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Essential Balances in Projects
These are part of the frames from the projects-flavour of the "Essential Balances" theme, delivered in a workshop format at a training event yesterday in Athens.
Redrawing the Viable System Model diagram
I've been arguing repeatedly that trying to get the Viable System Model from overviews, introductions and writings based on or about it, can put the curious mind in a state of confusion or simply lead to wrong interpretations. The absolute minimum is reading at least once each of the three books explaining the model. But better twice. Why? There are at least two good reasons. The obvious one is to better understand some points and pay attention to others that have been probably missed during the first run. But there is also another reason. Books are of linear nature and when tackling non-linear subjects, a second reading gives the chance to better interpret each part of the text when having in the memory more less all other parts which relate to it.
Still, one of the things that are expected to be most helpful is in fact what brings about either confusion, aversion or misuse: the VSM diagrams. They clearly favour expected ease of understanding over rigour and yet in some important points they fail in both. Here is my short list of issues, followed by description of each:
- Representation of the channels
- Confusion about operations and their direct management
- Notation and labelling of systems
- They show something in between generic and example model
- Hierarchical implication
Representation of the channels
Stafford Beer admitted several times in his books the "diagrammatic limitations" of the VSM representations. Some of the choices had to do with the limitation of the 2D representation and others, I guess, aimed to avoid clutter. Figure 26 of "The Heart of Enterprise" is a good example for both. It shows eleven loops but implies twenty one: 3 between environment, operations and management, multiplied by 3 for the choice of showing three operations, then another 9 = 3×3 for loops between same-type elements and finally 3 more between operation management and the meta-system.
Confusion about operations and their direct management
Notation and labelling of systems
All diagrams representing the VSM in the originals writings and all interpretations I've seen so far, suggest that circles represent System One, and triangles pointing up and down, represent System Two and Three* respectively. Additionally most VSM overviews state exactly that in the textual description. My assertion is almost the opposite:
What is labelled as S1 and what is shown as circles are both not representing S1.
That might come as a shock to many and yet, now citing Beer, System One is not the "circles" but:
The collection of operating elements (that is, including their horizontal and vertical connexions)
The Heart of Enterprise, page 132
Well, strictly speaking a system is a system because it shows emergent properties so it is more than the collection of its parts but even referring to it as collection reveals the serious misinterpretation when taking only one of its parts to represent the whole system.
They show something in between generic and example model
Communicating such matters to managers trained in business schools wasn't an easy task. And it is even more challenging nowadays. There is a lot to learn and a even more to unlearn. It is not surprising then that even in the generic models typically three operations are illustrated (same for System 2). Yet, I was always missing a true generic representation, or what would many prefer to call "meta-model".
Hierarchical implication
It can't be repeated enough that the VSM is not an hierarchical model, and yet it is often perceived and used as such or not used especially because of that perception. It seems that recursivity is a challenging concept, while anything slightly resembling hierarchy is quickly taken to represent one. And sadly, the VSM diagram only amplifies that perception, although the orthogonality of the channels serves an entirely different purpose. Stafford Beer rarely misses an opportunity to remind about that. Nevertheless, whatever is positioned higher implies seniority and the examples of mapping to actual roles and functions only help in confirming this misinterpretation.
There are other issues as well but my point was to outline the motivation for trying alternative approaches for modelling the VSM, without alternating the essence or the governing principles. Here is one humble attempt to propose a different representation (there is a less humble one which I'm working on, but it's still too early to talk about it). The following diagram favours circular, instead of orthogonal representation which I hope achieves at least in destroying the hierarchical perception. Yet, from a network point of view the higher positioning of S3 is chosen on purpose as the network clearly shows that this node is a hub.
System One is represented by red colouring, keeping the conventional notation for the operations (S1.o) and their direct management (S1.m). As mentioned above, apart from solving this, the intention as to have it as a generic model. If that poses a problem for those used to the hybrid representation, here's how it would look if two S1s are shown:
I hope this proposal solves fully or partially the five issues explained earlier and brings a new perspective that can be insightful on its own. In any case the aim is to be useful in some way. If not as it is now, then by triggering feedback that might bring it to a better state. Or, it can be useful by just provoking other, more successful attempts.
More on Requisite Inefficiency
The "slides" supporting my talk on Requisite Inefficiency a couple of months ago have been on Slideshare since then but I haven't had the time to share them here. Which I do now.
Variety – part 2
Can you deal with it? It is amazing how language evolved to adapt to reductionist mindset. "Deal", which originated from divide and initially meant only to distribute and then to trade, is now used as synonym for cope, manage and control. We manage things by dividing them. We eat elephants peace by peace, we start journeys of thousand miles with a single step, and we divide to conquer.
(This is the second part of a sequence devoted to the concept "variety" used as a measure of complexity. It's a good idea to read previous part before this one but even doing it after, or not at all is fine.)
And that indeed proved to be a good way of managing things, or at least some things, and in some situations. But often it's not enough. To deal with things, and here I use "deal" to mean manage, understand, control, we need requisite variety and when that is not the case initially, we could get it in three ways: by attenuating the variety of what has to be dealt with, by amplifying our variety, or by doing a bit of both when the difference is too big.
And how do we do that? (I use we/them instead of regulator/regulated or systemA/systemB or organisation/environment, because I find it easier to imply the perspective and the purpose this way) Let's start with an attempt to put some very common activities in each of these groups. We attenuate external variety by grouping, categorising, splitting, standardising, setting objectives, filtering, reporting, coordinating, and consolidating. We amplify our variety by learning, trial-and-error, practising, networking, advertising, buffering, doing contingency planning, and innovating. And we can add a lot more to both lists, of course. We use activities from both list but when doing these activities we need requisite variety as well. That's why we have to apply them at the lower level of recursion. We learn to split and we split to learn, for example.
It could be easy to put in the third group pairs from each list but now the task is to classify single types. Here are two suggestions that seem to fit: planning and pretending.
With planning we get higher variety by being prepared for at least one scenario, especially in the parts of what we can control, in contrast to those not prepared even for that. But then, we reduce different possibilities to one and try to absorb part of the deflected variety with risk management activities. Planning is important in operations and projects but somehow in the business setting we can get away with poor planning, at least for long enough to lose the opportunity to adapt. And that is the case in many systems with delayed feedback. That's why I like the test of quick-feedback and skin-in-the-game situations, like sailing. In sailing, not having a good plan could be equality disastrous as sticking to a plan for too long and not adapting or replacing it quickly based on evidence against the assumptions of the initial one. And that's valid at every level, no matter if the plan is for a week, day or an hour.
Pretending is even more interesting in its dual role. It can be so successful as to reinforce its application to the extreme. Pretending is so important for stick insects, for example, that they apply it 24/7. That proved to be really successful for their survival and they've been getting better at it for the last fifty million years. It turned out to be also so satisfactory that they can live without sex for one million years. Well, that's for a different reason but nevertheless their adaptability is impressive. The evolutionary pressure to better resemble sticks made them sacrifice their organ symmetry so that they can afford thinner bodies. Isn't it amazing: you give up one of your kidneys just to be able to lie better? Now, why do I argue that deception in general, and pretending in particular, has a duel role in the variety game? Stick insects amplify their morphologic variety and through this they attenuate the perception variety of their predators. A predator sees stick as a stick and stick insect as a stick, two states attenuated into one.
Obviously snakes are more agile than stick insects but for some types that agility goes beyond the capabilities of their bodies. Those snakes don't pretend 24/7 but just when attacked. They pretend to be dead. And one of those types, the hognose snake, goes so far in their act as to stick its tongue out, vomit blood and sometimes even defecate. Now, that should be not just convincing but quite off-putting even for the hungriest of predators.
