Monday, September 29, 2008

L'art appliqué: Social Intelligent Agents and a distribution of productive means

Let's introduce un object trouvé.

google: black cat 12 die kaempfende katze

A Japanese production brought to my attention by a veoh-video search for 'hart', the dutch translation of heart.

Without overt advertisment, a publisher reaches his public, halfway across the globe, through the use of modern distribution applications, intelligent agents, that try to interact with the social element of the user in order to find his taste.

It itroduces 3 men a girl who have to fight an evil called 'chronos' and 'creed'.

The productive means employed in the creation of this work is not a minor one. Have a look at the first 3 minutes if you want. Most elements are brought with craftmanship, and plenty of skilled labor.

The bread seems to come from product placement, the use of profitable story elements. In this is has an almost baroque flavour. With some Goth influences.

The illustrator is supposed to have drawn lessons from another manga series called 'death note'.


Schumpeter, the man who coined the term creative distruction, suggested that most significant changes in control over productive means happened as the result of fitter technologies or methods. These structural reorganisations formed the underlying fundamentals of human history's qualitative evolutions. Creating both new niches as well as reinventing habitats.

Should one apply his approach to the logistics of information as well as rescources, ancient borders aquire a new depth. In a fashion they were institutions that spanned across ages, created by introduction of practice, living at the grace of their respective incarnations, stakeholders if you will.



Once a pratice disperses, such fiefdoms, become subject to isomorphic competition.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Dogma

Rev 21:7 "He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son."

Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2008) — Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed a new approach to study religion by focusing on verbal communication, an identifiable behavior, instead of speculating about alleged beliefs in the supernatural that cannot actually be identified.

"Instead of studying religion by trying to measure unidentifiable beliefs in the supernatural, we looked at identifiable and observable behavior - the behavior of people communicating acceptance of supernatural claims," said Craig T. Palmer, associate professor of anthropology in the MU College of Arts and Science. "We noticed that communicating acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker. In a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent."

Palmer and Lyle B. Steadman, emeritus professor of human evolution and social change at Arizona State University, explored the supernatural claims in different forms of religion, including ancestor worship; totemism, the claim of kinship between people and a species or other object that serves as the emblem of a common ancestor; and shamanism, the claim that traditional religious leaders in kinship-based societies could communicate with their dead ancestors. They found that the clearest identifiable effect of religious behavior is the promotion of cooperative family-like social relationships, which include parent/child-like relationships between the individuals making and accepting the supernatural claims and sibling-like relationships among co-acceptors of those claims.



ref youtube 'La Ricotta - Pasolini'

"Almost every religion in the world, including all tribal religions, use family kinship terms such as father, mother, brother, sister and child for fellow members," Steadman said. "They do this to encourage the kind of behavior found normally in families - where the most intense social relationships occur. Once people realize that observing the behavior of people communicating acceptance of supernatural claims is how we actually identify religious behavior and religion, we can then propose explanations and hypotheses to account for why people have engaged in religious behavior in all known cultures."

Palmer and Steadman published their research in The Supernatural and Natural Selection: The Evolution of Religion. The book was published by Paradigm Publishers.