Sunday, November 26, 2023

Rhododendron (NP - National flower of Nepal): Making further progress with @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress over the years -How now to find & hire heads of all ~200 https://ocw.mit.edu/ -centric #WUaSUnivs in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States in main https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages #FriendlyQuakerTwitter #QuakerTwitterCircles @ #OxfordAI #CambridgeAI #WUaSAI ? * * * Programming wiki subject / school at WUaS now allowing me to make edits again and add new material * * * Book talk with Dr Hugh Thomas on your book "Power and Pleasure, Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216" OUP 2021 - Marx, Foucault and Castells' social theory compared, and see "THE “HOW” AND “WHY” OF POWER: FROM MARX TO FOUCAULT TO POWER TODAY"


Making further progress with @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress over the years -How now to find & hire heads of all ~200 https://ocw.mit.edu/ -centric #WUaSUnivs in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States in main https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages #FriendlyQuakerTwitter  #QuakerTwitterCircles @ #OxfordAI #CambridgeAI #WUaSAI ? 

Progress w @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress over years: How now to find & hire heads of all ~200 https://ocw.mit.edu/ -centric #WUaSUnivs in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States in main https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages #FriendlyQuakerTwitter #QuakerTwitterCircles @ #OxfordAI #CambridgeAI #WUaSAI ?





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Quaker Desiderata &  Unitarian Universalist church Desiderata - search

DESIDERATA IN QUAKER HISTORY—AN EDITORIAL
Frederick B. Tolles 




If using Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, find a copy on the internet using a ... These sessions are about being a Quaker – your Quaker identity, beliefs, values and ..



Reflections from a Kenyan Quaker
Post author
By Quaker House 

The call to action is more important now than ever before in this hurting world. As we clamor to be heard and be visible in this wild world, I am reminded of the words of a poem “Desiderata” written in the early 1920’s by the American Writer Max Ehrmann that call us to be calm and gentle. In part it says,

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence…. speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit

May the reality of the gospel of accommodating (the other), the practice of meeting together in worship, the gospel of peace come alive in our spirits. Amen.














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Programming wiki subject / school at WUaS now allowing me to make edits again and add new material 


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

12:24 PM (5 hours ago)
to LydiaMarkus
Dear Lydia and Markus, 

Greetings! How are you? Will try the second sentence ... but wanting to alert you to this new development: 

I was trying this morning from western Pennsylvania to update the 'Programming' wiki school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming - at MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School in English with Octo Studio, but surprisingly, and for the first time, got the following message twice. And after I had shut the Programming wiki page tab from my Chrome browser, logged in both times, and despite the message below, tried again with https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming - and logged in ... and got this same message:


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Preview

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.

You might have been logged out. Please verify that you're still logged in and try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in, and check that your browser allows cookies from this site.


Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? 


Thanks, 
Scott



PS

1st Octo Studio (MIT) Programming project - heart moves turns chimes ... try coding yourself ... fun & easy

1st Octo Studio Programming project - heart moves turns chimes 



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scratch and octo programming compared?

Some features are simplified compared with Scratch so you can create some kinds of behavior more quickly

OctoStudio Overview

The OctoStudio trailer video shows the kinds of applications that you can create. The hope is clearly that the app will be integrated into everyday life and used in social situations. 



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While Scratch was designed for use on laptops and desktop computers, OctoStudio is designed especially for use on mobile phones. 


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Transforming screen time: Kids can use smartphones to enhance their creativity
Too many apps treat young people as passive consumers, not motivated makers. But there are alternatives.

Oct 24, 2023 — We designed Scratch for larger screens, so that young people could easily put together graphical programming blocks and see the resulting games ...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/24/opinion/coding-kids-smartphones-octostudio-mit-scratch/


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scratch and octo programming compared?




PPS
Algebra: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Algebra

Artificial Intelligence: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence

Brain and Cognitive Sciences: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences

Brain Computer Interface: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface

Computer Science: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science

Computing History: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computing_History

Data: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Data

Database Systems: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Database_Systems

Design: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Design

Educational Software: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Educational_Software

Electrical Engineering: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electrical_Engineering

Engineering: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering

Engineering - Introduction to: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering_-_Introduction_to

Hacking: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_%28certified,_ethical%29

Mathematics: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mathematics

Probability: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Probability

Programming: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming

Robotics: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics

STEM Education - Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics

Science: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science

Software Libraries: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Software_Libraries

Virtual Worlds: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

Web Page Design and Production: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Web_Page_Design_and_Production

Wiki: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wiki



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Lydia (Pintscher, Wikidata Product manager) and Markus (Kroetzsch), Peter (Norvig) and David (Chalmers), 

Greetings and happy Thanksgiving ...

