Wonderful to listen to Manuel Castells speak, amazing how much change goes on now that we are all networked together via the internet with things like facebook and twitter.
@samdonuge I am a BA undergraduate studying sociology and can relate to what you say. You can study and incorporate sophisticated philosophical or mathematical developments via economics in how our world is shaped, to the "mundane" study of interactions of everyday life between specific individuals and then even combine these together. It is interdisciplinary in its very nature and can cover virtually anything. This is the first time I have hear of Castells and his theory, but I like it.
"Let us consider some of the immediate implications of the action axiom. Action implies that the individual's behavior is purposive, in short, that it is directed toward goals. Furthermore, the fact of his action implies that he has consciously chosen certain means to reach his goals. Since he wishes to attain these goals, they must be valuable to him; accordingly he must have values that govern his choices.
I like Castells vision on the impact of the information age on war, I came across Jean Baudrillard's vision where he states that since the cold war the most dangerous wars are not the war itself but the threat of war. "the balance of terror is the terror of balance" p. 33 - Simulacra and simulation And I have been thinking about how it looks now and how it will look like when the digital information age gets more and more mature.
I like Castells' stuff on IT and cities and found this pretty interesting. While it's quite long, and his accent is pretty heavy, this is still a good listen.
You see that this significantly differs from the neoclassical perspective. Praxeology tells us that it is actually not possible to come up with scientific models for the economy by empirical testing, simply because it's foundation is ultimately human behaviour.
Politics changes the game, it makes more sense for businessmen to support crazy intellectuals and politicians who are not bound by the limits of reality. You know for you it may not make sense to pay 3 times the price for sugar than the rest of the world, but for politicians, unions and american sugar producers it makes a lot of sense.
That he employs means implies that he believes he has the technological knowledge that certain means will achieve his desired ends. Let us note that praxeology does not assume that a person's choice of values or goals is wise or proper or that he has chosen the technologically correct method of reaching them. All that praxeology asserts is that the individual actor adopts goals and believes, whether erroneously or correctly, that he can arrive at them by the employment of certain means."
What i wrote was that human acts because he want's to improve his situation. That's why we get out of the bed in the first place right, because we prefer in that moment standing up over not doing that, otherwise it wouldn't happen.
Between minute 26 and 30 (4 minutes) Castells talks about wars. - Public Opinion is against wars. - No one thinks Iraq is a real threat for western world. - Throught technology you try to finish wars in days. We are at 2011 and USA still at Afganistan and Iraq. It seems that technology is not enough to finish wars in days.
lol not in that sense. I'm talking about the fundamental aspect of human action - the incentive to improve your current situation. When you think that a money investement might improve your situation you will invest it in the most profitable way you can think of - which is in a free market also the most productive way.
"Man does not strive after happiness; only the Englishman does that"- Nietzsche There is no human nature, sure, at our present time the majority are englishmen, but there are still people that, like other times, don't strive for improving their situation, but for other thing, like glory in greek, roman and medieval times, even if they had to suffer and even die. We may do acts because we prefer them, but doesn't mean because we want a better situation.
Nah you misunderstand what I'm saying. Human acts in way A because he prefers it to current situation B. It does not matter if A means pulling your eyeballs out and eating them and B relaxing in a whirlpool.
Sol pol debat conect to internet spread To publik to connect global and local. Battle of the minds. Meaning are in mind. How people change mind determine attitude choices. Corporations depended on the system with out theirs controls financial market, information. Alternative actors, shapes agendas. Government crisis legitimate. Alternatively values
Neoclassical? 'Praxeological' would be the word. The neoclassical analyses of pretty much anything is more esoteric than scientific. They come up with ideas that are not accessible by people who don't get paid for it with magic make-belief dollars. ;)
Btw when he complains that politicians do not have full controll over capital allocation he means that it's sad that we don't have world communism. Yeah, boohoo. +weird that he thinks that money flows around by ('uncontrollable' 'turbulent') chance rather than beeing invested by rational human beings in the most profitable ways. (which means most effective)
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Wonderful to listen to Manuel Castells speak, amazing how much change goes on now that we are all networked together via the internet with things like facebook and twitter.
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It's nice to see some thought-provoking and challenging content available on RUclips.
Thank you UC for this contribution.
@samdonuge I am a BA undergraduate studying sociology and can relate to what you say. You can study and incorporate sophisticated philosophical or mathematical developments via economics in how our world is shaped, to the "mundane" study of interactions of everyday life between specific individuals and then even combine these together.
