something is wrong with her (3).

]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity complaint cultural-dynamics organizational-behavior activism to-write-about rather-interesting making-a-difference framing-narratives</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:71ec8a7c25cb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-write-about"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:making-a-difference"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:framing-narratives"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/11/mutilation.html">
    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: Mutilation</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-26T13:21:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/11/mutilation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The East Pediment fared particularly badly. Hands, feet, even whole limbs have gone — almost certainly smashed off by Christians trying to incapacitate the demons within. The vast majority of the gods have been decapitated — again, almost certainly the work of Christians. The great central figures of the Pediment, that would have shown the birth of Athena, were the most sacred — and thus to the Christians the most demonic. They therefore suffered most: it is likely that they were pushed off the Pediment and smashed on the ground below, their fragmented remains ground down and used for mortar for a Christian church. 
]]></description>
<dc:subject>history cultural-dynamics iconoclasm to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3af943abba42/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:iconoclasm"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/05/05/notes-on-academic-alienation-and-mass-intellectuality/">
    <title>notes on academic alienation and mass intellectuality | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:32:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/05/05/notes-on-academic-alienation-and-mass-intellectuality/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SEVEN. What Is To Be Done?

The generation of resistances, across an intersectional set of terrains and which acknowledge issues of privilege and powerlessness, require us to move beyond the triptych of private property, commodity exchange and division of labour, to uncover the realities of alienated labour. This is to work against the reconceptualization of academic labour by advocating solidarity inside and outside universities so that academic labour, including that of students, is recognised as having the same fundamental characteristics as other forms of labour and is therefore subject to the same crises of capitalism that are the focus of other social movements. This does not argue for the militant defence of academic labour, but sees it for what it is: wage labour subject to the alienation of the capitalist valorisation process, and to be abolished. Resistance to the processes of work intensification are all the while necessary, but the discovery of new forms of social solidarity and large scale transformation (rather than reformation) of political economy are the end goals.

Here the terrain of personal narratives grounded in alienation, which have yet to reveal their root in alienated labour, open-up the possibility that we might discuss an overcoming of academic competition and overwork. However, developing a counter-hegemonic solidarity requires that such narratives are connected to both a critique of academic labour, and a focus upon social solidarity and the social strike. This situates the exploitation of academic labour against the wider exploitation of paid and unpaid labour in the social factory. Not only must the academic labourer overcome her own competition with other academics to reduce her exploitation, but she must situate this cognitively and emotionally against the abolition of wage-labour more generally.

Of course, this must be attempted in association, so that an alternative intellectual, physical and humane existence might offer new forms of sociability that are grounded in autonomy over time. This requires praxis at the level of society, rather than within specific institutions like universities or inside specific, commodified curricula. As Marx (1844/2014, 115) argues, ‘The resolution of the theoretical contradictions are possible only through practical means, only through the practical energy of man.’

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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0b5057e34311/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://lithub.com/what-we-can-learn-from-ordinary-nazis/">
    <title>What We Can Learn from &quot;Ordinary&quot; Nazis | Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-02T11:30:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lithub.com/what-we-can-learn-from-ordinary-nazis/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In certain disturbing ways, the contemporary white nationalist movement’s adoption of the symbols and slogans of the original Nazi movement renders it even more frightening than its predecessor. The people using those symbols and shouting those slogans today know the one thing that their predecessors in the 1930s couldn’t have known: exactly where all that waving and shouting led to the first time.
But so do the rest of us. And for exactly that reason, we need to learn from the experience of “ordinary Germans” and keep our eyes open, to cross-examine our facts and narratives, both those we receive and those we tell ourselves. We need to speak and act out against the expressions of hatred, intolerance, and discrimination we now recognize as warning signs. To understand the population that supported Hitler and ultimately enabled the Holocaust as human—deeply flawed, misguided, and unequivocally guilty, but three dimensional—is to understand how vigilant we must be with ourselves.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fascism cultural-dynamics othering-ourselves essay</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1ffa30a87c01/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/21/the-assassination-of-orlando-letelier-and-the-politics-of-silence/">
    <title>The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and the Politics of Silence</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-26T14:56:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2016/09/21/the-assassination-of-orlando-letelier-and-the-politics-of-silence/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The answer to my question, I now believe, is that this is the way all countries work. Anthropologists call this phenomenon “social silence” – the most important aspects of how societies work are exactly the ones that are never discussed and most easily forgotten.

But it’s impossible to suppress the past completely – it inevitably leaks out around the edges, even if just as a generalized anxiety. I remember when my Bethesda friends and I went to see “Blue Velvet” when it came out in 1986 and how completely it made sense to us: Everything is polished, happy, and mundane on the surface, while underneath there’s an eternal, animalistic, merciless struggle for power.

Orlando Letelier is gone and he’s not coming back. We can’t change that. But we can break the social silence about his death, who we are as a country, and what we’re capable of doing.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>history silence sunlight narrative politics cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e29bd3d71464/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/">
    <title>How America Went Haywire - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-27T13:41:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The great unbalancing and descent into full Fantasyland was the product of two momentous changes. The first was a profound shift in thinking that swelled up in the ’60s; since then, Americans have had a new rule written into their mental operating systems: Do your own thing, find your own reality, it’s all relative.

