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For all that idiots like Brian Eno laud the ‘self-organising’ power of the informal market in slums, infrastructure and social justice remain crucial necessities.
Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat 2009
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For all that idiots like Brian Eno laud the ‘self-organising’ power of the informal market in slums, infrastructure and social justice remain crucial necessities.
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Curtis's scripts are full of sentences like: "This is the story of the rise of the dream of the self-organising system and the strange machine fantasy that underpins it."
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To a dictator, any self-organising, self-confident community is a threat to be dispersed - even if the community is organising to achieve a goal the regime shares.
Johann Hari: Kidnapped, Raped, Married: The Extraordinary Rebellion of Ethiopia's Abducted Wives 2010
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To a dictator, any self-organising, self-confident community is a threat to be dispersed - even if the community is organising to achieve a goal the regime shares.
Kidnapped, Raped, Married: The Extraordinary Rebellion of Ethiopia's Abducted Wives 2010
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Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control is a fascinating book full of fascinating ideas reaching across the board from artificial intelligence, evolution, biology, ecology, robotics and more to explore complexity, cybernetics and self-organising systems in an accessible and engaging way.
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This would lead to an upward spiral – it is a kind of a self-organising cartel.
Why lefty types should support privatised roads Alix Mortimer 2009
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The CIDOC website uses a CRM Topic Map to produce a self-organising navigation panel and the visitor can filter pages e.g. related to activity.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mia 2007
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Change is emerging from the bottom up, with citizens coming together around shared needs and interests and self-organising to resolve the challenges they face together ...
Socialised government: the rise of micro public service uninstitutions 2009
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I would have preferred a much shorter book, more narrowly focused on the idea of self-organising systems.
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