Next week Midnight Oil get a Human Rights award. David Ritter has written perceptively and with power and passion (plus some easter egg references for the nerds) about their influence. I want here just to talk about one song, an album track from the 1990 effort Blue Sky Mine. The song is "Shakers and Movers"... Continue Reading →
Emergent, emergency, urgency. “Properties for sale…”
Hmm, am puzzling over the distinction between synergy and emergent properties. I found this - “Today, unfortunately, the term emergence is used in a bewildering variety of ways, often as a synonym for synergy. However, I side with the early theorists; emergence should properly be confined to those forms of synergy in which different parts... Continue Reading →
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