The ascendance of information industries and a global economy have contributed to new hierarchies and a displacement of economic significance between cities. Politics and systems of order often perform with linear authority, which can lead to limitation, while parallel informal networks are not as easily recognized. Weak connections between loosely organized voices can interconnect into strong movements able to overturn hierarchical power structures. Rhizomatic systems connect any point to any other in complex webs rather than tree structures, challenging traditional hierarchical validation and opening new encounters and priorities.
DBA #9 Designer's Journey - My Journey from Sociology into Business EcosystemsDesign Bootcamp Asia
My Journey from Sociology into Business Ecosystems by Nazish Zafar
Sociologists & anthropologists examine how our lives are shaped by society, and their research is often focused on uncovering these 'invisible' structures of influence.
Nazish will share some of the interesting projects she has done around the world, such as the study of orphanages in Russia, public health education in Brazil, interviewing families in high poverty neighbourhoods in Baltimore and, most recently, examining the small business and start-up economy in Singapore.
With a decade of academic research in Sociology, she shows us how she is applying her skills to the sphere of design thinking, with practical takeaways for everyone.
We looked at the data. Here’s a breakdown of some key statistics about the nation’s incoming presidents’ addresses, how long they spoke, how well, and more.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/emoji
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
Conceptualizing Rurality with Michel de Certeausbrown08
This SlideShare presentation contains a brief introduction to the ideas of Michael de Certeau and some possible avenues for reconnecting his work with the "cultural turn" in contemporary rural studies.
DBA #9 Designer's Journey - My Journey from Sociology into Business EcosystemsDesign Bootcamp Asia
My Journey from Sociology into Business Ecosystems by Nazish Zafar
Sociologists & anthropologists examine how our lives are shaped by society, and their research is often focused on uncovering these 'invisible' structures of influence.
Nazish will share some of the interesting projects she has done around the world, such as the study of orphanages in Russia, public health education in Brazil, interviewing families in high poverty neighbourhoods in Baltimore and, most recently, examining the small business and start-up economy in Singapore.
With a decade of academic research in Sociology, she shows us how she is applying her skills to the sphere of design thinking, with practical takeaways for everyone.
We looked at the data. Here’s a breakdown of some key statistics about the nation’s incoming presidents’ addresses, how long they spoke, how well, and more.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/emoji
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
Conceptualizing Rurality with Michel de Certeausbrown08
This SlideShare presentation contains a brief introduction to the ideas of Michael de Certeau and some possible avenues for reconnecting his work with the "cultural turn" in contemporary rural studies.
THEODORE C. BESTORDepartment of AnthropologyHarvard Univer.docxsusannr
THEODORE C. BESTOR
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City
Urban anthropology has been simultaneously challenged and transformed as forces of globalization—variously defined in
economic, political, social, and cultural terms—have been theorized as "de-territorializing" many social processes and
trends formerly regarded as characteristic of urban places. Against a seemingly dis-placed cityscape of global flows of
capital, commerce, commodity, and culture, this paper examines the reconfiguration of spatially and temporally dispersed
relationships among labor, commodities, and cultural influence within an international seafood trade that centers on To-
kyo's Tsukiji seafood market, and the local specificity of both market and place within a globalized urban setting. [Tokyo,
markets, food culture, globalization]
Historically, of course, market and place are tightly inter-
woven. At its origins, a market was both a literal place and a
symbolic threshold, a "socially constructed space" and "a cul-
turally inscribed limit" that nonetheless involved a crossing of
boundaries by long-distance trade and socially marginal trad-
ers. But markets were also inextricably bound up with local
communities. In feudal times and beyond, local markets occu-
pied a specific place and time... . The denseness of interac-
tions and the goods that were exchanged offered local
communities the material and cultural means for their social
reproduction—that is, their survival as communities.. . .
[T]he social institutions of markets and places supported each
other.
—Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power (1991:9)
Market and Place
The past tense in Sharon Zukin's paraphrase of Karl Po-
lanyi is no doubt deliberate. Markets and places no longer
support each other, we think. IfWall Street and the globali-
zation literature are both to be believed, markets are now
literally Utopian—nowhere in particular and everywhere
all at once.