The second change was the onset of the new era of information. Digital technology empowers real-seeming fictions of the ideological and religious and scientific kinds. Among the web’s 1 billion sites, believers in anything and everything can find thousands of fellow fantasists, with collages of facts and “facts” to support them. Before the internet, crackpots were mostly isolated, and surely had a harder time remaining convinced of their alternate realities. Now their devoutly believed opinions are all over the airwaves and the web, just like actual news. Now all of the fantasies look real.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-battle-for-memory-started-immediately">
    <title>The Battle For Memory and Forgetting Started Immediately – Talking Points Memo</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-27T12:25:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-battle-for-memory-started-immediately</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The controlling cause of the unsettled condition of affairs in the Department is that the greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of virtues of freedmen, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for Southern independence failed. This is of course intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the Government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains. This species of self-forgiveness is amazing in its efficiency, when it is considered that life and property were justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war and of nations. Under this inspiration the education of a great many people, moral and religious and political, has been turned into channels where all might unite in common. The impoverishment of the South, resulting from war and its concomitants, the emancipation of the slaves and consequent loss of substance, the ambiguity and uncertainty of political rights and financial values, as well as personal rivalries, have all combined to strengthen the efforts of the pernicious teachers. The evil done has been great, and it is not discernable that an immediate improvement may be expected.

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<dc:subject>history cultural-dynamics Civil-War to-write-about history-rhymes police race-in-America</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever">
    <title>Why Foucault's work on power is more important than ever | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-15T13:19:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For identifying and so deftly analysing the mechanisms of modern power, while refusing to develop it into a singular and unified theory of power’s essence, Foucault remains philosophically important. The strident philosophical skepticism in which his thought is rooted is not directed against the use of philosophy for the analysis of power. Rather, it is suspicious of the bravado behind the idea that philosophy can, and also must, reveal the hidden essence of things. What this means is that Foucault’s signature word – ‘power’ – is not the name of an essence that he has distilled but is rather an index to an entire field of analysis in which the work of philosophy must continually toil.

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<dc:subject>philosophy cultural-dynamics power politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6e3f07316c98/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2017/02/to-kill-king.html">
    <title>Bat, Bean, Beam: To kill the King</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-28T11:35:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2017/02/to-kill-king.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Such was, for many years, the fate of Gaetano Bresci, the ‘anarchist who came from America’ to kill the King: that of a person at the margin of the historical picture, often left unnamed, nearly always robbed of any agency other than aiming and firing his gun. Of his words at the trial, of the reasons he gave for his act, the history books made no mentions for decades, leaving pupils like my mother wondering why Umberto I had been killed that day of 1900 in Monza, if not by whom. 

Yet he had made his motivations very clear to his interrogators. Of the three shots he had fired, the first one – he said – was for those who had died in Milan, ‘the pallid and bleeding victims of general Bava-Beccaris, and of the power that gives medals to the killers and lead to the exploited.’ The second one was for his friends in Paterson forced into exile, ‘for the male and female workers that are driven from their homes by hunger and persecution. For all the anarchists who are imprisoned, exiled, left on a prison-island encircled by the sea’ (by which he meant Pantelleria). The third one was for the childhood he had been robbed of, his brief childhood in Prato, ‘constantly demeaned by relentless labour’.
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<dc:subject>history via:? anarchists cultural-dynamics emigration globalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths">
    <title>Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-25T20:28:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
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<dc:subject>cultural-norms cultural-dynamics ribbonfarmism hipsters cool-collapse</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9de58140e2a4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang">
    <title>The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang — Subterranean Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-10T15:54:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As for my account of my argument with Nicole, I’ve tried to make it as accurate as I possibly could. I’ve been recording everything since I started working on this project, and I’ve consulted the recordings repeatedly when writing this. But in my choice of which details to include and which to omit, perhaps I have just constructed another story. In spite of my efforts to be unflinching, have I flattered myself with this portrayal? Have I distorted events so they more closely follow the arc expected of a confessional narrative? The only way you can judge is by comparing my account against the recordings themselves, so I’m doing something I never thought I’d do: with Nicole’s permission, I am granting public access to my lifelog, such as it is. Take a look at the video, and decide for yourself.

