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On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.orgHawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" discusses programming as a knowledge-building activity, emphasizing the importance of tacit knowledge, collaboration, and effective documentation in developing and maintaining software systems.
ratfactor.comturned to American motion pictures
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
United States especially, policy-makersexplicitly discouraged them from cultivating Western-type desires.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
foreshadow a future filled with the seductively colonizing commodities of American modernity.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.
