RCCS: View Book Info The Internet Imaginaire Author: Patrice Flichy Publisher: Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2007 Review Published: February 2008 Patrice Flichy's The Internet Imaginaire, originally published in French in 2001 and now translated into English by Liz Carey-Libbrecht, is a dense, clearly written, and well-structured analysis of the Internet imaginaire. Methodologically, Flichy draws upon Barthes's peculiar interpretation of myth, intended as a "metalanguage" that has the ability to transform, "a particular story into a natural representation" (7), and on Bruno Latour's (1987) "sociotechnique network approach," a constructivist model "in which innovation can start at any point and not necessarily in the fertile brain of a brilliant inventor" (3). Following Ricouer's opposition of utopia and ideology, Flichy elaborates a model -- an ideal-type theory -- divided in three phases. Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Arthur Kroker and Michael A. M.
Cosmic Order Home Page mythos Mythos - The Image of Spirit Harrison Own This material originally appeared in Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organizations, which was published by Abbott Publishing in 1987. Myth is neither true nor false, but rather behind truth -- as that body of material through which a culture's values, purpose and direction come to expression. Myth is not just "any old story," it is the story, which gives shape and focus to Spirit, and makes everything make sense.(1) Myth, in short is the "eyeglasses" through which a given people perceive and interpret their world. It is the vantage point from which, or by which the true is judged to be true. But myth does more. ...Myth harbors a certain conceptual content: it is the conceptual language in which alone the world of becoming can be expressed. Finally, myth doesn't just communicate about Spirit in its quest, but in some way manifests that Spirit in experiential terms; you can feel it. And how was that done?
TDmythmaking The idea is to analyze metaphors and icons that story and center collective dynamics. Several consultants use mythmaking and storytelling as a tool for changing large systems and organizations. Most widely know is Harrison Owens. Some Background on Mythmaking Meyer and Rowan (1977) were among the first to argue that interorganizational relations (and networks) transfer institutional myths and rituals between complex organizations through imitation. Mythmaking. Harrison Owens Mythic Transformation an interview with Harrison Owen, by Leslie Ehle - Owen is one of the initial instigators of the Organizational Transformation movement. Boje, Fedor & Rowland Mythmaking in organizations is, not untruth, as much as it is the way in which elements of organizational culture are conceptually organized into a system of organizationally relevant logic (Boje, Fedor & Rowland, 1982: 17). 1. 1. Boje, D.M., Fedor, D.B., and Rowland, K.M. Will McWhinney Boje, David, Donald B. Jones, M. McWhinney, W., and J.
A Taste of Systemics A Special Integration Group (SIG) of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) originally SGSR, Society for General Systems Research. and IISII INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE for SYSTEMIC INQUIRY AND INTEGRATION Presents An activity of the Primer Group By Bela Banathy The second half of the twentieth century is marked by massive changes affecting all aspects of our lives. A world-view (window to the world) is like a lens through which we perceive the landscape of life that becomes our reality. This "view of the world" (world-view) has many dimensions: the socio-cultural, the socio-technical, the socio-economic, the organizational, and the scientific just to name a few. This change from one era to another is often called "PARADIGM SHIFT." Over the last four or five decades, we have been faced with increasingly more complex and pressing problem-situations, embedded in interconnected systems operating in dynamically changing environments.
TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture. Mapping the Human Condition by Maria Popova What the empire of love has to do with the intellect forest and the bay of agoraphobia. We love maps. There’s something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. We’ve previously looked at how the London tube map was appropriated as a visual metaphor for everything from The Milky Way to the Kabbalah, and today we turn to seven cartographic interpretations of the human condition, using the visual vocabulary of classical maps to interpret various facets of the human psyche — a genre that came of age during the late Renaissance, when it became known as “sentimental cartography.” In 1961, Norton Juster wrote The Phantom Tollbooth, a timeless children’s classic and one of our essential children’s books with philosophy for grown-ups. This map by mid-century American cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who illustrated the book, depicts the marvelous land that Milo finds himself in as he follows his own curiosity. Thanks, @dethe Map of an Englishman
About Worldviews Will McWhinney The Navajo Pollen Path “Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path.” About ten years ago I met Will McWhinney. Will became the most influential person in my whole life. Will wrote just one book called Paths of Change. Paths of Change is based on the ancient Navajo Pollen Path. Will was an expert in the myths and culture of the Ancient Tribes that lived in the Four Corners-area of New Mexico. Will tried to write a second book called Grammars of Engagement. Unfortunately his book was never finished. Let me try to explain the theory of Will. He did not write the book alone. What they wanted to resolve was a very strange pattern behind the failures of Personal and Organizational Change. Will and his colleagues found out that the explanation was simple. Will discovered four basic ways to think. The Chinese Pollen Path Many people are able to think in two world views.
The Institute for Intercultural Studies: Gregory Bateson "What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you?" - Gregory Bateson from Mind and Nature A quarter century after the death of eminent anthropologist and systems theorist Gregory Bateson, much of his work is just beginning to be fully appreciated. Gregory Bateson collaborated with Margaret Mead in Bali and New Guinea in the 1930s in developing an entirely new approach to anthropological research, using film and photography not only to document field work but also to support a new kind of analysis. Bateson moved away from traditional anthropology in the late 1940s, embracing psychology, behavioral biology, evolution, systems theory, and cybernetics, and working toward a theoretical synthesis he referred to as "an ecology of mind." Bateson was one of the original trustees of the IIS and Margaret Mead's third husband. Upcoming Events About Bateson Rodney E.