Bilingual (FR/EN) #OpenEd technopedagogue, ethnographer, homeroaster, anthropologist, musicker, coffee enthusiast, dabbler… occasional artist.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@weareopencoop/116130762724352703
Organizational change comes in many forms. Observing deliberate, collective work @epilepticrabbit and @dajb over the years, a trend emerges towards new ways to collaborate. Just like the lifecycle of a Community of Practice or the different “breaths” of collaboration, there’s a rhythm to any cooperative.
RE: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/each-culture-is-made-of.html
Difficult for a 21st Century anthro to hear “Japanese culture” as though we were living in what Eurocentric thinkers conceived as a “Nation-State”, centuries ago. Skimming the original post, lots of mention of being a “foreigner” or “expat”.
Makes it difficult to think about cultural diversity in all its fluidity. Sure, we can situate ontologies in context. A “country” is rarely that useful for that, though.
RE: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/thinking-is-hard.html
One path to mitigating effects of #scriptocentrism.
“Literacy” has been associated with some dominant #WaysOfKnowing. Other approaches to knowledges tend to get brushed away. #EpistemicInjustice
@dajb
> This is not relativism, but recognising that beliefs are tools, and tools can become obsolete.
Which makes one wonder what “relativism” represents, in *your* conceptual context.
@thoughtshrapnel Strange characterization. Wonder what resonates with whom and for what specific reasons.
Guess there are 10 kinds of people… in base 8,000,000,000.
@thoughtshrapnel
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@thoughtshrapnel During an interview @Casey @kevin, Dr. Haidt dismissed the potential downstream effects of policies based on his public advocacy work (which he separates from his scholarly work).
In anthro, we’ve already had our “Benjamin Spock Moment” and some became wary of such work. Is there an intellectual filiation to current approaches in #SystemsThinking?
#HowMightWe pay attention to #Unthink? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/podcasts/jonathan-haidt-strikes-again-what-you-vibecoded-an-update-on-the-forkiverse.html
@thoughtshrapnel Thanks for providing context. #TheCulture
@dajb In other words, “kids these days” in a Crenshaw world.
@dajb You propose reflections on mental models which refer to people born during a certain period of time and going through the UK’s formal education system to adopt a certain lifestyle. (Based on Graeber-style debt.)
Their “feels” are understood yet their spheres of agency may not be part of those “crisis solution” mental models.
@dajb Whose “camp” is least likely to focus on home ownership as the key #SuccessMetric? Whose is most likely to contribute something significant in the middle of the polycrisis?
Fatou, born in Bristol 1993
David, born in Phnom Penh 1967
Arpi, born in Brisbane, 1942
Rain, born in Llubljana, 2008
@dajb About those camps…
> three camps: agreement but despair, disagreement that anything fundamental has changed, and a smaller group asking what mental models would work better.
> This follow-up post is for that third group.
Sounds like the second camp was on your mind. As were the marketing constructs on “generations”.
Some #SystemsThinking sounds rather linear.
Some day, let’s chat about #unthink.
@thoughtshrapnel Got that. Irreversible decisions are rare and most of those are carefully considered.
@thoughtshrapnel The Heat Index case leads to diverse topics, from Future of Journalism to #Unthink.
Curious about this focus on pronouncements on a so-called “Who Cares Era”, casually making causal connections through external assessments of people’s level of “care”, mostly stated in binary. Almost sounds like visceral reactions to the #KittyGenovese story and #BystanderEffect.
Is there room for more discussion on shared care, distributed care? Neither good nor bad?
@thoughtshrapnel Nice shoutout @inevernu ! Would listen in to a chat between the two of you about #SystemsThinking. Maybe with our friends at Look Wonder Discover?
https://lookwonderdiscover.org/who-we-are/
(Also, microblog didn’t allow me to log in with this account, for some reason.)
@thoughtshrapnel At any rate, going back to this episode…
Yes, commenting can prove useful in certain contexts. Some of us are able to meaningfully “engage” in such mediated exchanges. For instance, about our reification of the labels based on Strauss & Howe.
Chances are, though, a few minutes of an informal chat in private could bring more insight than hours spent in crafting asynchronous replies.
@cogdog @dajb @thoughtshrapnel There are measures we can use to assess the likelihood that certain behaviours will occur in certain “online spaces”. Affordances do matter, in such analyses.
Part of what we’ve had to learn, over the past few decades, is that what can sound innocuous now can be fodder for future backlash. And this effect does go beyond an individual’s reputation management.
@dajb @cogdog @thoughtshrapnel Fair enough.
At the same time, the context has changed enough that any open exchange can expose diverse people to unsolicited scrutiny and reactions. In other words, not everyone has the same “immunity”/“impunity”.
@cogdog @dajb @thoughtshrapnel To be clear, my reaction was more about a range of experiences than about the platforms where they happen. And much of it has to do with wide social shifts.
@dajb @thoughtshrapnel You wouldn’t be the first one.