How to Occupy the Noosphere – TedX IAN’S NOTE: This talk represents my own personal synthesis from artists, activists, Occupiers, rabble rousers, revolutionaries and evolutionaries that I’ve had the privilege to meet during my short time on this planet. A sincere bow as well to my friends, supporters, and teachers – which I am forever indebted. I had a lot of fun with this talk. Thanks to the TedX organizers and volunteers, fellow speakers, and all the lovely people of Victoria who made this an amazing event. Please SHARE this video if you’re inspired. WATCH THIS TALK WITH SUBTITLES: Greek, Spanish, French, and Portuguese TedX synopsis: An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. Full Transcript: The first time I saw this mask was in the 2006 film “V for Vendetta.” When they searched the catacombs of parliament, they found Guy Fawkes guarding 36 barrels of explosives. My grandmother calls these masks “kind of creepy.” This is love. Fire.
The capitalist network that runs the world | Social and Behavioral Science Research The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue (Image: PLoS One) As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo). "Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. The Zurich team can. The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). So, the super-entity may not result from conspiracy. 1. 2. 3.
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gezipark: fr - 2013-06-04 02:00:04 +0200 TUR | FR | ENG | GRE | ITA | GER | ESP News from / Nachrichten / Νέα από / informations / Notizie (da) 4.6.2013 (Istanbul Time): Curiosity Doesn’t Kill The Student News Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it’s good for the student. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The authors show that curiosity is a big part of academic performance. In fact, personality traits like curiosity seem to be as important as intelligence in determining how well students do in school. Intelligence is important to academic performance, but it’s not the whole story. One of those is conscientiousness—basically, the inclination to go to class and do your homework. von Stumm and her coauthors wondered if curiosity might be another important factor. The researchers performed a meta-analysis, gathering the data from about 200 studies with a total of about 50,000 students. von Stumm wasn’t surprised that curiosity was so important.
Archetypes of Dissent Radical politics is defined by opacity, anonymity and dissimulation … and by invisibility: by the political presence of absence. The power of surprise, of secret organization, of rebelling, of demonstrating and plotting covertly, of striking invisibly, and in multiple sites at once, is the key element that the Invisible Committee, anonymous authors of The Coming Insurrection, affirm for confronting a power whose firepower is vastly superior. To be explicitly visible, to appear explicitly – in a maneuver, in organizing, even in an occupation –“is to be exposed, that is to say above all, vulnerable.” Here Guy Fawkes and black ski masks become emblems of veritable nobodies, of invisible underground men and women, of people without qualities who want to disguise their inner qualities, who shun visibility and have little desire to be the somebody the world wants them to be. These bodies are publicly expressive bodies yet are bodies weary of revealing too much of themselves.
Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment Protests in Turkey Part of Growing Cycle of Discontent (Source: Protests in Turkey entered their fifth day today, with demonstrators heading into the streets in cities across the country. The protests, which were initially aimed at protesting the demolition of Istanbul’s Gezi park, have transformed, because of police aggression, to include more general grievances with the Turkish government. Mashallah News provides a good recap of the demonstrations’ development, thus far: “In Istanbul, just 1.5% of the land is devoted to public green space, of which nine acres are located in Gezi park. In a much anticipated speech on June 1, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to the growing protest movement. “Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan… speaking about the police attacks on protesters, is defiant — he says of those who are demonstrating about the re- development of Gezi Park, ‘There are games being played….Nobody has the right to protest against the law and democracy.’ government.
The Sociology of Work By Matt Vidal Kings College, London Since his recent untimely death, Apple co-founder and design guru Steve Jobs has been exalted to the level of a cult hero by an outpouring of fans on social media and many commentators in the traditional news media. Under Jobs’ direction, Apple launched a series of hi-tech products that were not only trailblazing but also retained both a coolness factor and a user-friendliness that rival companies have yet to even mimic, let alone surpass. The narrative of Jobs-the-entrepreneur helps reaffirm the dominant American narrative of individualism and meritocracy. A sociological perspective would question this story. The individualism-and-free markets narrative is seemingly supported by the discipline of economics, and the latter tends to dominate discussions about work and occupations, in part because it aligns so neatly with the dominant narrative. The sociology of work goes back to the classic sociological theorists: Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
Would You Rather Be Over-Informed or Happy? Not long ago I wrote a blog post that quickly resonated with thousands of people called “Living in a Brainwashed Culture of Urgency.” I want to take that discussion to the next level highlighting not only the habit in our culture toward urgency, but also to being overly informed. The reality is our digital machines make it so easy to get an abundance of information at the touch of a fingertip. For the most part, the need to know all the latest news whether it’s social, political, sports, health, or what-have-you actually gets in the way of our happiness. But, it seems like we need all that information. Do we? Somehow the media has us at the digital counter saying, “Super-Size me please.” Like an addiction to food, most of the time we ingest it because it’s either a habit and we don’t know what else to do, or it’s a way for us to check out from feeling bored, anxious or generally uncomfortable with the moment. Be on the lookout for moments of “checking” the media.