The Rise of the Spiritual Civilizations (Part 4)

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(99+) The work of exemplary practitioners in neighborhood governance | Gabriel van den Brink - Academia.edu

"The work of exemplary practitioners in neighborhood governance

Gabriel van den Brink
in: Critical Policy Studies, jrg 6 (2012) vol 4, p. 433-451.
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In order to understand how exemplary work is done in the complex urban environment of disadvantaged neighborhoods, we studied a group of 43 individuals-civil servants, professionals and active citizens-who make a difference. Various so-called 'exemplary practitioners' were found in the literature and in the neighborhoods of five cities. The working methods of exemplary practitioners show a mix and a dose of entrepreneurialism, strategic networking and empathic engagement that differ from standard bureaucracy but fit very well with what is needed in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Two striking examples illustrate these working methods."

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City Borders Have Pretty Much Always Been Defined By The 30-Minute Commute

"ity Borders Have Pretty Much Always Been Defined By The 30-Minute Commute
How far you can travel in a half-hour has been a key question from ancient Rome to modern Atlanta"

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The AI we could have had

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Relevance Realisation. A short commentary on John Vervaeke’s… | by Andrew Sweeny | Medium

"John Vervaeke’s Awakening from The Meaning Crisis (Episodes 28, 29, and 30)"

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Science of the Noosphere - Cosmological Evolution

"Brian Thomas Swimme - evolutionary cosmologist and advisor to Human Energy.
WHAT:
A discussion about cosmological evolution in the formation of the noosphere.
WHY:
Teilhard based his concept of the noosphere on a big picture view of evolution. Swimme, who wrote the forward to a new edition of The Human Phenomenon, explains the idea that the universe has been aiming at life and intelligence from the start"

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The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future, Pickering

"The Cybernetic Brain
Sketches of Another Future
Andrew Pickering

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.

The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics’ impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other."

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Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet, WikiLeaks document reveals - World Socialist Web Site

"Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet, WikiLeaks document reveals"

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(226) Homeless in the USA: Cities Granted Authority to Clear Homeless Encampments - YouTube

"Cities in the U.S. can now enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places.

The Supreme Court ruling means they'll have the ability to clear out encampments.

But activists have planned a rally in Washington DC on Saturday to highlight the poverty faced by tens of millions of people.

Something they say isn't being treated as a major issue this Presidential campaign."

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(226) His Family's Lived on this Remote Island for 374 Years

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