If pretending can be such a variety amplifier (and attenuator), pretending to pretend can achieve even more remarkable results. A way to imagine the variety proliferation of such a structure is to use an analogy with the example of three connected black boxes that Stafford Beer gave in "The Heart of Enterprise". If the first box has three inputs and one output, each of them with two possible states, then the input variety is 8 and the output is 256. Going from 8 to 256 with only one output is impressive but when that is the input of a third black box, having only one output as well, then its variety reaches the cosmic number of 1.157×1077.
That seems to be one of the formulas of the writer Kazuo Ishiguro. As Margaret Atwood put it, "an Ishiguro novel is never about what it pretends to pretend to be about". No wonder "Never Let Me Go" is so good. And the author, having much more variety than the stick insects, didn't have to give his organs to be successful. He just made up characters to give theirs.
Variety – part 1
The cybernetic concept of variety is enjoying some increase in usage. And that's both in frequency and in number of different contexts. Even typing "Ross Ashby" in Google Trends supports that impression. In the last two years the interest seems stable, while in the previous six – non-existing, save for the lonely peak in May 2010. That's not a source of data to draw some conclusions from, but it supports the impression coming from tweets, blogs, articles, and books. On one side, that's good news. I still find the usage insignificant, compared to what I believe it should be, given its potential and the tremendously increased supply of problems of such nature that if not in solving, at least it can help in understanding. Nevertheless, some stable attention is better that none at all. On the other side, it attracts a variety of interpretations and some of them might not be healthy for the application of the concept. That's why I hope it's worth exchanging more ideas about variety, and those having more variety themselves would either enjoy wider adoption or those using them – more benefits, or both.
The concept of "variety" as a measure of complexity had been preceded and inspired by the "information entropy" of Claude Shannon, also known as the "amount of surprise" in a message. That, although stimulated by the development of the communication technologies in the first half of the twentieth century, had its roots in statistical mechanics and Boltzmann's definition of entropy. Boltzmann, unlike classical mechanics and thermodynamics, defined entropy as the number of possible microstates corresponding to the micro-state of a system. (These four words "possible", "microstates", "micro-states" and "system" deserve a lot of attention. Anyway, they'll not get in this post.)
Variety is usually defined as the number of possible states in a system. It is also applied to a set of elements, as the number of different members determine the variety of a set, and to the members themselves which can be in different states and then the set of possible transitions has certain variety. This is the first important property of "variety". It's recursive. I'll come back to this later. Now, to clarify what is meant by "state":
By a state of a system is meant any well-defined condition or property that can be recognised if it occurs again.
Ross Ashby
Variety can sometimes be easy to count. For example, after opening the game in chess with pawn on D4, the queen has variety of three – not to move or move to one of the two possible squares. If only the temporary variety gain is counted, then choosing D2 as the next move would give variety of 9, and D3 would give 16. That's not enough to tell if the move is good or bad, especially having in mind that some of that gained variety is not effective. However, in case of uncertainty, in games and elsewhere, moving to a place which both increases our future options and decreases those of the opponent, seems a good advice.
Variety can be expressed as a number, as it was done in the chess example, but in many cases it's more convenient to use the logarithm of that number. The common practice, maybe because of the first areas of application, is to use binary logarithms. When that is the case, variety can be expressed in bits. It is indeed more convenient to say the variety of a four-letter code using the English alphabet is 18.8 bits instead of 456 976. And then, when the logarithmic expression is used, combining varieties of elements is done just by adding instead of multiplying. This has additional benefits when plotting etc.
Variety is sometimes referred to and counted as permutations. That might be fine in some cases but as a rule it is not. To use the example with the 4-letter code, it has 358 800 permutations (26 factorial divided by 22 factorial), while the variety is 456 976 (26 to the power of 4).
Variety is relative. It is dependant on the observer. That's obvious even from the word "recognised" in the definition of "state". If, for example, there is a clock with two hands that are exactly the same or at least to the extent that an observer can't make the difference, then, from the point of view of the observer, the clock will have much lower variety than a regular one. The observer will not be able to distinguish for example 12:30 and 6:03 as they will be seen as the same state of the clock.
This can be seen as another dependency. That of the capacity of the channel or the variety of the transducer. For example, it is estimated that regular humans can distinguish up to 10 million colours, while tetrachromats – at least ten times more. The variety of the transducer and the capacity of the channel should always be taken into account.
When working with variety, it is important to study the relevant constraints. If we throw a stone from the surface of Earth, certain constraints, including those we call "gravity" and the "resistance of the air", would allow a much smaller range of possible states than if those constraints were not present. Ross Ashby made the following inference out of this: "every law of nature is a constraint", "science looks for laws; it is therefore much concerned with looking for constraints". (Which is interesting in view of the recent claim of Stuart Kauffman that "the very concept of a natural law is inadequate for much of the reality" and that we live in a lawless universe and should fundamentally rethink the role of science…)
There is this popular way of defining a system as something which is more than the sum of its parts. Let's see this statement through the lenses of varieties and constraints. If we have two elements, A and B, and each can be in two possible states on their own but when linked to each other A can bring B to another, third state, and B can bring A to another state as well. In this case, the system AB has certainly more variety than the sum of A and B unbound. But if, when linking A and B they inhibit each other, allowing one state instead of two, then it is clearly the opposite. That motivates rephrasing the popular statement to "a system might have different variety than the combined variety of its parts".
If that example with A and B is too abstract, imagine a canoe sprint kayak with two paddlers working in sync and then compare it with the similar setting but one of the paddlers rowing while the other holds her paddle in the water.
And now about the law of requisite variety. It's stated as "only variety can destroy variety" by Ashby and as "variety absorbs variety" by Beer, and has other formulations such as "The larger the variety of actions available to control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate". Basically, when the variety of the regulator is lower than the variety of the disturbance, that gives high variety of the outcome. A regulator can only achieve desired outcome variety, if its own variety is the same or higher than that of the disturbance. The recursive nature, mentioned earlier, can now be easily seen, if we look at the regulator as channel between the disturbance and the outcome or if we account for the variety of the channels at the level of recursion with which we started.
To really understand the profound significance of this law, it should be seen how it exerts itself in various situations, which we wouldn't normally describe with words such as "regulator", "perturbations" and "variety".
In the chess example, the power of each piece is a function of its variety which is the one given by the rules reduced by the constraints at every move. Was there a need to know about requisite variety to design this game? Or any other game for that matter? Or was that necessary to know how to wage war. Certainly not. And yet, it's all there:
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
But let's leave the games for a moment and remember the relative nature of variety. The light signals in ships should comply with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS). Yes, here we even have the word "regulation". Having the purpose in mind, to prevent collision, the signals have reduced variety to communicate the states of the ships but enough to ensure the required control. For example, if an observer sees one green light, she knows that another ship is passing from left to right, and – from right to left – if she sees red light. There are lots of states – different angels of the course of the other ship – that are reduced into these two but that is serving the purpose well enough. Now, if she sees both red and green that means that the ship is coming exactly towards her that's an especially dangerous situation. That's why the reduction of variety in this case has to be very low.
The relativity of variety is not only related to the observer's "powers of discrimination", or those of the purpose of regulation. It could be dependant also on the situation, on the context. An example that first comes to mind is the Easop's fable "The Fox and the Stork".
