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Ronaldo didn't have a good game last night. And i don't like the guys general attitude. but have to disagree with this: I remember seeing him chasing back to support the right back (O'Shea / Neville) a couple of times - and thinking that people always bang on about him not supporting the...

Not read that one Sufi but this: I am really enjoying. He basically synthesises recent scientific breakthroughs in complexity, chaos, microbiology etc. and shows how these challenge the conventional mechanical view of the world bequeathed to us by the likes of Newton and Descartes. It has...

who was the sorcerer in question?

dissensus has got confused! jumbling up the order of posts... keeping us on our toes?

I'm not looking for an argument. But your attitude here seems wholly defeatist. I don't really understand what it is that you are driving at. In order to have a debate surely you need to engage with people and explain and discuss your ideas rather than just make pronouncements. Seriously...

Also I find some of the terminology baffling... but then I'm not well versed in this type of critical theory or whatever. Can you dumb it down at all for us ignorant types?

kinda difficult to be certain of something like that..

Because.....? What do they have to offer? Never heard of the first and know very little about the second.

:eek: who or what the fuck is that?

No not in my book. Unless you believe that the planets or the sea or time are purposeful agents which have deliberate strategies for interacting with other purposeful agents? I reckon all of human reality - social life - is made up of games.

Dunno if the "game model" itself ever "breaks down". Rather that the game(s) goes through constant processes of change, some incremental, others radical and abrubt. The rules are constantly being (re)negotiated, (re)interpreted, altered. And the strategies of individual players vary due to many...

I agree josef. I certainly don't think that it is all just random chaos. I think its helpful to view the social world as a giant game (a la Bourdieu) in which we are all actors/players. This is the way some guys I linked to earlier describe it: Dispensing with a mechanical and predictable...

why?

This is OTM. Not sure what you had in mind with the "externals"? The environment - Mama Tierra - is about all i can think of (and even the environment isn't really external since it both shapes and is shaped by human activity). I don't believe that anything is truly controlled - not the...

Agreed.... *tips hat* David Simon: very interesting!

So a ‘Newtonian’ mechanical worldview – i.e. one based on linear chains of cause and effect - is clearly flawed. Rather than viewing the world as a clockwork machine made up of many different basic parts; instead we need to see it as a holistic organism – a unified whole made up from the many...

advancing the META dissensus project Apologies if this is OT but it seems relevant, in an abstract sense, given that change is at the heart of this discussion [and pretty much every other on Dissensus). In this peice, Mowles, Stacey and Griffin argue that 'rather than portraying social...

Canadian National Post reports on a fledgling permaculture movement in Palestine (West Bank). Read more on the homepage of Green Intifada: Green Intifada is a community based, grassroots democratic movement; aiming to rebuild Palestinian society upon the ethics of sound environmental...

agency -- structure. mutually constitutive i reckon.

I share some of your optimism zhao. Using our creative capacities for innovation and cooperation we - that is humanity as a whole - can and do address our shared problems. But it ain't that simple. Humanity rarely thinks as a whole, it is divided along many lines. Often a problem solved for one...