The Human Condition.
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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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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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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...The disappearance of media intermediation seems not to have, as was believed, fostered a space for direct meetings in a sort of online Habermasian public sphere, but rather to have implied that the “world between them has lost its power to gather them together, to relate and to separate them” [6] (p....
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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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...Drawing on the communal power perspective (Arendt, 1958), we propose that humble CEOs do not stress power over other TMT members but, instead, have power to pursue goals for collective interest with the TMTs....
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...In this sense, humble CEOs exercise power in a way that diverts from an interpersonal power perspective (Sturm & Antonakis, 2015) and complies with a communal power perspective (Arendt, 1958)....
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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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TL;DR: In this paper, the Development in Practice special issue responds to the need for a radical rethinking of the theory, practice, and pedagogy of communication for development in the field of development.
Abstract: This Development in Practice special issue responds to the need for a radical rethinking of the theory, practice, and pedagogy of communication for development. This field may be designated as comm...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on processes of urban confinement, and the fact that these often do not generate significant forms of political contestation, despite their obviously negative socio-spatial con
Abstract: This article focuses on processes of urban confinement, and the fact that these often do not generate significant forms of political contestation, despite their obviously negative socio-spatial con...
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17 Oct 2019TL;DR: Nunziato as discussed by the authors explores how Augustine's approach teaches us detachment - both personal and collective - which releases us from illusory claims of ownership and reframes business as an exercise in loving and letting go.
Abstract: Business is generally viewed as a means to generate personal or corporate wealth, but business transactions can also sacrificially serve the common good. In conversation with contemporary social theorists, Joshua S. Nunziato in this book critically evaluates the spiritual significance and aims of economic exchange. Inspired by Augustine's vision of the Church as a 'universal sacrifice', he explores how Augustine's approach teaches us detachment - both personal and collective - which releases us from illusory claims of ownership and reframes business as an exercise in loving and letting go. Nunziato's volume engages with the big questions of economic life and considers both why and how we acknowledge people through business in a way that results in collective well-being. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Augustinian studies, philosophy of exchange, and economic ethics.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a table of dedications and acknowledgments for the work of this article. But they do not mention any acknowledgements. Table 1.1.
Abstract: .......................................................................................................................... i Dedication ...................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................... iii Table of
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29 Jun 2020TL;DR: This paper examined two dystopia short stories by Ray Bradbury, i.e., The Pedestrian and All Summer in a Day, and found that there is an oscillation of people who worship technology and those who are fearful of technology in both short stories.
Abstract: In this post-truth era, dystopia fiction is important as empathy, trust, and compassion fall apart This literary genre predicts a terrible future when people forced to submit to tyrants who control unlimited power in economics, politics, and technology This study aims to examine two dystopia short stories by Ray Bradbury, ie The Pedestrian and All Summer in a Day These two short stories are placing in the context of contemporary society, which has high technology and ignorant of objective truths since they accept facts built on emotions, opinions, and some particular ideologies By using content analysis, this study reveals two main findings First, there is an oscillation of people who worship technology and those who are fearful of technology in both short stories The diverse characters become further alienated to one another as technology rules over Second, technology sometimes turns into an enemy that hampers the relationship among the characters; as a result, intolerance swarms when the objective truth sinks in a wave of public opinions, in this case, represented by the voice of the authoritarian government in the first short story, and that of the Venusian pupils in the second story Abstrak Fiksi distopia memberikan sumbangan penting ketika empati, kepercayaan, dan bela rasa berguguran di era pascakebenaran ini Ragam karya sastra ini meramalkan masa depan yang mengerikan ketika masyarakat dipaksa tunduk pada tiran-tiran yang menguasai ekonomi, politik, dan teknologi tanpa batas Penelitian ini bertujuan membahas dua cerita pendek distopia karya Ray Bradbury, “The Pedestrian” dan “All Summer in a Day”, dengan menempatkan keduanya dalam konteks masyarakat kontemporer berteknologi tinggi yang abai pada kebenaran objektif karena menerima kebenaran yang dibangun atas emosi, opini, dan ideologi tertentu Dengan memakai metode analisis konten, penelitian ini menghasilkan dua temuan utama Pertama, terjadi tarik-ulur antara masyarakat yang memberhalakan teknologi dan yang fobia terhadap teknologi di kedua cerpen tersebut Tokoh-tokoh cerita makin terasing satu sama lain ketika teknologi berkuasa Kedua, teknologi kadang menjadi musuh yang menghalangi perjumpaan dan keterhubungan antar tokoh; akibatnya, timbul intoleransi ketika kebenaran objektif kandas oleh opini-opini publik yang dalam hal ini diwakili oleh suara pemerintah yang otoriter pada cerpen yang pertama dan siswa-siswa sekolah di planet Venus pada cerpen yang kedua
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