And if you think I’ve been less than honest, tell me. I want to know.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:marick science-fiction narrative cultural-norms cultural-dynamics literature literary-criticism social-media</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/12/strunk-and-white-s-macho-grammar-club0.html">
    <title>Strunk and White’s Macho Grammar Club - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-08T13:01:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/12/strunk-and-white-s-macho-grammar-club0.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[White’s equation is at least as old as the Austrian architect Adolf Loos’s 1908 essay “Ornament and Crime.” Crossing social Darwinism with Modernism, Loos argued that “the evolution of culture is synonymous with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” Unrestrained by the rationalist superego of the Machine Age, the primitive impulses expressed in the urge to ornament drag us down the evolutionary ladder, warned Loos, back to the level of the Papuan who eats his enemies and “tattoos his skin, his boat, his paddles, in short everything he can lay hands on”—a theme White takes up a half-century later, cautioning “young writers” mesmerized by “the beat of new vocabularies, the exciting rhythms” of subcultural slang to beware “the spell of these unsettling drums.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-norms cultural-dynamics prescriptivism 20C criticism rather-interesting Adios-Strunk-And-White</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3477c87f45b2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hillbilly-ethnography/">
    <title>Hillbilly Ethnography – The New Inquiry</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-29T14:00:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hillbilly-ethnography/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some on the left have taken liberal readers to task for their earnest gullibility: Vance is a conservative–albeit of the #NeverTrump variety–and he prescribes conservative values to rectify the Rust Belt’s “culture in crisis.” He takes great pains to insist that the decline of industry is not responsible for “a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it,” that reacts “to bad circumstances in the worst way possible”: with hedonism, materialism, poor work ethic, lack of thrift, disregard for family obligations, and a victim mentality. Those sound like the pathologies conservatives have long attributed to black Americans, as Sarah Jones points out in the New Republic, because that’s exactly what they are. (“I have known many welfare queens,” Vance writes, “some were my neighbors, and all were white.”) Like all bootstraps narratives, Vance’s focus on self-improvement distracts from the structural causes of the suffering that plagues his hometown.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics critique class politics racism review</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1171d91d66e2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://eskokilpi.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/a-pattern-language-of-post-industrial-work/">
    <title>A pattern language of post-industrial work | Esko Kilpi on Interactive Value Creation</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-28T08:36:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://eskokilpi.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/a-pattern-language-of-post-industrial-work/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The industrial make-and-sell model required expert skills. The decisive thing was your individual knowledge. Today you work more from your network than your skills. The decisive thing is your relations. The new structures and new designs are about communities continuously organizing themselves around shared contexts, meaning shared interests and shared practices. The focus of industrial management was on the division of labor and the design of vertical/horizontal communication channels. The focus should now be on cooperation and emergent interaction based on transparency, interdependence and responsiveness.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics cultural-norms yes-this design-patterns worklife postnormality</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:postnormality"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04707">
    <title>[1606.04707] A conceptual approach to model co-evolution of urban structures</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-01T21:50:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04707</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Urban structures encompass settlements, characterized by the spatial distribution of built-up areas, but also transportation structures, to connect these built-up areas. These two structures are very different in their origin and function, fulfilling complementary needs: (i) to access space, and (ii) to occupy space. Their evolution cannot be understood by looking at the dynamics of urban aggregations and transportation systems separately. Instead, existing built-up areas feed back on the further development of transportation structures, and the availability of the latter feeds back on the future growth of urban aggregations. To model this co-evolution, we propose an agent-based approach that builds on existing agent-based models for the evolution of trail systems and of urban settlements. The key element in these separate approaches is a generalized communication of agents by means of an adaptive landscape. This landscape is only generated by the agents, but once it exists, it feeds back on their further actions. The emerging trail system or urban aggregation results as a self-organized structure from these collective interactions. In our co-evolutionary approach, we couple these two separate models by means of meta-agents that represent humans with their different demands for housing and mobility. We characterize our approach as a statistical ensemble approach, which allows to capture the potential of urban evolution in a bottom-up manner, but can be validated against empirical observations.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>coevolution city-planning cultural-dynamics self-organization rather-interesting agent-based to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:608f573e4317/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.09082#">
    <title>[1606.09082] Formation of homophily in academic performance: students prefer to change their friends rather than performance</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-01T13:13:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.09082#</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Homophily, the tendency of individuals to associate with others who share similar traits, has been identified as a major driving force in the formation and evolution of social ties. In many cases, it is not clear if homophily is the result of a socialization process, where individuals change their traits according to the dominance of that trait in their local social networks, or if it results from a selection process, in which individuals reshape their social networks so that their traits match those in the new environment. Here we demonstrate the detailed temporal formation of strong homophily in academic achievements of high school and university students. We analyze a unique dataset that contains information about the detailed time evolution of a friendship network of 6,000 students across 42 months. Combining the evolving social network data with the time series of the academic performance (GPA) of individual students, we show that academic homophily is a result of selection: students prefer to gradually reorganize their social networks according to their performance levels, rather than adapting their performance to the level of their local group. We find no signs for a pull effect, where a social environment of good performers motivates bad students to improve their performance. We are able to understand the underlying dynamics of grades and networks with a simple model. The lack of a social pull effect in classical educational settings could have important implications for the understanding of the observed persistence of segregation, inequality and social immobility in societies.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi social-networks cultural-dynamics agent-based complexology to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:eb40538efca0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://indalogenesis.com/2016/05/07/angel-clarence/">
    <title>Angel Clarence | IndaloGenesis</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-11T12:43:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://indalogenesis.com/2016/05/07/angel-clarence/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It took a war on a grand scale to shake humanity temporarily out of the economic funk, mass amnesia and ideological brainwashing of the 1930s. As is often the case, we have looped back to what went before. Back to the future; the same but different. Small dark clouds on the horizon rapidly transform into overhead thunderstorms.

