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La seule façon de sauvegarder la complexité d’une société, c’est-à-dire ses libertés, avec un minimum d’autorité répressive, ne peut être autre chose que le sentiment vécu d’appartenance à la communauté.
Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
A research partnership between planners, community residents, local nonprofit service providers, and city agencies could help advance the science of place-based changes in a way that is useful for communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Public Safety
The New Inquiry
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Beyond international affairs, the theory of American exceptionalism also has implications for a political theory of networks. In contrast to Lovink, we maintain that in recent decades the processes of globalization have mutated from a system of control housed in a relatively small number of power hubs to a system of control infused into the
... See moreAlexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
At the same time, whatever remaining pockets of everyday life are not directed toward quantitative or acquisitive ends, or cannot be adapted to telematic participation, tend to deteriorate in esteem and desirability.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
five distinct (though often interconnected) dimensions of this culture: its relationship to a particular mode of reception; its role in encouraging viewer activism; its function as an interpretive community; its particular traditions of cultural production; its status as an alternative social community.