Posted in music video on Dec 25th, 2007 No Comments »
. . .something about the time when Americans gather to celebrate some birthday? Lessee, three days ago I went into the mall once but not to shop. Not pleasant. Today is Christmas and I’ve got a few creative projects to push over the finish line so I can offer gifts for the purpose of saying […]
Posted in pseudo-science on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
From a little-read but always amusing web site called, Intellectual Conservative. Article: Darwin’s Lapdog Thinks You’re an ID-iot! By Jeff Osonitsch
Money quote:
Johnson claims that ID is not scientific because “it predicts nothing, since it essentially states that everything is the way it is because God wanted it that way.†In fact, ID begins, according […]
Posted in management, organizational development, phenomenology on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Workers must no longer be considered as cost factors to be “compressed” or “rationalized” but as allies to be won. — …managers must forfeit their long-cherished and, at times abusive, privileges to move toward a new form of organization centered on the human being as well as on a flexible and creative approach. — This […]
Posted in anthropology, urbanology on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Gandy’s last paragraph trails a terrific, dare I suggest, essential, paper in urban Geo-Anthropology. Gandy is a Geographer.
Under the twentieth-century discourses of scientific urbanism and technological modernism we find that the hydraulic conceptions of the modern city were extended and consolidated to produce a highly sophisticated model of urban space as an efficient machine. In […]
Posted in teaching cartoons on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in outsider research, radical psychology on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Utopian thought in general, and anarchist thought in particular, could be dismissed quite easily were it not for two factors. For one thing, as Moos and Brownstein (1977) pointed out, utopian solutions are now a necessity rather than a luxury.
For another, traditional anarchist accounts of human motives and social organization happen to mesh surprisingly well […]
Posted in art, my casual art on Dec 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Photoshop montage compiled from unoriginal sources. This is part of a quinttych, entitled Digging Up and Down. It’s unassuming in its spot on the living room wall, given that to be viewed the viewer has to almost put their nose on the glass!
Posted in humor, politics on Dec 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I rave to let off steam over at diggeracity. I will be capturing documentation and links both pointed and humorous about the astonishing candidacy of the very dangerous Rudylini.
Meanwhile:
It staggers the mind to imagine that anyone would support a candidate who, in effect, is Cheney on steroids. Guiliani is neocon and jacobin, egomaniac and narcissist, […]
Posted in management, organizational development on Dec 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The stereotypes are of “real masculinity” being equated with domination, conquest, and control -and thus also with “heroic” male violence. And such sterotypes are essential for the maintenance of a top-down model of social organization.— She [Sally Helgesen] shows how the workplaces run by these women tend to be more like “webs of inclusion” rather […]
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