Podcasts about Lewis Mumford

Questions? Comments? Episode suggestions? Send us a text message!#207: Charlie Colenutt spent three years interviewing people from all walks of life about their jobs.  He explains what causes people to change their career, why most people stay at their current job, and how to find happiness in your career.  What you'll learn[01:30] Why Charlie wrote a book about the different jobs people do. [04:28] The experience of having a career crisis. [06:30] The problems with the professionalisation of modern life. [11:04] How we expected Covid to affect people's work lives, and what really happened. [13:19] The pros and cons of working from home. [16:00] Negative experiences people have working from home. [19:10] How different generations view the workplace differently.[24:46] The different aspects of control people have in their jobs. [28:14] What causes people to change their career. [29:39] Why most people don't explore different careers. [33:00] The increased challenge of applying for jobs and “career inelasticity”. [35:00] Interviewing a Job Centre work coach. [37:30] Why there's been an increase of bureaucracy in the workplace. [42:38] How to improve growth in the economy. [44:00] How to find happiness in your career. [49:40] Questions to ask yourself about your career.Resources mentioned in this episodePlease note that some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase.  This helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you.Is This Working? The Jobs We Do, Told by the People Who Do Them, Charlie ColenuttWorking, Studs Terkel80,000 HoursTechnics and Civilization, Lewis Mumford and Langdon WinnerThe Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy GallweyFor the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:https://changeworklife.com/is-this-working-what-100-people-are-saying-about-the-world-of-work-in-2025/Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

En nuestro anterior podcast grabado precisamente el 21 de abril, fecha en la que oficialmente murió el papa Francisco les empezamos a hablar de los constructores de números. No encontramos casual que el papa falleciese exactamente ese dia, ya que no es un día cualquiera. Es el Natalis Romae, el aniversario fundacional de Roma, ciudad que desde hace más de dos mil años ha sido el epicentro del poder político, religioso y simbólico de Occidente. Y precisamente hoy, en esta fecha cargada de ritual y resonancia, muere el Papa Francisco. En plena resurrección de Jesucristo, uno muere y el otro renace. ¿Casualidad? En este podcast, ya sabéis que no creemos en ellas. Hoy, en Buscadores de la Verdad, vamos a descifrar lo que muchos pasarán por alto: la profunda e inquietante importancia del número 8 en la vida, el legado y la muerte del Papa. Francisco fue el primer Papa jesuita, el primero procedente de América, el Papa de la Agenda 2030, de las vacunas, de la simplificación de los rituales. Un Papa atípico. Y, como veremos, un Papa marcado por el 8 desde el principio hasta el final. Nació un 17 de diciembre de 1936. Fallece un 21 de abril de 2025. 88 años y 125 días después. Un doble 8 y un 1+2+5 = 8. El símbolo del infinito. El equilibrio kármico. El reinicio del ciclo. Pero no acaba ahí: convertido en el octavo Papa enterrado en Santa María la Mayor, bajo un escudo papal alterado misteriosamente para exhibir una estrella de ocho puntas, su historia está plagada de estos guiños numéricos que parecen trazados por una mano invisible. En este episodio vamos a hablar de arquitectura oculta, de rituales milenarios, de cómo la elite que gobierna entre bambalinas utiliza los números y los símbolos como herramientas para construir la realidad. Y en este caso, el número 8 aparece como la clave de todo. Porque cuando entiendes el lenguaje oculto de los que mandan, sabes que todo está diseñado. Desde las fechas, hasta los funerales. Desde los escudos hasta los silencios del Vaticano. El 21 de abril, Roma celebra su nacimiento... y el Vaticano entierra a su Papa más simbólico. La era de Francisco se cierra en un ciclo perfecto, sellado con un 8. ¿Qué se abre ahora? ¿Qué nuevo paradigma se está gestando en la sombra? Prácticamente desde el principio de este podcast, en el UTP8 Universo fractal ya tratamos la importancia de los números y como estos crean la realidad que vivimos. Son, como dijimos en el anterior podcast, los ladrillos del universo. Leere unos pasajes de la tesina “Los conjuntos numéricos a través de la historia” de Veronica Valdez: “En el pasado la matemática fue considerada una ciencia relacionada directamente a las cantidades, en relación con las magnitudes (desde la geometria); a los números (desde la aritmética) o a la generalización de los dos (desde el álgebra). Las primeras nociones de número y la acción de contar datan de la prehistoria. La causa que originó el desarrollo de este conocimiento en el hombre primitivo fue su necesidad de proteger sus bienes, la adaptación a los ciclos que la madre naturaleza le imponía le aseguraban su alimentación. El hombre prehistórico plasmó los primeros indicios matemáticos en sus vasijas (dibujos geométricos) y sus primeros sistemas de cálculos se basaron en el uso de los dedos de las manos o la utilización del cuerpo, este método resulta evidente al ver que muchos de los sistemas de numeración son de base 5 o 10.” Fueron los egipcios en el tercer milenio antes de cristo los que desarrollan unas matemáticas más avanzadas llegando a plantear problemas complejos como el calculo de superficies, lo cual era vital para el reparto de la tierra fértil fecundada por las crecidas del Nilo. La tierra se movia y cambiaba ligeramente de aspecto y era imprescindible para que reinase el orden que dicho reparto fuera lo mas ajustado a derecho posible. Luego los romanos mejoraron hasta cierto aspecto el uso de jeroglíficos de los egipcios por simples letras. En ese momento se seguía utilizando todavía el sistema babilónico que consistía en escribir en tablillas de arcilla utilizando un palito en forma de cuña. Una cuña apuntaba hacia abajo y la otro hacia la izquierda. El problema consistia en que era un sistema con solo 60 números, lo cual limitaba mucho el calculo mental. Los babilonios utilizaban, eso si, la forma en que cada dígito tenia un valor disitinto dependiendo de la posición que ocupase. El primer sistema matematico que utilizo al mismo tiempo el principio posicional y el cero fue el sistema de los mayas. “En este sistema 1 kin (sol) representa un día, 20 kines forman un huinal. Como 20 huinales representan 400 días, lo cual es mucho mayor que la duración exacta del año (este sistema fue utilizado para cálculos astronómicos), los mayas llamaron tun a 18 huinales, o 360 días. Excepto por este nivel, el resto del sistema es vigesimal.” “No se tiene conocimiento con exactitud cómo surgió, pero se sabe que fue un sistema de numeración mejorado por los hindúes y los árabes lo llevaron a Europa. De esta forma a las cifras se las llamó árabes debido a su origen, de la misma manera que escribirlas de derecha a izquierda (unidad, decena, centena, etc.) Hacia el año 976 Gerberto Aurillac (futuro Papa) conoce las primeras cifras en España, que ya estaba influenciada por la cultura musulmana, pero su influencia fue limitada. En el siglo XII se conoce las primeras traducciones al latin de las obras de un matemático árabe al- Jwarizmi, de quien se conocen los términos algoritmo y guarismo; de esta forma las cifras árabes comienzan a introducirse en el círculo culto europeo. En el año 1202, Fibonacci publica el "Libro del ábaco" que acopía y amplia las cifras y los procedimientos de cálculo utilizados por los árabes. Durante este siglo se consolidó la aritmética decimal sobre todo en los concerniente a las actividades comerciales. Sin embargo el método árabe y sus ventajas para calcular debieron sortear varios inconvenientes por parte de los calculistas de la época que ante la amenaza de un nuevo método mucho más sencillo, que atentaba supuestamente a su fuente de trabajo, recurrieron a estrategias bajas como hacer correr el rumor que el sistema de cálculo árabe tan sencillo, debía tener algo de magia o un cierto poder demoníaco. Esta acusación fue astutamente utilizada en la época de la Inquisición. Recién a fines del siglo XVI con Montaigne comenzó a abrirse paso nuevamente el sistema de numeración árabe y finalmente se generalizó con la Revolución Francesa. A partir de dicho momento histórico se comenzó a utilizar al 10 como base del sistema métrico decimal.” Con todo este resumen vengo a comentar que el enorme poder de los números estaba en poquísimas manos hasta bien entrado siglo 16 y que para ese entonces muchos de los secretos y la simbología que escondían estos paso a ser solo aprendido en las sectas, en las logias y en las futuras universidades que estaban también creadas por los mismos. LA EDUCACION según Lord Bertrand Russell en su obra "La Perspectiva Científica", 1931, nos dice: "Los jesuitas proporcionan una clase de educación a los niños que han de ser hombres corrientes en el mundo, y otra distinta a áquellos que han de llegar a ser miembros de la Compañía de Jesús. De análoga manera, los gobernantes científicos proporcionarán un género de educación a los hombres y mujeres corrientes, y otro diferente a aquéllos que hayan de ser el poder científico. Los hombres y mujeres corrientes es de esperar que sean dóciles, diligentes, puntuales, de poco pensar y que se sientan satisfechos. Por otro lado, aquellos niños y niñas que estén destinados a ser miembros de la clase gobernante, recibirán una educación muy diferente. Serán seleccionados, algunos antes de nacer, otros durante los primeros tres años de vida, y unos pocos entre los tres y seis años. Toda la ciencia conocida se aplicará al desarrollo simultáneo de su inteligencia y de su voluntad. ….." Y es que para todos la ciencia ha sido creada supuestamente por científicos, ¿no? Uno de los parangones mundiales es la Royal Society fundada el 28 de noviembre de 1660 en Londres. Sus fundadores fueron un grupo de 12 científicos y pensadores, entre los que destacan Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins y William Petty. Lo que no nos cuentan es que el milenarismo y la cábala estaba en los orígenes de la Royal Society. Pero como escribió Boyle, los científicos, "sacerdotes de la naturaleza", habrían de adquirir, durante el milenio, "un conocimiento mucho mayor del que Adán pudo tener del maravilloso universo de Dios". Esta afirmación supone que, en la expectativa de Boyle, la ciencia permitiría alcanzar un estadio más avanzado que el presupuesto por la condición adánica, y acceder, en cierto modo, a la condición divina. Con palabras de la serpiente a Eva, ya había asegurado Bacon en la Nueva Atlántida que algún día los hombres serían como dioses, y ésta habría de ser, decía Lewis Mumford, "la meta final no declarada de la ciencia moderna”. (Noble 1999, pág 88). Dentro de la UNED (la universidad a distancia en España) podemos leer un texto titulado “LA ROYAL SOCIETY Y LA MASONERÍA” que dice asi: “La Royal Society se origina cuando doce hombres cultivados adoptaron la costumbre, poco después de 1640, de reunirse esporádicamente en Londres para conversar y discutir en la residencia de uno de ellos o bien en una taberna próxima al Gresham College. Al poco tiempo, bajo patrocinio del monarca, decidieron crear una asociación para el estudio de los mecanismos de la naturaleza. Para asegurarse de que los dogmas no fueran un obstáculo, desterraron de sus asambleas toda discusión de tintes religiosos y políticos. Y eso a pesar de que los doce fundadores diferían tanto en cuestiones políticas y religiosas, como en experiencia científica y rango social. Entre los nombres de los primeros miembros de la Royal Society se encuentran científicos que dieron nombre a sus descubrimientos; así, la Ley de Hooke, la Ley de Boyle, la construcción de Huygens, las leyes de Newton, el movimiento browniano, y esto sin contar a científicos de menor talla como Christopher Wren, John Eveyn, John Wilkins, Elias Ashmole, John Flamsteed o Edmund Halley. Sin embargo, los hombres que fundaron esta Sociedad no sólo fueron los primeros científicos, sino, al mismo tiempo, los últimos "magos". De hecho, Ashmole pertenecía a una sociedad de rosacruces y practicaba la astrología, Newton estudió y escribió acerca de los conceptos alquímicos de los rosacruces, y Hooke llevó a cabo experimentos con arañas y cuernos de unicornio.” Mucho antes John Dee, el asesor de la reina Isabel I de Inglaterra aunque no participó directamente en la creación de la Royal Society, su legado como defensor de las matemáticas, la navegación y el conocimiento empírico influyó en el ambiente intelectual que dio lugar a esta institución. Su reputación como "mago" y las acusaciones de nigromancia reflejan la percepción de sus prácticas herméticas y adivinatorias, que, aunque controvertidas, eran parte de su búsqueda de conocimiento universal. Recordemos que hoy dia podemos ver en el museo de Londres su piedra de obsidiana negra donde el mismo reconocía que veía a seres de otro mundo con los que decia comunicarse. Dee creo el alfabeto enoquiano, también conocido como el "lenguaje angélico" o "alfabeto mágico" desarrollado por Dee y su colaborador Edward Kelley durante sus sesiones de videncia (scrying) en la década de 1580. Mientras Isabel I valoraba a Dee como consejero (eligió la fecha de su coronación en 1559 basándose en sus cálculos astrológicos), otros lo veían como un charlatán peligroso. Su casa fue saqueada tras su partida a Europa en 1583, y bajo Jacobo I, enemigo de la brujería, Dee perdió ese trato de favor. Su imagen como "mago" inspiró personajes como Próspero en La Tempestad de Shakespeare y perduró en la cultura popular, como en la ópera de Damon Albarn o la canción de Iron Maiden “El Alquimista”. Termino esta entradilla con otro texto de Lord Bertrand Russell extraído de su obra, "El Impacto de la Ciencia en la Sociedad", 1951: "Aunque esta ciencia será estudiada con diligencia, deberá reservarse estrictamente a la clase gobernante. Al populacho no habrá de permitírsele saber cómo fueron generadas sus convicciones. Una vez perfeccionada la técnica, cada gobierno que haya estado a cargo de la educación por una generación, podrá controlar a sus sujetos de forma segura, sin la necesidad de recurrir a ejércitos ni policías. Actualmente, la población del mundo crece a razón de unos 58.000 individuos por día. La guerra, hasta ahora, no ha tenido un gran efecto en este crecimiento, que continuó a lo largo de cada una de las dos guerras mundiales... La guerra hasta la fecha ha sido decepcionante al respecto... pero quizás la guerra bacteriológica resultare más efectiva. Si una peste negra se propagare una vez en cada generación, los sobrevivientes podrían procrear libremente sin llenar al mundo demasiado... La situación seguramente sería poco placentera, pero, ¿qué importa?" ………………………………………………………………………………………. Imagina por un momento que entras en una antigua ciudad del sur de Italia, hace más de dos mil quinientos años. Calles de piedra, templos consagrados a dioses griegos... y una puerta. Una puerta modesta, sin adornos ostentosos, pero con una inscripción grabada con precisión geométrica: "No entre aquí quien no sepa geometría”. Estás ante la escuela de los pitagóricos, una de las sociedades más enigmáticas de la historia antigua. Fundada por Pitágoras de Samos, no era solo una escuela de matemáticas, como a veces se enseña en las aulas. Era una hermandad. Una especie de secta del conocimiento, donde los números eran algo más que herramientas: eran divinidades, principios cósmicos, claves para entender el alma del universo. Los pitagóricos creían que todo en la naturaleza —el movimiento de los astros, los ciclos vitales, incluso la música— respondía a proporciones numéricas. El número uno simbolizaba la unidad, el origen. El dos, la dualidad, lo femenino. El tres, la perfección. El cuatro, la justicia. Y el diez... el número perfecto, resultado de sumar 1+2+3+4. Un número sagrado. Este triángulo tiene cuatro filas y, si las cuentas todas, suma diez puntos. Ese número —el 10— era considerado el número perfecto por los pitagóricos, porque resultaba de la suma de los cuatro primeros números naturales: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 Pero esto no era solo una curiosidad matemática. Cada número tenía un significado simbólico y cosmológico: 1 representaba la unidad, el origen, el punto de partida de toda existencia. 2 simbolizaba la dualidad: luz y oscuridad, masculino y femenino, arriba y abajo. 3 era la tríada perfecta, el equilibrio entre los opuestos (principio muy común también en filosofías orientales). 4 simbolizaba la estabilidad, los cuatro elementos (tierra, agua, aire y fuego), las cuatro estaciones, los puntos cardinales. Así, la Tetraktys se convertía en un resumen místico del universo: todo lo que existe puede explicarse a través de esta progresión sagrada. No era un simple dibujo. Los pitagóricos juraban sobre la Tetraktys, como otros juran sobre la Biblia o una constitución. Su fórmula era: "Juro por el que entregó a nuestra alma la Tetraktys, fuente que contiene en sí la raíz y fuente de la eterna naturaleza." ¿Lo notas? No están hablando solo de matemáticas. Están hablando de la naturaleza eterna, de algo fundamental que estructura el cosmos. Este juramento era una especie de sacramento, una alianza con la armonía universal. Utilizaban símbolos que aún hoy reconocemos. La estrella pentagonal, también conocida como pentagrama, era para ellos un emblema de perfección y salud. Cada ángulo de la estrella formaba la razón áurea, ese número casi mágico que sigue apareciendo en la naturaleza, en la arquitectura, en el arte… y, para algunos, incluso en el diseño de logotipos de poderosas organizaciones contemporáneas. Y aquí es donde la cosa se pone interesante. Los pitagóricos dividían a sus miembros en dos categorías: los akusmáticos, que solo escuchaban y obedecían sin cuestionar, y los matemáticos, que accedían a las enseñanzas ocultas. Este modelo jerárquico, basado en el secreto y la iniciación progresiva, suena familiar. Muy familiar. ¿A qué otras organizaciones te recuerda? Algunas sociedades secretas modernas —como ciertas logias masónicas— han heredado no solo la estructura iniciática, sino también muchos símbolos y conceptos pitagóricos. La estrella de cinco puntas, el ojo que todo lo ve, el uso de números y proporciones sagradas, la idea de que el verdadero conocimiento no debe estar al alcance de todos, sino reservado para una élite que lo custodia. La Tetraktys no desapareció con la caída de los pitagóricos. Su simbolismo se filtró a través de corrientes esotéricas posteriores. Por ejemplo: En la Cábala judía, el Árbol de la Vida también parte de una estructura numérica y jerárquica del universo. En la masonería, aunque no se usa directamente la Tetraktys, la idea del triángulo sagrado, la progresión simbólica del número y la veneración de la geometría sagrada están muy presentes. En el hermetismo y el neoplatonismo, se reutiliza el simbolismo pitagórico para hablar de los planos de existencia, del alma y del conocimiento secreto. Incluso en el mundo moderno, algunos investigadores creen que ciertos símbolos corporativos y arquitectónicos siguen patrones de proporción y estructura que tienen su origen, directa o indirectamente, en la Tetraktys. La Tetraktys no era un dibujo bonito. Era una clave esotérica. Un mandala numérico. Una representación del orden invisible que rige el universo. Para los pitagóricos, entenderla era un paso hacia la iluminación intelectual y espiritual. Y ahora, volvamos a los números. Porque hay una historia que suele pasar desapercibida en los libros de texto... Se cuenta que los pitagóricos sabían más de lo que enseñaban. Por ejemplo, que ocultaron deliberadamente conceptos como los números negativos. ¿Por qué? Porque esos números, que hoy usamos sin pensar, eran perturbadores. ¿Cómo podía existir algo menos que nada? ¿Cómo explicar al pueblo llano la idea de restar una cantidad mayor a una menor y obtener un resultado real, aunque invisible? La respuesta fue simple: lo escondieron. Evitaron esas operaciones, redefinieron los problemas, o simplemente los consideraron imposibles. Para ellos, un universo perfecto no podía contener números "erróneos", "oscuros" o "negativos". Así de poderosa era su creencia en la armonía matemática del mundo. Y ahora piensa en esto: ¿cuántas cosas damos hoy por verdaderas sin entenderlas? ¿Cuántas ideas nos han sido negadas por parecer “imposibles”? La sombra de los pitagóricos es alargada. Y si miras con atención, quizá todavía la veas en las instituciones que dirigen el conocimiento, en los rituales simbólicos que acompañan actos de poder, o incluso… en las matemáticas que se enseñan en nuestras escuelas. Porque como decía otro sabio antiguo: la ignorancia no es falta de información, sino la imposición del silencio. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Los terrenos donde se construyó Washington, D.C., eran parte de una zona conocida como "Rome" (Roma) antes de que se estableciera la capital de Estados Unidos. Este nombre se debe a que, en el siglo XVII, un terrateniente llamado Francis Pope, quien era propietario de una parcela en la zona, nombró su propiedad "Rome" en un guiño humorístico a la ciudad de Roma, Italia, y al río Tíber, comparándolo con el río Anacostia o el Potomac. Incluso se dice que Pope se autoproclamó "Papa de Roma" en tono jocoso. Cuando se decidió construir la nueva capital federal en 1790, los terrenos de "Rome" fueron parte de las tierras cedidas por Maryland para crear el Distrito de Columbia. Sin embargo, el nombre "Rome" cayó en desuso con el desarrollo de la ciudad planificada por Pierre Charles L'Enfant y la adopción del nombre "Washington" en honor a George Washington. El hombre que recibió el encargo de diseñar la nueva capital de Estados Unidos en 1791 fue Pierre Charles L’Enfant, un arquitecto y urbanista nacido en Francia que había luchado en la Guerra de Independencia estadounidense junto a George Washington. Era un apasionado de la arquitectura monumental y tenía una visión muy clara: la ciudad debía ser una representación del nuevo orden del mundo. Aunque no hay registros definitivos que lo identifiquen como masón —al contrario que muchos de sus contemporáneos como George Washington, Benjamin Franklin o Thomas Jefferson—, su diseño está repleto de símbolos que son clave en la tradición masónica y pitagórica. Esto ha llevado a muchos estudiosos a pensar que, si no era miembro formal de la masonería, al menos estaba fuertemente influenciado por ella. Cuando observamos desde el aire (o en un plano detallado) el trazado urbano de Washington D.C., comienzan a aparecer formas geométricas muy específicas que nos indican el uso de la geometría sagrada en el plano de la ciudad: La estrella de cinco puntas Una de las figuras más debatidas del diseño de Washington es la estrella pentagonal (el pentagrama), que muchos dicen puede verse trazando líneas entre la Casa Blanca, el Capitolio, y varios otros puntos clave como el Washington Monument y el Jefferson Memorial. El pentagrama es un símbolo ancestral que los pitagóricos veneraban como representación del equilibrio, la salud y la proporción áurea. Los masones lo heredaron y lo usan como símbolo del hombre perfecto, microcosmos del universo. La escuadra y el compás Estos dos instrumentos, esenciales en la arquitectura, son símbolos masónicos por excelencia. La escuadra representa la rectitud moral y el compás, los límites que uno debe imponer a sus pasiones. En el plano de Washington, las avenidas diagonales que cruzan la cuadrícula ortogonal tradicional parecen estar trazadas con escuadra y compás. Por ejemplo, Pensylvania Avenue y Maryland Avenue se cruzan formando ángulos casi rituales, como si fuesen dibujadas con instrumentos de aprendiz de logia. El triángulo y la Tetraktys Al unir algunos de los puntos clave de la ciudad se forman triángulos equiláteros y escaleno, que recuerdan tanto a la Tetraktys pitagórica como al Delta radiante masónico, el triángulo con el ojo que todo lo ve en su interior. Washington D.C. no fue construida al azar. Su disposición recuerda más a la de un templo iniciático que a la de una ciudad práctica. Cada monumento, cada calle y cada eje visual parece tener una función simbólica. La ciudad se convierte así en un espacio ritualizado, diseñado para canalizar no solo el poder político, sino el espiritual. Esto concuerda con la visión de muchos de los Padres Fundadores, que eran masones y creían en una forma de deísmo ilustrado, donde Dios no era el dios de una religión concreta, sino el Gran Arquitecto del Universo, la divinidad racional que había creado el cosmos a través de leyes matemáticas y geométricas. Hay quienes consideran todas estas conexiones como meras coincidencias. Pero otros —historiadores, ocultistas, arquitectos, e incluso funcionarios del propio Capitolio— han reconocido que la influencia masónica en el diseño de Washington D.C. no puede negarse. George Washington, masón de alto grado, puso la primera piedra del Capitolio en una ceremonia masónica el 18 de septiembre de 1793, vistiendo su delantal de logia. La colocación de monumentos, obeliscos (como el del Washington Monument) y referencias astrológicas refuerzan la idea de que la ciudad está alineada no solo con principios políticos, sino con principios cósmicos. Washington sigue siendo una ciudad codificada. Muchos de sus símbolos están a la vista, pero pocos los reconocen. El diseño original de L’Enfant fue alterado con el tiempo, sí, pero los patrones geométricos centrales permanecen. Y algunos sostienen que el espíritu de los antiguos pitagóricos, con su amor por los números sagrados y la geometría divina, vive hoy en las estructuras de poder moderno… solo que oculto entre calles, columnas y monumentos. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Bueno y me despido con algunas de mis ultimas Frases_UTP, ya saben, esas perlas que voy soltando de vez en cuando y que tienen agrupadas en Twitter bajo ese hastag: “Somos jockeys ocasionales de almas inmanentes, montando a galope los corceles efímeros de nuestra existencia terrenal, en un fugaz viaje donde el viento del tiempo susurra nuestra impermanencia y la tierra guarda el eco de nuestras huellas pasajeras." “Tanto el sabio como el ignorante pueden tomar malas decisiones, pero solo el ignorante no admite haberlas tomado.” “Si trabajas el presente nunca sentirás vergüenza por el pasado y te sentirás orgulloso en el futuro.” ………………………………………………………………………………………. Conductor del programa UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq Invitados Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP @ayec98_2 Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. soros triplehijueputa @soroshijueputa2 En contra de un sistema corrupto al servicio de la élite globalista …. José Antonio @jasava7 Mensajero de la Nueva Era. Librepensador y escritor. Ciudadano del Mundo. Derecho Natural. DDHH. Paz, equidad y fraternidad. Jinete en lucha por un Mundo Mejor. …. SirGalahad @Sirgalahad79 Mi honor se llama lealtad. …. LaJessi @LaJessibot Donde hay bromas hay verdades | Qué no te engañen la pena es la novia del pene #NoTeRaye #TweetStar Filósofa del barrio #CBD No me llames cani o #tekillyulabida …. Ernesto @Ernesto22596980 A mi me paga Putin EXPEDIENTE ROYUELA …. Luz Madeleine Munayco @lecabel8 ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: AYUDA A TRAVÉS DE LA COMPRA DE MIS LIBROS https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2024/11/16/ayuda-a-traves-de-la-compra-de-mis-libros/ UTP8 Universo fractal https://www.ivoox.com/utp8-universo-fractal-audios-mp3_rf_9991951_1.html El Papa y Roma… https://x.com/ElHiloRojoTV/status/1914235914999521647 Hilo sobre el papa https://x.com/tecn_preocupado/status/1914770003712467453 Féretro de papa Francisco como bandera de España https://x.com/ayec98_2/status/1915421017083711970 Capilla ardiente papa Francisco como sexo femenino https://x.com/ayec98_2/status/1915173455655215303 UTP268 Matematicas Vorticiales: Explorando el Tejido del Universo https://www.ivoox.com/utp268-matematicas-vorticiales-explorando-tejido-del-universo-audios-mp3_rf_121126662_1.html UTP272 Matemáticas Vorticiales: los vórtices de la vida https://www.ivoox.com/utp272-matematicas-vorticiales-vortices-vida-audios-mp3_rf_122197421_1.html ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ………………………………………………………………………………………. Epílogo ÚRSULA - AGUA DE LIMÓN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKfs8GIorhc

