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Re: <nettime> Nobel laureate in economics aged 102 endorses the human economy... |
John: > Although I am haven't the time to promote and explore the > application a wholistic approach like 'living systems theory' > or 'general system theory' to such issues . . . Thanks for bringing this up! However, in this case, the key individual is probably Kenneth Boulding. Central to his work is the entire literature on the "Image" -- which he called "Eiconics" and which (sorta) later became "mimetics." He organized the Ford Foundation funding for the Society for General Systems Research, from a plan that was hatched at the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences (also Ford funded.) He also *did* read McLuhan (and Carpenter, along with their predecessor Harold Innis, who had been involved in Rockefeller social science funding in Canada) and tried to incorporate what he learned into his own work on economics. When Boulding left Univ. of Michigan (where he was associated with the Group Dynamics center that had moved there from MIT after Lewin's death) in the early 70s, he (and his wife Elise) went to UofColorado at Boulder, where they published 5 volumes of his "collected papers." Little read nowadays, they are a trove of details about the "issues" being worked on in the 1950s/60s. Boulding also contributed to the McLuhan/Carpenter "Explorations" journal in the 50s and wrote a fascinating review of McLuhan's two early 60s books in 1965 (reprinted in Vol 4 "Toward a General Social Science"). _http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Papers-Kenneth-Boulding-E/dp/0870810537/ref =sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358865800&sr=1-5&keywords=boulding+collected+pa pers_ (http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Papers-Kenneth-Boulding-E/dp/0870810537/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358865800&sr=1-5&keywords=boulding+collec ted+papers) Elise was also very active in movements for "change" and how those efforts relate to history, as shown in her comments appended to the infamous 1974 SRI/Center for the Study of Social Policy "Changing Images of Man" -- _http://ce399.typepad.com/files/changing_images.pdf_ (http://ce399.typepad.com/files/changing_images.pdf) A "retrospective" review of this *manifesto* would be a good idea for an early issue of "Man and the Economy" -- if Coates/Wang ever succeed in getting their journal off the ground. Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org