Globalization is a much-discussed but as yet poorly de-
fined concept. The presumed conditions of globalization
include, to my way of thinking, the increasing velocity of
capital (both economic and cultural) and the corresponding
acceleration of transportation and telecommunications, all
stitching together ever larger, ever more fluid, ever more
encapsulating markets and other arenas for exchanges
across multiple dimensions. Facilitating the velocity and
frequency of such exchanges are the dispersal (and relative
density) of people living outside the cultures or societies of
their origins and the increased potential that exists for
bi-, cross-, or multi-societal/cultural agents and brokers to
effect linkages. Accompanying these changes (perhaps an-
other way of saying the same thing) is the rapid cross-fer-
tilization and "arbitrage" of cultural capital (in Bourdieu's
[1984] terms) across many seemingly disparate domains of
media, belief, political action, economic .
Currently, in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, Fazal Rizvi has worked in a number of countries, including several senior university research and administrative posts in Australia.
Diversity, it has been widely noted, cannot be read against a universal set of criteria, and that the moral claims surrounding diversity are contextually specific. Traditionally these claims have been nationally defined. In this paper, I will argue that this approach to thinking about diversity is no longer sufficient, and that while the national context still remains pertinent, in the era of globalization, it has become transformed by the emerging processes of transnationalism. Using a number of narratives, I will suggest that the multiple ways in which people now experience, interpret, negotiate and work with diversity are affected by factors that are deeply shaped by the emerging patterns of global mobility and interconnectivity. This recognition has major implications for educational research, requiring new conceptual resources that enable us to ‘read’ diversity as a product of complex interactions between national articulations and their re-constitution by transnational processes.
More details: http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer2010/keynote-speakers/fazal-rizvi/
The recording of the keynote is here:
http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer2010/channel-2/
Graham, Stephen, and Lucy Hewitt. "Getting off the ground On the politics of ...Stephen Graham
This article contends that critical urban research is characterized by horizontalism. It argues that the swathe of recent urban writings have neglected the vertical qualities of contemporary urbanization. The article’s introductory section elaborates this argument in detail. The paper then elucidates three areas where vertically oriented research is emerging. These encompass: the links between Google Earth and urbanism; the connections between social secession and ascension through buildings, walkways and personalized air travel; and the links between verticalized surveillance and urban burrowing.
Cities, Power and Knowledge: A Discursive Materialist Approach to Rethinking ...Simon Parker
Cities, Power and Knowledge: A Discursive Materialist Approach to Rethinking the Urban Question. Simon Parker, Department of Politics, University of York, UK.Association of American Geographers Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 16 April 2008. Session:‘New Directions in Urban Theory: Theoretical Groundings
my report in Anthro 273: Seminar in Urban Anthropology at the Anthropology Department, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman - elective for the PhD Media Studies program at the College of Mass Communication
Postmodern Urbanism and the New PsychogeographyTina Richardson
This lecture provides an overview of some of the theoretical approaches to the postmodern city highlighting the issues that pertain to the appearance of urban space under neoliberalism. You will be introduced to some of the leading contemporary thinkers from the field of urban theory/planning and urban cultural studies. Many of the motifs that arise in the theories of contemporary urban life have been incorporated into the critical practices of a number of today’s urban walkers. These practitioners have developed their own form of psychogeography which responds to the complexity of postmodern space in different ways. Tina’s lecture will tease out some of these motifs and will demonstrate how they have been incorporated into the various methodologies of the New Psychogeography.
Water, power and urban politics in Los AngelesFionn MacKillop
Research article on history of water and power networks in Los Angeles, California, USA, in relation to urban regime, planning policies and contemporary issues.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys and the Road Ahead.pdf
Newhierarchies intro
1. New Hierarchies
The ascendance of information industries and the growth of a global economy are inextricably linked, and have
contributed to what Saskia Sassen calls: a new geography of centres and margins (The global city: strategic site/new
frontier, 2000). This means that former structures of economical or political hegemony have radically changed (and are
still changing rapidly) with the consequence of a displacement (in economical sense), in both geographical significance of
cities and places, and in the valuation of different kind of labour: Financial services produce superprofits while industrial
services barely survive.
