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"The Evolution of Strangers and Foreigners"

🧵 Today's SFI Seminar by @DoctorBugs (@Smithsonian)

santafe.edu/events/life-an…

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First, a loop back to his LAST (2020) SFI Seminar on 3D structure of living systems from biofilms to rainforest canopies:


And his #ComplexityPodcast episode on ideas from that talk and this one:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/52-Z7…
"People often think of societies as cooperative, but some societies are NOT very cooperative. I prefer to put the focus on them as groups."

"Societies are just one aspect of belonging. There are groups *within* societies & that's what psychologists mostly focus on."

@DoctorBugs
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Professor Kevin Reinhart @dartmouth speaking about Lived Islam, culture and practice as keynote starting our #CentrefortheStudyofIslam workshop @ExeterIAIS as critique of ‘essentialist’ #Islam ImageImageImage
A prominent approach on discursive traditions that is still surprisingly ‘orthodox’ on the centrality of #Quran and #Hadith Image
Maybe more productive is to consider Islam like a language and its variations in #cosmopolitanism and calques in #sociolinguistics
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I’m not doing too many things. I’m doing the same things in different registers - @NYUAbuDhabi / @nyuniversity professor Awam @amkpa talks about his own practice based on his mentorship by poet/playwright/activist/art collector Wole Soyinka.
The disunity of time and space.
What is residual is what we make of it.
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