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FOLK ETHNOGRAPHY
2008-04-20 21:12:00 Just as there is the term folk psychology, meaning the subjective psychological assumptions and models individuals deploy to navigate the interpersonal universe, there could be the term folk anthropology to designate the subjective assumptions each of us deploys to understand the human universe. Mr. Obama got himself in a lot of hot water recently when he ... More About: Folk
SAN FRANCISCO HOLIDAY
2008-04-19 01:38:00 Four song podcasts constructed from the amazing seeqPOD interface show up on my music blog, nogutsboglorystudios. noguts is serving as fly paper for my muso inclinations. I hope you’ll click the play button. Steve Lacy & Don Cherry-San Francisco Holiday Jessica Williams-Bemsha Swing Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Appache Band Thelonious Monk-San Francisco Holiday A few comments… I could exist ...
SHIVER ME TIMBERS
2008-03-17 12:14:00 White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten, and Tony Blair’s Office Request Information Regarding Spiral Dynamics from Dr. Don E. Beck of Adizes Graduate School © Business Wire 2008 - Mr. Bolten requested details for President Bush regarding Dr. Beck’s recent high profile meetings in the Middle East. Tony Blair’s office, as the official Envoy of the ...
ASSUMPTIONS
2008-03-13 02:09:00 Versioned from yet another tale of Nasruddin. More About: Assumptions
COULD A COMMUNITY BE AN ART FORM?
2008-03-08 20:16:00 Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights. Could a community be an art form? I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused ... More About: Community , Form
EXPERIENCE AND ALL OF IT
2008-03-07 18:29:00 Hillary Clinton: “Experience not only counts, it is all that counts.” Mrs. Clinton’s rhetoric here makes no account of an interesting division among Democrats. Barack Obama enjoys a substantial edge in that better educated, more affluent Democrats support him over Mrs. Clinton. How to account for this edge among people who are much more likely to ...
TENDING TO THE TROU
2008-03-06 14:51:00 An indelicate metaphor, albeit on the target, courtesy of Xosrow Jamsheidi and Jamsheid Jamsheidi, writing in a somewhat inscrutable article, Time for Dipstick Examination of our Assumptions. We feel our underwear only the first few minutes we put them on. Then we don’t see them, we don’t feel them, we don’t think about them, and we ...
MY ONE FAN
2008-03-05 22:21:00 I checked my Technorati profile and discovered there–lo and behold–that someone had self-selected to be a fan. Alan has his own blog and it gets updated with about the same frequency as Explorations does. His blog http://milindasquestions.com has one more authority point than I do. I consider his blog to be akin to a sister ...
WHY PEOPLE DON?T AGREE WITH ME
2008-03-03 14:03:00 It’s the political season and so I’m happy to indulge two obsessive interests, politics and the social psychology of the citizenry. Actually, I don’t need a political season to be gripped, it’s always the political season in my house. Over at Colonel Pat Lang’s blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis 2008, one of the handful of blogs I ... More About: People
INTO A VACUUM
2008-02-07 13:42:00 …added “Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104” to the blogroll. Evidently Ed is a librarian and so his attention surplus disorder is expressed through his blog’s rich captures of diverse resources. This earns his blog the ‘all over the place category’ here. The curious thing is that I learned of Vacuum when Ed ...
DAY IN THE COUNTRY
2008-02-03 14:34:00 Parable from Chuang Tzu. Found here.<click thumbnail to see cartoon> More About: Country
HEART OF JUNG (link)
2008-01-24 23:31:00 “Heart of Jung ”…carry over from the old Hoon web site to the new Tools for Transformation blog. I say: ‘Fulfill something you are able to fulfill rather than run after what you will never achieve. We can modestly strive to fulfill ourselves and be as ... More About: Link
LEARN TO RELEASE
2008-01-24 18:11:00 This is one of my favorite idea bites. I’ve truncated a long section of McSwain’s work to make it bite-sized. The paper it was taken from, A Transformational Theory of Organizations, is one of my all-time favorites. It actually served to put me on the hunt for new paradigms in organizational theorizing. The baseline goal that ... More About: Release , Learn
LEARN TO RELEASE
2008-01-23 18:11:00 This is one of my favorite idea bites. I’ve truncated a long section of McSwain’s work to make it bite-sized. The paper it was taken from, A Transformational Theory of Organizations, is one of my all-time favorites. It actually served to put me on the hunt for new paradigms in organizational theorizing. The baseline goal that ... More About: Release , Learn
SITTING IN KONYA
2008-01-22 14:40:00 Another pane from a recent ‘Quinttych’ rendered as montage and using found (as in: purloined,) images from the web.
