BLACK SWAN RESEARCH
& THEORY
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articles by interestingness, where do you think I learned
about the
Toba catastrophe
theory?
Toba catastrophe theory
that holds that 70 to 75,000 years ago a super volcanic event in
Sumatra, perhaps the largest volcanic explosion within the last 25
million years plunged the earth, which was already an ice age, into an
even colder spell and this resulted in the world’s human population
being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1000 breeding pairs creating a
bottleneck in human evolution.
Sheldon
Wolin,
an interview with a writer on contemporary economics and politics Sony
Kapoor, A managing director of redefine, rethinking development,
finance and environment about financial globalization.
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Black
Swan theory a term used to explain the existence and incur
occurrence of high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are
beyond the realm of normal expectations, such as the 2007 2008 economic
collapse.
Modernism
in Sociology and Art
At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of German sociologists
formally introduced methodological antipositivism, proposing that
research should concentrate on human cultural
norms,
values,
symbols, and social processes viewed from a
subjective perspective.
Max
Weber argued that sociology may be loosely described as a 'science'
as it is able to identify causal relationships and regarded sociology
as the
study of
social action, using
critical analysis and
verstehenGeorg
Simmel,
Ferdinand Tönnies,
George Herbert Mead, and
Charles Cooley were also influential in the
development of sociological antipositivism, whilst
neo-Kantianhermeneutics
and
phenomenology facilitated the movement in
general.
Karl Marx had long since drawn upon critical
analysis rather than empiricism, a tradition which would continue in
the development of
critical theory.
Postmodern art and postmodern
film, or what I call lamo, for late modernist
Post-postmodernism or polamo,
what I call post late modernist theory. Plus a bit on the western
continental philosophy of
Jean-Luc
Marion, Continental philosophy itself, Structuralism,
Post-structuralism, Normative ethics, Political philosophy, and
Genealogy- In philosophy, genealogy is a historical technique in
which one questions the commonly-understood emergence of various
philosophical and social beliefs by showing alternative and subversive
histories of their development.
Foucault Also sections on;
Terror management theory, Raymond Roussel,
The Order of Things, Varian Fry, The Emergency Rescue Committee,
Jacques Lacan and
Karl Jaspers
Ecogovernmentality,
also
spelled
Eco-governmentality
is
a
term
used
to
denote
the
application
of
Foucault’s
concepts
of
biopower
and
governmentality
to
the
analysis
of
the
regulation
of
social
interactions
with the natural
world. With related topics such as
Marx's
theory
of
Alienation,
Class
consciousness,
Georg
Lukács'
History
and
Class Consciousness
(1923),
Reification (Marxism),
and
Consumerism.
Gilles
Deleuze, a French philosopher of the late 20th century.
Nikolas Rose, a prominent British
sociologist and social theorist, and more on
Ecogovernmentality. Consumerism
Critical
Psychiatry-
Michel
Foucault, Ecogovernmentality, Foucault-Habermas debate, Biopower,
Plus R. D. Laing,
a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in
Laing's views on the causes
and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by
existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy by
taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient as valid
descriptions of lived experience rather than as
symptoms of some underlying disorder.
David Cooper (psychiatrist), Critical psychiatry, and info on
Clotaire Rapaille,
An evil, evil psychiatrist who sells his creative research into
consumer unconsciousness to major corporations in order to allow them
to sell people all manner of goods and services that they don’t need,
and probably can’t afford. He is the author of The Culture Code, 7
Secrets of Marketing in a Multi-Cultural World. (He is the Devil!)
Phenomenology a
philosophical movement
founded in the early 20th century by
Edmund Husserl, primarily concerned with
the systematic reflection on and analysis of the structures of
consciousness,
and
the
phenomena which appear in
acts of consciousness. Husserl believed that
phenomenology could thus provide a firm basis for all human
knowledge,
including
scientific
knowledge,
a
conception
that
has
been
criticised
and
developed
not
only
by
himself,
but
also
by
his
student
Martin Heidegger, by
existentialists, such
as
Max Scheler,
Nicolai Hartmann,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Jean-Paul Sartre, and by other
philosophers, such as
Paul Ricoeur,
Emmanuel Levinas, and
Alfred Schütz.
Speculative-Realism is an
emerging movement in contemporary
philosophy which defines itself loosely in its stance of
metaphysical realism
against the dominant forms of
post-Kantian
philosophy or what it terms
correlationism. Speculative
realism takes its name from a conference held at
Goldsmiths College,
University of London in April, 2007.
Collapse is an independent,
non-affiliated
journal
of
philosophical
research and development
published in the
United Kingdom by Urbanomic. It was founded
in 2006 by Robin Mackay. It features speculative work in progress by
contemporary
philosophers, along with
contributions from
artists,
scientists
and other writers outside of philosophy.
See Speculative
realism.
Eliminative Materialism (also
called
eliminativism)
is a
materialist position in the
philosophy of mind. Its primary claim
is that people's
common-sense
understanding of the
mind (or
folk psychology) is false and that certain
classes of
mental
states that most people believe in do not
exist.
Some
eliminativists
argue
that
no
coherent
neural basis will be found for many
everyday psychological concepts such as
belief
or
desire, since they are poorly defined.
Rather, they argue that psychological concepts of
behaviour and
experience
should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level.
Other versions entail the non-existence of conscious mental states such
as
pain
and
visual perceptions.
Plus Patricia Churchland, Thomas
Metzinger, Jack Cohen (scientist).
Chris Hedges Empire of Illusion
In our post-literate world, because ideas are inaccessible, there is a
need for constant stimulus. News, political debate, theater, art and
books are judged not on the power of their ideas but on their ability
to entertain. Cultural products that force us to examine ourselves and
our society are condemned as elitist and impenetrable.