It is interdisciplinary in its very nature and can cover virtually anything. This is the first time I have hear of Castells and his theory, but I like it.
"Let us consider some of the immediate implications of the action
axiom. Action implies that the individual's behavior is purposive, in
short, that it is directed toward goals. Furthermore, the fact of his action
implies that he has consciously chosen certain means to reach his goals. Since he wishes to attain these goals, they must be valuable to him;
accordingly he must have values that govern his choices.
I like Castells vision on the impact of the information age on war, I came across Jean Baudrillard's vision where he states that since the cold war the most dangerous wars are not the war itself but the threat of war.
"the balance of terror is the terror of balance" p. 33 - Simulacra and simulation
And I have been thinking about how it looks now and how it will look like when the digital information age gets more and more mature.
I like Castells' stuff on IT and cities and found this pretty interesting. While it's quite long, and his accent is pretty heavy, this is still a good listen.
Anyone have a copy of the transcript?
You see that this significantly differs from the neoclassical perspective. Praxeology tells us that it is actually not possible to come up with scientific models for the economy by empirical testing, simply because it's foundation is ultimately human behaviour.
+If you google 'Austrian vs. Neoclassical Analytics Murphy' you can find a pretty good lecture on the subject. (on the Mises Institute webpage)
Politics changes the game, it makes more sense for businessmen to support crazy intellectuals and politicians who are not bound by the limits of reality. You know for you it may not make sense to pay 3 times the price for sugar than the rest of the world, but for politicians, unions and american sugar producers it makes a lot of sense.
That he
employs means implies that he believes he has the technological
knowledge that certain means will achieve his desired ends. Let us note
that praxeology does not assume that a person's choice of values or goals
is wise or proper or that he has chosen the technologically correct
method of reaching them. All that praxeology asserts is that the
individual actor adopts goals and believes, whether erroneously or
correctly, that he can arrive at them by the employment of certain means."
What i wrote was that human acts because he want's to improve his situation. That's why we get out of the bed in the first place right, because we prefer in that moment standing up over not doing that, otherwise it wouldn't happen.
Between minute 26 and 30 (4 minutes) Castells talks about wars.
- Public Opinion is against wars.
- No one thinks Iraq is a real threat for western world.
- Throught technology you try to finish wars in days.
We are at 2011 and USA still at Afganistan and Iraq.
It seems that technology is not enough to finish wars in days.
lol not in that sense. I'm talking about the fundamental aspect of human action - the incentive to improve your current situation.
When you think that a money investement might improve your situation you will invest it in the most profitable way you can think of - which is in a free market also the most productive way.
"Man does not strive after happiness; only the Englishman does that"- Nietzsche
There is no human nature, sure, at our present time the majority are englishmen, but there are still people that, like other times, don't strive for improving their situation, but for other thing, like glory in greek, roman and medieval times, even if they had to suffer and even die. We may do acts because we prefer them, but doesn't mean because we want a better situation.
Nah you misunderstand what I'm saying. Human acts in way A because he prefers it to current situation B. It does not matter if A means pulling your eyeballs out and eating them and B relaxing in a whirlpool.
Grande Manuel Castells
Sol pol debat conect to internet spread To publik to connect global and local. Battle of the minds. Meaning are in mind. How people change mind determine attitude choices. Corporations depended on the system with out theirs controls financial market, information. Alternative actors, shapes agendas. Government crisis legitimate. Alternatively values
I don’t get it!
There are many definitions right? I call power in that case the legitimized ability to violate my rights as a free person.
~Murray Rothbard, Praxeology
He's a beast! Whoop
Neoclassical? 'Praxeological' would be the word. The neoclassical analyses of pretty much anything is more esoteric than scientific. They come up with ideas that are not accessible by people who don't get paid for it with magic make-belief dollars. ;)
informatics should clear this up . . . there
Well I was actually laughing at the neoclassical concept of a rational being.
Btw when he complains that politicians do not have full controll over capital allocation he means that it's sad that we don't have world communism. Yeah, boohoo.
+weird that he thinks that money flows around by ('uncontrollable' 'turbulent') chance rather than beeing invested by rational human beings in the most profitable ways. (which means most effective)
@alanmullery hahaha
rational human beings hahaha
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I believe you have a poor understanding of what power is.
I think that dude is wrong about pretty much everything.