Fables, and stories in general, are interesting phenomenon. Their capability to influence people and survive many centuries is amazing. But why is that? Why do you need a story, instead of getting directly the moral of the story. Yes, it's more interesting, there is this uncertainty element and all that. But there is something more. Stories are ambiguous, interpretable. They leave many things to be completed by the readers and listeners. And yes, to put in different words, they have much higher variety than morals and values.
That's it for this part. Stay tuned.
The change of the change
Let's have a variable V representing at this moment an aspect of interest I from the behaviour of a system S. This variable W is changed through transduction of a certain characteristic C of S using a transducer T.
Now, which variable are we talking about, V or W? Probably Z? It would be V only if I, S, C and T and the meaning of 'variable' remained the same at the moment of writing the second sentence and even that would require 'only if' to work as assumed by logic.
Yes, it can be that fast.
Reasoning with Taskless BPMN
Was it Lisbon that attracted me so much or the word Cybernetics in the sub-title or the promise of Alberto Manuel that it would be a different BPM conference? May be all three and more. As it happened, the conference was very well organised and indeed different in a nice way. The charm of Lisbon was amplified by the nice weather, much appreciated after the long winter. As to Cybernetics, it remained mainly in the sub-title but that's good enough if it would make more people go beyond the Wikipedia articles and other easily digestible summaries.
My presentation was about using task-free BPMN which I believe, and the results so far confirm, can have serious benefits for modelling of both pre-defined processes and those with some level of uncertainty. In addition, there is a nice way to execute such processes using reasoners and achieve transparency in Enterprise Architecture descriptions which are usually isolated from the operational data and neither the former is linked with what happens, nor the latter gets timely updates from the strategy. More on this in another post. Here's the slidedeck:
Requisite Inefficiency
In his latest article Ancient Wisdom teaches Business Processes, Keith Swenson reflects on an interesting story told by Jared Diamond. In short, the potato farmers in Peru used to scatter their strips of land. They kept them that way instead of amalgamating them which would seem like the most reasonable thing to do. This turned out to be a smart risk mitigating strategy. As these strips are scattered, the risk of various hazards is spread and the probability to get something from the owned land every year is higher.
I see that story as yet another manifestation of Ashby's law of requisite variety. The environment is very complex and to deal with it somehow, we either find a way to reduce that variety in view of a particular objective, or try to increase ours. In a farming setting an example of variety reduction would be building a greenhouse. The story of the Peruvian farmers is a good example of the opposite strategy – increase of the variety of the farmers' system. The story shows another interesting thing. It is an example of a way to deal with oscillation. The farmers controlled the damage of the lows by giving up the potential benefits of the highs.
Back to the post of Keith Swenson, after bringing this lesson to the area of business process, he concludes
Efficiency is not uniformity. Instead, don't worry about enforcing a best practice, but instead attempt only to identify and eliminate "worst practices"
I fully agree about best practices. The enforcement of best practices is what one can find in three of every four books on management and in nearly every organisation today. This may indeed increase the success rate in predictable circumstances but it decreases resilience and it is just not working when the uncertainty of the environment is high.
I'm not quite sure about the other advice: "but instead attempt only to identify and eliminate "worst practices". Here's why I'm uncomfortable with this statement:
1. To identify and eliminate "worst practice" is a best practice itself.
2. To spot an anti-pattern, label it as "worst-practice" and eliminate it might seem the reasonable thing to do today. But what about tomorrow? Will this "worst-practice" be an anti-pattern in the new circumstances of tomorrow? Or something that we might need to deal with the change?
Is a certain amount of bad practice necessarily unhealthy?
It seems quite the opposite. Some bad practice is not just nice to have, it is essential for viability. I'll not be able to put it better than Stafford Beer:
Error, controlled to a reasonable level, is not the absolute enemy we have been thought to think of. On the contrary, it is a precondition for survival. […] The flirtation with error keeps the algedonic feedbacks toned up and ready to recognise the need for change.
Stafford Beer, Brain of the firm (1972)
I prefer to call this "reasonable level" of error requisite inefficiency. Where can we see this? In most – if not all – complex adaptive systems. A handy example is the way immune system works in humans and other animals having the so called adaptive immune system (AIS).
The main agents of the AIS are T and B lymphocytes. They are produced by stem cells in the bone marrow. They account for 20-40% of the blood cells which makes about 2 trillion. The way the AIS works is fascinating but for the topic here of requisite inefficiency, what is interesting is the reproduction of the B-cells.
The B-cells recognise the pathogen molecules, the "antigens", depending on how well the shape of their receptor molecules match that of the antigens. The better the match, the better the chance to be recognised as antigen. And when that is the case, the antigens are "marked" for destruction. Then follows a process in which the T-cells play an important role.
As we keep talking of the complexity and uncertainty of the environment, the pathogens seem a very good model of it.
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
N. Wiener, A. Rosenblueth, Philosophy of Science (1945)
What is the main problem of the immune system? It cannot predict what pathogens will invade the body and prepare accordingly. How does it solve it? By generating enormous diversity. Yes, Ashby's law again. The way this variety is generated is interesting in itself for the capability of cells DNA to carry out random algorithms. But let's not digress.
The big diversity may increase the chance to absorb that of pathogens but what is also needed is to have match in numbers to have requisite variety. (This is why I really find variety, in cybernetic terms, such a good measure. It is relative. And it can account for both number of types and quantities of the same type.) If the number of matches between B-cell receptors and antigens is enough to register "attack", the B-cells get activated by the T-cells and start to release antibodies. Then these successful B-cells go to a lymph node where they start to reproduce rapidly . This is a reinforcing loop in which the mutations that are good match with the antigens go to kill invaders and then back to the lymph nodes to reproduce. Those mutations that don't match antigens, die.
That is really efficient and effective. But at the same time, the random generation of new lymphocytes with diverse shapes continues. Which is quite inefficient when you think of it. Most of them are not used. Just wasted. Until some happen to have receptors that are good match of a new invader. And this is how such an "inefficiency" is a precondition for survival. It should not just exist but be sufficient. The body does not work with what's probable. It's ready for what's possible.
The immune system is not the only complex system having requisite inefficiency. The brain, the swarms, the networks are just as good examples. Having the current level of study, the easiest systems to see it in are ant colonies.
When an ant finds food, it starts to leave a trail of pheromones. When another ant encounters the trail, it follows it. If it reaches the food, the second ant returns to the next leaving trail as well. The same reinforcing loop we saw with the B-cells, can be seen with ants. The more trails, the more likely the bigger number of ants will step on it, follow it, leave more pheromones, attract more ants and so on. And again, at the same time there always is a sufficient amount of ants moving randomly which can encounter new location with food.
The requisite inefficiency is equally important for social systems. Dave Snowden gave a nice example coincidently again with farmers but in that case experiencing high frequency of floods. Their strategy was to build their houses not in a way to prevent the water coming in but to allow the water to quickly come out. He calls that "architecting for resilience":
You build your system on the assumption you prevent what can fail but you also build your system so you can recover very very quickly when failure happens. And that means you can't afford an approach based on efficiency. Because efficiency takes away all superfluous capacity so you only have what you need to have for the circumstances you anticipate. […] You need a degree of inefficiency in order to be effective.
It seems we have a lot to learn from B-cells, ants and farmers about how to make our social systems work better and recover quicker. And contrary to our intuition, there is a need for some inefficiency. The interesting question is how to regulate it or how to create conditions for self regulation. For a given system, how much inefficiency is insufficient, how much is just enough and when it is too much? May be for the immune systems and ant colonies these regulatory mechanisms are already known. The challenge is to find them for organisations, societies and economies. How much can we use from what we already know for other complex adaptive systems? Well, we also have to be careful with analogies. Else, we might fall into the "best practice" trap.