In a bygone time, we had celebrated architecture critics, historians and thought leaders like; Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Vincent Scully. These were gifted thought leaders with a willingness to share their views, good or bad, but never indifferent. They and others influenced the manner in which we looked critically at the shape and purpose of the spaces where we live work and play. Arch Daily wrote a piece in 2012 called The Architect Critic is Dead (just not for the reason you think). Is it. Is it, really? I don't think the architect critic is dead, it has changed. It's like Syndrome's quote from The Incredibles. That when everyone has superpowers, no-one will be a superhero. It's this dilution of meaning through social media where everyone has an opinion and no hesitation about sharing it. Very little self-awareness and a platform, then everyone is a critic but without the critical thinking or communication skills to articulate their ideas effectively. Enda Donagher and I chop this idea up a Biot and he shares his experience in the business over the past 30-years plus. Enda and I talk about the business and his work.  Designer Resources Pacific Sales Kitchen and Home. Where excellence meets expertise. ThermaSol - Redefining the modern shower experience. Without steam, it's just a bathroom. Design Hardware - A stunning and vast collection of jewelry for the home!  - Where service meets excellence TimberTech - Real wood beauty without the upkeep Donagher's firm addresses the architecture and interior design and his work is nuanced through a personalized approach and sensibly modern in look and feel. The ideas regarding the architect critic is relevant for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the opportunity to deconstruct the ideas that go into creating amazing work. If the work can be deconstructed, it provided a forum for critical thought to better our architecture and design. If we can apply critical thought, share ways to improve, then Syndrome was wrong. Everyone truly can be a super because everyones work is better and the level of expectation is raised. I enjoyed this conversation and I hope you do too. You'll hear all about it, right after this. Thank you, Enda. Loved our chat. Thank you to my incredible partner sponsors, ThermaSol, TimberTech, Pacific Sales, and Design Hardware. Amazing companies and great friends to the trade so please give them an opportunity for your next project. And, thank you for listening, subscribing the show and sharing with your colleagues. If not already subscribing, please consider that so you receive every new episode automatically to your podcast feed. Until next week, thank you for sharing this time together, until the next episode, be well, stay focused and now that it has arrived in earnest, try to rise above the chaos. - CXD

A pioneer in her field, Catherine Bauer Wurster was advisor to five presidents on urban planning and housing and was one of the primary authors of the Housing Act of 1937. During the 1930s she wrote the influential book Modern Housing and was one of the leaders of the "housers" movement, advocating for affordable housing for low-income families.  Catherine Bauer's life divided into two names and two geographies:  her urban east coast youth, and her later life in the Bay Area. She hobnobbed with the bohemian elite of the interwar years….brilliantly charming  the big architect names of the Weimar Republic, Paris cafe society, and the International Style:  Gropius, Mies, Corbusier, Oud, May, and her lover, Lewis Mumford. Her glamour and charismatic presence endeared her to trade unionists, labor leaders, and politicians—who she tried to turn to her vision of housing as a worthy responsibility of the government—sexier and leftier during the Depression. Her arguments were a harder sell in the red scare fifties and ran into a dreary deadlock in the suburban sixties, as she later wrote from her west coast stronghold at the University of California, Berkeley. In the Bay Area she developed an academic career that also included her husband architect William Wurster, a daughter, and a house on the bay – all surrounded by the nature she quickly grew to love. Her legacy lives on to this day, as even the latest of housing legislation echoes the progressive ideals she was advocating for in her prime.  Produced by Brandi Howell for the New Angle Voice podcast from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Editorial advising from Alexandra Lange. Thanks to host Cynthia Phifer Kracauer. Special thanks in this episode to Barbara Penner, Gwendolyn Wright, Sadie Super, Matthew Gordon Lasner, Katelin Penner, and Carol Galante.  Archival recordings are from the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. Funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell. The Kitchen Sisters Present is part of Radiotopia from PRX.

Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleBuy the book from University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917418/machine-and-sovereignty/What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts.Machine and Sovereignty starts with three premises. The first affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations; the second recognizes that political forms, including the polis, empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis Mumford terms “megamachines.” The third suggests that a particular political form is legitimated and rationalized by a corresponding political epistemology. The planetary thinking that this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism and organism, which characterized modern thought, to understand the epistemological foundations of Hegel's political state and Schmitt's Großraum and their particular ways of conceiving the question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity, and technodiversity.Arguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the eschatological view of history, of globalization, and of the human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future.Support the show

In the eyes of the architecture critic Paul Goldberger, a building is a living, breathing thing, a structure that can have a spirit and even, at its best, a soul. It's this optimistic perspective that has given Goldberger's writing a certain ineffable, captivating quality across his prolific career—first at The New York Times, where he served as the paper's longtime architecture critic, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1984; then as the architecture critic at The New Yorker from 1997 to 2011; and now, as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Goldberger is the author of several books, including Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry (2015), Why Architecture Matters (2009), and Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture (2009). He is also the chair of the advisory board of the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, where we recorded this episode, our third “site-specific” interview on Time Sensitive.On the episode, Goldberger discusses the Glass House's staying power as it turns 75, the evolution of architecture over the past century, what he's learned from writing architects' obituaries, and the Oreo cookie from a design perspective.Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Paul Goldberger[05:17] Glass House[05:17] Philip Johnson[07:06] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe[07:06] Farnsworth House[08:42] Brick House[12:37] Gordon Bunshaft[12:37] Lever House[12:37] Frank Lloyd Wright[12:37] Guggenheim Museum[13:18] TWA Flight Center[13:18] Kevin Roche[13:18] Ford Foundation building[13:18] CBS Building[15:17] Noyes House[16:17] U.N. Headquarters[17:50] Centre Pompidou[17:50] I.M. Pei[17:50] Louvre Pyramid[17:50] Frank Gehry[17:50] Guggenheim Bilbao[20:00] Walt Disney Concert Hall[23:20] Stuyvesant Town[24:24] “Oreo, at 75, the World's Favorite Cookie; Machine Imagery, Homey Decoration”[25:46] “Quick! Before It Crumbles!: An architecture critic looks at cookie architecture”[25:46] Nora Ephron[26:18] “Design Notebook; Commonplace Things Can Be Great Designs”[27:16] Bauhaus[29:10] Fallingwater[29:10] Richard Neutra[29:10] Lovell House[29:10] Gehry House[29:10] Louis Kahn[32:38] “Philip Johnson, Architecture's Restless Intellect, Dies at 98”[32:38] “Louis I. Kahn Dies; Architect Was 73”[35:30] Paul Rudolph[36:50] Zaha Hadid[37:22] “New Police Building”[38:19] Henry Geldzahler[41:31] Why Architecture Matters[43:21] Chrysler Building[47:28] Vincent Scully[48:18] Lewis Mumford[1:00:47] The City Observed: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan[1:00:47] World Trade Center[1:02:49] “Here Is New York” by E.B. White[1:05:33] Design: The Leading Hotels of the World[1:07:25] Ritz Paris[1:07:25] The Dylan Amsterdam[1:09:01] “Why Buildings Grow On Us”

07Welcome to New Angle Voice: I'm your bi-coastal architect and host, Cynthia Phifer Kracauer. Catherine Bauer's life divided into two names and two geographies:  her urban east coast youth, and her Bay Area soft landing.  She hobnobbed with the bohemian elite of the interwar years….brilliantly charming the pants off of the big architect names of the Weimar Republic, Paris cafe society, and the International Style:  Gropius, Mies, Corb, Oud, May…with her lover, Lewis Mumford—culminating in the publication of her 1934 classic :  Modern Housing.   Her glamour and charismatic presence endeared her to trade unionists, labor leaders, and politicians, including five presidents—who she tried to turn to her vision of housing as a worthy responsibility of the government—sexier and leftier during the Depression. Her arguments were a harder sell in the red scare fifties and ran into a dreary deadlock in the suburban sixties, as she later wrote from her west coast stronghold at the University of California, Berkeley. In the Bay Area she developed an academic career that also included a husband, a daughter, and a house on the bay – all surrounded by the nature she quickly grew to love. Her legacy lives on to this day, as even the latest of housing legislation echoes the progressive ideals she was advocating for in her prime.   Hear now:  Catherine Bauer Wurster:  A Thoroughly Modern Woman.   Special thanks in this episode to Barbara Penner, Gwendolyn Wright, Sadie Super, Matthew Gordon Lasner, Katelin Penner, and Carol Galante.  Archival recordings are from the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library.   This podcast is produced by Brandi Howell, with editorial advising from Alexandra Lange. New Angle Voice is brought to you by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.  Funding for this podcast comes from the New York State Council on the Arts. You can find other episodes of New Angle: Voice wherever you find your podcasts.  And if you liked this episode, please leave a review and share with a friend.    

Consider a new way to transform communities with insights from Mack McCarter, author of "How to Remake the World, Neighborhood by Neighborhood." Discover how positive relationships can serve as the foundation for thriving communities and address the age-old issue of societal collapse. By learning from historical studies and successful community initiatives, you'll gain a fresh perspective on fostering resilience and growth through genuine connections.We discuss how love, commitment, and caring relationships can transform individual lives and entire neighborhoods. The conversation highlights the profound impact of prioritizing relational foundations. Inspired by examples from Shreveport and beyond, we delve into the challenges and successes of nurturing a caring community ethos that spans various institutions.Show Notes:Further Reading: A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee, The Philosophy of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer, and Lewis Mumford's books: the City in History, the Culture of Cities, and the Transformations of Man.Resources on the We Care Team discussed in the show: https://communityrenewal.us/renewal-team/ To help support the show, pick up a copy of the book through our Amazon Affiliates page at https://amzn.to/3TVsooN or even better, get a copy through your local bookstore!To view the show transcripts, click on the episode at https://bookedonplanning.buzzsprout.com/Follow us on social media for more content related to each episode:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/booked-on-planning/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BookedPlanningFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonplanningInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookedonplanning/

In deze aflevering spreekt Piek met Siri Beerends. Zij is als cultuursocioloog werkzaam bij medialab SETUP en doet promotieonderzoek aan de Universiteit Twente. Ze spreken over de narratieven rondom AI, het begrip ‘authenticiteit' en Siri's werk voor SETUP. Joeri schuift aan. Meer over Siri Beerends: https://www.siribeerends.nl/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/siri-beerends/?originalSubdomain=nl In deze aflevering komen de volgende namen langs:Trudy Dehue (professor wetenschapstheorie en wetenschapsgeschiedenis)Lewis Mumford (filosoof)Jean-Jacques Rousseau (filosoof)Aristoteles (filosoof)Theodor Adorno (filosoof)Søren Kierkegaard (filosoof)Deze publicaties worden genoemd:De Depressie Epidemie - Trudy Dehue (2008)Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life - Theodor Adorno (1951)En deze film:The Truman Show (1998)——————————————————————————————————————Host: Piek KnijffRedactie: Team Filosofie in actieStudio en Montage: De PodcastersTune: Uma van WingerdenArtwork: Hans Bastmeijer – Servion StudioWil je nog ergens over napraten? Dat kan! Neem contact op via info@filosofieinactie.nl Meer weten over Filosofie en actie en onze werkzaamheden? Bezoek dan onze website: www.filosofieinactie.nl, of volg onze LinkedIn pagina: https://nl.linkedin.com/company/filosofie-in-actie.

⁠A is for Architecture's⁠ 108th episode is a conversation with urban designer and President of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Mallory B.E. Baches.  With roots in the works of Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford, and later through Leon Krier and Christopher Alexander, the CNU was founded in 1993 as a ‘planning and development approach based on the principles of how cities and towns had been built for the last several centuries: walkable blocks and streets, housing and shopping in close proximity, and accessible public spaces. In other words: New Urbanism focuses on human-scaled urban design.'  The movement's influence has been very wide, underpinning new classical and traditional developments, such as at Brandevoort in Holland, Harbor Town, USA and Poundbury in England. Arguably, recent movements like 15 Minute Cities have their roots in New Urbanist logics too. As such, might New Urbanism best be understood as other modern? You can find Mallory on her personal website, on Instagram, LinkedIn and X too. Thanks for listening. +  Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick

Dans cet épisode, Guillaume rencontre Thierry Paquot, un philosophe de la ville qui a quitté depuis peu la périphérie parisienne pour la campagne normande. Enregistré alors qu'il était en plein processus d'écriture d'un livre, cet épisode est riche en réflexions et anecdotes. L'épisode s'amorce assez classiquement avec un retour sur l'évolution des relations entre ville et campagne, en écho à l'ouvrage de Lewis Mumford, traduit par Thierry et paru en août dernier (Histoire naturelle de l'urbanisation, Presses Universitaires de France). Autrefois des territoires complémentaires, l'arrivée du productivisme, de la mécanisation et la mondialisation viennent transformer radicalement leurs interdépendances de même que leurs paysages, au point où ville et campagne se confondent désormais complètement. La discussion se déplace tout naturellement vers la question des processus et transformations à l'œuvre — mondialisation, urbanisation, colonisation, mécanisation — et de leurs effets sur les espaces urbains : inversions des relations centre-périphérie, apparitions des mégalopoles, étalement, bidonvilisation, émergence d'enclaves résidentielles sécurisées, pour ne nommer que quelques-uns des phénomènes récents qui remodèlent notre terre urbaine. Si l'histoire de la ville intéresse notre invité, c'est surtout l'histoire des idées sur la ville qui prend une place centrale dans son travail. Thierry porte une attention très particulière à la biographie des auteur-es de même qu'à la filiation des idées, et fait tout un travail de géohistoire des œuvres et des idées. Qui discutait avec qui ? Quelle influence des auteur-es entre elles et eux ? L'épisode, en ce sens, apparaît comme un exercice de cartographie orale des réseaux d'idées sur la ville et l'urbain. Un travail utile, puisque comme le souligne Thierry : “On pense à plusieurs, même si on écrit seul”. La discussion aborde aussi la diversité des façons d'appréhender la ville, et notamment par le biais de ses représentations. Pour Thierry, le roman, la poésie, le cinéma, la photographie et les témoignages des habitants constituent une panoplie de médiums qui permettent d'éclairer différents angles aveugles de l'expérience urbaine. En somme, cet épisode est un tour d'horizon de l'urbain — définitions, formes d'urbanisation, épistémologies — sans une once d'aridité. Il se déploie autant dans les idées que sur le terrain, un peu à l'image du travail de Thierry. C'est un épisode où l'on s'intéresse autant aux paroles d'habitantes de bidonvilles qu'à la chicane entre Henri Lefebvre et Guy Debord, ou à la relation intellectuelle entre Ivan Illich et André Gorz. On en ressort avec un certain nombre de potins de philosophes, une envie de lire renouvelée et, somme toute, une idée plus claire du phénomène urbain planétaire ! 

