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Integral Manifesto Pt IV(2) Open Sources, Sources of Openings/Local Actors, Global Actions
Books Discussed in this Section Bruno Latour (1993) We Have Never Been Modern, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Ma. Saskia Sassen (2007) Deciphering the Global, Routledge, NY ~ Evalyn Tennant: Locating the Transnational Activists While global institutions have superseded the local … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt IV(1) Open Sources, Sources of Openings/ The Globotomized Nation
Books Discussed in this Section Saskia Sassen (2004) Local Actors in Global Politics retrieved from http://transnationalism.uchicago.edu/localactorsinglobalpolitics.pdf Saskia Sassen (2007) Deciphering the Global.Routledge, NY Technology has played an enormous role in the modern digital age. The digital revolution and the invention … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt III(5) Integral Politics?/Evolution and Enfoldment: Towards a Naturalized Evolution
Development, as we know it, entails enfoldment. Ontogenesis entails enfoldment of structures along axes that are symmetric to species (radially, laterally, bi-radially, bi-laterally). The primary body structures are enfoldments of endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm tissues. Organs of the body, as … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt III(4) Integral Politics?/ Co-Creating Values and the Spheres of Appearance
Rather than looking at the cultural memes as discrete stages in either human development or cultural evolution, consider the diversity of human collectivities as constellations — constellations of geo-sociospace, technologies, and economies– interacting together within a greater dynamic whole– the … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt III(3): Integral Politics? / Subjects as Actors
Books Discussed in this Section Steve McIntosh (2007) Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution, Continuum Books Saskia Sassen (2004) Local Actors in Global Politics retrieved from http://transnationalism.uchicago.edu/localactorsinglobalpolitics.pdf Saskia Sassen (2007) Deciphering the Global.Routledge, NY McIntosh proposes a World Federation based … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt III(2): Integral Politics? / Integral Reality Framework: A Topology of Worldspaces
Books Discussed in this Section Steve McIntosh (2007) Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution, Continuum Books. Neil Brenner (2001) The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration, Progress in Human Geography 25, 4 pp. 591-614 / retrieved from http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/222/2001.Brenner.PiHG.pdf What McIntosh … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt III(1): Integral Politics? / Action Beyond Reason and Reason Beyond Sensibility
Books Discussed in this Section Steve McIntosh (2007) Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution, Continuum Books. Bruno Latour (1999) Pandora’s Hope: Essays of the Reality of Science Studies, Harvard University Press. Toward the end of his book Pandora’s Hope, Bruno Latour asks … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt II(4): Subjects & Surrogates / Power, Tolerance and Democracy
Books Discussed in this Section Pauli Pylkko (1998) The Aconceptual Mind. John Benjamins Pub. Co. Philadelphia Such musings concerning micro-scales of intersubjectivity offer a diverse range of hypotheses on the nature of power, tolerance and democracy, and their roles with … Continue reading
Integral Manifesto Pt II(3): Subjects & Surrogates / Intersubjectivity- A Timely Interjection
Books Discussed in this Section Sean Hargens , Intersubjective Musings: A Response to Christian de Quincey’s “The Promise of Integralism” retrieved from http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/watch/042301_i.cfm Pauli Pylkko (1998) The Aconceptual Mind. John Benjamins Pub. Co. Philadelphia Bonnitta Roy (2006) A Process Model … Continue reading