As a follow up - 

'Third time's a charm' - 4th time too ... updated this 'welcome' page - (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS) - successfully, and then tried updating the 'Programming' wiki subject / school in English ... and was able to save the edits, then save the Octo Studio URL resource there! Thanks! 

-Scott

PS

Added the new great #MITMediaLab's free #OctoStudio https://octostudio.org/en/ >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming #WUaSprogramming
See too "#CSFirst #withGoogle @ #WUaSunivs" https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/curriculum.html & https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ to enroll @ free OCW.MIT.EDU -centric @WorldUnivAndSch ~








PPS
Am exploring using the amazing Google Bard conversational generative AI to improve my written and spoken German, and it's text responses are remarkable  - but it still doesn't understand spoken German (a 'knocking on Heaven's door' song from the 1970s came up in Bard as I explored this unsuccessfully recently :) ... with implications for 'consciousness' philosophically oder Bewusstsein  too :)




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Book talk with Dr Hugh Thomas on your book "Power and Pleasure, Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216" OUP 2021 - 

Marx, Foucault and Castells' social theory compared,
and see "THE “HOW” AND “WHY” OF POWER: FROM MARX TO FOUCAULT TO POWER TODAY"


Saturday, November 25, 2023


Hi Hugh, 


Thanks again for your informative and interesting and great book talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4APZI54_lHs


As I think further about your presentation, and particularly a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory, there do seem to be some opportunities to explore this with a kind of Humanities' oriented Google Street View with a time slider, history-wiki-virtual-world-graphy approach ... How to research the following - 

1
research the 13 miles a day  claim for the movement of the court of king john for example ... with ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory (think Google Street View with time slider, #TextInTheSidebar #Google Maps with Google Translate (of medieval English, medieval French, Medieval Latin etc)... simply by dragging and dropping the text from the scholar who makes these claims into #GDocs' #TextInTheSidebar of Google Street View with time slider - 1199-1216 ... Not set up yet IT-wise to do this in a moment ... but stay tuned ...

Also, 
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social theories '(not Marxist, not Foucauldian, but as trenchant) critiques of the medieval monarchy and court of King John, for example?) came to mind early this morning too  ... 

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And I may be able to address these questions from a Castellian perspective, and regarding creating an emerging realistic virtual earth for history in 1 realistic virtual earth ... in my upcoming 6th book "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" 

Scott 



Hugh, 


Some further thinking, and appreciation for your book talk - 

I appreciate, too, the moral and ethical sensibilities that emerge from you in your presentation ... but wonder about the implications of history very broadly in recapitulating and interpreting criminal behavior for example ... 

But I also appreciate what could even an "ideological" 'move' to return in your presentation to the 'magna carta' as a seminal text of 'law" ... and regarding even addressing questions of slavery, and possibly 'race, class, gender" contemporary social science foci ... and re even the words' "king john" and ideological implications of his possibly 'atrocity reign' ... as model tragically ... Oxford University Press out-of-America thinking-wise too ...

Scott

PS
Brainstorming-wise, have you done or seen any highest quality analyses, for example, of the folk rock music of Steeleye Span ballads et al., (e.g. Pentangle too - both from the late 1960s and early 1970s) as a kind of history?

ethics' label - 

Law - 


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/welwitschia-na-national-flower-of.html




Marx, Foucault and Castells' social theory compared



"THE “HOW” AND “WHY” OF POWER: FROM MARX TO FOUCAULT TO POWER TODAY"

Power Today

By way of concluding, I want to acknowledge a third approach to power that borrows from and builds on Marx and Foucault, and which develops an analysis of power today. In Communication Power (2009), Manuel Castells develops an alternative theory of power that focuses on the ways in which power moves through multi-media communication networks which are, for him, the dominant guarantors of culture and meaning in our lives. As Castells explains, “…all networks of power exercise their power by influencing the human mind predominantly (but not solely) through multimedia networks of mass communication. Thus, communication networks are the fundamental networks of power making in society” (Castells, 2011, p. 774).






