Network Thought
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| Blog Name: | Network Thought |
| Url: | http://networkthought.org/blog |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | network theory, governance, ecology |
| Description: | Increased global competition, capital hyper-mobility, altered patterns of market organization, and dramatic advancements in communications and information-sharing have created radical indeterminacy. We need a more flexible, adaptable, and efficient structure of governance in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. The rise of the steering mechanisms of our liberal capitalist systems – law, money, and mass media – has led to a corresponding reduction in normative deliberation within and among communities. We need a more inclusive, deliberative, and participatory process of collective decision-making. Thus, we turn away from the industrial, Enlightenment models built upon linear hierarchies, isolated variables, and the ideals of objective neutrality. We seek to develop structures and processes of learning that will allow for collective efforts guided by cooperative ideals. A network’s robustness is proportional to its diversity. From this we know to encourage diversity of ideologies, opinions, and perspectives. A network is rhizomic, disposing of the need for a hierarchy and institutional formalizations. By this we model our dynamic co-operative enterprise. A network allows complex patterns to emerge from a multiplicity of simply interactions. In this way we set the conditions that will allow for a confluence of understanding and a genuine connection between academia and the material world. |
| Popularity: | 5 Followers |
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Environmental law in Ontario is not purposive. It is towards no apparent ends. It is complicated, rigid, and precedents set in this area of law are often contradictory. Environmental legislation does not confer any environmental rights on individuals, nor does it practically define the principles that it seeks to uphold. There is an inherent dependence on epistemic discretion with respect [...]
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