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Archive for abstraction

“Evolutionary Cultural Ecology” (ECE)—Let’s Look at Its Connection to Bowlbian Attachment Theory

Occasionally I’ll write a post that mainly serves my research needs: To summarize and record information concerning a particular topic. This is one such post. In my last post I looked at the edited volume entitled Traditions of Systems Theory—Major Figures and Contemporary Developments, edited by Darrell Arnold (2014). Chapter fourteen in Traditions of Systems […]

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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 8A)

I ended part 8 by asking three questions: What’s the problem that digital technologies attempt to solve? What’s the “distance” aspect of this problem? Are solutions being brought about through greater levels of abstraction? In this part, which I am calling “8A”, I’d like to take a first pass at answering these questions before continuing […]

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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 8)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 7 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: According to Neil Postman, all of twentieth century child psychology research has been mere commentary on the basic childhood paradigm. Here’s Bowlby’s “comment”: Early safe and secure attachment relationships with a predictable, consistent, and available attachment figure (typically […]

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