Tag Archives: Government

The Path

Posted on June 27, 2022 by julianstodd

“Bullets cannot kill love”, said Olav Fykse Tveit, the head of the Norwegian Protestant Church at a memorial service in the capital, Oslo, yesterday, following the murder of two people, and wounding of many more, at an attack in one … Continue reading →

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The State and Social Change

Posted on December 21, 2021 by julianstodd

Change happens at the intersection of systems: sometimes through negotiation, sometimes neglect, sometimes conflict. Today i am #WorkingOutLoud building out some thinking around Social Movements and the evolution of the Dominant Narrative. That term, the ‘Dominant Narrative’ is one that … Continue reading →

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What is Government?

Posted on March 10, 2020 by julianstodd

An invention that comes in many flavours: from the direct rule of tribal councils, to the arms length nature of federal democracy. Something synchronous and pervasive, to something abstract and outdated. Government has a core purpose to keep us safe. … Continue reading →

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Guide to the Social Age 2019: Algorithmic Wars

Posted on February 25, 2019 by julianstodd

This is the fourth in a series of articles exploring ‘The Social Age 2019’. I redraw the map every year, so the work is cumulative over time. Today, Algorithmic War: how our evolving relationship with knowledge is shifting everything. Humans … Continue reading →

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Fallout: The Failure of Dominant Narratives

Posted on October 31, 2018 by julianstodd

A dominant narrative is a story that takes on a life of it’s own: it becomes the accepted norm. Throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, all across the United States, tens of thousands of nuclear fallout shelters were built, nearly twenty … Continue reading →

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Engaging Power [1]: Conflict

Posted on July 30, 2018 by julianstodd

To think that gangs are an aberration, or impermanent structure, is a mistake: they are stable social structures, governed by the same bonding mechanisms as the local church, or regional police force. They are structures of power, partly formalised, partly … Continue reading →

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The Death of Democracy

Posted on July 17, 2018 by julianstodd

Fake news, foreign intervention, echo chambers, big data and analytics, you’d be forgiven for assuming that we are witnessing the death of democracy, the final gasp of liberal societies first, and best, hope, assailed unaccountably by social tech and evil … Continue reading →

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Modes Of Social Organisation: By The People, For The People

Posted on January 9, 2018 by julianstodd

Things have always changed: i write today in Chichester, my hometown, an old Roman city, which became the capital of the Kingdom of Sussex. From marching fort and Roman camp, to fortified town and city state. Today, as part of … Continue reading →

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The Social Revolution

Posted on August 29, 2017 by julianstodd

I describe the Social Age: the new world we live in, an ecosystem of constant change. An evolved space that is characterised by the democratisation of power, the rise of Social Authority, the rapid iteration and holistic impacts of new … Continue reading →

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Government. But By Whom?

Posted on August 22, 2017 by julianstodd

This is an early stage #WorkingOutLoud post, reflecting on the disruption, or evolution, of government itself. Recently i’ve been fascinated by the lack of opportunity for engagement in democracy, and indeed about the widest principles of democracy: at a time … Continue reading →

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