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Nobody asked, but: tonight Italy plays Germany in #WinterOlympics men's #curling and, as a reminder of the complexity of #nationalIdentity, I, an Italy-born German citizen, contrary to what I mostly do in sports, will side with Italy!

#socialConstruct #imaginedCommunities #Heimat

Talking Heads is a Waterstones science book of the year!
‘Offering radical new perspectives on the ways we communicate, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara's luminous volume explores what happens in our brain when we talk and the wide-reaching effects of this deeply human activity on individuals, groups and societies.’
https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-books-of-2023-popular-science#mathematics
#memory #politics #culture #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds is 0.99 on Amazon today. Bargain!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09X99TWLS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedreality #killerapp #cognition

Australians have never been more distrusting of corporate Australia.

"They say corporate Australia's behaviour since the onset of COVID has led to dramatically soaring distrust, and voters are distressed by the amount of "moral blindness" they see among corporate leaders."

"They say Australians are angry with firms like PwC, Optus, Telstra, Medibank, Rio Tinto and Facebook/Meta, following huge data breaches and other scandals. The PwC tax scandal and the data breaches at Optus and Medibank are among recent events accelerating distrust."

"Rio Tinto hasn't recovered from Juukan Gorge blast...distrust in the mining giant increased dramatically in May 2020 after it blew up an unfathomably-ancient sacred Indigenous site, and it has never recovered from that scandal. In mid-2020, the leadership of Rio Tinto authorised the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelter at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia...In a matter of minutes, 8 million tonnes of ore were blasted from the heritage site so that Rio Tinto could access $135 million dollars' worth of high-grade iron ore."

"It's distrust where society's deepest fears, pain and betrayal surface – and that's because distrust embodies the fundamental vulnerabilities, past betrayals, and concerns that can erode the foundational bonds and shared beliefs that unite a community."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/australians-distressed-by-moral-blindess-of-corporate-australia/102807234

#ImaginedCommunities #PostDemocracy #distrust #Corporate #Australia #outsourcing #CorporateWelfare #governance #consulting #MoralBlindness #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalHeritage #NSWLogging #ForestryCorporation #FCNSW #extractivism

https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-neuroscience-of-nationalism-c41

Nationalisms of every type and stripe - from ethnonationalism to ‘my country firsters’ to progressive nationalism to regressive nationalism to civic nationalism to so many others (Wiki does an admirable job of cataloguing them) - are one of the defining features of our political and social lives, right across the whole world...

#Collectivememory #imaginedcommunities #mentaltimetravel #agency #identity #substack

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(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds:
you can pre-order my new book!

It's finally arrived- all those hours distilled into a 3d object. I hope you'll enjoy it. It will challenge you to see our shared worlds in entirely new ways.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354/talking-heads-by-omara-shane/9781847926487

https://amzn.eu/d/cCDuepU

or yr local bookshop
ISBN-10 ‎1847926487
ISBN-13 ‎978-1847926487

#amazon #bookshop #conversation #cognitive #nations #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedrealities #sharedworlds

For less than the price of a pizza, you can pre-order 'Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds' for your Kindle, and have it autodelivered on 3rd Aug for some nice summer reading! https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354/talking-heads-by-omara-shane/9781847926487 #TalkingHeads #conversation #sharedrealities #imaginedcommunities #memory #neuronstonations

I'm delighted to say my new book, 'TALKING HEADS - The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds' is now available for pre-order via
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354/talking-heads-by-omara-shane/9781847926487
or
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I'm delighted to say my new book, 'TALKING HEADS - The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds' is now available for pre-order via
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354/talking-heads-by-omara-shane/9781847926487
or
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847926487?tag=prhmarketing2552-21

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