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The Human Condition.

29 Jun 2017-Academic Psychiatry (Springer International Publishing)-Vol. 41, Iss: 6, pp 771-771
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
Abstract: Human beings are described by many spiritual traditions as ‘blind’ or ‘asleep’ or ‘in a dream.’ These terms refers to the limited attenuated state of consciousness of most human beings caught up in patterns of conditioned thought, feeling and perception, which prevent the development of our latent, higher spiritual possibilities. In the words of Idries Shah: “Man, like a sleepwalker who suddenly ‘comes to’ on some lonely road has in general no correct idea as to his origins or his destiny.” In some religious traditions, such as Christianity and Islam, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness. Other traditions use similar metaphors to describe the spiritual condition of humanity:

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what organization and management scholars can do to write with resonance and to facilitate an emotional, bodily, or in other ways sensory connection between the text and the reader.
Abstract: In this article, we explore what organization and management scholars can do to write with resonance and to facilitate an emotional, bodily, or in other ways sensory connection between the text and the reader. We propose that resonance can be relevant for organization and management scholars in two ways. First, it may facilitate a better understanding of the research we are attempting to convey in our papers, an understanding that draws on the reader’s prior experiences, and their embodied, embedded knowledge. Second, resonance may foster an inclination in the reader to engage with, contribute to, and thus bring forward the field of research in question. We propose that writing with resonance may be a way to further the impact of academic work by extending the modalities with which our readers can relate to and experience our work.

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  • ...To paraphrase Arendt (1958), I want to work, not labor....

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Chris Groves1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that using risk-based knowledge as the basis of regulation fails to deal sufficiently both with the problem that innovation ensures the future will not resemble the past, and with the social priorities that underlie innovation often remain unquestioned.
Abstract: The regulation of innovation reflects a specific imaginary of the role of governance that makes it external to the field it governs. It is argued that this decision and rule-based view of regulation is insufficient to deal with the inescapable uncertainties that are produced by innovation. In particular, using risk-based knowledge as the basis of regulation fails to deal sufficiently both with the problem that innovation ensures the future will not resemble the past, and with the problem that the social priorities that underlie innovation often remain unquestioned. Recently, rights-based frameworks have been defended as principle-based approaches to innovation governance that address the gaps which trouble an understanding of regulation as based on risk-based decision procedures. An alternative, care-based view of governance is defended, in which institutional and practice change, aimed at the creation of specific institutional ‘virtues’ and rooted in the broad and deep participation of publics in shaping innovation is seen as an appropriate way of making governance internal to innovation.

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  • ...The problems created by innovation are an outgrowth of human finitude [23, 39], a condition that modernity believed it had outgrown, believing instead that all barriers to human progress could be overcome through technology....

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Dissertation
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "missing links" in the literature: http://www.thesuniversity.edu.cn.xi
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  • ...Whether conceived as a venue of ‘rational deliberation over universalizable aims’ (Honneth, 2014: 281) in Habermas’ formulation, or as a ‘place of communicative arbitration of political disputes’ (ibid) following Arendt’s (1958) ‘agonistic’ public sphere, the privatising energies driving change in media style, organisation, content and consumption were seen as undercutting its possibilities as a public venue for realising democratic self-legislation....

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TL;DR: The synergies between two of the fastest growing, most influential developments in academic criminology and applied crim... as discussed by the authors, are explored in this special issue of Restorative Justice: An International Journal.
Abstract: This special issue of Restorative Justice: An International Journal explores the synergies between two of the fastest growing, most influential developments in academic criminology and applied crim...

