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2020-09-12

Inventing Nonviolence

Judith Butler’s The Force of Nonviolence advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory. Is it possible to merge Butler’s insights with a serious concern for how nonviolent politics can be effective? Protesters blocking traffic are accused of violence; a privatized health care system that leads Black, brown, and poor people to early […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accelerating Change, Accounting for Values, action, Change in Conditions of Change, Institutions of Social Fabric, Non-violence, social change, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-09-06

World Bank: Policy shifts can mitigate gray tsunami as population ages

“The greatest risk we face is not aging itself, but the unwillingness or inability to adapt,” said Laura Tuck, the World Bank’s vice president for the Europe and Central Asia region. As the planet’s population gets older, there are fears that a gray tsunami may make the possibility of golden aging more remote. But a […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Aging, Change in Conditions of Change, Creating Value, Fear of the Future, Future, Life-long Learning, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-05-01

Against Waldenponding

waldenponding, a broad tendency to retreat from, and artificially limit, digital life – the near-religious reactionary movement against digital life – a primitivist, fetishistic fear of screens as demonic objects. A way of relating to digital devices that seems shaped by a fearmongering vision of them as soul-sucking pumps, and their designers as Dark Lords […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Change in Conditions of Change, Digital Environment, Embodied Knowledge, Fear of new Media, Fear of Technology, Fear of the Future, technology Leave a Comment

2019-01-20

The Agenbite of Outwit

Evidently written in 1963, a year before McLuhan was to publish The Medium is the Message, this important article brings together in one place a number of the ideas that would appear in his most important book a year later: technology as human extensions, the Narcissus myth, psychic numbness that derives from our extensions, our unawareness […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Change in Conditions of Change, Collective Consciousness, Consciousness, Crisis of Consciousness, culture, Digital Environment, Future of Work, Global Consciousness, McLuhan, Technological Extensions, technology, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2017-08-04

Is the world really better than ever?

The headlines have never been worse. But an increasingly influential group of thinkers insists that humankind has never had it so good – and only our pessimism is holding us back.   By the end of last year, anyone who had been paying even passing attention to the news headlines was highly likely to conclude […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Change in Conditions of Change, Complexity, Evidence-Based Analysis, Foresight, Globalization, One World, Optimism, Value, values Leave a Comment

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