Frameworks and rigour
This is in response to the recent article of Richard Veryard "Arguing with Mendeleev". There he comments on Zachman's comparison of his framework with the periodic table of Mendeleev. And indeed there are cells in both tables with labelled columns (called "groups" in Mendeleev's) and rows ("periods" respectively). Another similarity is that both deal with elements and not compounds. The same way the study of properties of oxygen and hydrogen will tell you nothing about the properties of water, the study of any two artefacts from Zachman framework will tell you nothing of how the real things they stand for work together. In fact you may not even get much about the separate properties of what the artefacts represent. Anyway, if there are any similarities, this is where they end.
I'll not spend much time on differences. They are too many. But let me just mention two. The periodic table is a classification based on the properties of the elements. The order is determined by atom numbers and electron configuration. Both groups and periods have commonalities which make them an appropriate classification scheme. Once the rules are established, the place of each element can be confirmed by independent experiments and observations. That's not the case with Zachman's framework.
Richard comments on the statement that Zachman's scheme is not negotiable:
What makes chemistry a science is precisely the fact that the periodic table is open to this kind of revision in the light of experimental discovery and improved theory. If the same isn't true for the Zachman Framework, then it can hardly claim to be a proper science.
I haven't heard the claim that Zachman's framework is a "proper science" before. In my opinion, Zachman's main contribution is not his framework as such but the fact that it created a new discipline and new profession. The scheme itself is arbitrary. The columns, as we know, are based on six of the interrogatives: what, how, where, who, when, and why. Whether is missing, also how much. In the old English there is also whither, which is similar to where but has an important specifics – it is related to direction (whereto). But I'm not questioning the number of columns. I have doubts about their usefulness in general.
Let's just take three of the of the interrogatives: what, how and why and test some questions:
1. What do you do now? Answer: B
2. Why do you do B? Answer: because of A
3. How do you do B? Answer: by means of C
And now with a simple example:
B = buy food
A = I'm hungry
C = going to the supermarket
Now let's focus on the answers and ask questions to learn more. First on C:
I'm going to the supermarket.
Why? Answer: to buy food
Why you need to buy food? Answer: because I'm hungry
Now let's focus on A:
I'm hungry. Well, this is a problem. So we can ask:
How can I solve A? Answer: by doing B
How can I do B? Answer: by doing C
So if the relativity of the focus is ignored then what is equal to why is equal to how. (Speaking of focus, or perspective, this is where the rows in the framework come to play. This is a nice game itself which we'll play another time).
In this example the answer of what is related to activities and not to their object (food) which by itself questions how appropriate is to label the data column "what".
But of course rigour is not imperative. And neither is logic. After all it shifted its function from a tool to win arguments into a tool to seek truth. And then logic is quite materialistic, while EA seems a spiritual practice. Which reminds me also of the mind over matter one-liner:
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In the Australian Aboriginal culture, Dreamtime "is a complex network of knowledge, faith, and practices". Both the word and thus cited definition invite vivid associations. The latter, with what is commonly referred to as Enterprise Architecture (EA), the former – with its current state.
Note: With this I'd like to depart from further analogies as I respect the culture of Aboriginal people in general in the part related to Dreamtime in particular. I'll refer to drEAmtime in this article solely as to what I currently see is the state of play of EA.
The drEAm of the common language
It is believed for a long time now that there is a wide spread misalignment between 'Business' and 'IT'. The IT in this context is used to refer to employees that carry out activities closely related to development, procurement and maintenance of information systems, and 'Business' – to those who don't.
The division of labour, which is the predominant way of structuring organisations, naturally invites different specialists with different background (neatly matching the fragmentation of the educational system) and it is to be expected that they would use different terms, or the same but imply different meaning. It is interesting to note that even if this is the case between, say, accounting and production, the miscommunication between IT and the rest attracts the highest attention. Maybe it is due to the increasing dependency on IT combined with stories of spectacular failure, or because IT as an area with incredible rate of innovation, and thus the sense of leading, has to follow orders by those belonging to somewhat lagging ones. In any case, there is general agreement about the problem of miscommunication and the associated high cost.
Here comes Enterprise Architecture to the rescue. Doing what? Introducing a third language. What's even worse, a language ostensibly similar to both 'Business' and 'IT'. But just check some EA terms to see how people from 'Business' and 'IT interpret them. Take for example the most common ones like service, capability, function, model, viewpoint and artefact. The resulting situation looks something like this:
It is quite absurd but let's imagine for a moment that it's not. At best we would see the following vicious circle. The strong IT smell of the EA language decreases the chance of the Business to believe that they would benefit from learning it and that explains the low motivation and buy-in. Even though the cognitive load for IT is much lower, seeing the willingness of the Business to 'improve' its literacy, IT people find better things to be busy with. And another funny point. When there is some buy-in by the Business, EA is put under IT, not between business and IT. Then EA people complain they can't do much from there. But maybe they are put there just because they can't do much.
Closely related to the dream of the common language is
The drEAm of bridging the silos
Some of this dream is part of the previous. But here is another. The EA people instead of building a bridge between the two silos, create a new one. And at certain point they find themselves in the position where neither Business nor IT regards them as a bridge any more. The Business people trust EA people even less than IT because they see them as cross-dressed IT. IT people loose trust to EA as well because they are not sure they understand the Business and if they still remember what was IT. Further, IT managers need support which EA does not have the authority to ensure.
And there is an additional effect. EA is often in the position to attract some serious budgets for reasons we'll see in another dream, and this way the new island becomes a safe territory for people that have either failed or lost interest in the pure IT. This as a result further decreases the credibility of EA which slowly, in some organisations, gets the image of a place for people that are not good enough for IT and prefer to hide under EA labels where things are vague enough and much more difficult to measure. The lost credibility either undermines the work of the really good EA practitioners or pushes them out of the organisation or both.
But what part of the work of EA is quantifiable? One tangible result of successful EA seems to be the rationalisation of the application landscape. And as this brings efficiency, it is easier to measure. This I call
The drEAm of IT cost reduction
Big organisations in all sectors, especially in the service industries, tend to gather huge number of applications until they find themselves in a situation where there are far too many to manage. A good number of them are not used at all. Some other part is underutilised. Most of the critical applications have high maintenance or high replacement cost or both. Inevitably there are many which automate different parts of the same process but they don't talk to each other. And this justifies new spending on building interfaces, or buying application integration packages first and then replacing them with BPMS and then probably with something better than BPMS. As a result – more spending and more applications to manage.
An addition to application integration problems are the redundancy ones. A number of existing functionalities, and I've seen in a few organisations this being over fifty per cent, are duplicated in one or more applications to some extent or quite completely.
Yet another common situation are patchwork applications. Those are applications that have certain utility but don't quite well meet the needs, or just the needs change with the usage or as a result of some change in the business. In any case it is found better to add the missing functionality instead of replacing the whole application. And then again and again, layers of patches of additions and fixes until we have a real monster and the roles of the master and servant are swapped.
One day all these silo applications, functional redundancies, patchwork systems and suchlike create a serious enough mess and shocking numbers in the financial statements to convince the top management that something have to be done and rather soon.
But just when the situations seems really critical, the door opens with a kick and EA cowboys enter. They pull out frameworks and architecture tools from their holsters and in slow motion (a very slow motion), they shoot inefficiency after inefficiency until all of them lie dead on the floor. Then they walk out and go to shoot inefficiencies in some other town and when new inefficiencies appear in this town they come back again to kill them out.