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<dc:subject>cultural-norms cultural-dynamics film criticism rather-good</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7191aef645a6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-good"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05211">
    <title>[1505.05211] Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-29T11:12:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05211</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The relative ease of collaborative data science and analysis has led to a proliferation of many thousands or millions of versions of the same datasets in many scientific and commercial domains, acquired or constructed at various stages of data analysis across many users, and often over long periods of time. Managing, storing, and recreating these dataset versions is a non-trivial task. The fundamental challenge here is the storage−recreationtrade−off: the more storage we use, the faster it is to recreate or retrieve versions, while the less storage we use, the slower it is to recreate or retrieve versions. Despite the fundamental nature of this problem, there has been a surprisingly little amount of work on it. In this paper, we study this trade-off in a principled manner: we formulate six problems under various settings, trading off these quantities in various ways, demonstrate that most of the problems are intractable, and propose a suite of inexpensive heuristics drawing from techniques in delay-constrained scheduling, and spanning tree literature, to solve these problems. We have built a prototype version management system, that aims to serve as a foundation to our DATAHUB system for facilitating collaborative data science. We demonstrate, via extensive experiments, that our proposed heuristics provide efficient solutions in practical dataset versioning scenarios.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>data-analysis data-science collaboration computational-complexity rather-interesting models cultural-dynamics cultural-artifacts reproducibility</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b5b7f31e9a9d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data-science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:computational-complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-artifacts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:reproducibility"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8657">
    <title>[1412.8657] Wikipedia edition dynamics</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-01T11:39:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8657</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A model for the probabilistic function followed in Wikipedia edition is presented and compared with simulations and real data. It is argued that the probability to edit is proportional to the editor's number of previous editions (preferential attachment), to the editor's fitness and to an ageing factor. Using these simple ingredients, it is possible to reproduce the results obtained for Wikipedia edition dynamics for a collection of single pages as well as the averaged results. Using a stochastic process framework, a recursive equation was obtained for the average of the number of editions per editor that seems to describe the editing behaviour in Wikipedia.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-norms social-networks sociology simulation wikipedia rather-interesting empirical-economics cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:df05169b823a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:wikipedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:empirical-economics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://politicalphilosopher.net/2015/10/02/featured-philosop-her-sheridan-hough/">
    <title>Featured Philosop-her: Sheridan Hough « Philosop-her</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-05T12:18:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://politicalphilosopher.net/2015/10/02/featured-philosop-her-sheridan-hough/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This commentary is not a plea for the wider teaching of existential and/or phenomenological texts (although of course that can’t hurt), nor am I privileging the so-called ‘Continental’ texts and methods over those used by my sister (and brother) philosophers. The Kierkegaardian question of subjectivity should lie at the heart of —dare I say it?—every philosophical project. From social justice to Bayesian epistemology, it does matter how the student (and the instructor) relate to, and inhabit, the arguments and explanations that they explore: not simply a matter of ‘what does it mean? But ‘what does it mean for me?’—And, in case this sounds hopelessly ‘subjective,’ please note that the point of locating oneself in a project, and in a view of the world, is to go forth and do something with it, and about it—to write essays, organize protests, demand economic reforms, to join a struggle (intellectual or physical), to be present in one’s own life: in fact, to own up to, and to own, that existence.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>philosophy pedagogy the-mangle-in-practice cultural-dynamics cultural-engineering rather-interesting something-about-paradigms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:60fa38e53025/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-mangle-in-practice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:something-about-paradigms"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02293">
    <title>[1507.02293] COEVOLVE: A Joint Point Process Model for Information Diffusion and Network Co-evolution</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-05T23:52:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02293</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Information diffusion in online social networks is affected by the underlying network topology, but it also has the power to change it. Online users are constantly creating new links when exposed to new information sources, and in turn these links are alternating the way information spreads. However, these two highly intertwined stochastic processes, information diffusion and network evolution, have been predominantly studied separately, ignoring their co-evolutionary dynamics. 
We propose a temporal point process model, COEVOLVE, for such joint dynamics, allowing the intensity of one process to be modulated by that of the other. This model allows us to efficiently simulate interleaved diffusion and network events, and generate traces obeying common diffusion and network patterns observed in real-world networks. Furthermore, we also develop a convex optimization framework to learn the parameters of the model from historical diffusion and network evolution traces. We experimented with both synthetic data and data gathered from Twitter, and show that our model provides a good fit to the data as well as more accurate predictions than alternatives.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-networks simulation artificial-life social-norms cultural-dynamics network-theory</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3167c7092756/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:artificial-life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00809">
    <title>[1502.00809] The consensus in the two-feature two-state one-dimensional Axelrod model revisited</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-05T17:37:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00809</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Axelrod model for the dissemination of culture exhibits a rich spatial distribution of cultural domains, which depends on the values of the two model parameters: F, the number of cultural features and q, the common number of states each feature can assume. In the one-dimensional model with F=q=2, which is closely related to the constrained voter model, Monte Carlo simulations indicate the existence of multicultural absorbing configurations in which at least one macroscopic domain coexist with a multitude of microscopic ones in the thermodynamic limit. However, rigorous analytical results for the infinite system starting from the configuration where all cultures are equally likely show convergence to only monocultural or consensus configurations. Here we show that this disagreement is due simply to the order that the time-asymptotic limit and the thermodynamic limit are taken in the simulations. In addition, we show how the consensus-only result can be derived using Monte Carlo simulations of finite chains.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-economics hey-I-know-this-guy agent-based economics cultural-dynamics simulation artificial-life to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d73304a2a288/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hey-I-know-this-guy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:artificial-life"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2015/08/the-sad-death-of-free-market-pessimism.html">
    <title>Stumbling and Mumbling: The sad death of free market pessimism</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-07T12:20:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2015/08/the-sad-death-of-free-market-pessimism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem with this is that, as Bertrand Russell famously said, the fact that something has happened in the past does not ensure its continuance. Paradoxically, the optimists might be making the same error as Malthus. Just as he looked at centuries of human history and inferred that mankind was doomed to subsistence, so free market optimists might be over-inferring from two centuries of success. It's quite possible that, at some time, the race between diminishing returns and technical progress will be won by the former.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>capitalism economic-crisis cultural-assumptions cultural-dynamics political-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:352d07fbde8d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economic-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://hackeducation.com/2015/05/08/wonderwoman/">
    <title>The Golden Lasso of Education Technology</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-09T12:11:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackeducation.com/2015/05/08/wonderwoman/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of late, I’ve been especially interested in the connection between the rise of the field of educational psychology at the turn of the twentieth century and the rise of intelligence testing and teaching machines and now, of course, so-called intelligent machines, AI, that will teach and test. The behaviorist B. F. Skinner – the person perhaps most commonly associated with the phrase “teaching machines.” He is, I would argue, one of the most influential figures on education technology, taking the insights he’d gleaned from working with animals to devise a theory – and machines – to shape and reward student behavior. Other, earlier contributors to the field – Edward Thorndike, Lewis Terman, Robert Yerkes, Sidney Pressey. The former three gave us experimental educational psychology, the multiple choice test, intelligence testing. The latter designed what’s often recognized as the first teaching machine.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>yes-this engineering-criticism cultural-dynamics artificial-intelligence taylorism sociology narratives education</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:466c759aac9d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:artificial-intelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:taylorism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/the-acquisitive-gaze/">
    <title>The Acquisitive Gaze – The New Inquiry</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-05T12:25:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/the-acquisitive-gaze/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[5. In “The Consuming Vision,” an essay about novelist Henry James, of all things, Jean-Christophe Agnew argues that the consumerist culture emerging in James’s time was a “world constructed by and for a consuming vision,” an “imagined world … in which imagination itself strives to gild, glaze, and ultimately commodify its objects.” This consuming vision becomes hegemonic in a world that comes to be seen as made entirely of commodities. “What modern consumer culture produces,” Agnew argues, “is not so much a way of being as a way of seeing — a way best characterized as visually acquisitive. In short, modern consumer culture holds up the cognitive appetite as the model and engine of its reproductive process.”

