A tendency that I continue to find somewhat puzzling — and hopefully it’s only an error in perception, but I seriously doubt it — is the evidently sincere notion held in certain places that undirected community interactions and willing cooperation across levels of organization can somehow be bundled and consolidated into singular activities, platforms, programs, [...]
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Consolidation
Posted in Policy, tagged context, decentralization, emergence, organization on 30 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is not about “football”
Posted in Policy, tagged context, football, organization, philosophy, rugby on 17 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, my intention with this post is to talk about something towards which I have a pretty inflexible disposition, in order to make a different point altogether. First, though, in order to brace myself for the passionate responses this might elicit, it seems appropriate to come clean about all the bias I know to be [...]
Narratives
Posted in Politics, tagged Berlin, justice, otherness on 10 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Coverage of the commemorative activities of the fall of the Berlin Wall, now twenty years ago, has been surprisingly insightful. Surprising, because the meta-narrative of the thing has surely been solidified well enough to fit decently into any Western (liberal, democratic) tale of societal progress, etc. While it is of course disingenuous to assert the [...]
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