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Are Marx Foucault and Castells the most significant theorists in radical social theory?




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were Marxist & Foucauldian theories trenchant critiques of society?

What is Marxist criticism of society?

Marxist criticism focuses on class struggle, especially on the oppression of the proletariat (the have-nots) by the bourgeoisie (the haves). As part of its analysis of class struggle, it emphasizes the alienation inherent in the modes of production and exchange inherent in capitalist society.Dec 5, 2021



What are the main criticisms of Foucault?
Abstract: A common criticism of Michel Foucault's works is that his writings on power relations over-emphasized the effects that technologies of power have upon the subjection of humans, rendering any attempt of resistance futile and reducing the subject to a mere passive effect of power.



What are the criticisms of Marxian theory?
Marxian economics have been criticized for a number of reasons. Some critics point to the Marxian analysis of capitalism while others argue that the economic system proposed by Marxism is unworkable. There are also doubts that the rate of profit in capitalism would tend to fall as Marx predicted.



What are the differences between Foucault and Marx?
However, the key difference is that Foucauldian power constitutes all relationships, whereas Marxian power is expressed by productive relations. As such, class domination is not a necessary condition of Foucauldian power.Jan 24, 2017




What does Marxism view about the society?

Marx argues that there are inequalities in society based on social class differences. Marx claims that to improve society and make it fairer there needs to be large-scale change. Marxism is criticised for ignoring other important factors such as gender and ethnicity, focusing too much on social class.



Is Foucault anti Marxist?
All in all, it seems that Foucauldian anti-Marxism is beyond question. In fact, as we will see in the first section, Foucault openly criticised the Marxist tradition on several occasions and with powerful arguments.




Why is Foucault problematic?
Foucault theorises about the nature (or definition) of truth, it is true, but nowhere does he attempt to install or legitimate universal criteria or evidentiary grounds of truth ranging over diverse historical epistemes.


Or



Why is Foucault not a Marxist?
Foucault was associated with Marxism and Communism but rejected them both because of problems he attributed to what seemed like abuses of power and not necessarily the ideology. He seemed to have associated similar discrepancies with monarchies.Dec 31, 2020



How is Marxism useful in society?
It laid down the theory of class struggle and revolution. Marxism deals with the theory and practice of socialism. It propagates the establishment of a classless society. The means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned by the community as a whole as against private ownership.


Or




What are the 5 principles of Marxism?
The basic tenets of Marxism are the following: dialectical materialism, historical materialism, the theory of surplus value, class struggle, revolution, dictatorship of the proletariat and communism



How did Karl Marx's ideas impact society?

Marx's work laid the foundations for future communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Operating from the premise that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction, his ideas formed the basis of Marxism and served as a theoretical base for communism.





What makes Foucault's theory different?
A key point about Foucault's approach to power is that it transcends politics and sees power as an everyday, socialised and embodied phenomenon. This is why state-centric power struggles, including revolutions, do not always lead to change in the social order.







Who disagrees with Foucault? 

The Foucault–Habermas debate is a dispute concerning whether Michel Foucault's ideas of "power analytics" and "genealogy" or Jürgen Habermas' ideas of "communicative rationality" and "discourse ethics" provide a better critique of the nature of power in society.





How does Marx fit in with Foucault?

As a result, Foucault's work indirectly abets certain reactionary viewpoints, while Marx's does not. Perhaps the most obvious points of overlap between Marx and Foucault are their shared interest in human history and criticism of all simplistic forms of individualism. Aug 29, 2019




What is Foucault's critique of modernity?
Foucault draws upon an anti-Enlightenment tradition that rejects the equation of reason, emancipation, and progress, arguing that an interface between modern forms of power and knowledge has served to create new forms of domination.



How did Foucault view society?
In Discipline and Punish, Foucault argues that modern society is a “disciplinary society,” meaning that power in our time is largely exercised through disciplinary means in a variety of institutions (prisons, schools, hospitals, militaries, etc.).




What is Foucault's approach of Archaeology of knowledge to understand society?