Beside the obvious impact of globalization, there is an equally obvious inconsistency between everyday life and the
performance of individual spatial practices, and the way the formal society is organised and governed. Politics, laws and
planning – and even partly the global economical systems (the colonization effect on places and societies), appears
essentially hierarchical, and perform linear authority, which in many cases has as consequence limitation, stagnation and
regression. Beside the governing systems of order, bureaucracy and linearity, there are infinite parallel systems of other
formal and informal networks, knowledge and ‘weak’ voices not so easily observed and recognised.
The complexity of this everyday reality presuppose new and experimental strategies and ideas for seeing, observation,
participation and mapping of what ever is relevant for the plans we are making, and the societies we are planning for – it
is a question of concern, like the title of Bruno Latour’s essay suggests, a transition From Matters of Fact to Matters of
Concern, (Critical Inquiry, 2004).
The latest year’s events and revolutionary rebellions in the Middle East show indeed examples of how weak connections
and loosely organized voices can interconnect into strong movements that are able to turn inherited hierarchical
structures of power upside down, and also institute new systems of organization. Not all changes have the character of
a violent revolution concerning time and drama, but any shift in a hierarchical system has the ultimate consequence of
changing basic living conditions – either it are shifts in natural systems or in social structures.
Through the concept of rhizome lies the ultimate metamorphosis of a hierarchical system, as by Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari termed as a tree structure: unlike the trees or their roots, the rhizome connects any point to any other point,
and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature; it brings into play very different regimes of signs, and
even non sign states. (…) Unlike the graphic arts, drawing, or photography, unlike tracings, the rhizome pertains to a
map that must be produced, constructed, a map that is always detachable, connectable, reversible, modifiable, and has
multiple entryways and exits and its own lines of flight. (Rhizome, A Thousand Plateaus, 1980) Through rhizome thinking,
hierarchical systems will no longer be valid, and new ideas of validation, new encounters and new priorities will become
relevant.
By working within the hierarchical planning system, but at the same time continuously develop the weak networks
outside the system, elastic but continuously more robust rhizome structures will grow. The plan will not be enclosed
and conclude fixed images but work along a Deleuze/Guattarian ‘lines of flight’ model. Doina Petrescu (Losing control,
keeping desire, Architecture and participation, 2004) describes; Guattari and Deleuze’s ‘lines’ challenge the usual
designer thinking about ‘lines’. They are an abstract and complex enough metaphor to map the entire social field, to trace
its shapes, its borders, its becomings. They can map the way ‘life always proceeds at several rhythms and at several
speeds’. They map individual cracks and collective breaks
within the segmentation and heterogeneity of power.
The ‘line of flight’, ligne de fuite, is defined not only as a
simple line, but as the very force of a tangle of lines flung
out, transgressing thresholds of established norms and
conventions, towards unexpected manifestations, both
in terms of socio-political phenomena and in individual
destinies.
New hierarchies: traffic New hierarchies: nature
2. Mapping the hyper normal
-the strategy of the open and unfinished plan
A hyper-mapping might be more subjective and give focus to values related to the context of the plan, than being strictly
neutral and objective. All layers of processes, programs and events add pieces to an open web. As an experience of the
computer technology and the Internet’s structure of collecting and storing data and knowledge, it should be possible to
develop new, open and unlimited web-structures of planning. This again should open up for an infinite input and output of
knowledge, where there has to be most focus on the process.
In his book Invisible cities (1972), Italo Calvino let the dialog between Marko Polo and Kublai Khan evolve as a narration
of innumerous urban conditions, as complex descriptions of different strange cities - and still after a while: Kublai Khan
had noticed that Marco Polo’s cities resembled one another, as if the passage from one to another involved not a journey
but a change of elements. They didn’t speak the same language, and the dialogue was full of hidden stories within the
story, with a constantly development of the perception of the city.
In an open plan-network it is possible for anyone to take position and to act or to influence the decisions. The amount of
data and knowledge is limitless – the strategy is to make operational systems to receive, handle, store and re-call the
information that is relevant. The interesting evolves in the meeting, and the crossing points (the folding) of information
and action. In these connection points and folding new things and exiting possibilities always exceed. The rhizome can be
drawn – not only as maps of expectations but rather as complex metaphors of spatial practices and landscape impact.
Rhizome: communications Rhizome: territorial practices