Nicola Giusto, Ma in Digital Communication and Cultures
The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ontological and political implications of Network Theory
It is self-evident how information and communications technologies play a central role in social and cultural transformations in many universes: media, language, social actors, politics and public administration, thought and space.
This paper attempts to clarify the present time, analyzing social network paradigm and its relation with the so called digital culture from a critical prospective.
In particular, it preliminary stresses the relationship between any kind of network, power, knowledge and technology (Heidegger, Foucault), then it presents a critical analysis of the most recent studies and ideas (SNT, SNA, the Small world theory, the Network effect, Innovation, Information cascade and logic of diffusion). In part III, two different kinds of realist social ontology are presented and evaluated (Latour’s work and DeLanda’s Assemblage theory) in the attempt to move towards a new philosophy of relation.
The last part explores social and political implications of living embodied in a complex global social network where governance is everyday more managed by technical protocols, apparatus and machines (Deleuze, Castells, Agamben, Galloway).
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One of the revolutionary ideas put forward by Foucault is the various measures of surveillance, to ensure discipline in a society. Such a consented voyeurism always has a panopticon structure. Foucault talks about the age old prison, and how such surveillance structures are employed in other institutions from mental asylums to public schools to ensure discipline. The 184 idea of a big brother watching has gained prominence today with the internet, satellites giving rise to a virtual panopticon today.
One of the revolutionary ideas put forward by Foucault is the various measures of surveillance, to ensure discipline in a society. Such a consented voyeurism always has a panopticon structure. Foucault talks about the age old prison, and how such surveillance structures are employed in other institutions from mental asylums to public schools to ensure discipline. The 184 idea of a big brother watching has gained prominence today with the internet, satellites giving rise to a virtual panopticon today.
Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).
FOAR701 Research Paradigms lecture notes on hermeneutics and symbolic interpretation of culture: Heidegger, Gadamer, Geertz, and Darnton are central. From Macquarie University Faculty of Arts, Masters of Research.
In the early nineties there was a renewed and widespread discussion in philosophy about the end of history (posthistoire), a condition where western liberal democracy is seen as a final form of government. Events still occur at the end of history but governance remains the same. If modernist architecture always understood itself as in opposition with history – inventing new universal forms for a new man and a new world – then postmodern architecture could be said to be a reaction to such a break with history. Are we as the posthistorians claim, disconnected with history, living in a hyperreal state of constant everything goes - a bleak future devoid of meaning and struggle? Or could we find ideological and experimental sources within our times and come up with a critical response to questions posed to architecture today?
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).
FOAR701 Research Paradigms lecture notes on hermeneutics and symbolic interpretation of culture: Heidegger, Gadamer, Geertz, and Darnton are central. From Macquarie University Faculty of Arts, Masters of Research.
In the early nineties there was a renewed and widespread discussion in philosophy about the end of history (posthistoire), a condition where western liberal democracy is seen as a final form of government. Events still occur at the end of history but governance remains the same. If modernist architecture always understood itself as in opposition with history – inventing new universal forms for a new man and a new world – then postmodern architecture could be said to be a reaction to such a break with history. Are we as the posthistorians claim, disconnected with history, living in a hyperreal state of constant everything goes - a bleak future devoid of meaning and struggle? Or could we find ideological and experimental sources within our times and come up with a critical response to questions posed to architecture today?
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
This PowerPoint serves as an introduction to Michel Foucault and one of his most famous theories. It includes an example of his theory in action, and a short bibliography.
SSI Meetup – interpersonal data, identity and collective mindsPhilip Sheldrake
Grappling with identity will never be easy — those who consider it “solvable” represent a danger to society. The identity community is entangled in code (the technologically possible), law (the legally available), and norms (the socially acceptable). There is no separation of these societal concerns. No reductionism. Life is complex and will remain so.
And yet such understanding provides, I think, the perfect foundation to create something wonderful together.
