#sensemaking — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sensemaking, aggregated by home.social.
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We know enough to be worried. We understand enough to see the pattern. We care enough to be affected.
But we do not have enough power to feel agency.
Our new essay is about that gap: between awareness and agency, information and orientation, witnessing and repair.
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #DigitalCulture #NewsFatigue #SystemsThinking #Sensemaking #MentalHealth #PublicLife #MediaLiteracy #InformationOverload #EmotionalArchitecture #Resilience
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Jim Crow has left the chat.
We the People™ are out here watching James’ nepobaby grandson—Chad Crow—trying to manifest by maxxing himself with self-help podcasts.
It’s cringe, brey.
It’s wild and it’s cringe, my sibling in Dionysius.
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There’s a shift happening in plain sight.
It’s not that responsible and reckless ways of speaking coexist. They always have.
It’s that both now carry equal weight, even when the stakes are real lives and real futures.
#Democracy
#GlobalPolitics
#Leadership
#Geopolitics
#Sensemaking
#PublicDiscourse
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Design's most distinctive cognitive contribution — abductive reasoning — remains largely confined to the studio, the workshop, the project timeline. We theorize it extensively (Kolko, Zingale, Dorst), we recognize it as the engine of design synthesis, the mechanism through which incomplete observations become structured hypotheses, through which uncertainty generates possibilities.
Yet when it comes to collective contexts — communities navigating complex territorial challenges — abduction stays trapped in episodic formats, limited by the well-known pathologies of participation: who gets to be in the room, for how long, with what resources, and whose complexity gets actually processed.This is the gap we explored in the paper presented at the Italian Design Society last June with Michele Zannoni and Flaviano Celaschi. The Systemic Relational Insight (SRI) framework, born from my doctoral research at the University of Bologna, proposes a hybrid intelligence process — community and machine — designed to scale the abductive dimension of sensemaking across broader publics, longer timeframes, and thicker layers of data and knowledge.
The core idea: integrate qualitative knowledge from situated workshops with quantitative data and scientific references, generate candidate insights and submit them to community validation (bringing scale in the formula to reach who didn't attend). An insight here is never a single statement delivered by an algorithm. It's a cluster containing multiple versions, each traceable to its genealogy of sessions, voices, and contexts, each carrying different degrees of community consensus, data support, and scientific consistency.
That simple.1/2
#DesignResearch #AbductiveThinking #Sensemaking #SystemicDesign #CommunityIntelligence #HybridIntelligence #PluralDesign
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The #patriachy would not exist without a #matriarchy.
I don’t make the rules.
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The trouble with facts is that they cannot be directly observed.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/22/the-trouble-with-facts/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #facts #objectivity #mediation #interpretation #causation #abduction #posthoc #cognitivebias #perception #sensemaking #philosophyofscience #philosophyoflaw #legalreasoning #intent #responsibility #evidence #experts #surveillance #mapandterritory #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #antimodernity #blog #podcast #science -
The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:
Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming
by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff
The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.
The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.
Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420
3/3 🧵
#recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ
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The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:
Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming
by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff
The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.
The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.
Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420
3/3 🧵
#recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ
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The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:
Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming
by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff
The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.
The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.
Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420
3/3 🧵
#recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ
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Thinking with places
“A farmer has to cut down trees to create space for his farmstead and fields. Yet once the farm is established it becomes an ordered world of meaning—a place—and beyond it is the forest and space.” — Yi-Fu Tuan
Thinking itself is place-making: the act of converting undifferentiated possibility into navigable meaning.
A place comes into being the moment we interrupt undifferentiated space. Place-making is fundamentally an act of interruption. Space is thought of as possibility but is unavailable without the signposts of place. When a place is created we impose a way of looking, being, and acting on the space of choice. The place you pick to navigate your space defines the identity you will inhabit during your quest. Every tool is a micro-place: it frames what can be thought and forecloses alternative moves. They enforce the kind of thoughts that can be had, the type of exploration that can be done, and configures space in an opinionated way.
Two-masted Schooner with Dory (1894) by Winslow Homer. Original from The Smithsonian. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Picking a tool commits us to a world view. Consider the space of ‘good TV shows’. Family, friends and culture have made the choice of what good means. When Netflix suggests shows it uses your watching history as a probe to create place so that every individual is always watching ‘good’ shows. The pure possibility space of the search bar is disrupted by the suggestions provided.
