Assume that this ash/dust cloud will be around for a weeks, months, or even years. How will that effect our (everyday) life? Will we still take that
In the common discourse on and around SPS, reading Steven Johnsson and Manuel De Landa, the idea of the city as an ecosystem where the city is the result of the emergent intelligence of its agents has been discussed. Taking that idea to a bigger scale, we might consider the Gaia hypothesis, where the world is considered a "a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic and biogeochemical conditions on Earth". The idea of the world as a selfregulating system has been on my mind since last night, when a friend talked about how old nordic mytholody explained the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull as nature selfregulating the effects of cheap airlines.
There is something interesting in the Gaia Hypothesis in relation to Steven Johnsson's Emergence, since the theories of emergent behaviour both deconstruct and reinforce the idea of Mother Earth. Taking the magic away but at the same time explaining the script.
I am not sure where this post is leading, but there is something in the air.
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I think we need to re-think the distincition between makro and micro. As Bruno Latour stated years ago the mechanisms in action are the same no matter what scale we are looking at. A phenomena is not more complex because it is on a makro level. We always have to go from makro to micro and back again.
ReplyDeleteOn the issue of high-speed rail I think that people will turn to cars before railway after air line traffic diminish (!) due to the fact that the process of building rails take longer than the process of moilizing cars as they already have roads.
The religious aspects of the Gaia hypothesis is important to address. The psychology of organizing commitment to environmental issues may take unsuspected turns. An example from the world of archives is the fact that mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) have transfered (Swedish among others) paper records into micro film and scanned files of religious reasons. A huge help for archives world wide.
"Genealogical or family history research is an important aspect of Latter-day Saint tradition, stemming from a doctrinal mandate for church members to research their family tree and perform vicarious ordinances for their ancestors. Mormons believe that these ordinances "seal" or link families together, with the goal being an unbroken chain back to Adam."
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ReplyDeletehadde ikke trodd du var gaia teoretiker jakob, kudos!
ReplyDeletejeg er jo av den oppfatning at denne vulkanen vil bringe europa tettere sammen over opplevelser folk har når de blir tvunget til å ta landeruten, og de steder de er tvunget til å oppholde seg i, kollektivt.
well, jeg er ikke overbevist om at jeg er tilhängere af gaia teorien, men jeg synes den er spändende og den kom i nyt lys gennem reflektionerne af emergent adfärd.
ReplyDelete@m_oh_ren: #ashtag http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/04/17/de-sociala-medierna-visar-sin-verkliga-styrka-under-flygstoppet
ReplyDeleteder er vi like, du og jeg. ang gaia teorin altså. på mine bedre dager blander jeg den gjerne med litt sørøstasiatisk spirituell buddhisme, ispedd litt japansk zen/taoisme på en fin forårsdag som denne. et hint av india? kanskje det og? nei, utelukkende øst for bangladesh.
ReplyDeleteang #ashtag; fin artikkel.
nå skjer det ting.
updated with recent events. http://www.openculture.com/2011/03/tsunami_ripples_across_globe_animation.html
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