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[networked_performance] Trebor Scholz: The NYC art historian Judith Rodenbeck, linked this discussion to Fench curator Nicolas Bourriaud's much-circulated notion of relational aesthetics. Her critique of relational aesthetics questioned the quality of the relations that are established in the blue chip art world that serves as reference for Bourriaud.
[The Scribe] 5/15/06: NSA and Domestic Phone Records: Is... : I'm surprised to hear David defend the White House briefing of Congress about this activity. Because I think virtually everyone concluded, including the members of the intelligence committees of both the House and the Senate as well as judges who are members of the FISA court that the briefings were clearly inadequate.
[Collectivate.net - 'journalisms'] Distributed Aesthetics: The NYC art historian Judith Rodenbeck, linked this discussion to Fench curator Nicolas Bourriaud's much-circulated notion of relational aesthetics. Her critique of relational aesthetics questioned the quality of the relations that are established in the blue chip art world that serves as reference for Bourriaud.
[protein wisdom] Nuclear Midnight: Deterrence is based on reason, and while states are generally “rational actors”, terrorist organizations (essentially “anti-state” actors) are often “irrational actors.” States have stable political and military systems and organizations, with checks and balances, populations, territory and resources to protect, and have a vested interest in being rational and predictable. Anti-state actors, however, have none of these elements, usually possess radical political or religious ideologies, and often take pride in their unpredictability and willingness to escalate conflicts.
Today in Iraq: Even apart from such major war crimes as the assault on Falluja, there is more than enough evidence to support the conclusion of a professor of strategic studies at the Naval War College that the year 2004 "was a truly horrible and brutal one for hapless Iraq." Hatred of the United States, he continued, is now rampant in a country subjected to years of sanctions that had already led to "the destruction of the Iraqi middle class, the collapse of the secular educational system, and the growth of illiteracy, despair, and anomie [that] promoted an Iraqi religious revival [among] large numbers of Iraqis seeking succor in religion." Basic services deteriorated even more than they had under the sanctions. "Hospitals regularly run out of the most basic medicines...
[Slow Leadership] Slow Planning (Part 2): Over many decades, and despite enormous effort, conventional planning has failed to deliver its promise of clear, predictable outcomes. The current wars against terrorism and in Iraq have once again proved the fallibility of some of the most sophisticated planning processes available.
[Leader-values.com] Leadership Development - Results focused Leadership thinking and ...: They see, describe, and pursue new possibilities with great vigor. others?by Brian Ward The Leadership Quadrants How can a leader turn around a business .
[Leadership-tools.com] Strategic leadership book review - Change The Way You See Everything.: Asset-based thinking (ABT) is more than just “thinking positively”. ABT offers solid leadership suggestions for living on the side of life where the grass is truly
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