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  1. Dec 2023
    1. one thing we have noticed with these stresses is that uh from most of them we see these three 00:11:11 phenomena the stresses are amplifying accelerating and synchronizing uh simultaneously
      • for: pernicious cascades - qualities, stats - pernicious cascade, synchronized crisis

      • stats - pernicious cascades - climate change

      • Pernicious cascades - qualities
        • amplifying
          • global mean temp
            • in 2000: 0.72 Deg C warmer than pre-industrial (1850)
            • in 2020 1.2 Deg C warmer than pre-industrial
        • accelerating
          • warming per decade:
            • 1970 to 2010 - 0.18 Deg C / decade
            • 2010 to 2040 - 0.27 Deg C / decade
        • syncrhonizing
          • many systems are becoming unstable:
            • higher inflation
            • higher levels of precarity
            • higher levels of inequality
            • destabilizing climate / increase in extreme weather events
            • geopolitical conflicts
            • political polarization
            • misinformation
            • major migration
          • Cascade institute does not view these as random events - not a set of coincidence or "perfect storm"
          • instead, invisible synchronization and causality between events
          • our research reveals the invisible connections
  2. Aug 2023
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  4. Oct 2019
    1. It is with postmodernism that the hunger for novelty begins to fade. Postmodern theory does not rate originality very highly. It has put revolution well behind it. Instead, it embraces a world in which everything is a recycled, translated, parodied or derivative version of something else.

      Postmodernism wnats to make new without claiming it's new -- since everything has been done before, but also we can violate the rules of the past.

    2. The modernist work of art takes a stand against a world in which everything seems standardised, stereotyped and prefabricated.

      Modernism builds off Romanticism. How do we make sense of Duchamp, Log (even Cage -- who might be classified as postmodern) ... resistance to conformity.

    3. Novelty was a kind of eccentricity. The crea-tive imagination was dangerously close to idle fantasy. In any case, innovation was strictly speaking impossible. There could be no new moral truths. It would have been outrageously inconsiderate of God not to have revealed to us from the outset the few, simple precepts necessary for our salvation.

      Different ideas about qualities to evaluate may not be accident, but can be linked with broader world view and even politics of an era.

    4. Depth of insight, truth-to-life, formal unity, universal appeal, moral complexity, verbal inventiveness, imaginative vision:

      Eagleton gives a suggestive range of qualities, but he hints that they are contingent -- i.e. have risen/fallen in importance over time. Why? And who effects this?

  5. Jan 2017
    1. The area, comprising about one square mile, is enclosed by a concrete wall seven feet high and covered with barbed wire.

      This camp seems very small and it's not a good place to be kept when its cramped with a lot of people.

  6. Sep 2015
    1. ITM is based on the theory of temperament. Temperament is a quality resulting from the interaction of opposite properties present in elements consisting of minute particles. Thus, a uniform quality occurs which is present in all of them. Hotness, coldness, moistness, and dryness are four temperaments that naturally occur in every existingsubstance including living creatures (2)

      These temperments match up with the four-fold alchemical division that uses the same four qualities of heat, cold, moisture and dryness.

  7. Sep 2013