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Collectivities of humans, moreover, take a myriad of shapes, from small groups to organizations and transnational corporations. This is not even to mention the curious possibilities pursued in and among the more-than-human world. The dynamics we are describing, then, are scalar in nature and have wide conceptual purchase accordingly.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
First, most of their interactions online are dyadic rather than involving many individuals in a group. Second, if someone does kick metaphorical sand in their face, they can simply pull the plug;
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.
Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much mor
... See moreBeing regarded as authentic is a function of others’ evaluation of your performance. But if everything is in upheaval, then those others doing the evaluating have few points of reference. Because the network society is global in character, identity is constantly being contested and threatened from all sides. The freedom of the paranoid, just like t
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Gabor Mate • Dr. Gabor Maté - Toxic Culture | Bioneers
located two Facebook datasets, one small and one large (and, no, they didn’t get either of them from Cambridge Analytica . . . both are publicly available), and downloaded a large sample of Twitter traffic (if you know how to do this, it is easy to do and, because Twitter is publicly accessible, it is perfectly legal).