Here is what happens in fact. Some attempts to achieve IT rationalisation fail spectacularly. I'm not going to list out the reasons for that. It is maybe sad that such failures discredit EA as management discipline as a whole. But sometimes Enterprise Architects are really able to find ways to discover what's not needed and how to remove it, or what is underutilised and how to achieve better ROI for it. After all most of them are smart people using good tools. And indeed they shoot inefficiencies and get all the glory and the money to shoot more. But as they rarely get to the cause of the inefficiencies or are in the position to influence the bigger system that produces these inefficiencies, the overall result is an oscillation or even increase in overall IT spending. The increase is because the success of the EA justifies bigger EA budget which is almost without exception a part of the IT budget.
The drEAm of dealing with complexity
This dream have specifics of its own but it can also be used to explain the whole drEAmtime.
If you are an Enterprise Architect, a popular way to deal with complexity is to arm yourself with a framework. With a good framework, it is believed, you can do two things. First, reduce the variety of the enterprise to just a few things that share the same properties, according to some classification theory and where things doesn't fit, add more layers of abstraction. And second, reduce the things you can possibly do to just a few but well defined and in a specific order, with well prescribed inputs and outputs, because that was common for so many organisations that did well so that it became a best practice, and the chances are, if you follow this way, it will do you well as well. Now, because of the shared understanding of the beneficial role of the abstract layers, and the boundaryless imagination unconstrained by the reality, there is a serious number of frame-works and on top of them other-works on how to adapt and adopt them.
Then of course modelling itself is believed to help in dealing with complexity. But what kind of modelling? A very complicated architecture diagram does not show complexity. It just shows a lot of effort spent in denial of it.
The part related to complexity certainly deserves a separate post and maybe more than one. As this one got pretty long already, for my standards that is, let me just finish with the following: dealing with complexity is not reduced to finding ways to reduce it. It requires much different understanding of what happens when interactions are not linear. When there is dynamics, adaptation, self-organisation, irrational behaviour, politics and power.
In summary, more often than not, when contemporary mainstream EA is trying to introduce a common language, it creates confusion and additional work to deal with it. When trying to bridge the silos, it creates new silos instead. When trying to reduce the IT spendings, it in fact makes no change or increases them. When trying to deal with complexity, it's just pathetic.


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Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - The Miami Marlins agreed to contracts for the 2014 season with outfielder Giancarlo Stanton and pitchers Steve Cishek and Mike Dunn on Friday, thus avoiding arbitration with all three of their eligible players.
Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed, but according to sources, Stanton will earn $6.5 million, Cishek will receive $3.8 million and Dunn will make $1.4 million for next season.
An NL All-Star in 2012, Stanton was limited to 116 games last season due to injuries and batted just .249 with 24 home runs and 62 RBI.
Since being selected by the Marlins in the second round of the 2007 amateur draft, the 24-year-old Stanton has clubbed 117 home runs and knocked in 294 runs while batting .265 in 489 games over four seasons, all with the Marlins.
Cishek appeared in a career-high 69 games last season and went 4-6 with a 2.33 ERA. Over three-plus seasons, all with the Marlins, Cishek is 11-9 with a 2.48 ERA in 185 appearances out of the bullpen.
Dunn, 28, went 3-4 with a 2.66 ERA over 75 relief appearances for Miami last season.
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Obviously, the headway or lack thereof, in the fiscal cliff debate was a major driver of the markets this week. It seems like the markets have gotten a bit emotional about this one, but given the stakes, it's hard to blame them. On the Street, we would call this "headline driven" trading. Despite the big swings, the market has largely moved sideways, bumping along just below the 13,000 level.
If you happened to drop by any of the Street's watering holes this week, (I'm partial to Bobby Van's, myself), here's some of the chatter you'd likely overhear and my take on the top three things moving markets this week:
Fiscal Cliff Rollercoaster
In the on again, off again deal making, the markets fell or rallied based on sentiment of agreement in Washington. Wednesday saw a 100 point rally in the Dow based on comments from Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein who told reporters after his meeting with the President that he was confident that a deal would get done. Thursday, Speaker Boehner told reporters that Democrats haven't been taking spending cuts seriously, causing a 40 point drop in the Dow. Seatbelts may be necessary as this debate wears on.
SEC Turnover
The major news for the markets this week wasn't really news. SEC Chairwoman, Mary Schapiro announced her very well telegraphed decision to step down from the Commission on Monday. What was news, was the fact that the Obama administration immediately named Elisse Walter, a long time colleague of Schapiro as her interim replacement. Walter has served on the commission for the last 4 years and her official term is up at the end of 2013. The president will have until then to nominate an official replacement which will have to be confirmed by Congress. The SEC has a lot on its plate right now, including Dodd Frank implementation and major market structure reform, and it will be interesting to see whether Ms. Walter can have any real impact on regulation as the interim chairperson. Interestingly, she recently dissented on a ruling suggesting she may be more pro-regulation than her predecessor.
Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays
November marks the beginning of the most important time of year for retailers and investors pay close attention to Black Friday, Cyber Monday and, more broadly, Same Store Sales. It's funny how times change. Now that we all shop online as much as we do in actual stores, it's become harder to decide which is a better gauge of the economy, Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Sales for both days were strong, although there seems to be a slowdown in the size of that growth from last year. Same Store Sales numbers for the month of November came pouring in on Thursday and while they don't include Cyber Monday sales, were largely disappointing. Retailers are blaming Hurricane Sandy for weaker than expected early November sales (the northeast region alone accounts for 24% of retail sales nationwide), but remain optimistic about the holiday season.
A few additional tidbits:
Knight Capital made headlines this week after electronic trading firms GETCO and Virtu separately made bids to acquire the company. While perhaps not market moving, this is significant news on Wall Street because Knight operates one of the largest market maker operations in the world and accounts for 10% of daily US stock transactions. Whether a deal gets done remains to be seen, but rest assured, trading desks all over the Street are talking about this one.
The big surprise was a huge quarter out of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. With increased competition and slowing growth reported last quarter, the Street had basically left the stock for dead. As a sometime Vermont resident, I will chalk it up to the fresh mountain air, but whatever it is, GMCR's got something special to keep coming back. Quarterly earnings popped the stock 25% this week.
BOE appoints Canadian Mark Carney to its top job. Mostly interesting because Carney is a foreigner, but he comes with good credentials and most pundits are giving the move the thumbs up.
Put this last bit in the silly bucket, but the 30 Rock Christmas Tree and our own NYSE Christmas Tree both have Twitter handles (really, who doesn't have a Twitter handle these days?). Leading up to the Rockefeller Center tree lighting last night, the two had quite a Twitter war going over which tree is top dog and it was actually pretty entertaining. Check out the highlights here or follow them yourself @NYXmastree and @20RockTree.


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In the video above you will see how COMSOL Multiphysics can be used when developing concepts for mechanical applications. The real world does not function in a vacuum, so you cannot model your concepts in isolation either. On the other hand, it's of course very costly and time-consuming to go out in the real world and test your ideas before bringing them into production. The best of both worlds exists in COMSOL: real-world physical principles can be modeled in a virtual format — without limits to how you couple physical phenomena. For solid mechanics, we allow you to model linear elastic materials along with thermal stress, mechanical contact, and fatigue. We also offer nonlinear material models, such as elastoplastic, viscoplastic, creep, hyperelastic, and geomechanical models.
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You may now notice the blue recycling bins placed throughout the Library. These recycling bins are part of the University's commitment to sustainability and the Library is happy to do it's part. Each recycling bin has a sign attached indicating what items can be deposited for recycling. Please assist us in creating a greener campus by separating your trash and recyclables.


