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22: Dave Snowden – Complexity, Sensemaking and Entanglement

Global Governance Futures: Imperfect Utopias or Bust

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The Limits of Post-Modern Thought

You have used the work of some prominent theorist who we might call post-moderns, such as Duluth and Gautari and others. And I was just curious to ask, you're drawing upon their work around assemblage theory, lines of flight and so on. It seems to me that a lot of post-modern thought tends to really conclude that everything is reducible to power - if they're brought seriously, then that justifies Trump. No, but go to the great, the great female philosophers from Oxford and Cambridge in the Second World War,. Mitch Lee was one. Yeah, Murdoch was another. They basically said there has to be a way of saying that some things are

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