The Archaeology of Knowledge (L'archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge (discursive formations) which follow rules that operate beneath the consciousness of the subject individuals, and which define a ...



What is Foucault's critique?
For Foucault, critique is “a means for a future or a truth that it will not know nor happen to be, it oversees a domain it would not want to police and is unable to regulate.” So critique will be. that perspective on established and ordering ways of knowing which is not immediately.



What does Foucault say about society?
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behaviour, his aptitudes, his achievements" ( ...





Further, and re ethnomusicology, history and folk rock and roll - 


Dear Hugh,

greetings on a Sunday evening. How are you and how was your weekend?  

I followed up further today on this email thread here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/rhododendron-np-national-flower-of-nepal.html and regarding brainstorming, a curiosity about the trenchant overarching social theory critiques of Marx, Foucault and Castells re society, and in particular power, and see the resources I posted below in the PS too)

(and again on Thanksgiving in this blog post here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/welwitschia-na-national-flower-of.html )


Also, with interest in the history and ethnomusicology for folk rock music, here's an interesting primary source Steeleye Span channel on Spotify (which Spotify is pretty good now, having improved as a music streaming channel, but which ads are still a bit too much, yet it's free otherwise ... and allows for a kind of 'cherry picking' of pleasurable music :) -


(And here too is Pentangle on iHeart radio  ... Less historical, less out of the depths of English folk time, less interesting re historical analysis too   :) ...


And are you familiar with 
"Mainly Norfolk" 
for lyrics and history of tunes 
and eg Spotted Cow 

which Steeleye Span sings too 


(See too : 
Northumbria Folk as a resource - 

Cheers, 
Scott

Also in my daily blog iis this label - 

And here are 2 related wiki subjects at MIT OCW-centric World University and School - 





PS
Here are some cursory beginnings to 

Marx Foucault and Castells' social theory compared, and similar - 


THE “HOW” AND “WHY” OF POWER: FROM MARX TO FOUCAULT TO POWER TODAY

Power Today

By way of concluding, I want to acknowledge a third approach to power that borrows from and builds on Marx and Foucault, and which develops an analysis of power today. In Communication Power (2009), Manuel Castells develops an alternative theory of power that focuses on the ways in which power moves through multi-media communication networks which are, for him, the dominant guarantors of culture and meaning in our lives. As Castells explains, “…all networks of power exercise their power by influencing the human mind predominantly (but not solely) through multimedia networks of mass communication. Thus, communication networks are the fundamental networks of power making in society” (Castells, 2011, p. 774).





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Are marx foucault and castells the most significant theorists in radical social theory?



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Were marxist & foucauldian theories trenchant critiques of society?

What is Marxist criticism of society?

Marxist criticism focuses on class struggle, especially on the oppression of the proletariat (the have-nots) by the bourgeoisie (the haves). As part of its analysis of class struggle, it emphasizes the alienation inherent in the modes of production and exchange inherent in capitalist society.Dec 5, 2021



What are the main criticisms of Foucault?
Abstract: A common criticism of Michel Foucault's works is that his writings on power relations over-emphasized the effects that technologies of power have upon the subjection of humans, rendering any attempt of resistance futile and reducing the subject to a mere passive effect of power.



What are the criticisms of Marxian theory?
Marxian economics have been criticized for a number of reasons. Some critics point to the Marxian analysis of capitalism while others argue that the economic system proposed by Marxism is unworkable. There are also doubts that the rate of profit in capitalism would tend to fall as Marx predicted.



What are the differences between Foucault and Marx?
However, the key difference is that Foucauldian power constitutes all relationships, whereas Marxian power is expressed by productive relations. As such, class domination is not a necessary condition of Foucauldian power.Jan 24, 2017




What is Marxism's view about society?

Marx argues that there are inequalities in society based on social class differences. Marx claims that to improve society and make it fairer there needs to be large-scale change. Marxism is criticised for ignoring other important factors such as gender and ethnicity, focusing too much on social class.



Is Foucault anti Marxist?
All in all, it seems that Foucauldian anti-Marxism is beyond question. In fact, as we will see in the first section, Foucault openly criticised the Marxist tradition on several occasions and with powerful arguments.




