"Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking and acting towards the future involves efforts of imagination that are linked to our sense of being in the world and the ecological pressures w ..."
"This book contains dynamic perspectives on global challenges such as ecological destruction, climate issues, failed leadership, and limiting beliefs, while turning to imagination, dreams, symbol, metaphor, and mythology to help us gain a broader understanding of how we each fit into the fabric of the whole.If you care about the planet and your part in it, don’t miss this important series of interviews with leading scholars, educators, d ..."
"The futures discussed in this book primarily arise from awareness of the potentially disruptive impact of climate change and ecological instability on human societies. Part of the paradox of cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is that it is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. As a result actions depend on imagination and political a ..."
"This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes dis ..."
"Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia. Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how loca ..."
Living on Cybermind(1st Edition) Categories, Communication, and Control (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) by JonathanPaulMarshall Paperback, 355 Pages, Published 2007 by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-9513-2, ISBN: 0-8204-9513-1
"Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is still going strong thirteen years later. This book is an ethnographic investigation which follows Cybermind members in their daily lives on the List, and explores the ways they look at the world, argue, relate online life to offline life, use gender, and build community. Perhaps th ..."
"Munk, Nina (2004) Fools Rush In: Steve Case, jerry Levin and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner, HarperBusiness, New York. Myerhoff, Barbara (1975) " Organization and Ecstacy: Deliberate and Accidental Communitas among Huichol ..."
""Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions."
"Sarah. Holcombe. Introduction. Before British colonisation, the Australian
Western Desert was the most sparsely peopled habitable desert on the planet.
The British 'settlers' didn't reach the remote central Australian region until the
1870s, some 100 years after they arrived in, what is now, Sydney on the east
coast. The Western Desert lands of the Pintupi-Luritja people discussed in this
chapter became a focus of non-Aboriginal in ..."
"HuntingtonNews . www.huntingtonnews.net/987 Sampedro, V. (2004) The
Alternative Movement and Its Media Strategy. In F. Polet (ed.) Globalising
Resistance: The state of struggle. London: Pluto Press. Sandvine (2011) Global
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Global Internet Phenomena Report: 2H 2012. Ontario: Waterloo. Saran, C. (27
May 2003) Software Failures Damage Business. Computer Weekly: 5. ..."
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Materialism 17(3):31–60. Plohetski ... Polansek, T. (10 February 2014) High-
Speed Traders Mount Defense as CFTC Studies Sector. ... Popper, N. (2 August
2012) Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million. ... Queensland
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"In 1998, a book appeared in Sweden entitled The World's Chance. A new
opportunity for Sweden: A book about ecology, technology and solidarity (Edman
1998. In Swedish: Världens chans: ny möjlighet för Sverige: en bok om ekologi,
teknik och solidaritet). It contains chapter headings such as: 'All of the welfare –
half of the energy!', 'Smaller, cleaner, smarter', and 'Swedish export offensive gets
the green light'. The author, Stefan ..."
"We all know the facts and the disputes about the facts of Climate Change, but what do weunderstand about the psychology of our response to this potential ..."
"This book collects edited and revised versions of most of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics in 2011 (ECOTHEE-11). The selected papers are classified in eight thematic sections, namely:
• cosmology, eco-theology and life sciences,
• land, biodiversity and ecological crisis,
• religion and sustainability,
• advocacy and actions,
• health, water and environment,
• ..."