Link to common ground-   / @commonground-qg5oj   Bibliography The Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker The 30 Years War by Peter Wilson The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan Europe by Norman Davies Atrocities by Matthew White The Culture Map by Erin Meyer The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan Millennium by Ian Mortimer Protestants by Alec Ryrie The Next 100 Years by George Friedman The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel 1632 by Eric Flint Tecniques and Technology by Lewis Mumford

Would you like to receive a daily, random quote by email from my Little Box of Quotes? https://constantine.name/lboq A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms. I kept them on the first version of my web site, where they were displayed randomly. But as time went on, I realized I wanted them where I would see them. Eventually I copied the fledgeling collection onto 3×5 cards and put them in a small box. As I find new ones, I add cards. Today, there are more than 1,000 quotes and the collection continues to grow. Hello, I'm Craig Constantine

O cinema já retratou as cidades do futuro de muitas maneiras: Frias e asséticas.Escuras, poluídas, sem espaços verdes.Dominadas pela tecnologia, desumanas.Serão um dia assim, as cidades do futuro?O geoógrafo Gonçalo Antunes acha difícil de prever, sobretudo pensando num horizonte temporal superior a 50 anos. Contudo, as tendências que se desenham são bem mais positivas do que as retratadas pelo cinema. A Ana Markl quis então saber como é que o design atual das nossas cidades, tão dominado pelo uso do automóvel, se pode vir a transformar. Tudo parece orientar-se para uma urbe mais inteligente, mais descarbonizada, favorecendo o ambiente e uma mobilidade mais suave. Será que um dia viveremos nessas cidades? Será esse o legado urbano que deixaremos aos nossos filhos?  REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEISLeituras:Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, de Edward Glaeser. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, Lewis Mumford. Cities of Tomorrow, de Peter Hall Metrópoles: a história da cidade, a maior criação da civilização, de Ben Wilson. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs. The Just City, Susan S. Fainstein. Cities for People, Jan Gehl. Outros:Baraka, Ron Fricke, 1992 Home, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2009 Blade Runner Blade Runner 2049The JetsonsBIOSANA MARKLAna Markl nasceu em Lisboa, em 1979, com uma total inaptidão para tomar decisões, pelo que se foi deixando levar pelas letras; licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas porque gostava de ler e escrever, mas acabou por se formar em Jornalismo pelo CENJOR. Começou por trabalhar no jornal Blitz para pôr a render a sua melomania, mas extravasou a música e acabou por escrever sobre cultura e sociedade para publicações tão díspares como a Time Out, o Expresso ou mesmo a Playboy. Manteve o pé na imprensa, mas um dia atreveu-se a fazer televisão. Ajudou a fundar o Canal Q em 2010, onde foi guionista e apresentadora. Finalmente trocou a televisão pela rádio, um velho amor que ainda não consumara. Trabalha desde 2015 na Antena 3 como locutora e autora.GONÇALO ANTUNESGeógrafo, doutorado em Geografia e Planeamento Territorial pela Faculdade de CiênciasSociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH) da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Professor universitário na NOVA FCSH, actual coordenador da Licenciatura em Geografia e Planeamento Regional e investigador integrado no Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA). É especialista em políticas de habitação, dinâmicas do mercado imobiliário, políticas públicas urbanas, Geografia urbana, planeamento e ordenamento do território e de forma lata em estudosurbanos. Dentro destas temáticas tem várias publicações científicas, é coordenador de projetoscientíficos e organizou exposições na qualidade de curador, entre outras actividades dedisseminação do conhecimento.

Are you interested in the city as the theatre for social action? Summary of the article titled What is a city? from 1937 by Lewis Mumford, from the Architectural Record. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the city can be understood beyond the usual suspects of people, infrastructure and networks. This article presents Mumford's propositions about city planning and the human potential, both individual and social, of urban life. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: The city in its complete sense then is a geographic plexus, an economic organisation, an institutional process, a theatre of social action, and an aesthetic symbol of collective unity. Social facts are primary and the physical organisation of a city, its industries and its markets, its lines of communication and traffic must be subservient to its social needs. Instead of trusting the mere population growth to produce the theatre, we must seek these sociological results from deliberate action. You can find the article through this link. Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.126 - Interview with Corey Gray about beauty for sustainability; No.183 - Interview with Ted Baillieu about previous planning influencing current urban life; You can find the transcript through ⁠⁠this link⁠⁠. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by ⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠from ⁠⁠Pixabay

Ráfaga sobre el desarrollo de la tecnología y la sociedad y las modificaciones que dan de manera paralela, a partir de una cita de Técnica y civilización, de Lewis Mumford. De la serie recopilatoria Ráfagas sobre la tecnología que salió al aire por Radio UNAM.  Comentarios: Ernesto Priani Saisó. Producción: Ignacio Bazán Estrada. Voces: María Sandoval y Juan Stack. Controles técnicos: Miguel Ángel Ferrini.

Temos a sensação de que vivemos um momento contrário ao que a história descreveu tantas vezes: o “êxodo” urbano. Será mesmo assim?Estará a população a diminuir nas cidades e a aumentar fora delas?E, saem todos, ou apenas os que podem?Numa nova ‘trilogia de episódios', Ana Markl recebe Gonçalo Antunes para conversar sobre o tema das Cidades. Este primeiro episódio promete reflexões interessantes: desde as razões históricas que levaram ao nascimento das cidades, à sua expansão no território ou à constatação de que, afinal, este “abandono” das cidades não é assim tão marcado, nem inédito.A dupla que nos perdoe o ‘spoiler', mas não há como resistir em revelar uma parte: 55% da população mundial vive nas cidades, mas esta é uma realidade muito recente. Talvez faça parte dos 45% que vive fora das cidades, mas, quem sabe, o seu futuro passará por elas?REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEIS Livros:“Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier,and Happier”, de Edward Glaeser.“The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects”, Lewis Mumford.“Cities of Tomorrow”, de Peter Hall“Metrópoles: a história da cidade, a maior criação da civilização”, de Ben Wilson.“As cidades invisíveis”, de Italo Calvino.Documentários:“Baraka”, Ron Fricke, 1992.“Home”, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2009.BIOSANA MARKLNasceu em Lisboa, em 1979, com uma total inaptidão para tomar decisões, pelo que se foi deixando levar pelas letras; licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas porque gostava de ler e escrever, mas acabou por se formar em Jornalismo pelo CENJOR. Começou por trabalhar no jornal Blitz para pôr a render a sua melomania, mas extravasou a música e acabou por escrever sobre cultura e sociedade para publicações tão díspares como a Time Out, o Expresso ou mesmo a Playboy. Manteve o pé na imprensa, mas um dia atreveu-se a fazer televisão. Ajudou a fundar o Canal Q em 2010, onde foi guionista e apresentadora. Finalmente trocou a televisão pela rádio, um velho amor que ainda não consumara. Trabalha desde 2015 na Antena 3 como locutora e autora.GONÇALO ANTUNESGeógrafo, doutorado em Geografia e Planeamento Territorial pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH) da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. É professor universitário na NOVA FCSH, coordenador da Licenciatura em Geografia e Planeamento Regional e investigador integrado no Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA). É especialista em políticas de habitação, dinâmicas do mercado imobiliário, políticas públicas urbanas, geografia urbana, planeamento e ordenamento do território e em estudos urbanos. Dentro destas temáticas tem várias publicações, é coordenador de projetos científicos e organizou exposições enquanto curador, entre outras atividades de disseminação do conhecimento.

A magnificent swindle attempts to keep us from realizing true peace and happiness. How can we overcome it? We must begin by seeing through it, with the help of Lewis Mumford, Walter Kaufmann, C.G. Jung, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. We consider addiction, domestication, distraction, and the material bribe we all must keep ratifying in order for the pattern of insanity to perpetuate itself. We can stop ratifying it here and now.

In this episode, I was so excited to finally talk with writer and historian Dr. Aaron Sachs. Aaron researches and teaches environmental history at Cornell, and he is the author of four books and one edited collection. I've been eager to talk with Aaron for several years, ever since I first heard about the Historians are Writers! group that he led at Cornell (should out to Daegan Miller and Laura Martin who mentioned the group to me). We talked about that and the two books that Aaron has recently published: Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Recovery in Dark Times, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. And in April he published Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change. He is also the author of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism and Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. With John Demos, he also published the edited collection Artful History: A Practical Anthology.

Samaaj came before Sarkaar and Bazaar. We are more than subjects of the state and consumers of the market. Rohini Nilekani joins Amit Varma in episode 317 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her life and her learnings, why citizens need to embrace their agency -- and why those with wealth have a special responsibility. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Rohini Nilekani on Amazon, Wikipedia and Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. 2. Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar : A citizen-first approach -- Rohini Nilekani. 3. Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. 4. Arghyam, EkStep and Pratham Books. 5. The Annual Status of Education (ASER) Report, 2022. 6. Enid Blyton, Just William, Winnie the Pooh, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys on Amazon. 7. A Terrible Beauty -- Peter Watson. 8. Iris Murdoch and VS Ramachandran on Amazon. 9. The Tell-Train Brain -- VS Ramachandran. 10. The Long Road From Neeyat to Neeti -- Episode 313 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley). 11. Sansar Se Bhage Phirte Ho — Song from Chitralekha with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. 12. Profit = Philanthropy — Amit Varma. 13. Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma -- Episode 315 of The Seen and the Unseen. 14. Germaine Greer, Nancy Friday and Betty Friedan on Amazon. 15. The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. Select episodes on The Seen and the Unseen that touched on feminism & gender with Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Mrinal Pande, Kavitha Rao, Namita Bhandare, Shrayana Bhattacharya, Mukulika Banerjee, Manjima Bhattacharjya, Nilanjana Roy, Urvashi Butalia, Mahima Vashisht, Alice Evans, Ashwini Deshpande, Natasha Badhwar, Shanta Gokhale and Arshia Sattar. 17. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja). 18. The Will to Change — Bell Hooks. 19. The Jackson Katz quote on passive sentence constructions. 20. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi — Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen. 21. Imposter Syndrome. 22. Gerald Durrell, The Jungle Book and Black Beauty on Amazon. 23. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. 24. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Mohit Satyanand: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 25. The Chauri Chaura Incident. 26. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on Covid-19: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 27. Every Act of Government Is an Act of Violence — Amit Varma. 28. The Third Pillar — Raghuram Rajan. 29. Participatory Democracy — Episode 160 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 30. Cities and Citizens — Episode 198 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 31. Helping Others in the Fog of Pandemic — Episode 226 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 32. Lewis Mumford on Amazon, Wikipedia and Britannica. 33. Abby Philips Fights for Science and Medicine — Episode 310 of The Seen and the Unseen. 34. The Median Voter Theorem. 35. Mohammad Zubair's Twitter thread on the Dharam Sansad. 36. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma's column on the importance of reading. 37. Janaagraha. 38. Emergent Ventures. 39. Giving Billions Fast, MacKenzie Scott Upends Philanthropy -- Nicholas Kulish. 40. The/Nudge Institute, Give India, Dasra and Bridgespan India. 41. Lewis Hyde on Amazon. 42. The Brass Notebook: A Memoir - Devaki Jain. 43. Breaking Through: A Memoir -- Isher Judge Ahluwalia. 44. My Life in Full -- Indra Nooyi. 45. A Full Life -- Sabira Merchant. 46. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past and Savarkar: A Contested Legacy -- Vikram Sampath. 47. Ramachandra Guha on Amazon. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘Nurture' by Simahina.

Our beloved guest host and artist, Elisabeth Condon, and her series "Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting!" are back for a new installment! This time Elisabeth chose to describe Joseph Stella's oil on canvas painting "Tree of My Life" from 1919 that she saw at The Norton Museum in "Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature." The show is traveling next to the High Museum and to the Brandywine Museum. It was an honor to have Elisabeth's wild and wonderful way of looking at painting again on the pod. See "Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature" in person/online: Norton Museum (since closed): https://tinyurl.com/yhv3paaw High Museum (Feb-May 2023): https://tinyurl.com/szewk7f8 Brandywine Museum of Art (June-Sept 2023): https://tinyurl.com/yry6cry4 Barbara Rose's 1997 Essay "Flora" on Joseph Stella: https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/7aa/7aa792.htm Joseph Stella works mentioned: "Tree of My Life," "The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted," "Brooklyn Bridge," "Battle of Lights, Coney Island" More About Elisabeth Condon: Web: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ | IG: @elisabethcondon Solo at Emerson Dorsch Gallery late 2023: https://emersondorsch.com/artist/elisabeth-condon/ Florida Art in State Buildings/Univ of South Fla, May 2023: https://tinyurl.com/5n8ycr8m Painting at Freight & Volume Gallery: http://www.freightandvolume.com/ Artists Mentioned: Philip Guston, 4 Gentlemen of the Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum & Plum, Chinese Scroll Painting, Charles Burchfield, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin's "Vision and the Sermon," Hieronymus Bosch, Dziga Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera," Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," Agnes Pelton, Henri Rousseau's Paris paintings, Umberto Boccioni & the Italian Futurists, Precisionists: Sheeler, Demuth & Schamberg, Patrick Henry Bruce, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley Writers mentioned: Barbara Rose, Immanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard's "Poetics of Space," Henri-Louis Bergson, Lewis Mumford, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Gertrude Stein, Maurice Tuchman Eps mentioned: #38 (Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting #1) and #15 (Review of "Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985") ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s Amy's Interview on Two Coats of Paint: https://tinyurl.com/2v2ywnb3 Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts Buy Me a Coffee Donations appreciated! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/peptalksforartistspod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/peptalksforartistspod/support

It was the morning after the Grammys, so we were thinking about literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which have nominated friend-of-the-pod Morgan Talty's debut book of short stories for their John Leonard Prize. Have we read any of the other nominees? A few, but we have thoughts, in general. How is it we've never even heard of at least one of these (Lewis Mumford was an American historian who died in 1990, apparently)? Is "The Rabbit Hutch" actually amazing? Hannah's not sure. Then we move onto "The Magic Kingdom," and why it makes Sam like Florida more (Shakers!); "Trust," and its cool organization structure and why Hannah didn't get any stock for graduation; and "Weyward," and whether Hannah is just reading it because she loves that show "Wednesday." Finally, we wrap by discussing what the future is for the Book Shop Book Club.  

The first talk of four on Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, covers Chapter 3, The Eotechnic Phase, and Chapter 4, The Paleotechnic Phase. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Aaron Sachs is a historian and Cornell University professor who primarily studies American environmental and cultural history. In this episode we discuss his book Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times. Link: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215419/up-from-the-depths --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

The first talk of four on Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, covers Chapter 1, Cultural Preparation, and Chapter 2, Agents of Mechanization. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

In this episode Johanna sits down with Professor Elanor Huntington FTSE, Executive Director of Digital, National Facilities & Collections at CSIRO, and Professor of Quantum Cybernetics at ANU. The pair canvass exactly what a quantum cybernetician does, Australia's conditions of possibility, the great inflection point we find ourselves in, plus what the origins of Reggae can teach us about scientific development. Elanor also demystifies STEM, and shares thoughts on what she would tell her younger self and what success means to her. Tech Mirror is recorded on Ngunnawal land. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and pay our respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Professor Johanna Weaver is Director of the Tech Policy Design Centre at the Australian National University. This episode was produced by ANU Media. Special thanks to Ben Gowdie for research and post-production support.   Relevant links: Technics and Civilisation, by Lewis Mumford: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/688489.Technics_and_Civilization The Brilliant: https://thebrilliant.com.au/ 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/203288.The_Ship_Who_Sang Johanna's article in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/clampdown-on-chip-exports-is-the-most-consequential-us-move-against-china-yet-192738   Elanor on Twitter: @profElanor Send us your questions: techpolicydesign@anu.edu.au  Follow us on Twitter: @TPDesignCentre 

Hoy, en el capítulo cuadragésimo primero de «La cátedra de Dalmacio», presentado y conducido por Bernardo Garrido, Dalmacio Negro Pavón (catedrático de Ciencias Políticas y autor de numerosos artículos y libros) nos ilustra sobre la revolución de los estúpidos, el Katejon (barrera contra el AntiCristo)y la tradición de la libertad derivada del cristianismo. Libros citados: -“La revolución de los estupidos” ensayo de Dalmacio Negro, publicado en Razón Española nº 132. -“La tradición liberal y el Estado” de Dalmacio Negro. -“La tradición de la libertad” de Dalmacio Negro. -“Comte: Positivismo y Revolución” de Dalmacio Negro. -“La nueva ciencia de la política” de Eric Voegelin. -“Misa Negra” de John Gray. -“Las leyes fundamentales de la estupidez humana” de Carlo M. Cipolla. -“El nuevo cristianismo” de Henri de Saint-Simon. -“Victory of Reason” de Rodney Stark. -“El principio de responsabilidad” de Hans Jonas. -“Escolios a un texto implícito” de Nicolás Gómez Dávila. -“Populismos. Una defensa de lo indefendible” de Chantal Del Sol. -“El antiguo régimen y la revolución” de Alexis de Toqueville. -“Inédito sobre la Constitución de 1978” de Manuel García-Pelayo. -“El concepto de lo político” de Carl Schmitt. -“El mito de la máquina” de Lewis Mumford. -“El conocimiento inútil” de Jean Francois Revel. ----------- ¡APÓYANOS! - Vía iVoox: haz clic en APOYAR (botón de color azul). - Vía Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=Y4WYL3BBYVVY4 - Vía Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MCRC_es ------------ mcrc.es diariorc.com yonovoto.info