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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that the authority of ideal-type scientific reason is in fact the authority once removed (Horkheimer and Adorno 2002, pp. 1-34; Bernstein 2001, ch. 2).
Abstract: ing from the concrete qualities of objects and attending solely to their causal powers and then treating those causal powers in generalized form to the point where concepts designating the properties of objects are taken as condensed causal laws are the essential gestures for attending to objects in ways sufficient for routine activities of hunting, growing, harvesting, heating, clothing, transporting, building, housing, mending, and so on. The original formation of reason in its subsumingdeductive orientation is thus a product of the drive for self-preservation, or, to give the thesis its full Adornoian statement, ideal-type determinative judgment and scientific reason are forms of instrumental reason because they are that formation of human cognition necessary for individual and collective self-preservation, making them the expression of the drive for self-preservation in rational form. Hence for Adorno, the authority of ideal-type scientific reason is in fact the authority of nature once removed (Horkheimer and Adorno 2002, pp. 1–34; Bernstein 2001, ch. 2). Hence, in so far as this form of reason becomes dominant, human rational spiritual relations remain under the authority of nature, under the authority of a reason that is designed narrowly and reductively to satisfy the ends of individual and species survival in utter indifference to other features of human lives – everything we might say that makes them distinctly human and not merely animal lives. Adorno’s genealogical gesture is not intended as a critique of instrumental reason as such – in its appropriate place it comprises a cornerstone of spiritual life; only its hegemony requires challenge, the claim of ideal-type determinative judgment and scientific reason to exhaust the possibility of cognitive encounter. In fact, this way of setting up the problem is not unique to Adorno; he was anticipated, powerfully, by both Schiller and, in a different register, Hegel. Although he does not conceive the drive of theoretical reason as a historical formation of the drive to self-preservation, Schiller does analyze Kantian reason as producing a fragmentation of the human subject in which rational freedom (form) and determined nature (sense) are taken as incommensurable with each other. Schiller equally anticipates Adorno’s dialectic of enlightenment in arguing that in repudiating and subordinating our encounters with qualitatively effulgent nature, we make a principle of nature into the principle of reason, roughly, construing Kantian moral reason – as the site of human rational independence from nature – as the force of nature (the drive to self-preservation) in rational form: “We disown Nature in her rightful sphere only to submit to her tyranny in themoral, andwhile resisting the impact shemakes upon our senses are content to take over her principles” (Schiller 1967: Fifth Letter, p. 27). Robert Hullot-Kentor comments on this passage: “Reason, the “Our Amphibian Problem” 199

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  • ...…the political sphere, understood as a realm of public contestation over the common good, are we free, because there the individual sheds his private concerns Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty 187 and must widen his previously egocentric perspective in collaborative activity (Arendt 1998, ch. 1)....

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27 Mar 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human are presented, with a focus on the life of lines.
Abstract: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there. In the second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the sky. This denominator is the atmosphere. In the third part, Ingold carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social. This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the fact that gender equality and women empowerment have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice.
Abstract: The language of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women’s empowerment’ was mobilised by feminists in the 1980s and 1990s as a way of getting women’s rights onto the international development agenda. Their efforts can be declared a resounding success. The international development industry has fully embraced these terms. From international NGOs to donor governments to multilateral agencies the language of gender equality and women’s empowerment is a pervasive presence and takes pride of place among their major development priorities. And yet, this article argues, the fact that these terms have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice. Critically examining the trajectories of these terms in development, the article suggests that if the promise of the post-2015 agenda is to deliver on gender justice, new frames are needed, which can connect with and contribute to a broader movement for global justice.

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20 Sep 2018-PLOS ONE
TL;DR: A network simulation model used to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions.
Abstract: The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic Forum considers it among the main threats to human society This spread have been suggested to be related to the similarly problematized phenomenon of “echo chambers”, but the causal nature of this relationship has proven difficult to disentangle due to the connected nature of social media, whose causality is characterized by complexity, non-linearity and emergence This paper uses a network simulation model to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation It finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions, and there is a synergetic effect between opinion and network polarization on the virality of misinformation The echo chambers effect likely comes from that they form the initial bandwagon for diffusion These findings have implication for the study of the media logic of new social media

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a mediation model to explain the relationship between CEO humility and firm performance and found that when a more humble CEO leads a firm, its top management team is more likely to collaborate, share information, jointly make decisions, and possess a shared vision.

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TL;DR: The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies.
Abstract: Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the industrialscale growth of microorganisms to harvest their metabolic products. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics selects for resistance at answering scale. The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies. In turning to biological manifestations of antibiotic use, sciences fathom material outcomes of their own previous concepts. Archival work with stored soil and clinical samples produces a record described here as ‘the biology of history’: the physical registration of human history in bacterial life. This account thus foregrounds the importance of understanding both the materiality of history and the historicity of matter in theories and concepts of life today.

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