Like algorithmic curation, Socratic dialogue also interrupts space, it is interrogation as cartography. Socratic thinking is also an act of interruption and making concrete what was nebulous. It’s asking us to specify which show, if we claim to love TV. Socratic thinking (henceforth referred to as just thinking) starts by probing that which does not need questioning, the answers that are obvious the ones that everyone knows. This may seem foreign at first glance but we do this all the time, say we make a list of our favorite TV shows, someone always says you are missing this or that show and that this list is completely wrong. This kind of disagreement leads to the shared quest of answering the question, ‘What is it to be entertained?’.
Thinking pursues knowledge through the act of stabilizing answers to such questions by creating places in those unexamined areas. Discussion allows us to map. There is usually no well defined answer for such questions, if there were, they would simply be problems that we could solve with a google search. The quest stops when the parties involved are satisfied that they have arrived at an answer. Thinking is the act of place-making by taking something that was ungraspable and tying it down with knowledge. Place is, after all, an “ordered world of meaning” and we can use these places to create home bases from which to explore.
Even without other people simply engaging with the reality of the universe is sufficient for thought. Places are stable systems which provide a surface on which your thoughts and hypothesis can be tested. Even if there is no other person around and you’re simply engaged with looking at the world can uncover a new truth tied down by knowledge.
Thinking is the process of updating beliefs based on the mini places that make up the space that you’re interrogating. Each place is a noisy pointer to the underlying truth, and each updating of belief allows you to get closer to the knowledge you seek.
#algorithmicCuration #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #epistemology #mentalModels #philosophy #senseMaking #socraticMethod #spaceAndPlace #toolUse #worldview #yiFuTuan
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In “Back to the Future,” there is a scene where Doc Brown is surprised by the advanced technology from Japan, highlighting rapid technological advancements, reflecting the real-world perception of the electronics industry in the 1980s.
Everybody memoryholed how that wasn’t an overriding concern after the Cold War ended.
Why do we think that was?
#history #sensemaking #PatternRecognition
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I hope one of the #LessonsLearned is to implement a “maker-checker” protocol.
For many hierachical, command-and-control, authority-conscious organizations, this can be a common #AntiPattern: the head/executive/leader goes offline to create “content”, and nobody reviews it for #sensemaking, #blindspots, or unintended #messaging.
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Since people are talking about #sensemaking, self-selection of personalities, and organizational #psychology, an easy assessment to test is turning the #OrgChart upside down and evaluating the emotional reaction & logical response: https://www.superversive.co/essays/history-of-the-org-chart
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#TonyRomo is my spirit animal in my #sensemaking journey.
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Good food for thought by Andreas Weber
"on Aliveness and Interdependence"
http://www.bollier.org/blog/andreas-weber-aliveness-and-interdependence #flatness #solutionism #senseMaking #meaning #capitalism
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Great reading!
Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth ,
a.k.a."How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment"
https://medium.com/team-human/self-actualization-and-the-myth-of-personal-growth-67c12e5310f3
#egoism #relativism #consumerism #nichilism #flatness #harmony #senseMaking #meaning #capitalism #individualism #newAge #socialJustice
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Stuff to know in these complex times:
Engineering Illusions Part I: Religion and Technology https://techinsider100.medium.com/engineering-illusions-part-i-religion-and-technology-c1c7714bb9de
#religion #bigTech #solutionism #meGeneration #meaning #senseMaking #flatness #innovation #siliconValley #newAge #singularity #artificialIntelligence #relativism
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The Fantasy Of Political Intimacy, a.k.a "the dream of concord that keeps us politically stalled"
https://www.noemamag.com/the-fantasy-of-political-intimacy/ #politics #democracy #senseMaking #meaning #flatness #relativism #egoism #polarization
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VERY BAD: The Erosion of Deep Literacy https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-erosion-of-deep-literacy #senseMaking #meaning #ignorance #greatReset #religion #spirituality #education #democracy #flatness #readin
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A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge #postmodernism #senseMaking #meGeneration #fragmentation #meaning #flatness #education #academia
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VERY BAD: The Erosion of Deep Literacy https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-erosion-of-deep-literacy #senseMaking #meaning #ignorance #greatReset #religion #spirituality #education #democracy #flatness #reading