THE THESIS: One can use the same framework used by the gender industry to pretend humans are assigned a sex at birth to say we are assigned human at birth. No one has ever been born in the wrong body. No one is “trans.” Some people are gender dysphoric, gender-confused, gender rebellious or have been conned into believing they are unhappy because they were born in the wrong body.  THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:  Trapping people in an altered body risks trapping them in permanent defiance to God. Certainly, the Lord can redeem people who have been surgically and chemically altered for the “trans” lie, but only if people allow the Lord to wake them from the lie. Genesis 1:27 27 So God created mankind in his own image,     in the image of God he created them;     male and female he created them. When The Party succeeds in forcing people to pretend men are women and the reverse, they are conning, blackmailing or deceiving people into lying. That creates a wedge between them and God. Yes, the Lord is righteous to forgive and He expects us to let Him change us. We don't perform works to get redeemed--we will never deserve redemption and cannot “purchase it” with effort--rather, our works after being redeemed are a sign of abiding in the Lord, Jesus.  James 2:14-26 - Faith and Deeds 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[b] and he was called God's friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead THE NEWS & COMMENT: Sometimes The Party is hilarious. “Russian Trolls fractured the ‘women's march.'” No, that march fractured women when they let men pretend to be female.  Sometimes it's tragically, cynically amazing: Time.com frets about what pregnancy centers will do with women's data . . . not what Planned Parenthood has already done.  Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Are Collecting Troves of Data That Could Be Weaponized Against Women The Figurehead's bosses don't care, either . . .  Biden Prosecutes Man for Vandalizing Abortion Clinic, Still Hasn't Arrested Even One Violent Abortion Activist A woman in Iran was fractured to death and Twitter--which bans people for correctly calling a man a man because Twitter pretends it's “Christian hate speech”--just banned a woman for posting a picture of a woman murdered by the Hijab Police.  I've just spoken to @AlinejadMasih. @Twitter chose to suspend her account because she shared the picture of #MahsaAmini, 22-year-old Iranian girl in coma after she was severely beaten by the hijab police and later died. Why does Twitter keep punishing Iranian activists? Which brings us to the absurdity in which my $5,000 offer resides. Here is one of thousands of examples. Everyone who pretends that man is a woman is sinning by lying. Everyone who cons, blackmails or deceives others into doing it is sinning by causing others to stumble. Dylan is loved by God just as we are and it is not love to join into another's delusion.  A man speaks for women at the Forbes Power Women's Summit. He declared himself a “woman” in March 2022. Now, a few months later, he speaks for women at a women's summit. According to “trans”-activists, if a person ever regrets being surgically or chemically mutilated, they were “never really ‘trans.'” They are the same people who demand there exist absolutely no gatekeepers to kids getting chemically and surgically mutilated because, they insist, once you say you are “trans” that's what you are. In fact, the utterly disgraced Forbes published a hit piece on a teen girl! Chloe Cole is a “transitioner”, a young woman attempting to get her body back from gender-jacking “doctors.” Forbes attacked her because . . . she's autistic. I can use all of their tactics for my debate.  Forbes appears to have taken the article down, here's a write-up with some of its lowlights.  Yeah, Forbes removed it Another example of an absurdity that makes my case. If you use the made-up, nonsense word “transgender”, you are required to agree in full that this man must be allowed to teach kids while dressed like this. Why? Because, of course, gender is on a spectrum and “breast havers” should not be the only ones with “breasts.” Likewise, I should be allowed to teach in a naked ape suit.  Ontario High School Defends “Fetishistic” Large Bust-Wearing Teacher [AUDIO] - TPM's @LibbyEmmons talks to @oann's Kara McKinney @Nefertari_25 about a Canadian school defending a male teacher who wears giant prosthetic breasts to class: "This is a case caring for everyone but the students..." There was a “Let Women Speak Rally” in Brighton. This is what women and families face when they speak the facts about biology.  Language Warning: In Brighton today two female "trans" activists openly swear at and abuse a new born baby and his father. Accusing the father of  "Raising a little fascist". The #letwomenspeak rally was pelted with smoke bombs and several arrests were made as women voiced their concerns. Disappeared by The Party -  An unapologetic lesbian (@JoCampbell69) enraged #Antifa & trans counter-protesters when she stood on a trans BLM flag & smoked at the women's rights rally in Brighton. The trans activists accused the lesbians of being transphobic for not liking penises. #LetWomenSpeak In Boston, home of Harvard University  Language Warning: Violent far-left protesters are pushed back by police in Boston after trying to confront those protesting transgender surgeries for children at Boston Children's Hospital. BREAKING: email obtained by @realchrisrufo shows the Boston Police confirming they DID NOT receive a 911 call about a bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital. Many questions remain. Will any journalists investigate? Harvard University: the place that made Ted Kaczinsky into the Unabomber?  The Atlantic, 2022 -  Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber; A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski's still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college. By Alston Chase Perhaps no figure at Harvard at this time better embodied the ongoing war between science and humanism than Henry A. “Harry” Murray, a professor in Harvard's Department of Social Relations. A wealthy and blue-blooded New Yorker, Murray was both a scientist and a humanist, and he was one of Lewis Mumford's best friends. He feared for the future of civilization in an age of nuclear weapons, and advocated implementing the agenda of the World Federalist Association, which called for a single world government. The atomic bomb, Murray wrote in a letter to Mumford, “is the logical & predictable result of the course we have been madly pursuing for a hundred years.” The choice now facing humanity, he added, was “One World or No World.” Yet unlike Mumford, Murray maintained a deep faith in science. He saw it as offering a solution by helping to transform the human personality. “The kind of behavior that is required by the present threat,” Murray wrote Mumford, “involves transformations of personality such as never occurred quickly in human history; one transformation being that of National Man into World Man.” Crucial to achieving this change was learning the secret of successful relationships between people, communities, and nations. And coming to understand these “unusually successful relations” was the object of Murray's particular research: the interplay between two individuals, which he called the “dyad.” The concept of the dyad was, in a sense, Murray's attempt to build a bridge between psychology and sociology. Rather than follow Freud and Jung by identifying the individual as the fundamental atom in the psychological universe, Murray chose the dyad—the smallest social unit—and in this way sought to unite psychiatry, which studied the psyches of individuals, and sociology, which studied social relations. This kind of research, he apparently hoped, might (as he put it in a 1947 paper) promote “the survival and further evaluation of Modern Man,” by encouraging the emergence of the new “world man” and making world peace more likely. Murray's interest in the dyad, however, may have been more than merely academic. The curiosity of this complex man appears to have been impelled by two motives—one idealistic and the other somewhat less so. He lent his talents to national aims during World War II. Forrest Robinson, the author of a 1992 biography of Murray, wrote that during this period he “flourished as a leader in the global crusade of good against evil.” He was also an advocate of world government. Murray saw understanding the dyad, it seems, as a practical tool in the service of the great crusade in both its hot and cold phases. (He had long shown interest, for example, in the whole subject of brainwashing.) During the war Murray served in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, helping to develop psychological screening tests for applicants and (according to Timothy Leary) monitoring military experiments on brainwashing. In his book (1979), John Marks reported that General “Wild Bill” Donovan, the OSS director, “called in Harvard psychology professor Henry ‘Harry' Murray” to devise a system for testing the suitability of applicants to the OSS. Murray and his colleagues “put together an assessment system … [that] tested a recruit's ability to stand up under pressure, to be a leader, to hold liquor, to lie skillfully, and to read a person's character by the nature of his clothing. … Murray's system became a fixture in the OSS.” One of the tests that Murray devised for the OSS was intended to determine how well applicants withstood interrogations. As he and his colleagues described it in their 1948 report “Selection of Personnel for Clandestine Operations—Assessment of Men,” The candidate immediately went downstairs to the basement room. A voice from within commanded him to enter, and on complying he found himself facing a spotlight strong enough to blind him for a moment. The room was otherwise dark. Behind the spotlight sat a scarcely discernible board of inquisitors. … The interrogator gruffly ordered the candidate to sit down. When he did so, he discovered that the chair in which he sat was so arranged that the full strength of the beam was focused directly on his face. … At first the questions were asked in a quiet, sympathetic, conciliatory manner, to invite confidence. … After a few minutes, however, the examiner worked up to a crescendo in a dramatic fashion. … When an inconsistency appeared, he raised his voice and lashed out at the candidate, often with sharp sarcasm. He might even roar, “You're a liar.” Even anticipation of this test was enough to cause some applicants to fall apart. The authors wrote that one person “insisted he could not go through with the test.” They continued, “A little later the director … found the candidate in his bedroom, sitting on the edge of his cot, sobbing.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy September! Here's a look at what we talked about on this week's episode. Happy Reading! Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty Fairy Tale by Stephen King Ithaca by Claire North I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)

Chapter One: Wachtel and Superposition 0:00:00 Chapter Two: Azéma and Thaumatropes 0:22:13 Chapter Three: Gatton and Camera Obscura 0:43:48 Chapter Four: Archaeo-optics 2:16:14 Epilogue: Chauvet Cave 3:19:19 "…the shadows of man and beast flickered huge like ancestral ghosts, which since the days of the caves have haunted the corners of fantasy, but which the electric light has killed." -Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) “[Lewis Mumford, in 1934,] said that film—with its moving camera, its cuts and superimpositions—displays time and motion in a unique way. Additionally, he linked film's display of time and space to what he called ‘the emergent world-view' of the twentieth century.” -Edward Wachtel (1993) Follow along with visuals: 0:00:20 The twitter thread mentioned: https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1403914695128457219 0:19:50 An example of the "jumble" typical of plaquettes https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1548603870711926784 0:24:40 Azéma showing examples of animation-by-superposition in the wild https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1528654029793812480 0:33:32 Recreation of bone disc thaumatrope https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1528653193336410112 0:39:25 Liliana Janik's interpretation of thaumotrope involving bear paw https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1537167816347947008 0:44:20 Thread on Newgrange, Dowth, and Knowth https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1545398294800744450 0:49:10 Roofbox at Newgrange https://imgur.com/a/gYP01tJ 1:00:48 Balnuaran of Clava cairns, studied by Ronnie Scott and Tim Phillips in the 1990s: https://imgur.com/a/Nbn0EsH 1:14:30 Camera obscura explanatory diagram https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1281/0471/files/BONFOTON_Camera_Obscura_Diagram_W2000_WEB.jpg?v=1617094297 1:54:41 Photographs from Ronnie Scott and Aaron Watson's camera obscura experiments across Britain https://imgur.com/a/aQNnqYX 3:08:21 The Bison Man shadow animation (Spain) https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1559349567337820160 3:14:45 Pueblo shadow and light animation (thread) https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1559821120118747136 3:26:30 Chauvet cave animated: https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1528640107078512641 Rock art threads: Rock art threads: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/y1i1x6/rock_art_threads/ Sources/place to discuss: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/x3bh42/31_prehistoric_animation_and_protocinema_the/?

“These are indeed dark times,” Aaron Sachs, author of Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times, says at the start of this episode of The World in Time. “And as a historian, I've been wondering my whole professional life how these dark times compare to other dark times…I feel like it's my job as a historian to to really investigate the claim that there's no precedent for what we're going through, because that idea is really disheartening in a lot of ways.” This week on the podcast, Lewis H. Lapham speaks with Aaron Sachs, author of “Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times,” about dark times and white whales.

LIsten to Aaron Sachs talk about his new book, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times. I call it a palimpsest of biography in my New York Sun Review.

Lewis Mumford fue un pensador que introdujo en sus análisis históricos consideraciones urbanas y ambientales para comprender, en las ciudades, los efectos de la técnica como instrumentalización de la noción de progreso. Este interés lo llevó a pensar el hombre como un ser humano libre, pero carente de autonomía y las ciudades como un producto del tiempo. En este podcast recordamos su vida y obra con los testimonios de los docentes del Instituto de Estudios Urbanos de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ana Patricia Montoya Pino, Fabio Roberto Zambrano Pantoja; el sociólogo Leopoldo Prieto Páez; y el doctor en urbanismo Luis Carlos Colón Llamas, profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Créditos: Dirección: Ana Patricia Montoya Pino, profesora del Instituto de Estudios Urbanos de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Investigación periodística: Milton Medina y Claudia Sánchez. Locución: Claudia Sánchez. Producción sonora: Edgar Guasca.

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with author and historian Aaron Sachs about his new book Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times, a double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of [...]

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with author and historian Aaron Sachs about his new book Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times, a double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of [...]

Hello Interactors,I ended up walking almost six miles in two days last week that included two trips by bus and light rail. I’m always surprised by the rich experience that comes with choosing to walk, bike, or bus. But it’s not always pleasant. A car is comfortable, quiet, and convenient but can be experientially anemic. I’m fortunate to have these choices. Not everyone does. And what choice they do have can be unfair and even dangerous. Is that the American way? As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…DO THESE ROADS MAKE ME LOOK FAT?She slammed on the brakes and my bag slid to the floor. My knees slammed against the seat leaning inches from my kneecaps. Just as I grabbed my bag, she floored it. Careening around the curved onramp I felt the gravitational pull suck my head tight against the window as I struggled to right myself. As she merged with flowing traffic on the freeway I saw her glance in the rearview mirror. She wore dark, reflective wrap-around sunglasses and a grimace. Teeth clinched, she pressed the accelerator to the floor. She was on a mission. And I was along for the ride.I generally cut bus drivers some slack. They don’t have it easy. These herky-jerky driving patterns are often due to the strict schedule they’re incented to keep. Frequency and ease of access to bus stops are two of the more effective ways to get people to use transit. For those who can’t afford a car, or are unable to drive, walking, biking, or bussing is the only real affordable alternative to getting around. There are some, like me, who own a car but sometimes choose to walk, bike, or bus. After all, America is the ‘land of the free’ where we freedom of choice.But those choices are not equitable. American cities and our countryside were planned by men who favored a single mode of transportation: cars. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it quickly turned out to be good for some, bad for most, and worst for the environment and our health. Charlie Chaplan once said one of the ironies of life is doing the wrong thing at the right moment. America’s transportation history is riddled with irony.Cars and roads are not categorically bad. But too much of a good thing often is. Besides, not everyone can, should, or wants to own a car and yet the ‘Made in America’ landscape and economic structure dictates you must. If not, then you must suffer the inconveniences, inequalities, and risks that come with a lack of equitable choices. If you’ve ever visited or lived in a city or country with equitable, convenient, and comfortable transportation choices (I’m looking at you Switzerland) you can see the possibilities. It’s a choice. And America, the land of the free and home of the brave, is, ironically, afraid to choose freedom of choice when it comes to transportation.Which exposes another irony of American transportation. Those who most covet and defend their independence from society and the government – and thus choose to isolate themselves away from dense urban areas and in private vehicles – are thus dependent on the whole of society and the government to finance, design, build, and maintain their roads and vehicles. Both of which rely on government subsidies that make such choices economical in the first place. And in a final twist of the irony knife, most of the natural resources, parts, materials, and manufacturing come from socialistic governments they despise. And they’re made by ethnicities many of them fear, but are also granted more transportation choices than they are.America’s insistence on car ownership is in a sense, pardon the pun, autocratic. And given the amount of government subsidies flowing to the auto and fossil fuel industry, especially when they need bailing out, can make America look pretty socialistic. I just wish we could all get a return on those investments the government made to private companies using our public tax dollars.The truth is, we are all dependent on forms of socialism (i.e. economy, military, utilities, transportation, and communication) and capitalism (i.e. free markets, freedom to enlist, freedom to go off-grid, freedom to choose transportation, and freedom to choose a mobile carrier). They can, and do, coexist to varying degrees. But restricting the ability to viably and equitably move within and between our communities to a single choice feels like an impingement on freedom. And yet the number one symbol of American freedom, prosperity, and democracy around the world is the automobile. Car symbolism may be one of the biggest determining factors for America’s addiction to the autocracy of automobility.No sooner were the post World II freeways built were they filled with American made automobiles. Bucolic car-dependent suburbs filled with carbon consuming contraptions purchased by affluent consumers (mostly white men) swept up in a euphoric post-war economic boom. Hollywood was releasing movies depicting glamourized ideals of American suburban life. The car served as a literal and metaphorical vehicle for the virtues of freedom, independence, comfort, power, speed, and exhilaration. It propagated this myth: car ownership brings social superiority, security from the ills of society, and a path to the future. And yet reality told a different story. Just below the famous Hollywood sign in Los Angeles where these movies were being made traffic jams were forming as early as 1950.Just as these new car owners were about to buy their second vehicle some wondered if indeed the wrong decision was made at the right time. People were dying in violent car related deaths, roads were clogged during rush hour, and skies turned yellow with smog. So they made more wrong decisions at the right time by building even more roads. In 1955 the social and urban historian and critic Lewis Mumford wrote in the New Yorker,“Most of the fancy cures that the experts have offered for New York's congestion are based on the innocent notion that the problem can be solved by increasing the capacity of the existing traffic routes, multiplying the number of ways of getting in and out of town, or providing more parking space for cars that should not have been lured into the city in the first place. Like the tailor's remedy for obesity—letting out the seams of the trousers and loosening the belt—this does nothing to curb the greedy appetites that have caused the fat to accumulate."For decades the fat kept creeping and the belts keep loosening. The greedy appetites of car owners, urban planners, and civil engineers proved insatiable. Then came the 1973 oil crisis and inflation. Gas imports plummeted, prices climbed, and commuters sought alternatives. Carpooling became popular again after first being introduced during World War II as a gas rationing strategy. One poster from this era read, “When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler.” Imagine this government issued roadside billboard today: “When you ride alone, you ride with Putin.”DROWNING IN A POOL OF DEPENDENCIESBut the 1970s saw both the reintroduction of carpooling and its peak utilization. Still, transportation experts knew it reduced the number of cars on the road and thus eased congestion. So they studied ways to incent people to keep doing it. In 1977 two civil engineers from Boston published a paper that analyzed various carpool incentives. Their paper continues to be referenced by researchers 45 years later…probably because not much has changed.Their four main findings were:Carpooling “incentives” will attract transit as well as drive-alone commuters. However, the potential area-wide increase of ride sharing is small; therefore decrease of Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) is small.Auto “disincentives” are far more effective than carpooling “incentive” in increasing ride sharing and transit use. However, these policies are less acceptable to the public and therefore less likely to be implemented.Therefore, a coordinated programme package of both “incentives” in increasing ride sharing and “disincentives” could effectively increase carpooling and reduce congestion, VMT and fuel consumption. In particular, significant parking incentives and disincentives appear to be the most effective way of increasing carpooling.Carpooling strategies directed at work trips result in increased auto travel for non-work purposes because of increased auto availability during work hours for non-working members of a household. The increased non-work VMT offsets by approximately one third the reduction in work VMT.They also introduced a transportation choice hierarchy describing the long, medium, and short range travel-related decisions. Long range decisions are major locational decisions like a change in a workplace, residential location, and the type of house chosen. Medium range include the decision to buy a car which is “highly interdependent” on the “usual mode of travel” to work (i.e. owning a car is highly correlated with your decision to use it every day). And short range decisions are “non-work travel decisions.” They note the “frequency, destination, and mode” for these trips should be considered alongside other transportation choices in the household. This is evidenced in the non-intuitive conclusion of number four above. Namely, congratulations on carpooling, now your stay-at-home spouse or partner will be driving more than you think - and possibly more than your commute.We can see how the urban planning and design of the built environment can impact these decisions. Deciding where to live is a long range decision impacting transportation choice. Not everyone can afford a car or afford to live where cars are necessary for commuting. At the same time, people may work where a car is not needed, like next to their employer, but can’t afford to live there. Such is the case in Seattle right now. So they’re forced to live where they can afford to live, but not make enough money to own and operate a car. Not all of these places are well served by transit which limits their freedom of choice and unduly burdens them relative to other more affluent members of society. Therefore, car ownership, socioeconomics, and the built environment all play a role in the decision to use a car get around.‘Socioeconomic status’ influences ‘where to live.’ Both ‘socioeconomic status’ and ‘where you live’ can each independently influence ‘car use.’ For example, someone may be able to afford to own a car but not the gas needed to use it. Somebody else may have enough money to own many cars, buy much fuel, and drive excessively. In addition, a person may live where a car is not needed and thus use it less. Or they may live far from work and use a car every day.However, while ‘socioeconomic status’ influences ‘where to live’ and both of those factors independently influence ‘car use’ they also influence the decision to own a car in the first place. And this factor, ‘car ownership’, is emerging as a primary mediating factor in ‘car use.’ That is, even if someone can afford to live in a dense urban area full of places to walk to, including a job, just the fact of owning a car plays a nonsignificant role in the decision to use it or not. Consequently, while cities increasingly are making plans to densify and make their cities and towns more walkable and bikeable, if residents happen to be car owners these changes in ‘the built environment’ may not change their patterns of ‘car use.’ Especially if they’re affluent enough to not be greatly impacted by the cost of car ownership.There’s another important mediating factor often overlooked in transportation research. It may also be the most influential, the most deep seeded, the hardest to pin down, and the hardest to change: the psychological attachment and addiction to cars.The University College of London transportation professor, Peter Jones, offers graduated distinctions of car dependency among people and society. Starting from the top:Car-reliant trip: Alternative forms of motorized transport are not available and the journey distance is too long for walking or cyclingCar-reliant activity or journey - Difficult to make the journey in a different way because of purchases (goods) and/or complex multidestination tripsCar-reliant lifestyle - Impossible to access a given destination by other transport mode than carCar-reliant person - Unable to use other transport than carCar-reliant society - High levels of car use among population, necessity of car to participate in essential social activitiesCar-convenient society - Car is most convenient choiceCar-dependent person - Car is statement of status or linked to self-esteem or personal identityCar-addicted person - A car “fanatic,” whose life revolves around carsFEARS, FRIGHTS, FLIGHTS, FIGHTS, AND RIGHTSStefan Gössling of Lund University in Sweden take these one step further offering a distinction between “real” and “perceived” dependencies in his 2017 book called The Psychology of the Car. He says, “’real dependencies’ refer to basic life needs.” These include the need to “commute to work, to shop, to visit a doctor, see friends and family, to transport goods, to participate in social work, go to church, or to make leisure trips.” The car is treated like an appliance for utilitarian purposes. In contrast, “’perceived’ car dependency arises out of emotions involved with the car, or where alternative transport is considered ‘dysfunctional…’” For example, the anxiety that can come with determining the right bus, scheduled times, bus fare or getting on the wrong bus and getting lost. Some are fearful being around controlled environments patrolled by security. Others fear confrontations with people with mental health issues, drug and alcohol addictions, or being trapped in smelly, noisy and claustrophobic spaces.Gössling reminds us there are many fears and phobias that can trigger fright-flight-fight responses which results in car use becoming an addiction in itself. In America, where guns are prevalent, homelessness is rampant, and drug addiction and alcoholism is on the rise there are many reasons to be afraid and anxious. Cars, like guns, can make people feel safe and protected, even though they are both the most dangerous weapons there are.Gössling suggests fear or anxiety and safety or security aren’t the only psychological concerns wrapped up in transportation choice and car addiction. There is also identity and social status, trauma, and even obesity. He notes obese people are even more reliant on cars even though their condition would benefit from walking or biking. Even if it was to a bus stop…if there is one.Automakers tap into these insecurities with advertising and car design. They know a bigger car can make people feel safer, elevate them above others and boost inferiorities. They reflect and signal power, size, and strength which are all recognized as symbols of superiority throughout society…and the entire animal kingdom. Attempts by the government to impede on any of these psychological crutches is therefore viewed as a threat to their identity. Smaller, slower cars are deemed inferior. Wimpy. Raising prices on gasoline, car tabs, or parking by authorities is a threat to their perceived superiority and control. Encouraging the use of public transit diminishes their social standing. Building dense housing near single family residences threatens their independence and increases the odds of awkward social encounters that may trigger fear and anxiety prompting grasps for safety and security.And yet, we can’t keep loosing the belt because it is only making us fatter. Besides, most residents in most cities oppose street widening. We have a fixed amount of space for cars and trucks with an increasing number of urban residents. The only answer is fewer additional cars on our roads and less car use by current car owners. We also need those with unhealthy attachments and addictions to face their fears.Policy makers and politicians know backlash comes from threats to these very real and complex socio-psychologies. Public interventions are threats to private habits, regimes, identities, and values. Many cities have progressive plans to tip the transportation and land use balance, but executing these plans can trigger very real deep-seeded fear that leads to fierce opposition. It’s easier to just loosing the belt than hit the gym.But experts agree changes to the built environment are necessary if we’re going to save ourselves from increased congestion and pollution. We need to make all neighborhoods more walkable and shoppable. Everyone should insist on a grocery store within a 10 minute walk. To make these businesses work in our capitalistic reality, requires more customers. More customers can only happen when there is more dense housing – even if it’s duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes.Exurban and rural residences should insist on some form of public transit even if it’s on-demand. For example Denmark offers, in coordination with AARP, a “coordinated demand responsive transportation system” that “keeps older Danes, especially those living in the rural areas, aging in place.”But solutions don’t have to come from the government. Recently the New York Times featured a story about a carshare coop in New York called “The Drivers Cooperative”. They are “a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative” where “drivers make more on each trip, all profits go back to drivers, and drivers have democratic control over the decisions that affect their lives.”If this reeks of socialism don’t tell one of the reddest and most rural and sparsely populated states in the country, North Dakota. They enjoy some of the fastest internet speeds in the country due to their high-speed broadband ‘community network’ that is a federal tax exempt cooperative. It’s also generally cheaper than the competition. It may be hard to imagine now, but farm cooperatives in America were once hotbeds of socialist ideals and ideas. That independent and pro-social spirit just may be rekindling in rural America. It could bring new meaning to the ‘red’ counties of America. Greetings comrades.Changes to the built environment are necessary, but not sufficient. Socioeconomic inequities have to be rebalanced. The human right to move about this world should not be impeded by ability, race, religion, ethnicity, or social status. Safe, secure, accessible, comfortable, and efficient transportation must be made equal for all members of society.But the psychology of car owners must not be overlooked. Car ownership is the key mediating factor in whether it is used and by how much. Policy makers can’t ignore the psychological needs, real and perceived, of car owners. Car addicts will resist change so long as they feel threatened by it. This requires communication strategies that don’t antagonize, diminish, or create cognitive dissonance among them.Those cities successful in shifting norms and behavior of car owners combine multiple approaches. First and foremost they make infrastructure changes that improve conditions for cycling, walking, and transit. They also do what those Boston researchers and engineers suggested in 1977 to most effectively induce carpooling. They impose restrictions on car use.But they are also mindful of the psychology of those attached and addicted to cars. They appeal to car owners by using values they can relate to like speed, efficiency, relaxation, and cost. When cycling, walking, and transit is improved and endorsed using these rational values social norms and habits indeed shift. As these changes demonstrate reductions in congestion their adoption and acceptance grows. Fewer cars on the road also means less noise, cleaner air and water, fewer deaths, and happier, healthier people which are things everyone wants.As professor Jones in London says, “We need to work out what society we want to live in, and build the connectivity that delivers that vision (think healthy, socially cohesive, compact, local).”What I found last week walking with my friends around Seattle is a city built for cars. That was the society people wanted to live in back in the 1950s and 60s. But I also found the light rail was at capacity during off-peak times, cyclists were flowing down protected bike lanes, ride-share bikes and scooters were rolling, and we saw parts of the city unseen from a car. We walked and talked, giggled and wriggled, and trudged up some stairs. We hunted for haunts and restaurants as the rain moistened the air. And on the way home I glanced out the window from the “bus-only” lane. I peered into the cars stuck in traffic waiting for my “bus-only” light to change. What I saw saddened me. There they sat; single occupants in a single car, but not one single smile. They were surely comfortable in their safe and silent spaces, but what should we make of those sad and lonely faces?And then suddenly I was thrown back in my seat. That bus driver had a schedule to keep. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Robert Turner is our guest where he talks about his new book "Lewis Mumford and the Food Fighters, A food Revolution in America." Our health depends so much on what we eat every day. It is one of the most important decisions we make everyday regarding our health. Most have delegated this choice to food companies that we can count on our fingers. Just one fact he talks about in this episode is how 10 companies own 60% of all the food products found in the center aisles in supermarkets. I recommend staying as far away as possible from those aisle. We must take our food security and sovereignty back not just for our survival but to be able to thrive and be healthy in todays world. This episode is full of ways to do that. Check out his book here. Get to know more about Robert here.   This a grassroots movement. This grows because we get the word out one person at a time. Rate and review the podcast. Join my email list to never miss an episode and by doing that you also get a my book Earth and Us heal naturally absolutely free.  If you are in the States get 30% off  with the coupon code "gift" when buying my books Playing in the Dirt, The 4 pillars of health and a short ebook Mental wellbeing made simple at https://pastosverdesfarm.com/shop/.  Join my membership where we go so much more deeper into how we bring the garden and our connection to nature and earth into the forefront of our journey for greater health and well-being. Go to https://pastosverdesfarm.com/subscription and let's start this journey together. If you are getting value out of this podcast, hopefully you are, you can now help me! help me by: Supporting me on Patreon. Buy my book Playing in the Dirt. Joining my email list so you don't miss anything and get my book "The Earth and Us, heal naturally" and other great stuff absolutely free. buy my book "The 4 pillars of Health" Be part of a likeminded community of wellness farmers, join my membership

