Technologies of Cooperation. Alan Moore: The Last of the Kodak Moments. I am little sad of the passing of Kodak. Some of us, of a certain age, have piles of Kodak slides and snaps, uniquely connecting us to our childhood, and personal histories. Hearing about Kodak's recent demise, filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy, also got me thinking about the current woes, of other organizations and industries that are struggling and failing as they are unable to adjust to what is to them an ambiguous world. The challenge of living in an ambiguous world When faced with disruptive ambiguity few embrace that ambiguity, to understand it, to listen deeply and think very hard about transformation -- how to transform, and how to design for transformation. This is a challenging thing to do and few do it well, and increasingly more organizations are vicariously living in the groan zone as we transition from a linear world to a non-linear one.
But still there is deep institutional and cultural resistance to real change. Grow VC. No Straight Lines. No Straight Lines | Making sense of a non-linear world. No Straight Lines. Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein. Ludwig Wittgenstein The last half of twentieth century Anglo-American (i.e. British and American) thought is often characterized as what is often called the linguistic turn. This describes a common trend of turning to language as the main subject of study in a diverse range of areas including literature, anthropology, sociology, and gave rise to fields such as linguistics and semiotics.
As an example of this dominance of this linguistic turn, consider how even fields like biology and zoology grew to include studies of questions such as whether animals have language? Issues about language arose in many aspects of life including politics (free speech vs. hate speech) and social morality (sexism in language vs. political correctness). In philosophy the linguistic turn indicates intense interest in questions such as: - What is meaning? The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. A key statement in this preface is that he is seeking to draw a limit to thought. Parking Spaces, Driveways and Garages for Rent | ParkatmyHouse. RelayRides | Rent Cars From People Near You Through a Peer-to-Peer Marketplace. Søgning. TechShop is America's 1st Nationwide Open-Access Public Workshop -- What Do You Want To Make at TechShop?