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the first human colonists on another world will be a self-organized collection of amateurs

Posted Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:34 by PaulBHartzog

tweeted this today

"the first human colonists on another world will be a self-organized collection of amateurs"

Panarchy concepts poster

Posted Wed, 06/08/2011 - 12:00 by PaulBHartzog

So apparently I never posted my panarchy poster online (from a few years ago).

Sometimes I miss the obvious....

Click on the image for the full-size version.

Now That's a Big Door: Every Piece in It's Place

Posted Sun, 05/29/2011 - 17:55 by PaulBHartzog

Whoohoo!

I got blogged at The Brother's Brick!

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2011/05/29/every-piece-in-its-place/

Network Robustness and the Next Net

Posted Wed, 03/02/2011 - 16:21 by PaulBHartzog

I am posting this because recently i've been asked about it in conversations surrounding the building of the "#nextnet" ( http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23nextnet ).

While there is a plethora of work on networks and robustness / resilience, there are a few starting points:

Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong & Albert-László Barabási
NATURE | VOL 406 | 27 JULY 2000

Governments vs. Freedom of Assembly

Posted Mon, 02/14/2011 - 14:13 by PaulBHartzog

The first requirement when governments need to consolidate control is to prevent horizontal peer-to-peer communication. To this end, the first tactic is to suspend the right of “freedom of assembly” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly ).

In the past, people gathered in public squares and coffee houses. Today, they gather online.

So it comes as no surprise that governments are targeting these spaces.

In the past, people simply moved their meetings to new spaces. I’m hoping we will choose again to do that.

I’ll be over here….

Where will you be?

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Sustainable Monetary Systems

Posted Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:13 by PaulBHartzog

In "Options for Managing a Systemic Bank Crisis", Bernard Lietaer continues his interest in sustainable monetary systems. This time around he make a tie to complex systems and makes an important contrast between "efficiency" and "resilience".

Lietaer and I have been on the same page at least as far back as Douglas Rushkoff and I started discussing "open source currency" (Rushkoff http://rushkoff.com/articles/the-feature/open-source-currency/ , Energy Bulletin http://www.energybulletin.net/node/4207 ).

In this case, though, his language is a little weak, and so I'd like to recast it in complex systems terms....

http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=sustainable-monetary-systems

Code Creation Concerto :: Tron Legacy Soundtrack

Posted Tue, 12/28/2010 - 18:12 by PaulBHartzog

The age old question

"What do you listen to when you [ work || code || build ]?"

now has a new answer,
and that answer is

The Tron Legacy Soundtrack by Daft Punk

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tron-legacy-original-motion/id406192538

Understanding Carrying Capacity

Posted Fri, 07/02/2010 - 14:44 by PaulBHartzog

(Clicking the above image will download a pdf file of a larger image.)

In order to understand the complex world emerging around us, it is necessary to have a grasp of the ecological concept of "carrying capacity." This post explains this crucial concept without letting the mathematics distract us from the important points.

How Different Is Your Bow-tie?

Posted Tue, 06/22/2010 - 00:08 by PaulBHartzog

Michel Bauwens asked me to discuss bow-tie structures in relation to John Robb's ongoing use of them on his "Global Guerillas" blog. There is so much to say about bow-tie structures and the ways in which the concept is deployed. This article will give a brief background, take a closer look, and end with a note on the importance of bow-ties for the future.

Panarchy Is What We Make Of it

Posted Thu, 06/17/2010 - 16:23 by PaulBHartzog

Back in 2004, i wrote a lengthy response to Alexander Wendt's amazing article “Why a World State is Inevitable." (Wendt, Alexander (2003) 'Why a World State Is Inevitable', European Journal of International Relations 9(4): 491-542.), but surfing the web of late has convinced me to bring it forward (finally).

Alexander Wendt begins his paper “Why a World State is Inevitable” with the following concise formulation of his intent: “In this article I propose a teleological theory of the ‘logic of anarchy’ which suggests that a world state is inevitable….” I offer the following equally concise opposition: In this article I propose a teleonomic theory of the ‘logic of panarchy’ which suggests that a world state is not inevitable. I suggest that the stable “state” for
this teleonomic process is a global “complex adaptive system,” or governance network, in which the “logic of anarchy” gives way to the “logic of panarchy.”

http://www.panarchy.com/Members/PaulBHartzog/Papers/Panarchy%20Is%20What...
(folder: http://www.panarchy.com/Members/PaulBHartzog/Papers/ )