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Las religiones prometen la salvación en paraísos más allá del horizonte y la tecnolatría promete riqueza, chalets con piscina, Lamborginis y bellozones sin parangón. ¿Cuándo? Mañana. Invierte y hazte Criptobro y verás el camino al paraíso. Con @desempleado666 , @iracundoisidoro y @Shine_McShine . Blockchain a cargo de @TxusMarcano Bibliografía: La obra completa de Lewis Mumford la ha publicado Pepitas de Calabaza. https://capitanswing.com/libros/armas-de-destruccion-matematica/ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317/automatinginequality https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/obras-reunidas-i_978-968-16-7590-5 https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/obras-reunidas-ii_978-968-16-8104-3+ https://www.pre-textos.com/escaparate/product_info.php?products_id=1275 https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-tecnica-y-tecnologia-como-conversar-con-un-tecnolofilo/9788417786137/12251780 https://www.pepitas.net/libro/la-colera-de-ludd https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/864008.Rebels_Against_the_Future Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Long before smartphones and social media, the social critic Lewis Mumford put a name to the way that complex technological systems offer a share in their benefits in exchange for compliance. He called it a “bribe.” The danger, as Mumford wrote, is that “once one opts for the system no further choice remains."  Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag.

Philosophe de formation, Fanny Verrax est enseignante, chercheuse indépendante et consultante auprès de différentes institutions, dont le Ministère de la Transition écologique. Co-auteure du livre « Quelle éthique pour l'ingénieur ». Au sommaire : * Quelle éthique de l'ingénieur * Comment articuler responsabilité individuelle de l'ingénieur et la responsabilité collective des organisations et des entreprises ? * Les technologies font-elles partie de la solution ? * On n'arrête pas le progrès ? * L'école selon Ivan Illich * Le modèle de l'école en Norvège * Qu'est ce que l'outil convivial selon Ivan Illich et quelle réalité / faisabilité de l'outil convivial aujourd'hui ? * Prestations de consultante * Jeu vidéo et transition écologique ? * Comment vois tu l'avenir ? Hyper-technologique, ou low tech ? En savoir plus : * Michel Puech, Homo Sapiens Technologicus : https://www.actu-philosophia.com/entretien-avec-michel-puech-autour-de-homo/ * Naomi Oreskes et Erik Conway, L'effondrement de la civilisation occidentale : https://www.nonfiction.fr/article-7857-portrait-dun-monde-post-changement-climatique.htm * Lewis Mumford : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford * Ivan Illich - La convivialité * Matthew Crawford, Eloge du carburateur : https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/eloge_du_carburateur-9782707160065 * Concernant le dispositif Explor'ables avec le Ministère de la Transition écologique : * La transformation des récits : https://nouvellesexplorations.com/2020/11/13/explorables-transformations-socio-culturelles/ * La transformation des apprentissages : https://nouvellesexplorations.com/2020/11/02/explorables-transformation-des-individus-les-apprentissages/ * Ingénieurs engagés : https://ingenieurs-engages.org/ * Générique La maison de Mickey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8nj6TS8JjU

Paris Marx is joined by Shannon Mattern to discuss what we miss when we see the city solely through the lens of the computer, and how other institutions and ways of knowing can help inform richer ways of understanding the city.Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research and President of the Board at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. She is the author of “Code and Clay, Data and Dirt” and “A City Is Not a Computer.” Follow Shannon on Twitter at @shannonmattern.

Technology and FreedomIn this episode, Ezechiel and Andy ask how technology affects our freedom. Are we free to choose particular technologies? Are we free to reject them? And is democracy powerful enough to deal with technology?Join us for a weekly dose of Daily Philosophy!Brought to you by https://daily-philosophy.com.Music: Nightlife by Michael Kobrin, from: https://pixabay.com/music.00:01:52 What is technology?00:02:21 Gutenberg's printing press (~1440) and its effects00:02:45 Ian Mortimer: Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth00:04:48 Plato, ancient Greek philosopher (428-348 BC) on writing00:05:06 Plato, Pheadrus (on writing)00:07:55 Can we predict the effects of technologies?00:09:15 Obvious and non-obvious effects00:11:56 Precautionary principle00:15:06 Technology itself vs its use00:16:29 What is a technology?00:20:37 Tools vs machines00:22:26 E.F. Schumacher: Small is Beautiful00:22:49 Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)00:25:54 Becoming a slave to the machine00:26:59 Machines and social power00:28:01 Bruno Latour (1947-)00:28:39 Invisible regulation and democracy00:30:58 Machines as unyielding and blind agents00:32:03 Ransomware00:34:15 The blindness of bureaucracy00:39:06 The importance of social reputation00:43:11 The inhumanity of supermarkets00:45:21 Charlie Chaplin: Modern times (movie)Philosophers and theories mentioned:00:02:45 Ian Mortimer: Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth00:04:48 Plato, ancient Greek philosopher (428-348 BC) on writing00:05:06 Plato, Pheadrus (on writing)00:11:56 Precautionary principle00:22:26 E.F. Schumacher: Small is Beautiful00:22:49 Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)00:28:01 Bruno Latour (1947-)Accented Philosophy - Every Tuesday (or thereabouts :)).

Paris Marx is joined by Zachary Loeb to discuss the history of tech criticism with a focus on Joseph Weizenbaum and Lewis Mumford, as well as why the techlash is a narrative that suits Silicon Valley.Zachary Loeb is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania whose dissertation research looks at Y2K. Follow Zachary on Twitter as @libshipwreck, and check out his Librarian Shipwreck blog.

Ngaji Filsafat : Lewis Mumford - Technics & Civilization Edisi : Filsafat Teknologi Rabu, 03 Maret 2021 Ngaji FIlsafat bersama Dr. Fahruddin Faiz, M. Ag. Ngaji Filsafat berlangsung rutin setiap hari Rabu pukul 20.00 WIB Bertempat di Masjid Jendral Sudirman Kolombo, Jln. Rajawali No. 10 Kompleks Kolombo, Demangan Baru, Caturtunggal, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta 55281 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/masjid-jendral-sudirman/message

Back in the sixties, writers like Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs recognized that parking lots are dead spaces that destroy the spirit of a city. Fast-forward 60 years later and we have yet to resolve the issue, as driving has become required for many living situations and most cities in the United States. In theory, personal vehicles have revolutionized transportation by increasing mobility and enabling autonomy. In practice, however, the promise of autonomy and mobility are only truly fulfilled if your car has a place to store itself. Consequently, the development of parking lots and structures is now systematic within zoning and development codes. In other words, the cost of driving has been brought down, but in doing so, we’ve driven the cost of development up. This week on Upzoned, host Abby Kinney is joined by special guest John Reuter, a former councilman and columnist of Sandpoint, Idaho, and bipartisan strategist and board member for Strong Towns. Together, they "upzone" a recent article from The Atlantic—i.e. they look at it through the Strong Towns lens. The article, entitled "How Parking Destroys Cities" (formerly, “How Parking Drives Up Housing Prices”), examines how the cost of auto-centric development is ultimately passed on to tenants and consumers, regardless of whether or not they themselves actually drive. Then in the downzone, John has been learning about how the brains of octopi can teach us a lot about our own. Meanwhile, Abby has been watching a series on Netflix that has got her thinking about the benefits of short-form storytelling. Additional Show Notes "How Parking Destroys Cities," by Michael Manville, The Atlantic (May 2021) Abby Kinney (Twitter) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom (Soundcloud)

La utopía en palabras de Eduardo Galeano no es una meta a alcanzar, sino una forma de hacer que nos movamos. El BAU nos lleva prometiendo cosas que nunca alcanzamos, mientras seguimos corriendo como pollos sin cabeza hasta que alguna pared nos pare. Con @desempleado666, @ y @iracundoisidoro. Dirige Txus Marcano. Bibliografía: The Entropy Law and the Economic Process por Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Colapso por Jarde Diamond. La economía en evolución. Historia y perspectivas de las categorías básicas del pensamiento económico de José Manuel Naredo. Dialéctica de la Ilustración. Obra completa 3 de Theodor W. Adorno (Escritor), Max Horkheimer (Escritor), Joaquín Chamorro Mielke (Traductor). El pentágono del poder. El mito de la máquina (vol. 2) de Lewis Mumford. El mito de la máquina. Técnica y evolución humana. Técnica y civilización de Lewis Mumford. Grand Hotel Abyss. The Lives of the Frankfurt School de Stuart Jeffries. Comunismo de lujo totalmente automatizado de Aaron Bastani. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Humanistic Technology merupakan gambaran awal dari episode berkelanjutan Kesma Talks. Teori yang berangkat dari teori Positivisme oleh August Comte, kemudian teori Humanistic oleh Mahatma Gandhi, serta Technics & Civilization oleh Lewis Mumford memberikan sebuah benang merah dalam tema permasalahan Kesma Talks sendiri seperti Self-Love, Intern Experience, Workship Experience dan Scholartips.

