Earlier this week, I thought "I wonder if I should attend that Rootscamp thing? It's probably too late to register." Not long after, HJS sent me an IM that read "I saw you were attending that Rootscamp thing - that's rad." Indeed - there I was, listed on the conference's wiki attendees list. Apparently, I had enthusiastically signed up very early on and promptly forgot about it. Sure it was on my calendar, but I thought I had just left myself a marker. So, here I am.
This is my first "unconference." We'll see how it goes.
The conference is starting, with Lola Elfman and Zack Exley from NOI. In case you were wondering, Lola is indeed Danny Elfman's daughter. I met her last summer at an online fund raising workshop.
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"To be sure, [society] cannot exist except through the individuals who serve as its substratum; it is, however, something more than a collection of individuals. A whole is not identical to the sum of its parts, even though without them it would be nothing. In the same way, by coming together in a definite structure..., men [sic] form a new entity which has its own nature and its own laws." -Emile Durkheim, A Course in Sociology
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Why do wars and revolutions happen? We do not know. We know only that to produce the one or the other men [sic] form themselves into a certain combination in which all take part; and we say that this is the nature of men [sic], that this is the law" -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"A phase transition is a sudden, global change in behaviour arising from the interactions of many constituent particles" -Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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- Nathaniel James
- Washington, DC, United States
- In my professional life, I'm the Campaign Coordinator at the Media and Democracy Coalition. Beyond my commitment to advancing the values of justice and democracy in the media sphere through policy change and advancing community media, I have an intense interest in the social structure and process of intra and inter-organizational collaboration; social networks and social network analysis; network theory; complex systems; and emergent phenomenon. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect the positions of any organizational entity.