Interpersonal data, identity, and relationships – in pursuit of collective mi...SSIMeetup
https://ssimeetup.org/interpersonal-data-identity-relationships-pursuit-collective-minds-philip-sheldrake-webinar-24/
Philip Sheldrake is a technologist, Chartered Engineer, architect of the Web Science Trust endorsed hi:project, consultant, and a Web Science researcher at Southampton University. He works with the AKASHA Foundation, nurturing projects to help individuals unlock their potential through open systems that expand our collective minds at local, regional and global scales, with a keen eye on the development of regenerative planetary systems.
Grappling with identity will never be easy — those who consider it “solvable” represent a danger to society. The identity community is entangled in code (the technologically possible), law (the legally available), and norms (the socially acceptable). There is no separation of these societal concerns. No reductionism. Life is complex and will remain so.
As Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers note (A Simpler Way, 1996), life’s natural tendency is to organize into greater levels of complexity to support more diversity and greater sustainability. Pertinently, life organizes around a self. Organizing is a living system that always creates identity, and networks, patterns, and structures emerge without external imposition or direction.
Wheatley homes in on three conditions of self-organizing:
1. Identity — the sense-making capacity of the organization
2. Information — the medium of the organization
3. Relationships — the pathways of organization.
This webinar will explore these reciprocally defining domains, the dangers of rigid identity, and the vision for interpersonal data as a substance from which identities may sustain appropriate complexity.
Warm Data Lab vie päätöksenteon tietotukea tulevaisuuteen
Kompleksisissa järjestelmissä ja niihin liittyvässä yhteiskunnallisessa päätöksenteossa tarvitaan kykyä monien näkökulmien yhtäaikaiseen dialogiin ja kokonaisuuden hahmottamiseen. Erilaisten tiedon muotojen, asiantuntijuuden ja osallisuuden on kohdattava yhä synergisemmin. Nora Bateson, tilaisuuden vetäjä, on lähestynyt tätä kohtaamista ja vuorovaikutusta käsitteellä “Warm Data”.
Päivän tarkoituksena on tutkia ja ymmärtää, miten voisimme lisätä edellytyksiä kokonaisvaltaisemmalle päätöksenteolle ja toiminnalle kompleksisessa toimintaympäristössä. Sovellamme Batesonin kehittämää Warm data -lab -menetelmää ja keskustelemme päätöksenteon tietotuen tulevaisuudesta. Pohdimme, miten tartumme lupaaviin lähestymistapoihin ja parannamme edellytyksiä ottaa niitä laajamittaisemmin käyttöön.
Mitä on Warm Data?
Käsitteellä Warm Data Nora Bateson kuvaa tietoa, joka syntyy tilannekohtaisesti erilaisten näkökulmien ja kontekstien asettuessa läpinäkyvään vuoropuheluun. Voimme saada tietoa ja ymmärrystä siitä, miten asioiden vastavuoroinen kytkeytyneisyys vaikuttaa havaintoihimme, päätöksentekoomme ja toimintaan.
Warm Data Lab on työskentelyprosessi, joka mahdollistaa moninäkökulmaisen ja rajoja ylittävän tietämyksen kehittymisen. Toimintatapana se tarjoaa mahdollisuuden lähestyä kompleksisia kysymyksiä luomalla ekosysteemitasoista integroivaa dialogia. (ks. lyhyt video lähestymistavasta).
Nora Bateson on International Batesonian Institute’n perustaja. Instituutti tutkii kompleksisiin systeemeihin sisältyviä kytkentöjä, liittyen mm. ympäristöön, talouteen, sosiaaliseen muutoksen, terveyteen, koulutukseen ja taiteeseen. Instituutti kannustaa ja käynnistää erityisesti projekteja, jotka yhdistävät erilaisia konteksteja.
These are the slides which I used is a 3 day workshop which I gave to university students in Brazil. Any feedback, and additional material that I could use (text, pictures, cartoons or videos), very gratefully received.