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE Eve Picker: [00:00:15] Hi there, thanks for joining me on Rethink Real Estate. I'm on a mission to make real estate work for everyone. Real estate can help to solve climate change, can house people affordably, can create beautiful streetscapes, unify neighborhoods and enliven cities. So I'm on a journey to find the most creative thinkers and doers out there. I'm not the only one who wants to rethink real estate. You can learn more about me at EvePicker.com or you can find me at SmallChange.co, a real estate crowdfunding platform with impact real estate investment opportunities open for investment right now. And if you want to support this podcast, join me at Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate, where there are special opportunities for my friends and followers.   Eve: [00:01:29] Today, I'm talking with Libby Seifel. Libby's life is built around big causes. She has spent much of it professionally focused on affordable housing and much of it personally focused on women. Libby's interest in housing came about when she lived through gentrification in her own neighborhood in Boston. There she saw her own godmother pushed out of her apartment into distressed public housing, and that convinced her that mixed income housing was a far better solution. She went on to get degrees at MIT in Planning and Urban Studies and became the founding Executive Director of Tent City Corporation, a non-profit developer of a ULI, award winning, mixed income housing development in downtown Boston. At that time, mixed income housing and sustainable development were considered somewhat of an oddball concept, says Libby. Now they're widely accepted as good planning. And then she founded her own firm. She was the only woman in the room when she started her career. Today, that has changed a little, but not nearly enough for Libby, who has founded a quickly growing women's development collaborative to support women developers. I'm a member of the Women's Development Collaborative, so I've seen firsthand the strength of Libby's focus. If you'd like to join me in my quest to rethink real estate, there are two simple things you can do. Share this podcast or go to Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate to learn about special opportunities for my friends and followers and subscribe, if you can.   Eve: [00:03:32] Libby, I'm really happy to talk with you today. Thanks for joining me.   Libby Seifel: [00:03:38] Thank you.   Eve: [00:03:39] So I've known you for quite some time. I was trying to remember how long that was, but I just couldn't. It's been a long time. But still, I was really surprised when I read your resume and you've done so much and there's probably more that you haven't talked about, which I'm hoping we're going to talk about today. But I wanted to start with a quote I read that you were going to be a doctor and and I'm wondering what happened.   Libby: [00:04:07] That's interesting story. So, I think what happened was that I got really, really interested in urban planning and I was actually talking with somebody about this recently that I had the great fortune of having Lewis Mumford as one of my professors, my freshman year in college. And I was coincidentally reading The City and History, which is his famous book. And he was such a wonderful storyteller and really conveyor of what was going on in the earlier part of the 20th century with respect to thinking about what cities could be and how they could be. And so he looked at it both historically and as a visionary, and he was very dedicated to sustainable development. About having development that was holistic, where people could walk to, walk in their communities to the grocery store where they could live together.   Eve: [00:05:16] And that was before this was the thing, right?   Libby: [00:05:18] This was before it was a thing. This was, yeah, it was. I mean, there's, we can talk about the criticism and there are pieces about the movement that he was part of that was very white focused. So I want to just say that up front. And I understand and and that but this sort of it was kind of the city beautiful, but it was really more country beautiful movement. He lived for it pretty much his whole life after he moved out of New York City, in Amenia, New York, which is an absolutely beautiful part of New York. And if you've never driven up the Hudson Valley, it is absolutely exquisite. And Amenia is off the Hudson Valley inland. And it's a beautiful farming community near the border of Connecticut and on, coincidentally, a rail line that goes into New York City.   Eve: [00:06:11] I've been on that train. It's fabulous.   Libby: [00:06:13] You've been on that train. So you know what I'm what I'm talking about. So, and my uncle's an architect, so my mother never wanted me to be an architect or an urban planner, which is what I am now. She wanted me to be a doctor and specifically she wanted me to be an ophthalmologist. So I was like, no, but I love visual arts and I love visual science. And I actually studied that. So alongside of studying urban planning, I studied neurophysiology and urban, just a lot of urban studies. And and I prepared to be a doctor. And I finally convinced my mom that if I got a master's in urban planning alongside of my undergraduate degree, I'd be so much more competitive to be a doctor. So, so that's the funny story. But on a more serious note, I was able to study with Dr. Land at Polaroid on visual art and visual science. And I have a very deep appreciation for the arts and colors in particular. And I like the idea of creating a colorful world where we all can participate and be part of this. You know, it's the utopic view, but my life is really dedicated to making the world a better place. That's what I try to do.   Eve: [00:07:41] That's wonderful.   Libby: [00:07:41] And I think Lewis Mumford and people like him are just very inspirational to us in this field.   Eve: [00:07:50] You were lucky.   Libby: [00:07:50] And I wouldn't really be here without him. And then actually the other clincher to all of this was that - it's a story that kind of leads into my career - is that I moved to Boston, I went to school in Cambridge at MIT, and I moved to Boston with my college roommate, who's now still a very good friend of mine and a real estate developer and investor. And we moved into the South End neighborhood of Boston, which is a really incredible neighborhood now. And then when we moved in there, it was a neighborhood very much in transition and it was a neighborhood very affected by urban renewal. And these were the times when wholesale displacement of people occurred, where they were moved out of their homes. Where a vibrant neighborhood that had been very colorful and dynamic, was changed through urban renewal, and the community had been promised development as part of their protests against urban renewal. They had formed a tent city in protest to say we did not want to be moved. And a group of folks reenacted this tent city event, this demonstration, and I was coincidentally in college at the time and was at a studio that was dedicated to working on studying this site called Tent City, which was the site where this protest had occurred. And so I took the studio and I was forever transformed. I got very involved with the community. I was living there. We really wanted to make this housing happen. We wanted it as mixed income housing. We wanted it to be a resource for the people who have been displaced in the community. And we wanted it to be a place where people of all income levels could live together in a great, absolutely great site in Boston, right next to that Back Bay Station, which ultimately got built. I mean, that's part of my whole history, but ultimately got built with that vision and that dedication of that group of people totally transformed my life.   Eve: [00:10:14] And that also got a ULI award, right?   Libby: [00:10:17] It did. It did. It got a ULI award. And it is great to visit. It's right next to Copley Place. There's a whole story about Copley Place. We could talk about later if you wanted, but it's next door to Copley Place. It's next door to Back Bay Station, which is where the Amtrak station is and the light rail. And it's also next door to the moved underground railway that used to be an elevated railway, a streetcar through Boston, through the South End in a southern part of the South End which was then put into an underground tunnel. And on top of it is the most amazing set of community gardens.   Eve: [00:10:57] Yes, I've been in them. They're stunning.   Libby: [00:10:58] You've been in them. And the walkway...   Eve: [00:11:01] That was the Big Dig, right?   Libby: [00:11:02] Yeah, well, it's not the Big Dig, but the Big Dig is amazing. The Big Dig is over by the waterfront of Boston. This is actually in the Back Bay, South End, part of Boston. It's the orange line. And you wouldn't know because you're going underneath it if you're riding it. But it is on top of it. There are these amazing community gardens.   Eve: [00:11:25] The gardens are gorgeous.   Libby: [00:11:27] Yeah.   Eve: [00:11:27] Including, you know, community vegetable gardens.   Libby: [00:11:31] Exactly and each neighborhood block actually participated in the design of each garden and walkway at the end of their block. Another mentor and person that got me into this was Ken Kirkmeyer, who lived in the South End, who was the President of Tent City Task Force. And he was actually the project manager that spearheaded this project and worked with the neighbors to create this marvelous place to walk the South End corridor.   Eve: [00:12:04] So Boston and all that really formed your professional path. And where did that lead you? Where are you now?   Libby: [00:12:12] So I now live in San Francisco, across the country.   Eve: [00:12:18] Very different.   Libby: [00:12:20] Yes. But I think sister cities. We're on the water. We have a long history of progressive politics. Though, it's quite different out here than it is in Boston and a very, very strong set of values when it comes to preserving history, to recognize the importance of neighborhoods and community and thoughtfulness about design. A lot of architects and designers. In fact, when I when I was making the decision to leave Boston and come out here, I can't tell you how many people told me not to come because there's way too many planners out here, urban planners and architects and real estate economists. And it was going to be very hard to move, unfortunately, chose the time to move, which was one of the recessionary times we had across the industry. But it all worked out and I love it here. It's a beautiful city and the Bay Area is an absolutely lovely place to be. And there are so many challenges and I thrive on challenges. So there are so many urban challenges in the Bay Area to work on.   Eve: [00:13:34] What sort of challenges? What do you work on?   Libby: [00:13:36] Well, first, you know, like in Boston, but even worse, the cost of housing is just phenomenal out here and out of reach of so many people. And it exacerbates the haves and the have nots. So that's a big challenge that I work on a lot, both as a volunteer and in my profession. It's also that we have we have to be very conscious of sea level rise, much of the Bay area is on water, as it makes sense, we're on the bay. We're on the ocean, San Francisco straddles the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. And so, we're virtually surrounded by water on three sides. And we have the possibility of our downtown in San Francisco being underwater in the not-too-distant future. The history of San Francisco, like Boston, there's a lot of the city is on fill. We have natural hills that we took down, many of them to build fill, and we filled in a lot of the areas that when you come to visit San Francisco and you're walking around that land used to be either marshland or ocean, very deep ocean or bay. So actually bay, not ocean, but through the ocean, water intrudes. So that's a big challenge. We also have earthquakes. Just to keep things interesting. So that shakes us up every once in a while. And we're at risk of an earthquake, particularly in the East Bay, happening again. So we have to be very conscious of resilience in so many ways. So that makes our our life challenging. And we have we have it's an absolute blessing and a curse. As many people say, we have the most amazing set of folks in technology. I mean, many of whom are M.I.T. alums and Stanford alums who have formed this tech corridor and biotech corridor that we have all through the through the Bay Area Peninsula and Silicon Valley, which is absolutely amazing and makes our economy incredibly strong and robust. And California's incredibly strong and robust. But alongside of that, it ends up pushing up the price of land and the price of development so it can make it very hard for small businesses to be successful. Sometimes small retail businesses, the rents can get very expensive. That can make it more difficult for them. So, we have a lot of challenges.   Eve: [00:16:18] So how does that like, how does that color the work that you do? You now have your own company, right? And you do consulting work? And is it mostly around affordable housing or what challenges do you confront in that work?   Libby: [00:16:33] Great question. So, I do a lot more than affordable housing work, but my passion and heart is around affordable housing. I just want to say on one of my volunteer efforts, because I want people to know about this, I'm the co-chair of the Utilized San Francisco Housing the Bay Steering Committee, and we are dedicated to promoting and producing more housing in the Bay Area through our work. And we have an upcoming summit that's happening June 2nd, 3rd and 4th. This will be our fourth summit that we've had where we bring together a very diverse group of speakers from around the world and the United States to talk about the Bay Area's housing situation, but also more generally, the housing situation across the United States and what are great strategies and tools and best practices that we can use to improve our housing situation. Which includes building all types of housing for all types of people. It's very invigorating to be part of the housing the Bay effort. And this summit always inspires me every year to do more. And in my practice, I work with a lot of cities and developers that are dedicated to building affordable housing and mixed income housing, which is even tougher to do. Tent City was able to hit the timing right with the funding and the commitment by the city to make that mixed income housing development happen. And it had a unique location, but it's been it's very difficult to get the funding together and the financing that is necessary to do mixed income housing at scale. We do have a strong inclusionary housing set of regulations, but here in many cities in the Bay Area, so we do a lot of work and inclusionary housing, which means that a portion of housing is restricted for occupancy or dedicated to occupancy by persons of usually very low, low and moderate income, which is HUD speak is federal housing agency speak for people that earn typically less than the rest of us or about the same.   Eve: [00:19:05] Critical for the function of the city, right?   Libby: [00:19:08]  Right.   Eve: [00:19:09] Often service workers and ...   Libby: [00:19:11] Essential workers, yep.   Eve: [00:19:12] And people who keep places going.   Libby: [00:19:15] Yep, exactly.   Eve: [00:19:17] If they live too far out, then those places are not going to work anymore.   Libby: [00:19:20] Exactly. Exactly. And trying to figure out how to do this with the private market. So I work a lot on the private market side. I'm the number cruncher behind the scenes and the strategist trying to work on these projects. And so, we're constantly trying to thread the needle to figure out how can we keep the private market still building housing while including housing for more people of a greater and more diverse set of backgrounds and incomes?   Eve: [00:19:54] Yeah, it's a really big challenge.   Libby: [00:19:58] It's really big.   Eve: [00:20:00] Well, I want to shift gears a little bit, because I also know about another one of your passions, which is also very close to my heart. And that is how to increase the visibility of women in the real estate industry, in particular real estate developers. And so I've kind of watched you over the years put together a little group that's become the Women's Development Collaborative, and it isn't so little anymore. And I wanted to talk about that. Where did this come from? Why did you start it?   Libby: [00:20:35] That's a great question. I guess I mentioned the Urban Land Institute or ULI earlier, and I've been a member of ULI now for, realizing it's been three decades or more. It's an organization that's dedicated to advancing development across the world, globally, and since I've been involved for so many years. When I first got involved, I was often the youngest person in the room and many of these national conferences, and I was often the only woman or one of the few women. And it was very important to me to find, I guess, soul sisters or wise women in this industry. It had been a struggle in my career at different I know, right, to be the only woman. And it was definitely...   Eve: [00:21:31] I was the only woman developer in Pittsburgh for quite a while. So, I ...   Libby: [00:21:35] Yeah. You were? Well, and Eve, I don't know if you remember this, but how we met was we were at a conference for the Women Presidents Organization in San Francisco.   Eve: [00:21:47] Yes.   Libby: [00:21:47] Many, many years ago, and you and I both were involved in that. And that's an organization that's dedicated to women entrepreneurs and building capacity. It's a peer-based group. It actually also inspired the Women's Development Collaborative. So it's worth talking about for a minute in case anybody on the line, a woman entrepreneur, it's a great group.   Eve: [00:22:09] It's a great group.   Libby: [00:22:09] But what was incredibly funny was there's this entire ballroom, one of San Francisco's largest ballrooms, with tables all across it on a Saturday morning with signs on it of like, you know, are you in consumer affairs? Are you in you know? I don't know. Do you do retail product, apparel, whatever? But all across the room, everything. There was one table in real estate, and it was at the table. You and I, we were the only ones at the table.   Eve: [00:22:40] And it's really not a whole lot different today, Libby. What really scares me.   Libby: [00:22:49] It's true. It's true. So, I mean, it's better, we're working very hard at ULI. So the origin story of the Women's Development Collaborative goes back to these times. And ULI, which still often continue but have gotten better because a number of women that were part of this informal network of wise women, soul sisters that came together to meet on a regular basis at the spring and fall meetings of ULI, which are national meetings when we get together across the country. And we would meet, whether it was for dinner or breakfast or whatever, and we would share ideas about development and best practices and what we were doing. And one of my mentors, she said to me, well, you need to we need to do something more than this. Like these women's receptions in these gatherings are fine, but we need to actually make a difference. We need to improve leadership. And so a number of us got together and helped form what's now called the Women's Leadership Initiative, or WLI within ULI, which is dedicated to advancing women's leadership in the entire real estate industry. And that's been phenomenal and that's gone on since 2012. And again, anyone in the real estate industry should follow that because WLI is wonderful. But at the same time, there we had this niche group that was really focused on development and we recognize that development itself, which is part of the entire landscape of real estate, that you needed support and nurturing and showcasing. And so we started to alongside of the WLI activities, I continue to organize with a lot of other women, events around this spring and fall meetings where we would showcase women developers. We'd go tour their projects, we hear from them, we learn from them. And it's just been so inspiring to see these projects.   Eve: [00:25:02] It really has been.   Libby: [00:25:03] And then we had to go virtual because there was no Toronto meeting. And so now we're online. So, you can find us at the Women's Development Collaborative online. And we are really trying to build our presence across the United States and Canada. We have a number of women involved from Canada to really promote and advance women's success, leadership, innovation and collaboration and building transformative developments.   Eve: [00:25:35] I need to tell you, like I I was also a member of ULI for many years, and then I stopped my membership because I really didn't feel like I belonged there, for a couple of reasons. One was the whole woman thing. But also, I was working on quirky, small interstitial urban projects. And when I was a member of ULI just there was there was nothing there was no one talking about that. So I stopped attending. And actually, when you started inviting me to the Women's Development Collaborative meetings was when I decided to join again because I finally felt like there was sort of a space emerging for developers like myself. That and the small-scale development group, which has been also pretty wonderful to see emerge. But I think...   Libby: [00:26:28] Yes, yes.   Eve: [00:26:29] Times are very different, but it is incredibly inspiring what you're doing and you have a lot of stick-to-it-ness. And it's also very frustrating to see how slowly things have changed. I mean, what do you think about that, for women? It's very slow.   Libby: [00:26:43] Yeah, it is really slow, but it is it is getting better bit by bit. You know, it is, I was looking at some data and it is it is improving, but it is very, very hard. And it's I think that, you know, I, I think that a couple of things that we have to think about and think about deeply, which is that in addition particularly to the history of African-Americans in the United States and their inability to first secure and hold property or even keep property right after the civil war. Property was actually stolen away from them, it was often stolen away back from Native Americans as well. So, we have had a history in our country of not respecting and honoring property for persons of color. But at the same time, when we think about the history and it's not just of the United States it's of the world, women were not allowed to own property. And it also varied state by state. And I believe it still does. And a lot of states that there are different rules that make it very hard for women to hold property or to transact. So it's not just discrimination in the sense of how you show up. Like if you're a woman, you're obviously different as you enter a room, but it's also the rules by which we play. So getting through the those rules...   Eve: [00:28:21] Not just the rules, but the culture that those rules perpetuate,   Libby: [00:28:25] Yeah, and the culture.   Eve: [00:28:25] Because even if there are no rules there, you know, I have to say I, I own a small portfolio of buildings and I have two female bankers to thank for it. Without them, I would not own that portfolio of buildings, which is really an extraordinary thing to say, right?   Libby: [00:28:44] It is. It is. And, you know, that's part of what WDC is trying to work on. I mean, we have we have a lot of ambitions and it's and it's hard to even figure out what to prioritize because there's so many challenges. But alongside of really promoting women developers, we want to expand women in the workforce and the development supply chain for developments because of exactly what you said, that we need more women bankers. We need more women equity investors. I mean, that's something we want to talk about, right? That that women just aren't investing as much as men.   Eve: [00:29:24] Oh yeah, women investors. Why do women not invest? I don't understand.   Libby: [00:29:32] Well, and I think it's I think there's a history of this. Like I think there's an education process. I mean, that's partly what WDC is a big part of our mission is to educate. But I'm now recognizing it's not just educating and building up women developers like educating ourselves about each other or, you know, the service providers, introducing them to women developers. It's also about educating the broader community. I was listening to your podcast with Stephanie Gripne and I absolutely loved the conversation that you had about the fact that in essence, you know, part of this is a perception issue that if we think about it, everyone is an investor, as Stephanie said. She said when we make a choice to buy, she used buy milk. That was her analogy. When we buy milk, we make a conscious choice whether we're realizing that it's conscious or not, that we're using milk. We're choosing a type of milk that's sold by a certain company. And we may be choosing it based on price, but we may be choosing it based on the fact that we recognize the farms or the farms where it came from. Or in these days, we might be making a choice not to buy cow milk. We might be buying almond milk or soy milk, and we may be looking at how that was grown. So we have to, I think women are the biggest consumers in our country. So struck by this, after I listened to that podcast, that we are the ones that we lead the buying. If you look at all the consumer surveys, women are the buyers in our society. We are the retail shoppers. We love to shop. We do comparison shopping, et cetera, et cetera. We need to learn as women how to do the same thing with real estate investment. We need to get educated about it, it's it's a much different world than buying milk, but at the same time it is it is how the milk is, where the milk sits right in our society, these buildings.   Eve: [00:31:49] What's interesting to me, if I think about researching where milk comes from, so I can make an informed decision, that makes my brain hurt compared to understanding a real estate project and what I might invest in. So I think it's partly what you're trained in, what you learn, how you're educated. It's not I don't think it's harder to do. It's just different.   Libby: [00:32:12] Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you're absolutely right. It's it's not harder to do. It's just different. But we're not educated in it. I mean, I don't know how you feel about this, but I never learned really what I do today. Like when I was in school, they didn't teach me what I what I practice right now. I learned real estate by reading books, honestly.   Eve: [00:32:39] Oh. How did I learn Securities Law? Yes, yeah.   Libby: [00:32:46] Yeah, exactly. Like reading books so and getting educated in it. And now I mean I'm grateful. I'm able to teach, I'm teaching now at UC Berkeley. I'm a lecturer part time, but I just absolutely love being able to teach. And what I recognize is I teach public private partnerships, which is a lot of my work is how to get the public in the private sector to work together, whether it's on a deal that the public sector is sponsoring or whether it's just a deal a private developer wants to do. And they need the support of the public sector, which is pretty much every project ever.   Eve: [00:33:24] Yes, that's right.   Libby: [00:33:26] Especially in the Bay Area. If you don't have public support, you're not going to get your project. And what I recognize is there are so there are so few classes that actually teach people how to do this and how to do it well or how to do real estate development and how to do it well. Luckily, ULI has offers a lot. And as you said, the you know, the small scale development council, that they focus on that and have some great trainings through ULI. But it is not something that is taught to the average person. It's not like we go to school and we learn about how buildings are built.   Eve: [00:34:03] Right.   Libby: [00:34:03] And so I think we have to start to educate the general population and in our case with the women's development, collaborative women in particular, and including women in our field, because what I'm even finding out is through the WDC, I've been asking women like, do you invest in real estate? And the answer is often is pretty much no, we don't we don't know. We don't know how to do it. We don't understand it. So that's a mission for someone in our and where...   Eve: [00:34:39] I can sense a class coming along that you and I can conduct.   Libby: [00:34:43] Exactly. I'm so excited about this. I really want to do this, Eve this spring or summer. I want to do a class in how to invest in real estate and why. It's like how to invest in real estate and why should we care and why should we do it. And I think it's critical.   Eve: [00:35:01] Yeah, it's also something else about real estate, you know, that I think over the last few decades, everyone's been trained to think about quick returns. And real estate isn't that. You just have to think about the long haul.   Libby: [00:35:19] Right.   Eve: [00:35:20] And I'm always stunned when I hear from people saying I invested there and they're going to give me my money back in six months. Can I do that in real estate? And I'm like, no, what can you do in six months in real estate? It's, it's a different thought process.   Libby: [00:35:38] It's absolutely a different thought process. And I also think that the real estate is much more long term in the investment horizon that many capital providers, meaning institutional and private investment capital, which is what fuels a lot of real estate development in the United States and across the world. It is usually focused on five-to-seven-year time horizons. And in terms of equity investment, a lot of the money that is coming in. So, their preference is that they can make their money back, they can get their money back and a return within a five-to-seven-year horizon. And that puts you on the one hand, it puts a certain discipline in the market, but it also means that it goes at counter purposes for, you know, the idea of patient capital, because buildings are they're going to I mean, if we build them well, they should last for a very long time, if not forever, like they do in Europe. And some buildings have a lifetime. Kind of you think at a minimum of 50 years, if we're doing a good job, that should be the minimum life and hopefully it's much longer than that. So the time horizons have to be much longer. But as you said, you know, in many consumer markets, it's a much shorter time horizon, six months or a year. It is just not it's not realistic in real estate.   Eve: [00:37:15] Tell me, how much has WDC grown since you started it? How many members how many of your meetings and what do you do now that it's covid-19.   Libby: [00:37:28] Right. Right. So so first of all, we are very much still a start-up organization. We're reaching out to anyone that's interested in joining, please Google Women's Development Collaborative and reach out. Our organization has about I guess we have 400 to 500 women on our email list and our LinkedIn group now I think it's around 300 people. So it's still very much a growing group. Our meetings are intentionally intimate and small, usually 30 to 40, maybe 50 people, 50 women. We are intentionally keeping this focused on women. We are trying to think about how do we bring in men as allies, because that's critical, particularly as we start to think about some of our next goals of what we want to do as an organization. But the goal of WDC is to really build our capacity and to create a safe space for us to as women, to be able to provide advice and guidance to other women and to be open about our deals and what we're what we're experiencing and to provide advice. So that's the scale we're at. And I think to myself, how big do we really want to be? Do we want to be another ULI? What is the scale that we really want to be at, and I and I think it's a, it's a question that we have to ponder as the group of us, because I think we cherish having the ability to know one another and to get to know one another. So, we want to keep that part of WDC alive because it's so important to all of us.   Eve: [00:39:22] So this year, programming is changed because of the, at least last year, because of the pandemic.   Libby: [00:39:27] Yes.   Eve: [00:39:28] And I thought as I watched it, it was sort of an amazing opportunity. To move this group along a bit fast and not be reliant on ULI meetings twice a year and the people who can afford to show up there.   Libby: [00:39:42] Yes, yes, that's true. It is. That is one thing about being online that we can provide better access to, just across the country and people can access it. We will definitely keep an online program, even if we could hopefully go back to meeting in person, maybe even as early as this fall in Chicago at ULI. But what we what we have right now are a series of programs that we've been evolving. You do such an amazing job at Small Change in branding. I've learned so much from you about this.   Eve: [00:40:23] Thank you.   Libby: [00:40:24] And really, it's incredible. And one of the programs that we have very much inspired by you and this podcast, though I didn't even know when I when I was first thinking about it, I didn't even realize you were on this podcast quest. And then when I started talking with you, you actually agreed to be the first person to participate. And it's called In Conversation with Developer. So, it was in conversation with the developer, Eve Picker. And we've done a series of these. And each conversation is just so fascinating like this. Your podcast about how did the women make the decisions they did to be developers, who has provided them support along their way, etc. So those have been really, really inspiring. We also have these project forums that are dedicated to helping women developer and emerging developer present the challenges that she's facing regarding her development project and receive advice from a panel of seasoned professionals to help her overcome these challenges. And thankfully, Eve, you also participated on one of those project forums as well, were you able to be part of a panel to provide advice? We call it kind of instead of a shark tank. It's a guppy tank. It's a place it's a safe space where people can feel comfortable and really get honest advice about how to move forward. So, we've had several of those. We've we're doing three this year. We've had three already last year in the year before. So, we're building our program there. So, if anyone out there is an emerging developer, that's an option for you to consider. And then I'm just going to do one other program. We have a number of others. But the other one I want to talk about is the investment forum, because this is where tying to our discussion earlier, we are really trying to build our collective muscle to invest in and advance successful development partnerships. And that investment forum is featuring conversations with women developers and investors about how deals are done. And it's actually a learning experience for developers and potential investors. So that's what we're dedicated on. And that's the program where I really want us to collaborate on thinking about how. How can we get more women in the investment world?   Eve: [00:43:03] Yes, that's critical. So what are some potential strategies you're thinking about for promoting investment or encouraging women to invest?   Libby: [00:43:16] So we've been working on an investment framework that's a gender lens framework for how we could evaluate investments in women led developments. And that's been a process. We've been very informed by the Small Change metrics and thinking about how crowdfunding could be a potential tool to encourage investment in women led developments. But we also realized that we needed to define what we meant by women led development, and we needed to think about the whole ecosystem, like I talked about earlier, about all the women that could contribute to it. So we're focusing right now on WDC taking on four dimensions of activities to empower women developers to expand economic opportunity, which means expanding women in the workforce and the development supply chain, as we talked about earlier, expanding access to capital. So building on the same theme. So, both getting women, individual women investors to invest in real estate, but also just to promote investment more broadly from men and women and institutional corporations in development. And then we want to make sure that these developments benefit women and communities, and so we've come up with a set of principles and you and I speak. There's a lot of 10 principles books. So, we have 10 principles of transformative development that benefit women and communities. And we're using these four criteria, these four activities, as a way to measure women developers and their development to provide recommendations. So the screening process to provide recommendations to women and to men about developments that they may invest in. So, four lenses are women in leadership in development, women in the supply chain and workforce, women capital providers and benefiting women and communities. And out of these criteria, we developed 10 questions. We spent a long time actually refining these 10 questions that really it was more like 15. We refined it went through a number of rounds. And what's really been great is we had this whole community of women developers who've beta tested this scoring process a lot. And you were one of them. So, thank you so much, Eve.   Eve: [00:45:53] It's great.   Libby: [00:45:54] Women from around the country and we learned a lot through this beta testing. And we think we have an investment framework that can work alongside of the Small Change index and other crowdfunding platform.   Eve: [00:46:09] And other ESG indices, right? Like...   Libby: [00:46:13] Yes.   Eve: [00:46:13] It's a very particular woman-centric real estate lens. It's great.   Libby: [00:46:20] Yeah. And so what we're hoping to do, our next step is that we are really trying to work on the strategies that are going to enable us as a small organization, you know, where can we make impact first and how can we make impact first? But our hope is to actually encourage some individual investment and crowdfunding investment in specific real estate developments that will be placed through this investment framework lens. That's our first goal.   Eve: [00:46:52] It's pretty big.   Libby: [00:46:54] It's a big goal. It's a really big goal.   Eve: [00:46:56] It's a very big goal. So, I have to wrap up and I just have one final question for you, and that is, what are you most excited about right now?   Libby: [00:47:08] It's so many things that I'm working on, but I think what I'm most excited about with WDC and my work generally is just the number of wonderful young and emerging women developers and and women who want to be developers. There is this community of women that are both really younger and older. It's women who've been in their careers in real estate for a number of years. For example, a woman architect who's decided that she wants to be a developer after having been leading her practice for a number of years and is actually her first project, is going to be building a building for herself and her community of professionals that she works with. So the building will be bigger than just her architectural practice. It will include others in it as well. And then younger women developers who are starting out, who are really interested in changing the world and in leading development companies. And it's very exciting to talk to them and hear what they're doing and how they're going about it and trying to support them. We have another colleague that you and I know who is developing is working on a mixed use project in her community that is going to be transformative for that community, be a place where people can gather. And whereas she says one plus one can equal much more than that. And that's Molly McCabe, who you've also interviewed here in your podcast.   Eve: [00:48:50] Yes.   Libby: [00:48:51] So I just thought that constantly inspires me to have to just have that sense that there is this community and this future of women in development that we can encourage and build upon, which is fabulous.   Eve: [00:49:06] Well, thank you so much for your time, Libby. I have really enjoyed our conversation and I'm going to be seeing a lot more of you.   Libby: [00:49:14] Yes, I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much, Eve.   Eve: [00:49:32] That was Libby Seifel, Libby's career has been one built from her heart. First, she worked on affordable housing concepts that were ground-breaking at the time, having witnessed firsthand how crushing gentrification and displacement can be. And now she is focused on the small number of women in the room. She has puzzled over the years, as have many of us, why there are so few women who take the leap into real estate investment and development. She intends for the Women's Development Collaborative to be a safe place for women who are testing the waters to land. A place where they will be supported by their peers as they emerge as women developers. Please share this podcast so that more women learn about Libby and the Women's Development Collaborative. You can find out more about this episode on the show notes page at EvePicker.com or you can find other episodes you might have missed or you can show your support at Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate, where you can learn about special opportunities for my friends and followers. A special thanks to David Allardice for his excellent editing of this podcast and original music. And thanks to you for spending your time with me today. We'll talk again soon. But for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