Agnew points out that the churn of markets assures that these sorts of characteristics are never stable in any given commodity or experience. Consumerism posits such meanings as free-floating, redeployable, highly contingent and not intrinsic to a good’s use value. (Soap might make me objectively clean, but will it make me feel clean, which is ultimately more important?)

]]></description>
<dc:subject>consumerism social-media Pinterest cultural-dynamics branding rather-interesting self-definition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:31ce53f0678f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Pinterest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:branding"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5704">
    <title>[1404.5704] Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-20T19:19:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5704</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cultural transmission models are coming to the fore in explaining increases in the Paleolithic toolkit richness and diversity. During the later Paleolithic, technologies increase not only in terms of diversity but also in their complexity and interdependence. As Mesoudi and O'Brien (2008) have shown, selection broadly favors social learning of information that is hierarchical and structured, and multiple studies have demonstrated that teaching within a social learning environment can increase fitness. We believe that teaching also provides the scaffolding for transmission of more complex cultural traits. Here, we introduce an extension of the Axelrod (1997} model of cultural differentiation in which traits have prerequisite relationships, and where social learning is dependent upon the ordering of those prerequisites. We examine the resulting structure of cultural repertoires as learning environments range from largely unstructured imitation, to structured teaching of necessary prerequisites, and we find that in combination with individual learning and innovation, high probabilities of teaching prerequisites leads to richer cultural repertoires. Our results point to ways in which we can build more comprehensive explanations of the archaeological record of the Paleolithic as well as other cases of technological change.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-economics agent-based Axelrod complexology anthropology cultural-dynamics nudge-targets social-networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a33b4dc48692/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Axelrod"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complexology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-networks"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2883">
    <title>[1407.2883] Understanding Co-evolution in Large Multi-relational Social Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-09T12:47:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2883</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Understanding dynamics of evolution in large social networks is an important problem. In this paper, we characterize evolution in large multi-relational social networks. The proliferation of online media such as Twitter, Facebook, Orkut and MMORPGs\footnote{Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Games} have created social networking data at an unprecedented scale. Sony's Everquest 2 is one such example. We used game multi-relational networks to reveal the dynamics of evolution in a multi-relational setting by macroscopic study of the game network. Macroscopic analysis involves fragmenting the network into smaller portions for studying the dynamics within these sub-networks, referred to as `communities'. From an evolutionary perspective of multi-relational network analysis, we have made the following contributions. Specifically, we formulated and analyzed various metrics to capture evolutionary properties of networks. We find that co-evolution rates in trust based `communities' are approximately 60% higher than the trade based `communities'. We also find that the trust and trade connections within the `communities' reduce as their size increases. Finally, we study the interrelation between the dynamics of trade and trust within `communities' and find interesting results about the precursor relationship between the trade and the trust dynamics within the `communities'.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-networks experiment multi-networks cultural-dynamics sociology trust economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:cca4fe687141/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:multi-networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:trust"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/09/03/how-to-fall-off-the-wagon/">
    <title>How to Fall Off the Wagon</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-07T12:04:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/09/03/how-to-fall-off-the-wagon/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For me, the reformist leg between process and values, represented for example by six-sigma projects, feels like the most unnatural thing in the world. And one of the most revealing episodes of my life is expending a lot of political capital to avoid being put through lean six-sigma training. So here is a quick personality test. Your personality is defined by which of these self-improvement meta-behaviors feels the most unnatural, unpleasant and wrong to you.

