Complexity
Organization, emergence, far from equilibrium and fluctuations.
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On God, Heroes and Men
While proceeding toward the end of War and Peace a reader can find itself startling and struggling to understand what kind of work is actually dealing with. The fictional narration is not yet concluded when Continue reading
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Imagining Futures – A postcolonial Critique to Teleology
The lecture means to show how teleological fallacy is quite widespread and embedded in our common language especially in a context of social referring to the Others. It is underlined how Continue reading
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The Game of Life: the B3/S23 rule
The mathematician John Conway invented the Game of Life in 1970. It is basically a solitaire pastime with a set of very simple rules that has evolved in a huge range of possibilities. It has generated interest in almost every field of science and several (like the studies on cellular automaton) own it a significant Continue reading
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The Granovetter’s model of Aggregation
This article explains the process of aggregation as it has been conceived by the sociologist M. Granovetter during the seventies. He openly took inspiration from the Schelling’s segregation model and from the concept of individual threshold. It makes use of an agent-based approach to understand how the social structures influence the collective outcomes. During the exposition Continue reading
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The Segregation Game
The best way to have a look into a process is to create a spatial model which can be reproduced by anyone at home. So let’s explain the Schelling’s segregation model with a game. All the equipment needed is a standard 8×8 checkerboard and the 24 pieces usually furnished with it, 12 lights and 12 Continue reading