Tonight’s reading comes from Sticks and Stones – A Study of American Architecture and Civilization. Published in 1924, this book was authored by Lewis Mumford. My name is Teddy and I aim to help people everywhere get a good night’s rest. Sleep is so important and my mission is to help you get the rest you need. The podcast is designed to play in the background while you slowly fall asleep. If you do appreciate the podcast, a lovely way to say thank you is to leave a 5 star review in iTunes or your podcast app, even one sentence helps out. It would also be awesome if you were able to share the podcast with someone you know who may also need a good night’s sleep. If you would like, you can also say hello at Boreyoutosleep.com where you can support the podcast. I’m also on Twitter and Instagram @BoreYouToSleep In the meantime, lie back, relax and enjoy the readings. Sincerely. Teddy --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/boreyoutosleep/support

Charles Radclyffe, founder of EthicsGrade and sponsors of Are You A Robot? discusses his excitement about the opening season of AYAR?, especially around the upcoming debates on how we can avoid the ‘creepy-line' surrounding the advancements in AI and machine learning. Have you thought about the use of cookies when doing your online shop? What about Facebook recognising you and your friends in their photo tagging feature? Listen to Charles and Demetrios discussing the potential ethical issues surrounding these technological advancements and more! This episode is brought to you by EthicsGrade, an ESG Ratings agency with a particular focus on Technology Governance, especially AI Ethics. You can follow EthicsGrade on Twitter @EthicsGrade and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethical-by-design/about/ Follow Charles on Twitter @dataphilosopher and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radclyffe/ Follow Demetrios on Twitter @Dpbrinkm and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect With Us: Join our Slack channel for more conversation about the big ethics issues that rise from AI: https://join.slack.com/t/are-you-a-robot/shared_invite/zt-h1871xb4-_XZZ33Ex5GZ5_KRP~xpBcg Follow Are You A Robot? on Twitter and Instagram @AreYouARobotPod Resources mentioned in this episode: Are You A Robot? Slack community: https://join.slack.com/t/are-you-a-robot/shared_invite/zt-h1871xb4-_XZZ33Ex5GZ5_KRP~xpBcg The Social Dilemma documentary: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81254224 Tim Berners-Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee GDPR: https://gdpr.eu/ Fawkes: https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/ Charles' Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_radclyffe_three_steps_to_surviving_the_robot_revolution Space Odyssey film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ Charles' interview about Digital Health Passports: https://vimeo.com/472515849 In The Gleaming Light by Harriet Moore: http://www.hrmoore.com/#gleaming Robots Should be Slaves by Joanna Bryson: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/ftp/Bryson-Slaves-Book09.html Lewis Mumford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford MLops.community: https://mlops.community/

En Historia de las utopías, Lewis Mumford advierte en las utopías un carácter totalizante y autoritario, que no concibe lugar para el conflicto, el mal o la corrupción en las sociedades ahí esbozadas. La planeación de la felicidad no dejaría entonces cabos sueltos para la irrupción (en su vertiente negativa) del azar o lo imprevisible. Intersticios

Prof Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media, culture and communications at New York University where he specializes in modern propaganda, history of advertising, film and the mainstream media.  He is the lead chief editor of the series Forbidden Bookshelf at Open Road Media, which republishes important books that have been censored, banned, ignored or wrongly criticized in the course of American history -- such as works by IF Stone, Lewis Mumford, Peter Dale Scott, Christopher Simpson and others.  Mark received his Masters and Doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He has written and contributed to many books, including "Loser take All" and "Fooled Again" which covered election fraud. He is also a playwright and sits on the boards of the Organization for Propaganda Studies and the Alliance for Human Research Protection, Mark hosts the news and commentary blog "News from the Underground" that can be found at his website MarkCrispinMiller.com Prof Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media, culture and communications at New York University where he specializes in modern propaganda, history of advertising, film and the mainstream media.  He is the lead chief editor of the series Forbidden Bookshelf at Open Road Media, which republishes important books that have been censored, banned, ignored or wrongly criticized in the course of American history -- such as works by IF Stone, Lewis Mumford, Peter Dale Scott, Christopher Simpson and others.  Mark received his Masters and Doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He has written and contributed to many books, including "Loser take All" and "Fooled Again" which covered election fraud. He is also a playwright and sits on the boards of the Organization for Propaganda Studies and the Alliance for Human Research Protection, Mark hosts the news and commentary blog "News from the Underground" that can be found at his website MarkCrispinMiller.com  

In the first part of our wrap up on Technology, we take a step back and look at the entire picture. The modern technoplex is discussed along with the top 5 dangers to humankind. Lewis Mumford and the difference between mono and polytechnics are covered and seven of the top futurists give their predictions on the upcoming technological world. Finally, the doomsday clock is discussed. The primary source for this episode was once again “Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition Anthology, Second Edition” by Wiley Blackwell and intro music courtesy of Golden Grey. Support the podcast by sending $1 for every episode you enjoy to WhatHaveWeDonePodcast@Gmail.com on Paypal. Email any questions or suggestions to WhatHaveWeDonePodcast@Gmail.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @WHWDPodcast. Discuss your favorite WHWD moments in reddit.com/r/WHWDPod. Catch new episodes every Thursday at 12:30 pm EST on all platforms. Keep Thinking

Prof Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media, culture and communications at New York University where he specializes in modern propaganda, history of advertising, film and the mainstream media.  He is the lead chief editor of the series Forbidden Bookshelf at Open Road Media, which republishes important books that have been censored, banned, ignored or wrongly criticized in the course of American history -- such as works by IF Stone, Lewis Mumford, Peter Dale Scott, Christopher Simpson and others.  Mark received his Masters and Doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He has written and contributed to many books, including "Loser take All" and "Fooled Again" which covered election fraud. He is also a playwright and sits on the boards of the Organization for Propaganda Studies and the Alliance for Human Research Protection, Mark hosts the news and commentary blog "News from the Underground" that can be found at his website MarkCrispinMiller.com  

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of modernizing human experience through radical art. The success of this mission has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Critics have often characterized Russian Futurism as an expression of utopian daydreaming by young artists who were unrealistic in their visions of Soviet society and naïve in their comprehension of the Bolshevik political agenda. In The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Iva Glisic challenges this view, demonstrating that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality. This approach ultimately allowed Russia's Futurists to devise a unique artistic practice that would later become an integral element of the distinctly Soviet cultural paradigm. Drawing upon a unique combination of archival materials and employing a theoretical framework inspired by the works of philosophers such as Lewis Mumford, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Fred Polak, and Slavoj Žižek, The Futurist Files presents Futurists not as blinded idealists, but rather as active and judicious participants in the larger project of building a modern Soviet consciousness. This fascinating study ultimately stands as a reminder that while radical ideas are often dismissed as utopian, and impossible, they did―and can―have a critical role in driving social change. It will be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and scholars and students of Russian history. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of modernizing human experience through radical art. The success of this mission has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Critics have often characterized Russian Futurism as an expression of utopian daydreaming by young artists who were unrealistic in their visions of Soviet society and naïve in their comprehension of the Bolshevik political agenda. In The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Iva Glisic challenges this view, demonstrating that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality. This approach ultimately allowed Russia's Futurists to devise a unique artistic practice that would later become an integral element of the distinctly Soviet cultural paradigm. Drawing upon a unique combination of archival materials and employing a theoretical framework inspired by the works of philosophers such as Lewis Mumford, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Fred Polak, and Slavoj Žižek, The Futurist Files presents Futurists not as blinded idealists, but rather as active and judicious participants in the larger project of building a modern Soviet consciousness. This fascinating study ultimately stands as a reminder that while radical ideas are often dismissed as utopian, and impossible, they did―and can―have a critical role in driving social change. It will be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and scholars and students of Russian history. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of modernizing human experience through radical art. The success of this mission has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Critics have often characterized Russian Futurism as an expression of utopian daydreaming by young artists who were unrealistic in their visions of Soviet society and naïve in their comprehension of the Bolshevik political agenda. In The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Iva Glisic challenges this view, demonstrating that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality. This approach ultimately allowed Russia's Futurists to devise a unique artistic practice that would later become an integral element of the distinctly Soviet cultural paradigm. Drawing upon a unique combination of archival materials and employing a theoretical framework inspired by the works of philosophers such as Lewis Mumford, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Fred Polak, and Slavoj Žižek, The Futurist Files presents Futurists not as blinded idealists, but rather as active and judicious participants in the larger project of building a modern Soviet consciousness. This fascinating study ultimately stands as a reminder that while radical ideas are often dismissed as utopian, and impossible, they did―and can―have a critical role in driving social change. It will be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and scholars and students of Russian history. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of modernizing human experience through radical art. The success of this mission has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Critics have often characterized Russian Futurism as an expression of utopian daydreaming by young artists who were unrealistic in their visions of Soviet society and naïve in their comprehension of the Bolshevik political agenda. In The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Iva Glisic challenges this view, demonstrating that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality. This approach ultimately allowed Russia's Futurists to devise a unique artistic practice that would later become an integral element of the distinctly Soviet cultural paradigm. Drawing upon a unique combination of archival materials and employing a theoretical framework inspired by the works of philosophers such as Lewis Mumford, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Fred Polak, and Slavoj Žižek, The Futurist Files presents Futurists not as blinded idealists, but rather as active and judicious participants in the larger project of building a modern Soviet consciousness. This fascinating study ultimately stands as a reminder that while radical ideas are often dismissed as utopian, and impossible, they did―and can―have a critical role in driving social change. It will be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and scholars and students of Russian history. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of modernizing human experience through radical art. The success of this mission has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Critics have often characterized Russian Futurism as an expression of utopian daydreaming by young artists who were unrealistic in their visions of Soviet society and naïve in their comprehension of the Bolshevik political agenda. In The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Iva Glisic challenges this view, demonstrating that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality. This approach ultimately allowed Russia's Futurists to devise a unique artistic practice that would later become an integral element of the distinctly Soviet cultural paradigm. Drawing upon a unique combination of archival materials and employing a theoretical framework inspired by the works of philosophers such as Lewis Mumford, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Fred Polak, and Slavoj Žižek, The Futurist Files presents Futurists not as blinded idealists, but rather as active and judicious participants in the larger project of building a modern Soviet consciousness. This fascinating study ultimately stands as a reminder that while radical ideas are often dismissed as utopian, and impossible, they did―and can―have a critical role in driving social change. It will be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and scholars and students of Russian history. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CMO favorites Johnathan Aaron Baker and Chris Hudson are back! In this episode they discuss Urbanism, Suburbanism, and Ruralism in works of fiction. Books discussed: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The City in History by Lewis Mumford, The Swimmer by John Cheever, How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

This week I read a quote from Lewis Mumford's 1961 'The City in History' that shares strong parralels with points made by Sonal Chokshi about the future of podcasting that she made on the most recent episode of the Software Engineering Daily podcast. [Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/sedaily/2019_08_09_a16zPodcasting.mp3]

Show Notes We pause from issue-focused episodes and try to pull together the threads of the season so far to take a step toward our ethic of technology. Stephen imitating Lewis Mumford saying “I said that!!!” Links Donald Trump cannot block critical Twitter users, court rules The Lindy effect – John D. Cook on the expected lifetimes of technology: …if all you know is that a technology has survived a certain amount of time, you can estimate that it will survive about that much longer. President Bush’s “can’t get fooled again” gaffe “Keep your eyes peeled” A Framework for Moderation – Ben Thompson, published two days after we recorded After Technopoloy, Alan Jacobs. Stephen to this referred to as “Against Solutionism”—accidentally conflating Jacobs’ piece with a thesis Chris has been mulling on/slowly building an essay around this year. Chris is, uhh, flattered to be confused with Jacobs. Jacobs’ other blog posts on solutionism Things Chris has written related to this episode: Friction is the Friend of Serendipity “Zuckerberg’s Blindness and Ours” (L. M. Sacasas)—Solutionism is a nasty besetting culture-level sin we barely recognize as such. (riffing on a post by L. M. Sacasas) “Free Speech” …the whole reason we have these arguments — and the reason people tend to think as they do about the “free speech” question in these situations, legally nonsensical or not — is that we have outsourced the vast majority of our public discourse to these private platforms. “The Slow Web” and the limits of “solutions” (from the email archive, discussed in more depth in 7.04) Previous episode: 2.03: Impervious Scale—The Roman Empire and Friendster Have Things to Say to You 6.08: People Do Reject Technologies, Part 2—Nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and how to argue well with intractable disagreements. 7.01: Do We Really Need to Keep the Internet Around?—Season 7’s charter—by way of a rollicking argument about Alan Jacobs’ The Year of Our Lord 1943 and Tolkien’s idea of eucatastrophe. Music The Commuter by Mister Lies “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: Daniel Ellcey Jake Grant Jeremy W. Sherman Marnix Klooster Nathaniel Blaney Spencer Smith If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

Ráfaga a partir de una cita de Lewis Mumford, de Técnica y civilización, sobre el desarrollo de la tecnología y las modificaciones que introduce en el desarrollo de la vida cotidiana. Comentarios: Ernesto Priani Saisó. Producción: Ignacio Bazán Estrada. Voces: María Sandoval y Juan Stack. Controles técnicos: Miguel Ángel Ferrini.

This week’s guest is Dr. Zak Stein, an author and educator whom I met as fellow students of the work of philosopher Ken Wilber over ten years ago. Zak took the road of serious high academic scholarship while I was learning the less laudable and messier way through immersion in the arts and entertainment world, but here we are converging to discuss one of the most important issues of our time: the need for a new human story that includes both modernity’s rigorous scientific inquiry and postmodernity’s revelation of how everything we know is framed by language, culture, and perspective. Without some clever, soulful balance of the two we’re stuck in a “post-truth” era where our need for answers to our fundamental questions leads us backwards into “isms” instead of forwards into something more good, true, and beautiful than what has come before.Zak’s answer (like so many other guests on Future Fossils) is to get MORE rigorous about the scope and limits of the world disclosed by science, MORE honest with ourselves about the context-bound claims we can make on knowledge, and MORE open to how all “reality” starts in direct experience, as conscious subjects – where we meet to make new, open-ended, ever-more refined, evolving answers to the questions:What is human? What is love? What are we here to do?Read Zak’s new paper, “Love in a Time Between Worlds: On the Metamodern ‘Return’ to a Metaphysics of Eros”:http://www.zakstein.org/love-in-a-time-between-worlds/‘Where modern scientists often critique the claims of metaphysics as unverifiable and thus untrue, postmodernists critique both science and metaphysics for making truth claims in the first place. Either way, to call an idea or theory “metaphysical” has become another way of saying it is unacceptable. Often with comes with some implication that the theory is a kind of superstition, which means metaphysics is taken not as an attempt to engage the truth but rather as a kind of covert power play or psychological defense mechanism. I argue the opposite: metaphysics is what saves us from a descent into discourses that are merely about power and illusion. Believe it or not, there are metaphysical systems that survived postmodernism and popped-out of the far end of the 1990’s with “truth” and “reality” still intact. These include object oriented ontology and dialectical critical realism, among others.’Zak is also the Co-Presdient and Academic Director at the Center for Integral Wisdom:https://centerforintegralwisdom.org/…and on the scientific advisor board at Neurohacker Collective:https://neurohacker.com/— In this episode we discuss:Lewis Mumford, Ken Wilber, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jurgen Habermas, Seth Abramson, Timothy Morton, Rudolf Steiner, Alfred North Whitehead, Hanzi Freinacht, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Greenhall, and many other luminaries.Right-wing and authoritarian political thought is resurgent today because of the absence of reasonable discourse about metaphysical realities during a time when exactly these realties are being put in question due to the apocalypse of global capitalism and the accompanying planetary transition into the Anthropocene .The way we answer questions like, “What is the human?” will determine the next century because of the emerging power of new technologies that render the human mailable in unpresented ways, which has been made clear by writers like Yuval Harari.“The difference between metaphysics and science is not about what you can see and what you cannot see. It is about what you are paying attention to when you are seeing.”“What we call postmodernism is just modernism with the volume turned WAY up.”The difference between modern, postmodern, and metamodern views on science and the realities disclosed by science.What does it mean to cut a definition of the human out of our education systems?The relevance of Rudolf Steiner’s metaphysics and pedagogy in 21st Century education – especially its attention to subjectivity and interiority.How fundamentalism, nationalism, racism, and other regressive movements in society are symptoms of a postmodern assault on consensus reality.“In the absence of metaphysics, there’s a vacuum of meaning…what can step into that is not always pretty.”“After postmodernism, we can’t return to some pat, totalizing answer for everybody. After postmodernism, when we begin to build a new coherence, it’s always going to be a polycentric and dynamic and always renegotiated coherence. And that’s what science ought to be, which is to say, knowledge building, and not knowledge finding. Period.”“Ideas matter – and right now, we live in a context where ideas matter only insofar as they can be leveraged for clicks on websites that generate advertisement revenue.”When did we start gladly giving our decision-making powers over to others? And who do we trust now when we know that expertise is so contextual and frequently abused?Making the Earth into a giant building is the beginning of metamodern history – the Anthropocene signaling our deep relationship with the ecosphere.Michael reveals his vision of an Eclipse Station & Black Madonna University as a nobler motivation for a second “space race.”We’ve succeeded in making mega-machines out of people but need to reframe what it means to be IN relationship…Hyperobjects and a metamodern investigation of synchronicity and time…the objectivity of time is tricky.“Animals do not build sundials, even though they would benefit greatly from them. And so you’ll notice that one of the things that sets humans apart is their ability to make metaphysics – that they relate to things that are objectively real, like time.”The eternal and the everlasting – two different things.“Who gets to decide, and how do we get to decide, on these deep questions?”“To reify a false and truncated metaphysics – for example, to say that love doesn’t exist, that free will doesn’t actually exist – to really try to build institutions based on that, which would result in a radically authoritarian society – these things have been done. But never with the technological power that we now have to, for example, to build a school around that hypothesis. Or an army. And so there’s this very sincere need to make sure that as we move through this period, we’re keeping the voices who want to simplify and reduce and return to modernity and the monological at bay. So applaud, the postmodernists, but we also want to get beyond the postmodern critique, and the whole spirit and emotion of critique, and somehow move into a space where we’re reconstructing a new metanarrative, instead of taking potshots and deconstructing anyone who steps up to offer a metanarrative. After postmodernism it needs to be provisional, polycentric, built iteratively through collaboration. But there needs to be a project in good spirits in that direction. Because the regressive tendencies on the right who want to drive us toward racism and nationalism are having questions about, ‘What is the human?,’ and answering them irrationally. We need to have VERY reasonable and profound answers to questions like, ‘What is human?,’ ‘What are we here on Earth to do?,’ ‘What is a relationship?,’ ‘How important are relationships?,’ ‘What is love?,’ ‘Is love real?’, ‘What’s the significance of love?’…these things are part of what it means to be human.”How do we build a just and humane, “post-tragic” culture on the other side of the Crisis of the Anthropocene?We are all dependent on unjust and ecologically devastating supply chains…now what?“Hate creates externalities. Love creates no externalities.”The logic of the metamodern system has to be one in which there are no externalities.Support this show on PatreonJoin the Facebook GroupSubscribe on Apple PodcastsSubscribe on Google PodcastsSubscribe on StitcherSubscribe on SpotifySubscribe on iHeart Radio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yuval Noah Harari On this edition of Parallax Views I speak with author and artist Terry Tapp about his reflections on reading Israeli historian and New York Times bestseller Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and its worrying elitist underpinnings. We begin by discussing how Terry became interested in reading Harari's Homo Deus and his extremely negative reaction to it. We then back up a bit to discuss Harari's previous book Sapiens which leads us to a brief detour into the works of Lewis Mumford. After that we return to Terry's reading of Homo Deus and his many problems with it. This leads us into a discussion of issues related to the book such as the free will debate (which leads to a short anecdote about Terry's experience with New Atheist figurehead Daniel C. Dennett) and the elitist tendencies Terry found throughout Homo Deus which he ties back to Califronia's Silicon Valley tech community or the what he calls the "TED class". During the conversation we end up touching on the differences between the working class and the elite, Harari's unsettling concept of "the useless class", shamanism and art vs. Harari's data-ism, and the direction the Left should go in contrast to Harari. A Serf's Journal: The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike by Terry Tapp (Zero Books, 2017)