If you hate process reform like six-sigma DMAIC, you’re a contrarian, your nemesis is the investigator
If you hate fervent ideological debates, you’re a hacker, your nemesis is the holy warrior
If you hate legal reasoning and careful precedent setting, you’re an operator and your nemesis is the legalist
If you hate breaking processes to get things done, you’re a holy warrior and your nemesis is the hacker
If you hate conflict over resources, you’re an investigator and your nemesis is the contrarian
If you hate making up designing new systems and processes, you’re a legalist and your nemesis is the operator
People for whom your most disliked behaviors come naturally represent nemesis types for you, because you will likely end up in conflict with them and lose if the conflict is on their home turf.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-norms social-dynamics reform glib-charts-I-like archetypic-behavior cultural-dynamics management the-same-as-some-old-boss quite-good</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8369fd76c752/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:reform"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:glib-charts-I-like"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:archetypic-behavior"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:management"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-same-as-some-old-boss"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:quite-good"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.pockettactics.com/features/ownership-becoming-obsolete-lex-goes-free-day-open-sources-code-forever/">
    <title>&quot;Ownership is becoming obsolete&quot;: LEX goes free for a day, open sources code forever - Pocket Tactics</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-25T12:26:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pockettactics.com/features/ownership-becoming-obsolete-lex-goes-free-day-open-sources-code-forever/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kurt Bieg of Simple Machine has decided to wade into this debate. Actually, he’s not wading — he’s diving in head-first, and throwing his co-workers in, too. Bieg is open-sourcing all of his studio’s games, starting with word game LEX. “We believe ownership is becoming obsolete,” Bieg told me. And if you’re surprised by that sentiment, he was just getting warmed up.