THREE SCHEMAS IN 3
2008-01-22 13:33:00 Quick upload of 3 schemas that summarize ongoing research with a colleague into “interpersonal pragmatics” and interpersonal problem solving. …more later. This schema addresses the problem of collaboration and proposes that faults in any of its general elements may undermine the optimal outcome. Our investigation went on to highlight faults of execution in light of ...
HEAVY
2008-01-20 13:55:00 from the marvelous collection of Zen materials at Deoxy The Stone Mind Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves. While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity ... More About: Heavy
GETTING GOOD AT DUCKING
2008-01-19 14:03:00 In fact, the real cause of this so-called turbulence may be planning itself, which by imposing formalized procedures on organizations has desensitized them and made them vulnerable to unexpected changes. — Put it more boldly, if your organization has formal plans but no vision, and if you then try to control your future so rigidly ... More About: Good
DARING RICHNESS IN ORGANIZATIONS
2008-01-18 15:02:00 Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. Karl Weick On Re-Punctuating the Problem in New Perspectives on Organ izational Effectiveness; Jossey-Bass 1977 More About: Organizations
PROFIT(S)
2008-01-17 16:28:00 Love and power are not opponents; it is our ideas that have constructed them so. — The resolution of this tiresome conflict between power and love requires but one simple test, a move from the singular to the plural. Just add an s. The world is not one world, power is not a single idea, ... More About: Profit
ADAM & SONS, LTD.
2008-01-17 02:06:00 Who was Cain’s wife? Okay, old conundrum for the literalists in the monotheistic clans. Candidates: Eve–ruled out by all sister–must be considered Lilith (Adam ’s first wife?)–must be considered pending one’s treatment of Lilith pre-adamic beings–why not? “If we now work totally from Scripture, without any personal prejudices or other extra-biblical ideas, then back at the beginning, when there was only the ... More About: Sons
WHERE?S WALTER?
2008-01-12 16:50:00 Walter Logeman and yours truly go back a bit. 12 years. The first person I added to my virtual karass. We initiated some experiments and adventures. I’ve never met his body. I wish I could go visit him in New Zealand. His new blog In This Moment. Then there is his Psybernet. More About: Walter
TAYLOR COUNTY DEVOLVES
2008-01-08 13:06:00 By way of the blog of Florida Citizens for Science comes a capture from the notes of a Taylor County Florida school board meeting. Upon motion by Danny Lundy, seconded by Darrell Whiddon the Board adopted/approved the: 1.) Resolution regarding the new Sunshine State Standards for Science. The adopted resolution is as follows: Whereas, the Florida Department of ...
WRONG QUESTION
2008-01-01 19:01:00 Versions of this teaching story are found in the folklore of the Mid-east and North Africa. This version refashions source material discovered in Matthew Hemke’s Humor and Moroccan Culture. Happy new year to all in this year of the Rat. Online cartoon generation courtesy of stripgenerator v1.0.3. -click cartoon to enlarge- More About: Question , Wrong
WHAT DID HUCK-A-BEE SAY?
2007-12-25 20:41:00 . . .something about the time when Americans gather to celebrate some birthday? Lessee, three days ago I went into the mall once but not to shop. Not pleasant. Today is Christmas and I’ve got a few creative projects to push over the finish line so I can offer gifts for the purpose of saying ...
WHAT?S THAT SMELL
2007-12-19 23:04:00 From a little-read but always amusing web site called, Intellectual Conservative. Article: Darwin?s Lapdog Thinks You?re an ID-iot! By Jeff Osonitsch Money quote: Johnson claims that ID is not scientific because ?it predicts nothing, since it essentially states that everything is the way it is because God wanted it that way.? In fact, ID begins, according ... More About: Smell
NEVER ASKING, NEVER KNOWING
2007-12-14 14:07:00 Workers must no longer be considered as cost factors to be “compressed” or “rationalized” but as allies to be won. — …managers must forfeit their long-cherished and, at times abusive, privileges to move toward a new form of organization centered on the human being as well as on a flexible and creative approach. — This ... More About: Knowing
CIRCULATORY DYNAMIC
2007-12-12 04:54:00 Gandy’s last paragraph trails a terrific, dare I suggest, essential, paper in urban Geo-Anthropology. Gandy is a Geographer. Under the twentieth-century discourses of scientific urbanism and technological modernism we find that the hydraulic conceptions of the modern city were extended and consolidated to produce a highly sophisticated model of urban space as an efficient machine. In ... More About: Dynamic , Nami
NECESSITY
More articles from this author:2007-12-07 18:49:00 Utopian thought in general, and anarchist thought in particular, could be dismissed quite easily were it not for two factors. For one thing, as Moos and Brownstein (1977) pointed out, utopian solutions are now a necessity rather than a luxury. For another, traditional anarchist accounts of human motives and social organization happen to mesh surprisingly well ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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