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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2. Panopticon was first developed as an architecture
work by J. Bentham (1748 - 1832)
3. Bentham’s building
• Prisoners are constantly visible BUT they do not
see. “visibility is a trap”
• Prisoners are objects of information NEVER subjects
of communication. “collection of separated
individualities”
• Control is unverifiable! No one see inside tower
• Efficiency, Economy, Simplicity, Automation
4. M. Foucault (1926 - 1984)
• The birth of the clinic, 1963
• Discourse on language, 1970
• Discipline & Punish: the birth of the prison, 1975
• Lectures at Collège De France: Security, Territory,
Population, 1977 - 78, & The birth of biopolitics,
1978 - 1979
5. Overall Foucaultian thought
• Knowledge is Power. Information empowers
action, action provokes new information (circular
process)
• Technology changes the model of power /
knowledge
• Active role of observation. Objectivation
produces, evokes its own object
• Contra Structuralist theory, analysis has to be
related to a defined historical context
6. Panopticism as power
• Embodied power relationships... “political
anatomy” ... individual is fabricated
“[...] the body is reduced as a political force at the
least cost and maximezed as a useful force” p. 368
• Exercised continuously
“[...] these tiny, everyday, physical mechanisms, by all
those systems of micro-power that are essentially
non-egalitarian and asymmetrical that we call the
discipline”
7. Panopticism as knowledge
• Increase the utility of the penalty
“the codified power to punish turns into a
disciplinary power to observe” p. 369
• Formation of “biographical” knowledge
“the legal punishment bears upon act; the punitive
technique on a life” p. 371
8. Panopticism as disciplinary society or
‘social laboratory’
Surveillance & Control in order to organise
moltiplicities thru:
• “continuos registration and perpetual assessment
and classification”
• “define tactics of distribution, reciprocal adjustment
of bodies, gestures and rhythms, differentiation of
capacities, reciprocal coordination in relation to
apparatus or tasks”
9. Institutions
object produced knowledge produced
prison prisoner punishment
psychopathology,
asylum madman experimental psychiatry
hospital patient medical treatment
sociology of production,
factory worker human resource management
school student education
army soldier performance, trainings
family ... ...
11. Control
Discipline
Society of Sovereignty XX
XVIII - XIX
(G. Deleuze)
procedure, norm,
Ceremonial,
Mechanism number, signature, codes, protocols
ritual, spectacle
examination
King, leader, Bodies and
Who dividuals
hangman relationships
Light power:
Corporal force, access to information
Kind of power separation, inscription,
power of death or exclusion
subjection
Institution, vast closed Networks -
Space environment, fixed Striated vs Rhizomic
structure spaces
Manifest, public,
Visibility Invisible, material Invisible, intangible
catharsis
13. Deleuze’s Postscript on the societies of
control
[...] In the societies of control, on the other hand, what
is important is no longer either a signature or a
number, but a code: the code is a password, while on
the other hand disciplinary societies are regulated by
watchwords (as much from the point of view of
integration as from that of resistance). The numerical
language of control is made of codes that mark access
to information, or reject it. We no longer find
ourselves dealing with the mass/individual pair.
Individuals have become "dividuals," and masses,
samples, data, markets, or "banks."
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16. Internet and decentralised networks
Asymmetry of informations: Server / Clients, Hub / nodes, Google, Facebook, Flickr,
Apple, AT&T, Bing / End User
Moglen, E. (2010), Freedom in the Cloud, Talk at New York ISOC meeting. : http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338
17. Internet and decentralised networks
Asymmetry of informations: Server / Clients, Hub / nodes, Google, Facebook, Flickr,
Apple, AT&T, Bing / End User
Moglen, E. (2010), Freedom in the Cloud, Talk at New York ISOC meeting. : http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338
18. Mapping - make the social graph visible
• map of security cameras in Venice
Anoption project
• participated cartography
Biopolitics map Venice 2007
• create & share data maps
Targetmap