The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The research project Forensic Architecture – funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London – set out to expand the meaning of this term.
Through our activities, we have redefined “forensic architecture” as the assessment of spatial evidence and for its presentation in legal and political setting.
FORENSIS: The Architecture of Public Truth
121 separate points and many links. A “must read.”
Doc Searls and David Weinberger
Cluetrain.com, 8 January 2015
EXTRACT
Key point: financial lords use media lords to manufacture deliberate constant confusion and incoherence in order to prevent organized citizens from perceiving the truth or manufacturing their own coherent narrative that attracts and mobilizes masses in favor of the larger public interest.
YouTube (5:09) Below the Line
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The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require a unique type of leader—the system leader, a person who catalyzes collective leadership.
At no time in history have we needed such system leaders more. We face a host of systemic challenges beyond the reach of existing institutions and their hierarchical authority structures. Problems like climate change, destruction of ecosystems, growing scarcity of water, youth unemployment, and embedded poverty and inequity require unprecedented collaboration among different organizations, sectors, and even countries. Sensing this need, countless collaborative initiatives have arisen in the past decade—locally, regionally, and even globally. Yet more often than not they have floundered—in part because they failed to foster collective leadership within and across the collaborating organizations.
Thinking systematically about how you use information flows and your cognitive processes to gather, test, evaluate knowledge is key to the internal aspects of infotention.
A Student-Centred Conceptualisation of Critical Thinking
One of the defining features of human evolution is the emergent capacity of human beings to think about thinking. The ability to think about thinking is often described as a metacognitive skill. Cultural evolution is itself a metacognitive process, as each new generation thinks about the thinking of previous generations – the contents of thinking, the process of thinking, and the products of thinking – and modifies the culture of thinking in multifarious ways.
Following is the best bit from a WIRE Magazine piece:
As bitcoin becomes increasingly tamed and regulated by mainstream financial institutions, Amir Taaki has fought to bring the cryptocurrency back to its roots: independent, uncontrollable and deeply subversive. With his partner in thoughtcrime Cody Wilson, Taaki has led the development of Dark Wallet, the program designed to allow bitcoins to be spent untraceably, ensuring their use in the Dark Web economy and other less-than-legal applications. Earlier this year, he also won a Toronto hackathon by coding DarkMarket, a prototype for an entirely peer-to-peer bitcoin market—like Silk Road but without any central server or administrator—that could make online black market commerce that’s practically immune from a law enforcement crackdown. Source
Academic blogging gets your work and research out to a potentially massive audience at very, very low cost and relative amount of effort.
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