By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Apr 22
“The difference between the fake Rothko and the cryptopunk is that the latter is honest about its dishonesty and absurdity. It just builds on the craze and momentum of cryptocurrencies and found a niche in this market: If people are already investing in “just a piece of blockchain” — why not mint unique pieces of “just a piece of blockchain”? It just happened to find a way to “pass” as a currency, and thus as a way to “pass” as an art investment. It’s actually a lot like what Warhol himself did with the art world. He was entirely honest
“The difference between the fake Rothko and the cryptopunk is that the latter is honest about its dishonesty and absurdity. It just builds on the craze and momentum of cryptocurrencies and found a niche in this market: If people are already investing in “just a piece of blockchain” — why not mint unique pieces of “just a piece of blockchain”?
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Apr 22
So once you’ve learned to question the world and to pick it apart you begin, with sincere irony, to reconstruct it playfully. You begin learning the art of mastering the many placebo effects around us, for the benefit of our own happiness and sanity, and for the benefit of others. Another quote would be in order, one by the American novelist, David Foster Wallace: “Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might
So once you’ve learned to question the world and to pick it apart you begin, with sincere irony, to reconstruct it playfully. You begin learning the art of mastering the many placebo effects around us, for the benefit of our own happiness and sanity, and for the benefit of others. Another quote would be in order, one by the American
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Apr 22
So once you’ve learned to question the world and to pick it apart you begin, with sincere irony, to reconstruct it playfully. You begin learning the art of mastering the many placebo effects around us, for the benefit of our own happiness and sanity, and for the benefit of others. Another quote would be in order, one by the American novelist, David Foster Wallace: “Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might
So once you’ve learned to question the world and to pick it apart you begin, with sincere irony, to reconstruct it playfully. You begin learning the art of mastering the many placebo effects around us, for the benefit of our own happiness and sanity, and for the benefit of others. Another quote would be in order, one by the American
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Apr 22
“By now — if you have read the previous articles that outline the eight pathways to a new planetary paradigm of education — a vision of the future of global education has begun to crystallize. Briefly put, I have roughly suggested an educational system that: 1. Emphasizes the cultivation of a multi-dimensional ecological relatedness. 2. Works to counter and adapt to the disruptions of technological innovations. 3. Leverages tech for purposes of tailoring education to the individual and supporting learning through modeling. 4. Emphasizes inner work and creates safe spaces for this to happen, while cultivating trust and training teachers
“By now — if you have read the previous articles that outline the eight pathways to a new planetary paradigm of education — a vision of the future of global education has begun to crystallize. Briefly put, I have roughly suggested an educational system that: 1. Emphasizes the cultivation of a multi-dimensional ecological relatedness. 2. Works to counter and adapt
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Apr 22
“A fundamental issue of being a refugee is that one’s citizenship is often not fully recognized; one ‘falls between the cracks’ and is thus deprived of the rights and services bestowed upon citizens of different countries. Without clearly identifying people as citizens, state structures are often inept, and sometimes oppressive, towards the sans papiers. It may thus be beneficial to create an internationally funded schooling system that enrolls people without such requirements, giving each an identity number, and tracking their progress longitudinally: which courses have they taken, what are their interests and special needs, and so forth. Such a system
“A fundamental issue of being a refugee is that one’s citizenship is often not fully recognized; one ‘falls between the cracks’ and is thus deprived of the rights and services bestowed upon citizens of different countries. Without clearly identifying people as citizens, state structures are often inept, and sometimes oppressive, towards the sans papiers. It may thus be beneficial to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Apr 22
“A fundamental issue of being a refugee is that one’s citizenship is often not fully recognized; one ‘falls between the cracks’ and is thus deprived of the rights and services bestowed upon citizens of different countries. Without clearly identifying people as citizens, state structures are often inept, and sometimes oppressive, towards the sans papiers. It may thus be beneficial to create an internationally funded schooling system that enrolls people without such requirements, giving each an identity number, and tracking their progress longitudinally: which courses have they taken, what are their interests and special needs, and so forth. Such a system
“A fundamental issue of being a refugee is that one’s citizenship is often not fully recognized; one ‘falls between the cracks’ and is thus deprived of the rights and services bestowed upon citizens of different countries. Without clearly identifying people as citizens, state structures are often inept, and sometimes oppressive, towards the sans papiers. It may thus be beneficial to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“Learning capacity” could become a school subject throughout the years, actively and deliberately drilling and repeating tasks that pertain to learning how to learn. It is, naturally, hard to imagine a more boring subject: repeating speed-reading techniques, practicing memory, going through notes, structuring work plans. The very word “drilling” makes chills go up spines – and it sounds as though all has been forgotten about making education embrace more of the intuitive and playful. But drilling the capacity to learn may very well be a sound investment that ultimately pays off even in terms of fun and playfulness: if children
“Learning capacity” could become a school subject throughout the years, actively and deliberately drilling and repeating tasks that pertain to learning how to learn. It is, naturally, hard to imagine a more boring subject: repeating speed-reading techniques, practicing memory, going through notes, structuring work plans. The very word “drilling” makes chills go up spines – and it sounds as though
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“Despite the best efforts over the last century, the educational systems are almost unanimously criticized by all observers as being too dry, too mechanical, too bland, too focused on quantitative results and measures (more on this last point later). They all say that children are playful and curious, but that schooling and education, at least partly, kill that spark. Univocally, commentators ask for a more humanized, sensitive, and person-centric form of education—but from thereon, unsurprisingly, the ideas and analyses begin to differ. The question thus presents itself: “If almost all commentators, educational science scholars, teachers, school principals, philosophers and psychologists
“Despite the best efforts over the last century, the educational systems are almost unanimously criticized by all observers as being too dry, too mechanical, too bland, too focused on quantitative results and measures (more on this last point later). They all say that children are playful and curious, but that schooling and education, at least partly, kill that spark. Univocally,
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“As things stand, the educational systems around the world do not have fully developed mechanisms for continuously updating how education is done in the face of technological disruptions. And, indeed, this is the crux of the matter: The second pathway from the old paradigm of education to the new paradigm involves an active, deliberate, and coordinated effort to make the educational systems not only adapt to the advent of existing technologies, but making them adaptable (and self-adapting) to future disruptions. One of our interviewees, serial entrepreneur and author Tomas Björkman, refers to the acronym VUCA when describing the development of
“As things stand, the educational systems around the world do not have fully developed mechanisms for continuously updating how education is done in the face of technological disruptions. And, indeed, this is the crux of the matter: The second pathway from the old paradigm of education to the new paradigm involves an active, deliberate, and coordinated effort to make the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
From Hanzi Freinacht’s latest article on Medium: “Cultural evolution simultaneously drives forth two interrelated processes of transformation: – More civilized, universal, and non-violent values. – Innocence lost, a more penetrating and revealing gaze and imagination, including a more disenchanting and critical viewpoint. Simply put, as society “advances”, people and their values become less barbaric, more universal and abstract, but also more XXX-rated, more pornographic in every (sexual an non-sexual) sense of the word. As such, even if society escapes the ecological dead-ends of modernity, we are headed both towards a cute and idyllic future of softer and more inclusive values
From Hanzi Freinacht’s latest article on Medium: “Cultural evolution simultaneously drives forth two interrelated processes of transformation: – More civilized, universal, and non-violent values. – Innocence lost, a more penetrating and revealing gaze and imagination, including a more disenchanting and critical viewpoint. Simply put, as society “advances”, people and their values become less barbaric, more universal and abstract, but also