newyorker.com 6-2022 Annals of Inquiry - How Harmful Is Social Media? - There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. - By Gideon Lewis-Kraus > www, internet, social media, democracy, epistemic In April, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published an essay in The Atlantic in which he sought … Continue reading How Harmful Is Social Media? Jonathan Haidt, Chris Bail – by Gideon Lewis-Kraus – 2022
Category: AGENCY
ECO CRISIS – The kids are not ok – Un jeune désespoir – The planetary climate clock, in human time – by Julia Steinberger
ECO CRISIS - The kids are not ok - Un jeune désespoir - The planetary climate clock, in human time - by Julia Steinberger
ECO crisis – climate solutions
source: https://medium.com/@sherlockieee/the-most-awesome-climate-solutions-that-no-one-is-talking-about-743bb22aa232 Awesome climate solutions that no one seems to be talking about - by Ha Tran Nguyen Phuong Follow Climate & Software. https://sherlockieee.netlify.app/ aka Why we should be hopeful about the future. When we heard of climate change solutions, common things come up: Wind, solar and nuclear. Beyond Meat, Impossible Burgers and other meat … Continue reading ECO crisis – climate solutions
Inequality – The Long View
This post points to several recent books on historic global inequality. “A Genetic History” by Carles Lalueza-Fox , “The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality” by Oded Galor and “The Asset Economy and the End of Social Mobility” by Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings. But first a nod to the Dawn of Everything – A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow...
Origins and History of the Passions of War
In BLOOD RITES, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? BLOOD RITES takes us on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war."
History – classic to modern
classic-to-modern - see also pre history neolithic to ancient ancient to classic trade history slave trade hidden-history ft.com 29-4-2023 How 1848 revolutionised the modern world - Christopher Clark reviewed by Munro Price economist.com 27-4-2023 “Revolutionary Spring” brings to life the drama and daring of 1848 - Christopher Clark thinks the sacrifices of revolutionaries across Europe were … Continue reading History – classic to modern
Viviana A. Zelizer – sociology of money
Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of The Purchase of Intimacy, Pricing the Priceless Child, Economic Lives, Morals and Markets and more see google scholar - sociology.princeton.edu/ viviana-zelizer princeton.edu amazon goodreads 2017 Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works - Edited by Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry, and … Continue reading Viviana A. Zelizer – sociology of money
agency / identity – consciouness – free will – persona – positioning – socialisation, education
gaia0geld >agency- consciouness, cognition, free will - ID, persona, self - positioning - socialisation, education, parenting - class, gender, race - human nature see also > SCIENCE natural, physics, quantum – consciousness, self, agency – philosophy of mind/body psychologytoday.com 30-3-2023 Emotions and Consciousness Woven from the Self - When our self is broken off from … Continue reading agency / identity – consciouness – free will – persona – positioning – socialisation, education