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BLDGBLOG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1: May 25, 2006 8:36am 1 review architecture, networks, society
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-mike-davis-part-1.html; Mike Davis Interview A MUST READ. With my daily clippings I'm giving the result of my sifting through the mountain of noises, under which we are kind of buried, trying to select some (the ones that I find, he he I'm not leviathan) that shed light on some of the patterns of our forming future. This interview should not be missed by whomever is interested in deciphering those same patterns... via WorldChanging in BLDGBLOG an interview with Mike Davis """ Over at BLDGBLOG, ally Geoff Manaugh has done a two-part interview with Mike Davis, MacArthur fellow and author of several books, including the newly-released Planet of Slums. The two talked about Davis' new book, and a range of other things from biosecurity and bird flu, to Pentacostalism and peri-urbanization. "Really, the book is just an attempt to critically survey and synthesize the literature on global urban poverty, and to expand on this extraordinarily important report of the United Nations - The Challenge of Slums - which came out a few years ago." Read Part I here and Part II """ URL: Mike Davis Interview. Part 1. URL: Mike Davis Interview. Part 2. URL: Planet of Slums URL: The Challenge of Slums

Transition Culture & Exclusive to Transition Culture. Fritjof Capra on Relocalis…: May 13, 2006 6:30pm 1 review environment, networks
http://transitionculture.org/?p=319; 2 interviews with Fritjof Kapra via Dave Pollaerd of How to save the World, in transition culture """ Fritjof Capra is one of the foremost green thinkers, especially in the field of ecology and systems thinking. He is the author of many seminal books, such as the Tao of Physics, The Web of Life, The Turning Point and most recently, The Hidden Connections. He is currently teaching at Schumacher College and I was lucky enough to be able to grab him for two interviews, one about relocalisation initiatives (in particular the Transition Town Totnes project due to start this September), and one about peak oil. """ URL: Fritjof Capra on Relocalisation URL: Fritjof Capra on Peak Oil.

A Theory of Power, Jeff Vails Critique of Hierarchy &Empire: Apr 25, 2006 12:27pm 1 review complex-systems, networks, power
http://www.jeffvail.net/2006/04/normative-network.html; The Normative Network in a Theory of Power by Jeff Vail """ How can a dispersed lattice of self-sufficient nodes ever produce enough self-regulation to facilitate complex interaction? Doesn't that require hierarchy to impose rules in a top-down manner? Not so much. Here's a paper written by rather precocious high school student Alexander Franks on the matter: "Understanding Evolved Strategies for System-Wide Coordination in Noisy Environments." """ URL: The Normative Network URL: Understanding Evolved Strategies for System-Wide Coordination in Noisy Environments URL: Promise to move our lives closer to that ideal URL: r some thoughts on this concept as applied to open-source warfare.

The New York Review of Books: The Hope of the Web: Apr 19, 2006 9:03pm 2 reviews networks, complexity
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18910; Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics Networks and politics, this could well spell a radically morphing system of democracy via 3QuarksDaily, in NewYork Review of Books by Bill McKibben """ When we consider Kos's own Web site and its numerous links to other blogs, we see something like an expanding hive of communication, a collective intelligence. And the results can be impressive. A writer with the pen name (mouse name) Jerome � Paris, for instance, organized dozens of other Kossacks interested in energy policy to write an energy plan that I find far more comprehensive and thoughtful than anything the think tanks have produced. It's been read and reshaped by thousands of readers; it will serve as a useful model should the Democrats retake Congress and have the ability to move legislation. The blogs began as purely reactive and bloggers still spend much of their energy responding to the "mainstream media." But a kind of proto-journalism is emerging, and becoming steadily more sophisticated. If you want to understand (albeit with plenty of spin) the ins and outs of Scooter Libby's defense in the Plamegate trial, for instance, the place to go is Firedoglake. """ URL: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics URL: The book

Resources & CooperationCommons: Apr 18, 2006 10:20am 2 reviews complex-systems, networks, complexity
http://www.cooperationcommons.com/resources; Cooperation in loose networks We have the centralized version of societal organization that is being "like" imposed on all of the world nowadays and then there is the Cooperation model or the loose network cooperation model that is "like" our present utopia... via WorldChanging by Alex Steffen... """ Cooperation Commons, the single best source for information on the emerging science of studying what makes cooperation work has posted the video from all their Literacy of Cooperation lectures at Stanford. If you're serious about understanding the phenomena of online citizen action, tech bloom cooperation, distributed collaboration and open source behaviors which we discuss so often here on Worldchanging, you really couldn't do better than watch these lectures. """ URL: Literacy of Cooperation lectures at Stanford. URL: what makes cooperation work URL: how best to help cooperation and collaboration flourish. (Free 8 pages PDF)

Benklers book is out (Lessig Blog): Apr 15, 2006 1:24pm 1 review networks, complexity
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003368.shtml; The Weath of Networks by Yochai Benkler This is about one of the fundamental shifts in paradigm that we are witnessing nowadays... The old paradigm was that societies were best organized hierarchically with a central power garanteeing the preservation of the system. The new paradigm is about loose networks that somehow "quantically" and spontaneously organize. in Lessig Blog by Boris Lessig """ Yochai Benkler's book, The Weath of Networks, is out. This is -- by far -- the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. If there is one book you read this year, it should be this. The book has a wiki; it can be downloaded as a pdf for free under a Creative Commons license; or it can be bought at places like Amazon. Read it. Understand it. You are not serious about these issues -- on either side of these debates -- unless you have read this book. """
URL: Benkler's book is out The Weath of Networks Free PDF downloading The book's wiki An older book by Benkler: Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm

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