]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics openness worklife Post-Normal disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b64ad22b20fd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Post-Normal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/against-tin-art/">
    <title>Against Tin Art | Unreal Nature</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-03T11:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/against-tin-art/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don’t remember it being so different. Anyway, only much later did I realize that these crises were not something to get agitated about but that they were the normal way of working. Everybody has them. Well, maybe it is not as simple as that. There are people who work with more confidence and others who stumble from crisis to crisis. It was somewhere in-between.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife cultural-dynamics self-definition the-mangle-in-practice engineering-criticism i-intend-to-use-this</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5546aff8a0d2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-definition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-mangle-in-practice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:engineering-criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:i-intend-to-use-this"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blog.abegong.com/2014/03/therbligs-for-data-science.html">
    <title>Therbligs for data science: A nuts and bolts framework for accelerating data work</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-03T11:39:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.abegong.com/2014/03/therbligs-for-data-science.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To my mind, this is about the right level of specificity for data science workflows. I've done each of these therbligs many times. When I map out daily to-do lists and dependencies for projects, these are the task divisions that I use naturally. If one of these tasks becomes a pain point, I can imagine ways to fix it. Fledging data scientists who want to improving their "wax on, wax off" can focus on these skills one at a time---and mentors can provide coaching.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>data-analysis cultural-dynamics engineering-philosophy modeling metamodeling to-cite</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:840f00ccf2e2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data-analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:engineering-philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:modeling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:metamodeling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-cite"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7284">
    <title>[1404.7284] Openness leads to opinion stability and narrowness to volatility</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-22T11:20:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7284</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We propose a new opinion dynamic model based on the experiments and results of Wood et al (1996). We consider pairs of individuals discussing on two attitudinal dimensions, and we suppose that one dimension is important, the other secondary. The dynamics are mainly ruled by the level of agreement on the main dimension. If two individuals are close on the main dimension, then they attract each other on the main and on the secondary dimensions, whatever their disagreement on the secondary dimension. If they are far from each other on the main dimension, then too much proximity on the secondary dimension is uncomfortable, and generates rejection on this dimension. The proximity is defined by comparing the opinion distance with a threshold called attraction threshold on the main dimension and rejection threshold on the secondary dimension. With such dynamics, a population with opinions initially uniformly drawn evolves to a set of clusters, inside which secondary opinions fluctuate more or less depending on threshold values. We observe that a low attraction threshold favours fluctuations on the secondary dimension, especially when the rejection threshold is high. The opinion evolutions of the model can be related to some stylised facts.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-economics artificial-life simulation opinion cultural-norms cultural-dynamics nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9806bf7dfe2f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:artificial-life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:opinion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2619">
    <title>[1310.2619] Ultrametricity of Information Cascades</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-20T13:37:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2619</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Whether it is the inter-arrival time between two consecutive votes on a story on Reddit or the comments on a video shared on Youtube, there is always a hierarchy of time scales in information propagation. One vote/comment might occur almost simultaneously with the previous, whereas another vote/comment might occur hours after the preceding one. This hierarchy of time scales leads us to believe that information cascades can be modeled using ultrametricity and ultradiffusion. 
This paper reports an investigation into cascades of information flow underlying Reddit, Youtube and Digg. An information cascade represents the spread of information from one node to his friends, from friends to their friends of friends and so on. It might be impossible to completely perceive the entire process of information flow as some of the data pertaining to it might be hidden or inaccessible to us. However, we might be able to observe some counting process which is a consequence of this diffusion. For example, in Digg this counting process might be the temporal variation in the number of votes accrued by a story. In Youtube, it might be the number of comments received by a video with time. We study the dynamics of these votes and comments to better understand information spread. 
Our observations can be described by a universal function whose parameters depend upon the system under consideration. This function can be derived by using ultrametricity to describe the propagation. The parameters for the ultradiffusion process are learned from the actual observations. We demonstrate that the results predicted by simulating the ultradiffusion process are in close correspondence to the actual observations.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>power-laws social-networks cultural-dynamics network-theory experiment complexology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c128885615c1/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:power-laws"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complexology"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9431">
    <title>Language Log » Sentence diagramming</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-03T14:04:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9431</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three cheers for Stephen Watkins Clark and his bubbles! Nearly two centuries later, where would modern linguistics have been without him? And even more importantly, where would those countless generations of bright school-kids (and teachers) have found their fun?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>grammar sentence-diagramming linguistics pedagogy models-and-modes cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f859b744ae41/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:grammar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sentence-diagramming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:linguistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models-and-modes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3933">
    <title>[1206.3933] Prediction of Emerging Technologies Based on Analysis of the U.S. Patent Citation Network</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-26T22:26:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3933</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The network of patents connected by citations is an evolving graph, which provides a representation of the innovation process. A patent citing another implies that the cited patent reflects a piece of previously existing knowledge that the citing patent builds upon. A methodology presented here (i) identifies actual clusters of patents: i.e. technological branches, and (ii) gives predictions about the temporal changes of the structure of the clusters. A predictor, called the {citation vector}, is defined for characterizing technological development to show how a patent cited by other patents belongs to various industrial fields. The clustering technique adopted is able to detect the new emerging recombinations, and predicts emerging new technology clusters. The predictive ability of our new method is illustrated on the example of USPTO subcategory 11, Agriculture, Food, Textiles. A cluster of patents is determined based on citation data up to 1991, which shows significant overlap of the class 442 formed at the beginning of 1997. These new tools of predictive analytics could support policy decision making processes in science and technology, and help formulate recommendations for action.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>network-theory intellectual-property cultural-dynamics prediction nudge-targets manfred-macx-would-be-proud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:17f32b772047/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:prediction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:manfred-macx-would-be-proud"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4672">