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Electroshock-Restoring the Mind
by Max Fink, M.D.
(Oxford University Press, 1999. 157 pages. Hardcover: $22.00)
Electroshock-Restoring the Mind is a thorough and excellent discussion of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as a valuable treatment for a variety of brain disorders, among them mood disorders (depression and mania), thought disorders, and movement disorders.
Max Fink, M.D., discusses the history of ECT and the evolution of understanding the efficacy of seizures as treatment for brain diseases. Unlike many medications, he notes, ECT is safe for individuals with other medical conditions as well as during many pregnancies. It is clearly undeserving of the stigma that surrounds it, a stigma that extends, to a degree, even into the psychiatric professions.
Fink's review of the history of ECT and what its place has been alongside other treatments for brain disorders is especially important. We learn how ECT evolved into a safe, painless, sometimes life-saving procedure that has been significantly humanized over the years. Patients are unconscious during treatment and monitored closely.
Fink's advocacy for ECTat times comes across as valuing it above medications. Like medications, ECT has various degrees of effectiveness among individuals, even from one series of treatments to another with the same person.
Overall, Fink's book is well worth reading. Consumers, families, and psychiatrists considering ECT as a treatment-even the general public-will be better informed, which may lead to a more accurate understanding of the value and success of this therapy.
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I don't know what has happened to my brain, but it's been very difficult for me to write. I can't seem to put a coherent paragraph together lately. So instead of trying to write a worthy post, let me just give you the scoop on what I've been up to, as well as other random thoughts.
- I've been trying to decide what to do with this blog, or if I should even continue it. We'll see…
- I have been somewhat uninspired to create anything artistic lately. It worries me that maybe I'm just tapped out. :(
- I've been cleared to start work and will be starting my new job after Thanksgiving. I'm excited to begin this new chapter of my life, but I do have some reservations about the lack of free time I will have. I'll have to find a way to adjust. It's been over 20 years since I've worked full-time. Can you believe it?
- The most stressful thing about starting work has been trying to figure out what to wear. I've spent a week of frantic shopping for proper office attire, and it has not been fun. I think we should all wear uniforms to work. That's the first thing I should put into the suggestion box. haha.
- My workouts have been going well. I stopped doing the Insanity program but started the Charlene Extreme, and I'm continually getting more fit each day. I do the Tabata workout on the two off days from the new program, and I am really liking that as well. With the Tabata, I get a great workout in a short amount of time. I'm pretty confident that I will continue to make it my priority even after starting work, because I will not give myself a choice NOT to work out. I thought I'd never say this…but I DO look forward to working out every day. Yay!
- I bought the new Nikon D600. This is monumentally significant for two reasons. First, I bravely made the switch from Canon to Nikon. I may or may not regret it, but so far, I love my new camera! Secondly, this is the most money I've ever spent on a toy (especially for myself) in my whole entire life! Yikes! It was very, VERY scary. (I still wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat from buyer's remorse… sheesh!)


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Catherine Malabou, Ph.D., is an important contemporary French philosopher. Catherine Malabou was born in 1959 and is a former student at the École normal supérieure (ENS) of Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in Lyon, France. ENS schools are regarded as some of the most prestigious French schools for humanities studies. Before that Catherine Malabou was educated in Paris at the renown Sorbonne University.
Catherine Malabou passed her agrégation in philosophy (French University high-level competitive examination for the recruitment of professors and often the gateway to Ph.D. study). Catherine Malabou wrote her dissertation on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) under the direction of the critical French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), completing it on December 15 1994. The thesis was published in 1996 under the title "L'Avenir de Hegel, plasticité, temporalité, dialectique" and was prefaced by Derrida with a text entitled "Le temps des adieux: Heidegger (lu par) Hegel (lu par) Malabou" ("A time for farewells: Heidegger (read by) Hegel (read by) Malabou"). Catherine Malabou's doctoral dissertation was eventually published in both Japanese and English (2005, "The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic").recruitment of professors and often the gateway to Ph.D. study). Catherine Malabou wrote her dissertation on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) under the direction of the critical French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), completing it on December 15 1994. The thesis was published in 1996 under the title "L'Avenir de Hegel, plasticité, temporalité, dialectique" and was prefaced by Derrida with a text entitled "Le temps des adieux: Heidegger (lu par) Hegel (lu par) Malabou" ("A time for farewells: Heidegger (read by) Hegel (read by) Malabou"). Catherine Malabou's doctoral dissertation was eventually published in both Japanese and English (2005, "The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic").
Catherine Malabou has taught at Nanterre University in Paris. She also taught in the United States where she was for two years at the University of California at Berkeley, and where she now regularly teaches in Buffalo as well as at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Today Catherine Malabou is a full-time professor at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy of Kingston in the United Kingdom. Catherine Malabou is also a Professor at the European Graduate School (EGS) where she teaches an intensive summer seminar.Social Research in New York City. Today Catherine Malabou is a full-time professor at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy of Kingston in the United Kingdom. Catherine Malabou is also a Professor at the European Graduate School (EGS) where she teaches an intensive summer seminar.
Catherine Malabou's work is on the one hand in classic continental philosophy, and on the other neuroscience and neuro-psychoanalysis. She is a specialist of contemporary French and German philosophy. Catherine Malabou's work has especially focused on the critical thought of Hegel and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Catherine Malabou's contribution is with the concept of "plastic ontology", which situates itself in the opening of the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida. Catherine Malabou also manages a philosophy book series for the French publisher "Éditions Léo Scheer".
1999 marked the publication of the co-authored "Voyager avec Jacques Derrida - La Contre-allée", published in English in 2004 not long before the death of Derrida himself, and under the title "Counterpath". Here Malabou and Derrida explore the various meanings of a "journey", pointing out that they have all always presupposed as its condition of possibility an unwavering solidarity, if not even a synonymy between two terms: to derive and to arrive. Indeed the logic of such solidarity presupposes that everything that happens drifts. This axiom controls the essential relationship between journey on the one hand and destination, event and truth, on the other.
In 2004 Catherine Malabou wrote "Que faire de notre cerveau?", published in English in 2008 as "What Should We Do with Our Brain?". She begins her inquiry by pointing out that the brain has always been the organ most subjected to political metaphors. She suggests that this is the case probably because it is the biological structure that is most seen as being in charge. Yet recent findings concerning it, particularly those demonstrating its plasticity, have fundamentally challenged its function of leader. The question Catherine Malabou explores here has to do with the brain having stopped being a metaphor of a rigid and centralized power. She wonders whether it necessarily follows that the present description that we actually make today of the brain is devoid of ulterior political motives. Catherine Malabou points out that it is indeed troubling that the same words, such as "flexibility", are today commonly used in economic life. This leads her to ask whether the very description of our brain today is not in fact the image of the capitalist world in which we live? She continues her line of questioning by asking if that description does not also describe another form of power that is not centralized but which still remains in charge in a sort of command post where absolute adaptability and flexibility is demanded with the result of rejecting people without mobility, and deemed too rigid. Catherine Malabou remarks that we should thus not be fooled by how we speak of our brain.
In 2005 Catherine Malabou published "La Plasticité au soir de l'écriture : Dialectique, destruction, déconstruction" (published in English in 2009 as "Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction"). The book is a kind of manifesto that is particularly helpful in trying to understand one of the guiding movements of French philosophy in the past fifty years. In this intellectual autobiography, Catherine Malabou goes over the legacy of deconstruction, starting with the fundamental ground of Derrida's thought: writing. Through having this thought confront those of Hegel and Heidegger, she shows how the concept of plasticity is today tending to replace the graph and the trace. The dialogue between the graphic and the plastic that she facilitates ends up extending to different disciplines and uncovers, from anthropology to neurobiology, crucial theoretical issues.