Why is Foucault problematic?
Foucault theorizes about the nature (or definition) of truth, it is true, but nowhere does he attempt to install or legitimate universal criteria or evidentiary grounds of truth ranging over diverse historical epistemes.


Or



Why is Foucault not a Marxist?
Foucault was associated with Marxism and Communism but rejected them both because of problems he attributed to what seemed like abuses of power and not necessarily the ideology. He seemed to have associated similar discrepancies with monarchies.Dec 31, 2020



How is Marxism useful in society?
It laid down the theory of class struggle and revolution. Marxism deals with the theory and practice of socialism. It propagates the establishment of a classless society. The means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned by the community as a whole as against private ownership.


Or


What are the 5 principles of Marxism?
The basic tenets of Marxism are the following: dialectical materialism, historical materialism, the theory of surplus value, class struggle, revolution, dictatorship of the proletariat and communism



How did Karl Marx's ideas impact society?

Marx's work laid the foundations for future communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Operating from the premise that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction, his ideas formed the basis of Marxism and served as a theoretical base for communism.



What makes Foucault's theory different?
A key point about Foucault's approach to power is that it transcends politics and sees power as an everyday, socialised and embodied phenomenon. This is why state-centric power struggles, including revolutions, do not always lead to change in the social order.





Who disagrees with Foucault? 

The Foucault–Habermas debate is a dispute concerning whether Michel Foucault's ideas of "power analytics" and "genealogy" or Jürgen Habermas' ideas of "communicative rationality" and "discourse ethics" provide a better critique of the nature of power in society.





How does Marx fit in with Foucault?

As a result, Foucault's work indirectly abets certain reactionary viewpoints, while Marx's does not. Perhaps the most obvious points of overlap between Marx and Foucault are their shared interest in human history and criticism of all simplistic forms of individualism. Aug 29, 2019




What is Foucault's critique of modernity?
Foucault draws upon an anti-Enlightenment tradition that rejects the equation of reason, emancipation, and progress, arguing that an interface between modern forms of power and knowledge has served to create new forms of domination.



How did Foucault view society?
In "Discipline and Punish", Foucault argues that modern society is a “disciplinary society,” meaning that power in our time is largely exercised through disciplinary means in a variety of institutions (prisons, schools, hospitals, militaries, etc.).




What is Foucault's approach to Archaeology of knowledge to understand society?

The Archaeology of Knowledge (L'archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge (discursive formations) which follow rules that operate beneath the consciousness of the subject individuals, and which define a ...



What is Foucault's critique?
For Foucault, critique is “a means for a future or a truth that it will not know nor happen to be, it oversees a domain it would not want to police and is unable to regulate.” So critique will be. that perspective on established and ordering ways of knowing which is not immediately.



What does Foucault say about society?
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behaviour, his aptitudes, his achievements" ( ...








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Thursday, November 30, 2023 


On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 9:59 AM Thomas, Hugh M <h.thomas@miami.edu> wrote:

My apologies, Scott, for being slow to respond to your emails on my book talk—it’s been a hectic semester so I took a break from responding to emails over the holiday weekend. And thanks very much for listening to the book talk! In terms of your big questions, I have to admit to a fair amount of hesitation about fitting my work into the big theoretical frameworks of Marx and Foucault, for all of their importance in thinking about power. To the extent I fit into theoretical frameworks, I probably depended more on Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking about cultural capital. I’m afraid I’m not familiar enough with Castells’ organizational theory to discuss that intelligently, but in that arena I have been influenced a little by actor network theory. In terms of digital humanities, there is an old website out there that traces John’s itinerary, although unfortunately they clearly ran out of money. There are certainly lots of possibilities with GIS for all this, but I’m afraid I lack the computational expertise to take advantage of them. 

 

Best,

Hugh

 

From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 8:35 PM
To: Thomas, Hugh M <h.thomas@miami.edu>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Book talk with Dr Hugh Thomas on your book "Power and Pleasure" OUP 2021

 

CAUTION: This email originated from outside the organization. DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS or OPEN ATTACHMENTS unless you know and trust the sender.

Dear Hugh,

 

See, too - 

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

> here: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/kowhai-nc-national-flower-of-new.html ~

(https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/welwitschia-na-national-flower-of.html and 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/rhododendron-np-national-flower-of-nepal.html)


and the 'social theory' label in daily blog - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20theory



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