    <title>[1303.4672] Mapping the De Facto Governance of Emerging Science and Technologies</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-12T13:15:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4672</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We discuss the use of novel scientometric mapping techniques as informative and interpretative tools to trace the rapid dynamics and uncertainties featuring in Emerging Science and Technologies (ESTs). We show how scientometric mapping techniques can provide perspectives on and crosscuts of the geographical, social, and cognitive spaces in the complex emergence process. Shedding light on these spaces, the set of both intentional and un-intentional, arrangements that are established in the emergence of novel science and technologies--that is, as de facto governance--can be revealed. The informative and interpretative power of these tools resides in the (increasing) speed of processing and their transversal flexibility within and across databases, which themselves are characterized by relative longitudinal and institutional rigidities. Allowing more informed perspectives may play a crucial role in supporting the design of governance that is 'tentative', i.e. forms of governance aiming to address the complexity, interdependencies, and contingencies featuring in ESTs. We discuss the contribution of these mapping techniques to the understanding of the phenomenon of tentative governance of ESTs across three case-studies, namely RNA interference (RNAi), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), and Thiopurine Methyltransferase (TPMT) testing technologies.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science network-theory social-norms models-and-modes cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1b8aa739d573/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models-and-modes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4698">
    <title>[1106.4698] Metric-first &amp; entropy-first surprises</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-12T11:37:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4698</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Established idea-sets don't update seamlessly. The tension between new and old views of nature is e.g. documented in Galileo's dialogs and now present in many fields. However the science of Bayesian model-selection has made recent strides in both life & physical sciences, in effect suggesting that we look to models which are quantitatively {\em surprised least} by present-day observations. 
We illustrate the relevance of this to physics-education with a qualitative look at two paradigm-shifts, namely from {\bf Lorentz-transform to metric-equation} descriptions of motion in space-time, and from {\bf classical to statistical thermodynamics} with help from Boltzmann's choice-multiplicity & Shannon's uncertainty. Connections of the latter to {\bf correlation measures} behind available-work, evolving complexity, and model-selection relevant to physics undergrads are also explored. 
New strategies are exemplified with Appendices {\em for teachers} on: anyspeed traffic-laws & 3-vector velocity-addition, the energy-momentum half-plane lost to finite lightspeed, the modern distinction between proper & geometric accelerations, metric-first kinematics with acceleration & differential-aging, quantifying risk with a handful of coins, effective number of choices, available work in bits, reversible-thermalization of life's power-stream, and choice-multiplicity measures of layered complex-system health.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics paradigm-shifts meta-modeling models-and-modes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4f4cc1f2d939/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:paradigm-shifts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:meta-modeling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models-and-modes"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7144">
    <title>[1303.7144] #Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtag</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-30T22:45:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7144</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We examine the growth, survival, and context of 256 novel hashtags during the 2012 U.S. presidential debates. Our analysis reveals the trajectories of hashtag use fall into two distinct classes: "winners" that emerge more quickly and are sustained for longer periods of time than other "also-rans" hashtags. We propose a "conversational vibrancy" framework to capture dynamics of hashtags based on their topicality, interactivity, diversity, and prominence. Statistical analyses of the growth and persistence of hashtags reveal novel relationships between features of this framework and the relative success of hashtags. Specifically, retweets always contribute to faster hashtag adoption, replies extend the life of "winners" while having no effect on "also-rans." This is the first study on the lifecycle of hashtag adoption and use in response to purely exogenous shocks. We draw on theories of uses and gratification, organizational ecology, and language evolution to discuss these findings and their implications for understanding social influence and collective action in social media more generally.]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-dynamics social-tagging experiment cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2d34236b6be6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-tagging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6738">
    <title>[1303.6738] Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-28T17:22:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6738</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We report a similarity between the microscopic parameter dependance of emergent theories in physics and that of multiparameter models common in other areas of science. In both cases, predictions are possible despite large uncertainties in the microscopic parameters because these details are compressed into just a few governing parameters that are sufficient to describe relevant observables. We make this commonality explicit by examining parameter sensitivity in a hopping model of diffusion and a generalized Ising model of ferromagnetism. We trace the emergence of a smaller effective model to the development of a hierarchy of parameter importance quantified by the eigenvalues of the Fisher Information Matrix. Strikingly, the same hierarchy appears ubiquitously in models taken from diverse areas of science. We conclude that the emergence of effective continuum and universal theories in physics is due to the same parameter space hierarchy that underlies predictive modeling in other areas of science."]]></description>
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    <title>[1210.7335] Professional diversity and the productivity of cities</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-10T21:05:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7335</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The relationships between diversity, productivity and scale determine much of the structure and robustness of complex biological and social systems. While arguments for the link between specialization and productivity are common, diversity has often been invoked as a hedging strategy, allowing systems to evolve in response to environmental change. Despite their general appeal, these arguments have not typically produced quantitative predictions for optimal levels of functional diversity consistent with observations. One important reason why these relationships have resisted formalization is the idiosyncratic nature of diversity measures, which depend on given classification schemes. Here, we address these issues by analyzing the statistics of professions in cities and show how their probability distribution takes a universal scale-invariant form, common to all cities, obtained in the limit of infinite resolution of given taxonomies. We propose a model that generates the form and parameters of this distribution via the introduction of new occupations at a rate leading to individual specialization subject to the preservation of access to overall function via their ego social networks. This perspective unifies ideas about the importance of network structure in ecology and of innovation as a recombinatory process with economic concepts of productivity gains obtained through the division and coordination of labor, stimulated by scale.]]></description>
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    <title>Stowe Boyd, Welcome To The Postnormal: Globalization In Decline?</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T13:44:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/44364872786/welcome-to-the-postnormal-globalization-in-decline</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We should expect a continued disintegration of the globalist money machine, as distrust and discord divide even the advanced economies of the West. The message to us in business is clear, perhaps even stark: the high flying globalism of the late postmodern era — from the ’70s to the ’00s — has crashed. We’ve seen peak globalism, and the world is becoming a more divided place.

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    <title>Seminar on The Priority of Democracy — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-17T13:42:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/02/11/27491/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over the next several days, we’ll be running a seminar on Jack Knight and Jim Johnson’s recent book, The Priority of Democracy. The participants:

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    <title>Guns as Witchcraft | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-19T00:18:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2013/01/10/guns-as-witchcraft/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My father was speaking the language of American witchcraft. And in saying this, I do not for one minute mock or dismiss him or his counterfactual imagining of that horrible day. Gian Luigi Ferri was one kind of American sorcerer, and my father was another. The two deep cultural ideas that we hold to that manifest around guns and gun control alike–and around many other things besides guns–are as follows: 1) that individual action focused by will, determination and clarity of intent can always directly produce specific outcomes and equally that individuals who fail to act when confronted by circumstances (including the actions of other individuals) are culpable for whatever happens next and 2) that there are single-variable abstract social forces that are responsible for seemingly recurrent events and that the proper establishing structure, rule or policy can cancel out the impact of that variable, if only we can figure out which one is the right one.

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