anekantaFeb 20
Grapes are Always Sour for the Other 98%? A Tale Told by a Fox
https://onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/02/17/grapes-are-always-sour-for-the-other-98-a-tale-told-by-a-fox/
#Other98Percent, #CronyCapitalism, #SpectacleSociety, #MimicryBhabha, #Fanon, #RecognitionCoulthard, #ImaginedCommunities, #ParthaChatterjee, #AshisNandy, #BrechtAlienation, #TolstoyKholstomer, #TagoreAntiNationalism, #MarxSpectres, , #PlanetaryCitizenship, #HowlFromTheMargins, ,#Seize_Cronies_Fairplay_for_DHFL_Victims, #Alleged_Dawood_Mirchi_RKW_DHFL_BJP_Collusion
Wilko HardenbergFeb 13

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

#socialConstruct #imaginedCommunities #Heimat

Scientific WorldJul 3, 2025
Diasporas reshape national identity by preserving heritage, fostering transnational ties, and influencing cultural, political, and economic narratives globally. Let's explore the role of diasporas in shaping national identity across borders.
#DiasporaIdentity #TransnationalBelonging #NationalIdentity #MigrationAndIdentity #GlobalCitizenship #CulturalHybridity #ImaginedCommunities #DiasporaPolitics #DiasporaDiplomacy
https://www.scitechsociety.com/the-role-of-diasporas-in-shaping-national-identity/
The Role of Diasporas in Shaping National Identity

Discover how diasporas influence modern national identity through culture, politics, and economy, shaping nations across borders in today’s globalized world.

SciTech Society – Build a Scientific and Technical Society Discover how diasporas influence modern national identity through culture, politics, and economy, shaping nations across borders in today’s globalized world.
Dennis StevensMay 25, 2024

https://www.hegemonaco.com/p/balancing-public-interest-and-entertainment

#NewMedia #PublicInterest #NewsEntertainment #FairnessDoctrine #EthicalJournalism #InformedCitizens #Sensationalism #Ratings #Democracy #SocialAccountability #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #NationalIdentity #ImaginedCommunities #EthicalAI #MediaManipulation #Misinformation #SocietalImpactAI #HumanValues #MoralPhilosophy #AIEthics #ResponsibleAI #BeneficialAI #TrustworthyAI #AIGovernance

Balancing Public Interest and Entertainment in News Media

Reflections from the Fairness Doctrine to Today's Media Landscape

HEGEMONACO
Shane O'MaraNov 19, 2023
Talking Heads is a Waterstones science book of the year!
‘Offering radical new perspectives on the ways we communicate, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara's luminous volume explores what happens in our brain when we talk and the wide-reaching effects of this deeply human activity on individuals, groups and societies.’
https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-books-of-2023-popular-science#mathematics
#memory #politics #culture #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds
Shane O'MaraSep 29, 2023

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

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

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

BellingenNSWSep 5, 2023

Australians have never been more distrusting of corporate Australia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Voters are distressed by the 'moral blindness' of corporate Australia, says Roy Morgan

Roy Morgan says the level of distrust for corporate Australia has never been so high, writes Gareth Hutchens.

ABC News
Shane O'MaraAug 16, 2023

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

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

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

Notes on a neuroscience of nationalism (repost, with some extras, inc podcasts)

Collective memory, imagined communities, mental time travel, agency, identity

Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara
Show threadShane O'MaraAug 2, 2023
#talkingheads #conversation #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworlds #imagination #imaginedcommunities #ournationsbeganasconversations #countriesarecognitiveconstructs #audiobook #cognitive
(Picture credit: Vanesa Fischer)
Shane O'MaraJul 20, 2023

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

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

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

https://amzn.eu/d/cCDuepU

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

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

Talking Heads

'Enjoyable' New Scientist 'Delightfully well-written, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times 'Thoughtful' Irish Independent From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication We are social animals and talking is part of what makes us human. But what purpose does conversation serve? In this revelatory tour of talking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara explores why we communicate, what happens in our brains when we do it, and what it means for us as individuals, groups and societies. How do our thoughts, memories, and conversations change our brains? What does it mean that we spend most of our thinking lives in a five-minute bubble around the present moment? Why does our sense of self solidify with age, even as we grow more forgetful? In what ways do we imagine futures together? And how do our nations begin as conversations? Moving from the personal to the social and ultimately towards a radical new perspective on the defining phenomenon of our times, populist nationalism, this is the story of how conversation builds the worlds around us - and how, together, we can talk our way into a better tomorrow. 'Invaluable ... Fascinating' David Crystal, author of Let's Talk