June 1, 2009
Apparently self-proclaimed “public relationalist,” Mick Robbins, was nonplussed about last weekend’s Sonoma Jazz Plus event. It wasn’t the thumping and wumping of the live music acts’ amplifiers that rattled the windows of his mobile “PR Unit” (a van parked at Depot Park where he camps with animal rights activist-turned-”adventure-meats”-advocate Paul-Henri Moreau), but the fact that [...]
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October 25, 2008
With apologies to systems theorists, the term “emergence” essentially describes what occurs when a phenomenon becomes greater than the sum of its parts. The mud “cathedrals” erected by termite colonies like a mass of primitive Gaudis, are an oft-cited example from nature. Individual agents operate in a given environment, who then begin to form more [...]
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