The third in a series of Gifford Lectures by Prof Diana Eck. Recorded on 30 April 2009 at The University of Edinburgh. Cities are the focal point of religious pluralism, for in cities the cultures and traditions of the world are concentrated. They are, as Lewis Mumford put it, "energy converted into culture." The term "cosmopolis" has long signaled the world-city, and indeed some of the great cities of the world have had a cosmopolitan texture for many centuries. Today, however, the number of new cosmopolitan cities has grown exponentially. While London, New York, and Mumbai may still be the great examples of world-cities, Leeds, Detroit, Boston, and Toronto also concentrate the energies of complex cultures. Even smaller cities, like Fremont, California, have significant Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist populations. What critical challenges have cities faced as they become more religiously and culturally diverse? How have these challenges been faced, negotiated? What new forms of city life are emerging? What new forms of religious life, including rapidly growing interfaith initiatives, are emerging in the urban environment? Listen to podcast

Philippe Bihouix est un des premiers en France à s’être intéressé de près à la question des limites des ressources en métaux et en particulier des métaux rares, et de leur importance dans la production des objets high tech dont nous sommes devenu si friands. Dans cet épisode il partage sa vision du futur, met le doigt sur les incohérences des modèles actuels de transition et explique pourquoi la seule solution, selon lui, est d’arrêter le gaspillage et d’accepter de revenir à des technologies plus simple et donc davantage recyclables et moins consommatrices de ressources. De quoi parle-t-on?2.00 - Pourquoi Philippe s’est mis a écrire des livres• Les livres qu’il a écrits :La raréfaction des métauxL’âge des low techLe désastre de l’école numérique• Nicholas Georgescu Roegen, premier économiste à s’intéresser à la question des ressources et de la décroissance5.45 - On fait le point sur les métaux, les réserves, les terres rares… • « Il n’y pas forcement de gros problème de réserve à court terme. »• « Il y aura pénurie à un moment, la question c’est quand. »• « On n’a pas une énergie infinie, on n’a pas de métaux infinies, et donc on est pris dans un cercle vicieux : les métaux réclament plus d’énergie et l’énergie réclame plus de métaux. »14 - Les énergies renouvelables sont gourmandes en métaux• « On ne peut pas monter à 100% de taux de recyclage. » • « Plus on va vers des hautes technologies plus il est difficile de recycler. » 18 - Un futur high tech ? • Lewis Mumford : la religion de la technologie• La nouvelle Atlantide, livre de Francis Bacon• Loi de Moore• « On ne vit pas dans une société post-industrielle on vit dans une société hyper industrielle. Les économistes qui écrivent le contraire ne sont pas dans les campagnes chinoises… » • « On a déporté la pollution à l’extérieure de la ville »• « On a une impression de dématérialisation qui est complètement fausse »• « Les objets connectés vont provoquer des besoins effrayants en terme d’énergie… et ça ne sera pas pour sauver la planète » • Estimation de la consommation énergétique du « cloud »25 - Les enjeux géopolitiques autour des ressources minières ? • La guerre des métaux rares, livre de Guillaume Pitron• « J’ai du mal a accrocher avec l’idée de relance minière en France »• « Notre indépendance envers la Chine n’est pas juste sur les terres rares… » • « Si la Chine décide d’arrêter de nous envoyer des smartphones on va tous pleurer très fort, mais le problème est bien plus large » • « Une mine n’est jamais propre, je n’aime pas ces arguments de relance minière » • « Moins de 10 % de l’or mondial est utilisé dans l’industrie, le reste sert à faire des lingots… »• « Pour faire monter le recyclage il faut faire monter le prix des ressources » • « Dans un smartphone il y a moins de 2 euros de matière première » 32 - Décroissance et low tech comme solution ? • Low tech• Shumacher• Paradoxe de Jevons (effet rebond)• « Si on ne va pas vers ça, on ne sera pas vraiment soutenable parce qu’on continuera d’être dépendant des ressources. » 38 - Arrêter de gâcher. Des exemples simples.• « On mise tout sur l’innovation techno alors qu’il y a une foultitude d’autres types d’innovation… »• « Les low tech c’est un appel à ça, attention il n’y a pas que des innovation techno »41 - Les raisons souvent avancées pour ne pas changer sont elles bonnes?• Théorie du déversement d'Alfred Sauvy• Schumpeter• « La croissance ne doit pas revenir parce qu’on n’arrive pas à découpler la croissance et la consommation de ressources et d’énergie. »• “Il faut refaire des exploitations agricoles à taille humaine”45 - Le dilemme du prisonnier : le premier qui bouge est perdant.• Parallèle avec l’abolition de l’esclavage par l’Angleterre. Il faut que que quelqu’un bouge en premier.• “Un pays peut-il entrer tellement en transition sans que tous les autres le fasse? Oui mais il faut se protéger.”• L’importance du combat normatif.51 - Qu’est-ce qu’il faut faire concrètement?• 4 niveaux d’action : personnel, territorial et local, étatique (fiscalité, financement de l’innovation, école), diplomatique• Tony Seba• Oppenheimer59 - Quel futur?• La politique de l’oxymore, livre de Bertrand Méheust • « Ça va être de plus en plus gris, de plus en plus sale, de plus en plus laid » • Encyclique pape François• Décalage du point de référence (Shfting baseline) - Talk de Daniel Pauly• “On en a énormément sous le pied...”• La falaise Sénèque, Ugo Bardi• « On peut baisser de 20 à 30% la consommation d’énergie sans que la voiture de pompier s’arrête… en gros c’est ça le débat, est-ce que les services de base d’arrêt demain matin? » Et la recommandation de lecture de Philippe : La guerre des salamandres, de Karel CapekMerci d’écouter cet épisode et si vous avez aimé, abonnez-vous à SISMIQUE sur votre plateforme préférée et laissez un avis et une note (sur Apple podcast), ça m’aide beaucoup :Apple PodcastsOvercastDeezerSoundcloud Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Slave Songs, Eye of the Tiger, The Helicopters, The Disappearance of Childhood Book by Neil Postman, Stunted Growth, Amusing Ourselves to Death Book by Neil Postman, The Technological Society Book by Jaques Ellul, Gay Disney, The Mouse that Roared, Disneyphile, Theodore Rozak: Youth and the Great Refusal essay.Lewis Mumford the Pentagon of Power, Conservatism and Culture, Suicide Squad, Alpha Brain State, Sex and Death, The American Family, Vietnam, My Lai Massacre, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man Book by Susan Faludi, Football. Commute Music: When I Grow Up (Fever Ray cover) by First Aid Kit hoaxbusterscall.com

Dynamics of Change Book by Don Fabun, Work: The Myth that Became a Monster,People Oriented Work, The Service Economy, Automation, Fight Club, Mass Media, McDonalds, Art, Extinction Tattoo, A Dictionary of Symbols Book by Juan Eduardo Cirlot, The Zone of Contradiction, Taylor Swift, Scenesters: Music, Mayhem amp; Melrose Ave. A Documentary 1985-1990, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Lewis Mumford, Charlottesville. Commute Music: Playground by The Truth

In this episode I talk to Anthony Behan. Anthony is a technologist with an interest in the political and legal aspects of technology. We have a wide-ranging discussion about the automation of the law and the politics of technology.  The conversation is based on Anthony's thesis ‘The Politics of Technology: An Assessment of the Barriers to Law Enforcement Automation in Ireland’, (a link to which is available in the links section below).You can download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe on Stitcher or iTunes (the RSS feed is here). Show Notes0:00 - Introduction2:35 - The relationship between technology and humanity5:25 - Technology and the legitimacy of the state8:15 - Is the state a kind of technology?13:20 - Does technology have a political orientation?20:20 - Automated traffic monitoring as a case study24:40 - Studying automated traffic monitoring in Ireland30:30 - The mismatch between technology and legal procedure33:58 - Does technology create new forms of governance or does it just make old forms more efficient?39:40 - The problem of discretion43:45 - The feminist gap in the debate about the automation of the state49:15 - A mindful approach to automation53:00 - Postcolonialism and resistance to automation  Relevant LinksFollow Anthony on TwitterAnthony's Blog'The Politics of Technology: An Assessment of the Barriers to Law Enforcement Automation in Ireland' by Anthony Behan'The Politics of City Architecture' by Anthony BehanLewis MumfordJane JacobsRobert Moses  #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Subscribe to the newsletter

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The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceived the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, the invention of the atomic bomb, the start of the Cold War, and the end of imperial rule as threats to stability and, in some cases, to mankind itself. But these intellectuals also theorized alternative political structures, legal frameworks, and communities and, thereby, sought to invent a new world order. Or Rosenboim’s The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2017), traces this exciting and uncertain moment in international thought. For Rosenboim, the period between the start of World War II in Europe and the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Korea witnessed the emergence of “globalism” itself. The book is a deep engagement with the ideas of an eclectic assortment of intellectuals–H.G. Wells, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, just to name a handful–who all participated in discussions of the global. For these intellectuals, the global was both a geographic and conceptual space. This space, however, had notable gaps, particularly in relation to the Global South. Given that our present “global” moment inherited these intellectuals’ categories, this book should be read by scholars of history and IR, along with anyone interested in world politics. Or Rosenboim is a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Queens College and POLIS, both at the University of Cambridge. Dexter Fergie will be pursuing his PhD in US and Global history at Northwestern University in September 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceived the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, the invention of the atomic bomb, the start of the Cold War, and the end of imperial rule as threats to stability and, in some cases, to mankind itself. But these intellectuals also theorized alternative political structures, legal frameworks, and communities and, thereby, sought to invent a new world order. Or Rosenboim’s The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2017), traces this exciting and uncertain moment in international thought. For Rosenboim, the period between the start of World War II in Europe and the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Korea witnessed the emergence of “globalism” itself. The book is a deep engagement with the ideas of an eclectic assortment of intellectuals–H.G. Wells, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, just to name a handful–who all participated in discussions of the global. For these intellectuals, the global was both a geographic and conceptual space. This space, however, had notable gaps, particularly in relation to the Global South. Given that our present “global” moment inherited these intellectuals’ categories, this book should be read by scholars of history and IR, along with anyone interested in world politics. Or Rosenboim is a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Queens College and POLIS, both at the University of Cambridge. Dexter Fergie will be pursuing his PhD in US and Global history at Northwestern University in September 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceived the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, the invention of the atomic bomb, the start of the Cold War, and the end of imperial rule as threats to stability and, in some cases, to mankind itself. But these intellectuals also theorized alternative political structures, legal frameworks, and communities and, thereby, sought to invent a new world order. Or Rosenboim’s The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2017), traces this exciting and uncertain moment in international thought. For Rosenboim, the period between the start of World War II in Europe and the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Korea witnessed the emergence of “globalism” itself. The book is a deep engagement with the ideas of an eclectic assortment of intellectuals–H.G. Wells, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, just to name a handful–who all participated in discussions of the global. For these intellectuals, the global was both a geographic and conceptual space. This space, however, had notable gaps, particularly in relation to the Global South. Given that our present “global” moment inherited these intellectuals’ categories, this book should be read by scholars of history and IR, along with anyone interested in world politics. Or Rosenboim is a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Queens College and POLIS, both at the University of Cambridge. Dexter Fergie will be pursuing his PhD in US and Global history at Northwestern University in September 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceived the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, the invention of the atomic bomb, the start of the Cold War, and the end of imperial rule as threats to stability and, in some cases, to mankind itself. But these intellectuals also theorized alternative political structures, legal frameworks, and communities and, thereby, sought to invent a new world order. Or Rosenboim’s The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2017), traces this exciting and uncertain moment in international thought. For Rosenboim, the period between the start of World War II in Europe and the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Korea witnessed the emergence of “globalism” itself. The book is a deep engagement with the ideas of an eclectic assortment of intellectuals–H.G. Wells, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, just to name a handful–who all participated in discussions of the global. For these intellectuals, the global was both a geographic and conceptual space. This space, however, had notable gaps, particularly in relation to the Global South. Given that our present “global” moment inherited these intellectuals’ categories, this book should be read by scholars of history and IR, along with anyone interested in world politics. Or Rosenboim is a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Queens College and POLIS, both at the University of Cambridge. Dexter Fergie will be pursuing his PhD in US and Global history at Northwestern University in September 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceived the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, the invention of the atomic bomb, the start of the Cold War, and the end of imperial rule as threats to stability and, in some cases, to mankind itself. But these intellectuals also theorized alternative political structures, legal frameworks, and communities and, thereby, sought to invent a new world order. Or Rosenboim’s The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2017), traces this exciting and uncertain moment in international thought. For Rosenboim, the period between the start of World War II in Europe and the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Korea witnessed the emergence of “globalism” itself. The book is a deep engagement with the ideas of an eclectic assortment of intellectuals–H.G. Wells, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, just to name a handful–who all participated in discussions of the global. For these intellectuals, the global was both a geographic and conceptual space. This space, however, had notable gaps, particularly in relation to the Global South. Given that our present “global” moment inherited these intellectuals’ categories, this book should be read by scholars of history and IR, along with anyone interested in world politics. Or Rosenboim is a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Queens College and POLIS, both at the University of Cambridge. Dexter Fergie will be pursuing his PhD in US and Global history at Northwestern University in September 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

De la ciencia en el arte. Francisco de Zulueta   Entrevistamos al músico, diseñador, programador, investigador y profesor de la Universitat Politècnica de València Francisco de Zulueta que nos habla de la música, del arte, de la ciencia y de la relación entre el ser humano y la máquina. El profesor Francisco de Zulueta se declara admirador del pianista Cedar Walton, del ingeniero de sonido Manuel Benedito y del filósofo e historiador Lewis Mumford probablemente el autor que más le ha influído y entre sus obras destaca una por encima del resto: La ciudad en la Historia. Elige una película estrenada en 2012 como un film muy especial porque esta misma tarde comparte con amigos cena y coloquio sobre ella en Gandía en cuyo Campus sus estudiantes tienen la fortuna de disfrutarle a diario. La cocinera del presidente (Les saveurs du Palais) es una comedia inspirada en la historia de la cocinera privada del presidente francés François Miterrand y nos invita siempre a pasar un buen rato, ese buen rato que generosamente ha compartido con nosotros el profesor Francisco de Zulueta.   Transcripción inicio de la entrevista   Decía aquel filósofo alemán que en la música todos los sentimientos vuelven a su estado puro y el mundo no es sino música hecha realidad. Nuestro invitado de hoy tal vez sea real o tal vez no. Pero este músico que devino en profesor tal vez lo que siempre quiso es que el corazón de la música estuviera presente en sus clases. Nuestro invitado de hoy es un profesor de raza, de aula, de pasillo y también de cafetería. Verbo fácil, inteligencia y generosidad son sus armas para seguir conquistando cada año estudiantes. Ha investigado cuestiones relacionadas con el diseño de sonido y el diseño visual y tiene una formación tan rica que su conversación es fuente contínua de inspiración. Como dijo ese viejo filósofo alemán que algunos llamamos Arturo y otros Arthur Schopenhauer El mundo es música hecha realidad y nuestro invitado el profesor Francisco de Zulueta de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia es fundamente música pero es también realidad, de hecho lo tenemos enfrente ahora mismo con un leve sonrojo en el rostro, jersey... gesto... que solamente se puede mantener cuando uno consigue convertir su vocación en su profesión.   Esteban Galán Universitat Jaume I de Castelló Grupo de investigación ITACA-UJI http://www.culturavisual.uji.es/ http://comtransmedia.com     Transmedia: el programa de investigación en comunicación Esteban Galán presenta un programa de entrevistas a investigadores y profesionales de la comunicación. El objetivo es pasar un buen rato mientras conocemos el trabajo que se hace desde los principales centros de investigación en comunicación. La revolución en la comunicación que hemos vivido ha cambiado el mundo y nuestra manera de relacionarnos. Transmedia es un programa que explora esta nueva realidad gracias a los profesionales e investigadores de la comunicación que generosamente comparten con nosotros sus vivencias. Buscamos, siempre con una sonrisa, las claves para comunicar de manera efectiva. Social media, storytelling, audiovisual 2.0, big data, realidad virtual, branded content o gamificación son algunos de los apasionantes temas que nos encanta tratar en este podcasT. --- http://comtransmedia.com/ --- Transmedia is a podcasT with interviews to communication and professional researchers. The goal is to have fun while we find out the highlights from the main research labs. The communication revolution has changed the world and our way of relating each other. Transmedia explores this new scenario with a smile, looking for the main keys to communicate today in an effective way. Social Media, storytelling, transmedia, cross-media, audiovisual 2.0, big data, virtual reality, branded content or gamification are some of the exciting topics that we are happy to deal with in this Transmedia podcasT. --- More info: https://comtransmedia.com/ transmediaelprograma@gmail.com @galanesteban #comTransmedia http://www.culturavisual.uji.es/ --- Esteban Galán Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain) Research Group ITACA-UJI http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8718-0937 https://comtransmedia.com/    

The third in a series of Gifford Lectures by Prof Diana Eck. Recorded on 30 April 2009 at The University of Edinburgh.Cities are the focal point of religious pluralism, for in cities the cultures and traditions of the world are concentrated. They are, as Lewis Mumford put it, "energy converted into culture."The term "cosmopolis" has long signaled the world-city, and indeed some of the great cities of the world have had a cosmopolitan texture for many centuries. Today, however, the number of new cosmopolitan cities has grown exponentially. While London, New York, and Mumbai may still be the great examples of world-cities, Leeds, Detroit, Boston, and Toronto also concentrate the energies of complex cultures. Even smaller cities, like Fremont, California, have significant Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist populations. What critical challenges have cities faced as they become more religiously and culturally diverse? How have these challenges been faced, negotiated? What new forms of city life are emerging? What new forms of religious life, including rapidly growing interfaith initiatives, are emerging in the urban environment?Listen to podcast

James Howard Kunstler believes that urban design will be the next big philosophical battle for the hearts and minds of Americans. One of the most important tasks we will face is determining the size, scale and shape of the 21st Century city. Kunstler says current cities are not scaled to the energy realities of the future. We must downscale, reform and de-automobilze our cities. Urban thinkers and urban planners will serve as our guides throughout that process. In this episode, Kunstler returns to the list of top 100 urban thinkers complied by Planetizen.com to discuss some of the top names on that list. People discussed on this program include: Christopher Alexander, Frederick Law Olmsted, Daniel Burnham, Lewis Mumford, Leon Krier, Le Corbusier, and Ian McHarg. Sponsor: GrinningPlanet.com

The third in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Diana Eck. Cities are the focal point of religious pluralism, for in cities the cultures and traditions of the world are concentrated. They are, as Lewis Mumford put it, ""energy converted into culture."" The term ""cosmopolis"" has long signaled the world-city, and indeed some of the great cities of the world have had a cosmopolitan texture for many centuries. Today, however, the number of new cosmopolitan cities has grown exponentially. While London, New York, and Mumbai may still be the great examples of world-cities, Leeds, Detroit, Boston, and Toronto also concentrate the energies of complex cultures. Even smaller cities, like Fremont, California, have significant Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist populations. Recorded on 30 April 2009 at St Cecilia's Hall.

In this special video podcast edition of the KunstlerCast you can watch and listen to the second half of a commentary track that James Howard Kunstler and Duncan Crary recorded for a soon-to-be-released DVD called The Story of Sprawl. The DVD is being produced by Planetizen.com. Kunstler and Crary comment on The City a 1939 film with a narrative written by the great 20th century generalist Lewis Mumford. In part 2 of the film Mumford pitches the idea for "green cities," but these green cities look an awful lot like suburbia. For information about this film and to watch a version without commentary, visit www.kunstlercast.com