Catherine Malabou has expanded her research to modern philosophy in the United States where she now spends several months a year. Catherine Malabou has also worked on the theme of feminism and politics, with for example one of her more recent works entitled "Changer de différence" (2009) and published in English in 2011 as "Changing differences". In this book she first submits philosophical analysis to the rigor of proof. She wants to make sure we do not misunderstand and forget what philosophy tends to want to drop or reduce as effects, or as its outside, or even its below. Catherine Malabou argues and shows that philosophy can no longer be a neutral and transparent arbitration. She wants to intervene in a practical and critical work to in fact do philosophical work in which so-called effects refuse to be dominated as second-class products.
More recently, Catherine Malabou published with the eminent American critical thinker Judith Butler (1956-) a book in French entitled "Sois mon corps" (2010), not yet published in English but which can translate as "Be My Body". The two thinkers give us a contemporary reading of domination and servitude in Hegel. They ask about who has not ever dreamed or feared, desired or dreaded to delegate one's body? That is to say, asking or ordering someone else: be my body, carry it in my place, feed it, cultivate it, shape it. According to Judith Butler and Catherine Malabou such request and order are those which the master gives the slave in Hegel's "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807). In this way, the dialectic of domination and servitude must be understood as a scene of delegation and denial of the body. But they also want to ask two opposite and yet inextricable questions: do we ever manage to completely detach oneself from one's body? And on the contrary, are we ever completely attached to it? From Hegel to Michel Foucault (1926-1984), Jacques Derrida and Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), these issues are tackled in all their modalities.
Fonte: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/catherine-malabou/biography/
Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). Slavoj Žižek recieved his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Žižek is a cultural critic and philosopher who is internationally known for his innovative interpretations of Jacques Lacan. Slavoj Žižek has been called the 'Elvis Presley' of philosophy as well as an 'academic rock star'. He is author of The Indivisible Remainder; The Sublime Object of Ideology; The Metastases of Enjoyment;Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture; The Plague of Fantasies; and The Ticklish Subject. Slavoj Žižek's work can be characterized as vibrant, full of humor, blatant disregard for distinctions between high and low forms of culture and his work and presence has gathered him critical acclaim as a superstar in the world of contemporary theory.
Slavoj Žižek was born into a family of average wealth, his father Jože Žižek grew up in eastern Slovenia and worked in economics. Slavoj Žižek's mother Vesna was an accountant. It was in Ljubljana, the capital of modern day Slovenia, that Vesna gave birth to Slavoj on March 21, 1949. Both of Slavoj Žižek's parents were atheists. Most of young Slavoj's childhood took place in Portorož, a small seaside community. Slavoj Žižek states in an interview with Helen Brown of the Telegraph, "at 15, I wanted to be a movie director. But I saw some really good European films and I accepted that I couldn't do that. Then, at 17, I decided to become a philosopher." When Slavoj Žižek became a teenager the family returned to Ljubljana where he attended Bežigrad High School. Slavoj Žižek when to the University of Ljubljana in 1967 to study sociology and philosophy, receiving a Doctorate in the Arts in Philosophy. During this period in what was then Yugoslavia was a tumultuous political environment. It was at this time that the Communist regime began a series of liberalization policies. Later Slavoj Žižek went on to study psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with François Regnault and Jacques-Alain Miller (Jacques Lacan's son-in-law).
The Marxist Slovenian philosopher Božidar Debenjak was an early influence on Slavoj Žižek. It was from Debenjak that Slavoj began to turn to German idealism and Slavoj Žižek began to be influenced by the Frankfurt School. It was in Božidar Debenjak's course at the University of Ljubljana that Slavoj Žižek read Karl Marx'sDas Kapital through the lens of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of the Mind. The perspective formed through this interrogation of Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has heavily influenced Slavoj Žižek's contemporary works. Slavoj Žižek has associated with Tine Hribar and Ivo Urbančič, both Heideggerian philosophers.
Slavoj Žižek was hired at the University of Ljubljana in 1971 where he worked as an assistant researcher. His master's thesis was controversial due to the Marxist tendency of the reformist Slovenian regime in 1973 and therefore he lost his position at the university. After this period he worked for the Yugoslav army in Karlovac. Slavoj Žižek later began to work as a clerk for the Slovenian Marxist Center where he became acquainted with Mladen Dolar and Rastko Močnik. Both of these scholars were focused on the works of Jacques Lacan. Slavoj Žižek began working for the Institute of Sociology for the University of Ljubljana in 1979. Shortly after in the 1980's he began to publish books which examined Heglian and Marxist theories from the point of view of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Slavoj Žižek has two sons from two different marriages.
Slavoj Žižek wrote the introduction to John Lee Carre and G.K. Chesterston's Slovenian translated novels. Slavoj Žižek edited a number of translations of Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud to Slovenian. It was not until the late 1980s when Slavoj Žižek came under the scrutiny of public attention. During this period he was a columnist from his work for Maldina, a magazine aimed at youth which criticized the Titoist regime. The magazine gained notoriety for its stance against certain aspects of the times Yugoslavian politics, in particular the increasing militarization policies aimed towards society. Up until October of 1988 Slavoj Žižek was an active member of the Communist Party of Slovenia. He quit during the protest against the JBZ-trial. He was not alone in this protest, he quit along with thirty two other public intellectuals with origins in Slovenia. Slavoj Žižek was involved with the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights a social movement fighting for democracy in Slovenia. In 1990 the first free elections were held in Slovenia. At this time Slavoj Žižek ran for President aligned with the Liberal Democratic Party.
Slavoj Žižek became widely recognized as an important theorist of contemporary times with the publication of The Sublime Object of Ideology, his first book to be written in English, in 1989. Since this time Slavoj Žižek has taken the contemporary philosophical world by storm, never afraid of confrontation he is a dangerous theorist. Slavoj Žižek's work cannot be categorized easily. He calls for a return to the the Cartesian subject. Slavoj Žižek also calls for a return to The German Ideology, in particular the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Slavoj Žižek's work draws on the works of Jacques Lacan, moving his theory towards modern political and philosophical issues, finding the potential for liberatory politics within his work. But in all his turns to these thinkers and strands of thought, he hopes to call forth new potentials in thinking and self-reflexivity. Slavoj Žižek also calls for a return to the spirit of the revolutionary potential of Lenin and Karl Marx.
Slavoj Žižek is an atheist and often his theories go against analytical philosophical currents. He tends to be politically incorrect and has therefore caused quite a disruption within intellectual circles. It is his unique brand of political and philosophical bravery that has created a name for himself as the foremost thinker of our times. Slavoj Žižek puts forth that for one to understand today's politics we need a different notion of ideology.
Slavoj Žižek was a visiting professor at the Department of Psychoanalysis, Université Paris-VIII in 1982–83 and 1985–86, at the Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Art, SUNY Buffalo, 1991–92, at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1992, at the Tulane University, New Orleans, 1993, at the Cardozo Law School, New York, 1994, at the Columbia University, New York, 1995, at the Princeton University (1996), at the New School for Social Research, New York, 1997, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998, and at the Georgetown University, Washington, 1999. He is a returning faculty member of the European Graduate School. In the last 20 years Žižek has participated in over 350 international philosophical, psychoanalytical and cultural-criticism symposiums in the USA, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Brasil, Mexico, Israel, Romania, Hungary and Japan. He is the founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana.
