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The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies
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Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order
The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization - The Convivial Society
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philosophers, called tyranny. They had in mind the usurpation of power by a single individual or group, or the circumvention of law by rulers for their own benefit. Much of the succeeding political debate in the United States has concerned the problem of tyranny within American society: over slaves and women, for example.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
But in any contemporary situation, the issue of naming, or indeed the problem of substituting a title or name for a…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
This marvelous Theorem, grasped in a once-in-a-lifetime flash of intuition by Tom Rohe of Bremerton, Washington[xli], will serve as our introduction to the grim topic of Systems-exploitation: DESIGNERS OF SYSTEMS TEND TO DESIGN WAYS FOR THEMSELVES TO BYPASS THE SYSTEM We pause only briefly to validate it with a well-known example from Government: E
... See moreJohn Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible
À cette fin, la ND va notamment mobiliser, avec une grande habileté intellectuelle, le Claude Lévi-Strauss de Race et histoire ou du Regard éloigné, ouvrage où le grand anthropologue français invitait chaque culture à «s’opposer à celles qui l’environnent, à se distinguer d’elles, en un mot à être soi162». Elle va également s’appuyer sur le concept
... See morePierre Madelin • La tentation écofasciste: Écologie et extrême droite (French Edition)
A biologist observed that “when a territory holder is challenged by a rival, the owner almost always wins the contest—usually within a matter of seconds.” In human affairs, the same simple rule explains much of what happens when institutions attempt to reform themselves, in “reorganizations” and “restructuring” of companies, and in efforts to ratio
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
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