Antonio
Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian
philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. A hero of
mine. Plus: Economic determinism's relation to Marxist philosophy,
Critical pedagogy, Popular education. And-
Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 –
December 6, 1961) a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and
author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of
post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the
20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of
colonization, The radical postmodern revolutionary psychiatrist. And
the definition of
Intersubjectivity.
Profit Is Private
Barry Glassner -
the culture
of fear. His research has found that many of Americans'
concerns and fears are largely unfounded. He has studied scary stories
in the media; scares about adolescents, crime, minority groups, and
related social issues; false fears in marketing and politics; and fear
and the power of exploiting it for product sales and political
careers. plus- Conspiracy theory, complete with a List of
conspiracy theories.
Family Nexus,
a
term
was
used
by
the
psychiatrist
R
D
Laing
to
describe
a
common
viewpoint
held
and
reinforced
by
the
majority
of
family
members
regarding
events
in the family and relationships with the world. Laing
was particularly interested in schizophrenia, which he believed could
be understood if seen from the viewpoint of the person concerned.
“Laing assumed an uncorrupted natural state for the human mind, and
tended to condemn society for causing mental illness, in rather (early)
Marxist terms.” Double bind. A double bind is a dilemma in
communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more
conflicting messages, with one message negating the other. Drapetomania
was a supposed mental illness described by American physician Samuel A.
Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee captivity. Today,
drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the
edifice of scientific racism.
Joel Kovel
(born 27 August 1936) is an American politician, academic, writer, and
eco-socialist. A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst until the
mid-1980s, he has lectured in psychiatry, anthropology, political
science and communication studies. He has published many books on his
work in
psychiatry, psychoanalysis and
political activism. Kovel is a
member of the
Green Party of
the United States (GPUS). A little bit of a crank, but someone willing
to lay it all on the line for the concept of a new ecological golden
age, even if he isn’t that optimistic about it. I find him to be a very
fascinating individual that I would like to interview in his home in
Woodstock New York. Also on this page, the ex-husband of my former high
school German teacher, the radical psychiatrist, an experimental
physicist in orgone energy —
Wilhelm
Reich
Anthropocentrism,
the
belief
that
humans
must
be
considered
at
the
center
of,
and
above
any
other
aspect
of,
reality.
And
Alain
Badiou
who
seeks
to
recover
the
concepts of being, truth and the subject in a way that is neither
postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity.
The Making of Avatar
Douglas Ward Kelley - Magical realism lived on in South American
literature and Hollywood films, but I think this will take it to a new
level. The plot is somewhat formulaic, but I am extremely excited about
the new technology, which gets thoroughly reviewed in the new clip. I
want to organize a group field trip to the theater on the opening
weekend of my Facebook friends interested in technical live-action
advances in symbolism, surrealism, and magical realism, and this new
form I call Non-Magical Realism. NMR.
Autonomous Building a
building designed to be operated independently from
infrastructural support services such as
the
electric power grid,
gas grid, municipal water systems,
sewage treatment systems,
storm
drains, communication services, and in some cases, public roads.
Buckminster Fuller and Futurists
an
American architect,
author,
designer,
inventor, and
futurist,
who
published
more
than
thirty
books,
inventing
and
popularizing
terms
such
as
"Spaceship Earth",
ephemeralization, and
synergetics. He also developed
numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of
which is the
geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as
fullerenes
were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic
spheres.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
(January 27, 1775 – August 20, 1854), later
von Schelling,
was
a
German
philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy
make him the midpoint in the development of
German Idealism,
situating him between
Fichte, his mentor prior to 1800,
and
Hegel,
his former university roommate and erstwhile friend. Interpreting
Schelling's philosophy is often difficult because of its ever-changing
nature. Some scholars characterize him as a protean thinker who,
although brilliant, jumped from one subject to another and lacked the
synthesizing power needed to arrive at a complete philosophical system.
Others challenge the notion that Schelling's thought is marked by
profound breaks, instead arguing that his philosophy always focused on
a few common themes, especially human freedom, the absolute, and the
relationship between spirit and nature.
Noam Chomsky an American
linguist, philosopher,
cognitive scientist,
political activist,
author, and lecturer. He is an
Institute Professor
and professor
emeritus of
linguistics
at the
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one
of the
fathers of modern
linguistics.
Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a
political dissident,
an
anarchist,
and a
libertarian socialist intellectual.
Chomsky is often viewed as a notable figure in
contemporary philosophy.
The Power Elite a book
written by the
sociologist,
C. Wright Mills,
in 1956. In it Mills called attention to the interwoven interests of
the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of
society and suggested that the ordinary citizen was a relatively
powerless subject of manipulation by those entities. The structural
basis of
The Power
Elite was that, following
World
War
II, the United States was the leading country in military and
economic terms. The book is something of a counterpart of
Mills' 1951 work,
White Collar: The
American Middle Classes, which examined the growing role of
middle managers in American society.
While
White Collar characterized middle managers as agents of
the
elite,
The Power Elite did not differentiate them from the rest of the
non-elite in society. A main inspiration for the book was
Franz Leopold Neumanns book
Behemoth:
The
Structure
and
Practice
of
National
Socialism in 1942, a
study of how Nazism came in position of power in a democratic state as
Germany.
Behemoth
had a major impact on Mills and he claimed that Behemoth had given him
the "tools to grasp and analyse the entire total structure and as
a
warning of what could happen in a modern capitalist democracy".
(C.Wright Mills:
Power, Politics and People, (New York, 1963
p.174)).