Slavoj Žižek's published books include: Začeti od začetka, Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba (2011), Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic (2011), Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (2010),The Idea of Communism (2010), Living in the End Times (2010), Philosophy in the Present Polity (with Alain Badiou, 2010), Badiou & Žižek: Hvalnica Ljubezni (Love and Terror) (2010), Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo (2010), Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (2009), First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (2009), In Search of Wagner (2009), Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (2009), Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books (2008), In Defense of Lost Causes (2008), En defensa de la intolerancia (2007), On Practice and Contradiction(2007), Terrorism and Communism (2007), Virtue and Terror (2007), How to Read Lacan (2006), The Parallax View (2006), Lacan: The Silent Partners (2006),Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology) (2006), The Universal Exception (2006), Interrogating the Real (2005),Kako biti nihče (2005), Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (2004), Paralaksa: za politični suspenz etičnega (2004), The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (2003), Organs Without Bodies (2003), Kuga Fantazem (2003),Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings (2002), Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002), Repeating Lenin (2001), Opera's Second Death (2001),On Belief (2001), The Fright of Real Tears (2001), Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? (2001), Strah pred pravimi solzami: Krzysztof Kieslowski in šiv(2001), Krhki absolut: Enajst tez o krščanstvu in marksizmu danes (2000), The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (2000), The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (2000), Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (2000), The Ticklish Subject (1999), Alain Badiou, Sveti Pavel: Utemeljitev Univerzalnosti (1998), The Plague of Fantasies (1997), The Abyss of Freedom (1997), Argument za strpnost (1997), The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters (1997), Slovenska smer (1996), The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994), Problemi: Eseji 4-5 (1994), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock (1993),Tarrying With the Negative (1993), Filozofija skoz psihoanalizo VII (1993), Enjoy Your Symptom! (1992), Looking Awry (1991), For They Know Not What They Do(1991), Hitchcock II. (1991), Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time) (1990), Beseda, dejanje svoboda: Filozofija skoz psihoanalizo V (1990), The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), Druga smrt Josipa Broza Tita (1989), Pogled s strani (1988), Jezik, ideologija, Slovenci(1987), Hegel in objekt (1985), Problemi teorije fetišizma: Filozofija skoz psihoanalizo II (1985), Filozofija skozi psihoanalizo (1984), Birokratija i uživanje (1984), Zgodovina in nezavedno (1982), Gospostvo, Vzgoja, Analiza: Zbornik tekstov Lacanove šole psihoanalize (editor, translator) (1982), Hegel in označevalec (1980), Znak, označitelj, pismo (1976) and Bolečina razlike (1972).
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Hi I am Having this exat same problem. I have the batch file to change the mose to left handed configuration but the teacher concerned wants a second batch file to change back to right handed and this is where i am battling. So far what i can find is that you need to go into control panel and change it that way. any help would be greatly appreciated
sorry i just realised that i forgot to mention that it is a common profile as the kids are very young. Grade 0-3's thats why i am looking at a batch file.
OP says this youngster is very young and so they will adapt, it's not like scissors that won't work in the wrong hand, so maybe a diplomatic word with a teacher or SENCO to back this view would help?
We faced a similar situation at our school and found Dmouse which solved it for us.
I agree - lefties should just move the mouse to the other side and be aware of which button is which
After all, they can't change the mouse over on a netbook or laptop, can they?
As @elsiegee40 says, other than scissor, lefties need to cope in a mostly-right-handed world. I know many lefties,including mrwITch who use their mouse right-handed because that is how they have always done it. (Looking up at him now, I see he is scrolling on the pad using his right hand and clicking with his left!)
Few left handed people restring their guitars and play upside down - yes, except Paul McCartney, I know. I play an instrument where the power is all in the left hand which could be an issue for right-handers - but it doesn't seem to matter. Many lefties use their knife and fork in the traditional right-handed configuration as well.
The o/s should make it easy for people to change the peripherals as they want. If people want to use a left handed mouse with swapped buttons they should be able to without having to jump through hoops. I'm right handed, but I've used a trackball on left, with swapped buttons for the last ten years or so. Similarly, if I want to use a Dvorak keyboard, I shouldn't have to jump though hoops for that either.
But the reality is that most shared computers cannot have their mouse setup easily changed. In a busines, it is easier to be able to hop onto any computer and use it (especially if you're the NM!) than have to soend any amount of time, however small, having to swap things about.
Lefties manage to drive cars that are configured for righties without ever changing them, they can use a mouse with their let hand without swapping buttons too.
Hi Unfortunately the parent is being quiet insistant, they are going as far as to blame things on the fact that the student is struggling with the mouse. Unfortunatly our senco have humored the parents so it has been left up to the teacher and now to us to sort it out
I would ask the parent what mouse they use at home. If there is not a computer in the house, then i would question where they learned that there was such a thing. If it remains an issue, then i would buy a simple flat track pad, with the buttons like you would get in a laptop, and tell them to use that.
Simply fitting an ergonomic mouse, for left handed people isn't going to make it any easier for the child as they grow up, as the mouse is not going to be with us much longer, as we are moving to touch screens.
Im a leftie and never had a problem. In fact as I type this the mouse is sitting on the righthand side of the keyboard and I use my right hand to control it. I know we are talking about children here but what happens later on when a teacher or tutor says "now everyone use right-click to get the context menu up"? "left-click" and "right-click" are ingrained in computer speak. Its just going to confuse the kids later on.
I'm left handed and have the mouse on the left hand side but have never swapped the buttons as that just seems wrong to me allthough I do left click with my middle finger.
a big thank you to all that have commented.
This is an odd one!
I'm left handed but cannot use a mouse in my left hand. Being taught since school to use it with my right has given me excellent control (just all all those on COD2 who I used to headshot!)
A script to change the buttons sounds like the best plan for you though. That or TipEx a big 'L' on a mouse and give them that?
hi can you give me a link to get dmouse. i seem not to be terribly successful in looking for the installer :| Thanks
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
re•gimerəˈʒim, reɪ-(n.)
or ré•gime
a system of rule or government.
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a ruling system.
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a government in power.
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the period during which a particular ruling system is in power.
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Ref: regimen (def. 1). 1
Origin of regime:
1770–80; < F régime < L regimenregimen
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government, authorities, regime(noun)
the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
"the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities"
regimen, regime(noun)
(medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
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regime(noun)əˈʒim, reɪ-
a system of government or management
big changes under the new regime; a communist regime
Mode of rule or management
A form of government, or the government in power (as in a socialist regime)
A period of rule
A regulated system; a regimen
A set of characteristics
A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
Origin: From régime, from regimen
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mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system
the condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections
The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature.
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emigre, émigré
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a (system of) government
a Communist r; égime.
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No, it's accurate. The single most contentious contract problem is trying to sign someone to a new contract before they can pass a NFL physical. Clady will not be able to do that before training camp. You are seeing it from Only the agent's perspective here, the teams will absolutely balk at signing a player who can not pass a physical and the league will usually not approve the contract either.
In this case, the player of his caliber almost always will get franchised because he can not pass the physical. Plus, the two injuries are Joints not soft tissue, which means they can be chronic and cause perfromance to drop drastically. Personally, I still think Clady is a little off from his first 2 years ability physically. Another injury, an essential one in protecting the QB is an issue for GM's.
With the franchise tag hit on the cap, and Clady's injury, I wonder if the Broncos would consider letting Clady walk and drafting a replacement? I know that sounds crazy, especially with Manning, but is it possible simply because of the contract issue and cap hit?
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