The Renaissance Mob

Book Reviews | Interviews | YouTube Channel | Twitter | Facebook

Book Club & Reviews

Fisher, Len, 2009, The Perfect Swarm: the science of complexity in everyday life. New York: Basic Books.
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Upcoming
Freedman, David H., 2010, Wrong: why experts keep failing us – and how to know when not to trust them. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
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Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 2010, The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable, Second Edition. New York: Random House, Inc.
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Johnson, Steven, 2010, Where Good Ideas Come From: the natural history of innovation. New York: Riverhead Books.
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Mosko & Damon, ed. 2005, On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos. New York: Berghahn Books.
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Interviews

Jacob Marshall – aesthetician, humanitarian and musician. Founder of the Indie rock band Mae (Multisensory Aesthetic Experience) shares with RM readers how he has used emergence to combine record sales with social entrepreneurship projects. [read interview]

Upcoming
Robert Berry – fractal artist. Australian artist shares with RM readers about his view of aesthetics and how he uses fractals in nature as inspiration for his paintings.

Frederick Damon – author, anthropologist. University of Virginia anthropologist and author of the book On The Order Of Chaos: Social Anthropology And The Science Of Chaos

shares with RM readers about insights gained from his study of chaos theory in human social behavior.

The Renaissance Mob Channel

The Renaissance Mob Channel on YouTube is gradually evolving (please subscribe). Currently, it is a collection of the best videos we can find on various RM topics (arranged in playlists), including: Author Lectures, Complex Adaptive Systems, Storytelling and Photovoice, Education, Emergence, Groupthink, Swarm Intelligence, Consensus, Self-Awareness, Chaos Theory & Fractals… among others. Also, stay tuned for videos by The Renaissance Mob!

Twitter

The Renaissance Mob actively uses twitter (@renaissancemob). You can read our tweets either here at the blog (see widget on the right-hand side of the screen), or by going to The Renaissance Mob profile on Twitter. Each month, we will be doing a blog post on a Featured Tweeter (see last month’s). In addition to tweeting links, quotes and quality retweets, we have defined several hashtags to help you find our tweets on specific topics. Finally, we have also started a Twitter book club featuring books listed above. See each review for the hashtag to use (i.e. tweets about “Wrong” will use hashtag “#dhfwrong”).

Facebook

If you are active on Facebook, you can now read RM blog posts at our Facebook Page. You can join new discussion groups there on various RM topics.