Giorgio Bertini
Research Professor on society, culture, art, cognition, critical thinking, intelligence, creativity, neuroscience, autopoiesis, self-organization, complexity, systems, networks, rhizomes, leadership, sustainability, thinkers, futures ++
Networks
Learning Change Project
Categories
5000 Posts in this Blog
- Follow Learning Change on WordPress.com
Paul Gauguin
Category Archives: Capitalism
Our Grim Future: Restored Neoliberalism or Hybrid Neofascism?
With the specter of a New Great Depression hovering over most of the planet, realpolitik perspectives for a radical change of the political economy framework we live in are not exactly encouraging. Western ruling elites will be deploying myriad tactics … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Fascism, Futures, Neoliberalism
Tagged capitalism, Fascism, futures, neoliberalism
Comments Off on Our Grim Future: Restored Neoliberalism or Hybrid Neofascism?
¡Obedece, produce, consume! Y… sobretodo no pienses
Pero además de estar en pie de guerra, paralelamente, se cierne otro gran debate que incluso resta importancia a la política educativa. ¿Los sistemas educativos actuales, ya no solo en España sino en el resto del mundo, son coherentes con … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Education, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, education, sociology
Comments Off on ¡Obedece, produce, consume! Y… sobretodo no pienses
Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain
Empathy is putting oneself in another’s emotional and cognitive shoes and then acting appropriately. The evolutionary process has given rise to a hard-wired neural system, described as “the most radical of human emotions, that equips us to connect with one … Continue reading
Posted in Brain, Capitalism, Culture, Empathy
Tagged brain, capitalism, culture, empathy
Comments Off on Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain
Subvertir la question des Communs
Face à la toute puissance du paradigme orthodoxe en économie, pour lequel les arrangements contractuels privés sont les plus efficients, une réponse théorique hétérodoxe s’est saisie des communs pour contester les fondements du tout-marché. Dans ce texte, David Harvey montre … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Commons
Tagged capitalism, commons
Comments Off on Subvertir la question des Communs
The Methodology of Polanyi’s Great Transformation
Polanyi’s book on The Great Transformation provides an analysis of the emergence and significance of capitalist economic structures which differs radically from those currently universally taught in economic textbooks. This analysis is based on a methodological approach which is also … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Economy, Polanyi, Political economy
Tagged capitalism, economics, polanyi, political economy
Leave a comment
The Self-Organisation of Politics, Power and the Nation State
Society is self-organising or re-creative in the sense that new emergent structures result from interactions of actors, these structures enable and constrain actions and stimulate further practices. Political self-organisation is a reflexive process where political agents co-ordinate their actions in … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Dialectics, Fuchs, Politics, Power, Self-organization, Society
Tagged capitalism, dialectics, Fuchs, politics, power, self-organization, society
Comments Off on The Self-Organisation of Politics, Power and the Nation State
Modern Society – A Complex, Evolutionary, Self-Organising, Antagonistic System
The aim of this paper is to outline some foundational aspects of a theory of self-organising social change. Synchronous social self-organisation is based on a contradiction between structures and actors that produces emergent results. The cycle of expanded reproduction of … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Capitalism, Dialectics, Fuchs, Self-organization, Society
Tagged autopoiesis, capitalism, dialectics, Fuchs, self-organization, society
Comments Off on Modern Society – A Complex, Evolutionary, Self-Organising, Antagonistic System
The Self-Organisation of Society
The aim of this paper is to outline some aspects of the self-organisation of society based on a dialectical methodology. On a very general level, society can be characterised as a re-creative system: By mutual productive relationships of social structures … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Dialectics, Fuchs, Self-organization, Social systems, Society
Tagged capitalism, dialectics, Fuchs, self-organization, social systems, society
Comments Off on The Self-Organisation of Society
The European Crisis and a Political Critique of Capitalism
The European crisis has provoked widespread critique of capitalist arrangements in most if not all countries in Europe. But to what extent do contemporary social protest and critique indicate a revival of critical capacity? The range of criticisms against the … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Critical thinking, Europe, Political economy
Tagged capitalism, critical thinking, europe, european crisis, political economy
Leave a comment
Critical Theory and Contemporary Social Movements – Conceptualizing Resistance in the Neoliberal Age
The advent of an unregulated and financial form of capitalism, combined with a sharp rise in income inequalities and economic insecurity since the 1970s, appears to pose, at first glance, a significant challenge for the relevance of the works of … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Critical theory, Critical thinking, Neoliberalism, Resistance, Social movements
Tagged capitalism, critical theory, critical thinking, neoliberalism, resistance, social movements
Comments Off on Critical Theory and Contemporary Social Movements – Conceptualizing Resistance in the Neoliberal Age
Learning Change 