Comments on: Cultural Agency

By: Stability Through Instability « The Emergent Fool

Stability Through Instability « The Emergent Fool — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:10:17 +0000

[...] you can either take that as shorthand for “the participants believe” or you can ascribe cultural agency to the markets as I do. For the purposes of this discussion, it doesn’t really matter. [...]

By: Homelessness « Complex Adaptive Systems

Homelessness « Complex Adaptive Systems — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:22:56 +0000

[...] problem is in the society, the culture. It’s a form of illness or dysfunction of the higher level agent. It’s not an inevitable part of an industrialized society. And certainly not one as [...]

By: Notes from TED « Complex Adaptive Systems

Notes from TED « Complex Adaptive Systems — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:42:52 +0000

[...] about this referencing a “higher consciousness”. See levels of organization and cultural agency. Counterpoint theme: The Failure of the System to protect its individual constituents and serve [...]

By: Complex Systems Concept Summary « Complex Adaptive Systems

Complex Systems Concept Summary « Complex Adaptive Systems — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:37:45 +0000

[...] reductionist-only mindset often blinds us to important concepts like emergent causality and cultural agency. By adding in complex systems thinking, which centers on emergence, many once paradoxical and [...]

By: TED Talk: Susan Blackmore « Complex Adaptive Systems

TED Talk: Susan Blackmore « Complex Adaptive Systems — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:13:30 +0000

[...] Kevin’s post yesterday on the “Singularity“, we need to be taking more seriously cultural agency (which includes technological and socio-technological [...]