I am now working on a website for the conference/colloquium I hope to have this up by the end of the week - please bear with me - life has got in the way.
The site will have an overview of the intent - all the details of how to get here - costs - registration etc
I hope also to start the conversation on the site itself. There is a lot to think about - How can Boyd's thinking help us look with fresh eyes at emerging problems:
- What does the the decline of the state mean?
- What then does local resiliency mean?
- What does the rise of social power mean and the decline in the effectiveness of kinetic or direct power?
- What does peak oil mean to how we live, our institutions ands society and how does this vector influence everything
- What is power itself and how does hanging onto our old assumptions of what it is threaten us?
- What is security?
- What do we do?
We live indeed in interesting times!!!
I myself am working on how does Peak Oil affect the most vulnerable on PEI. It is no good hoping that some how "technology" will save us or that we will build lots of nuclear plants, when 50% of Islanders have to get through the heating season in 2008/9.
It is no good thinking about the subprime housing crisis in the US as someone else's problem when 20% of people are thrown out of their houses in your city and come looking for revenge.
It is no good thinking that your university need only make a few adjustments when the 2008 heating bill is $675,000 over budget.
It is no good thinking that the US military can keep muddling along when its men are exhausted and its equipment at its last gasp.
It is no good when good ideas in all areas are defeated by the system
