Tag Archives: transruptive

“Pulse” and “press” disturbances…

Posted on May 10, 2011 by dwighttowers

Well, this is useful (to me at least)… A disturbance that occurs as a relatively discrete event in time is referred to here as a “pulse” disturbance, while more gradual or cumulative pressure on a system is referred to as … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with adaptation?

Posted on May 6, 2011 by dwighttowers

This is a (brief) section in the book that I am writing. So, comments very welcome… What’s the matter with ‘adaptation’? There’s already a term in use – adaptation, that sits alongside “mitigation”. It’s well embedded into the UNFCCC and … Continue reading →

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Tacitus, tacit “agreements” and the harm in phony harmony

Posted on March 6, 2011 by dwighttowers

“They make a desert and called it peace” Tacitus I’ve just read “The Five Dysfunctions of Teams” by Patrick Lencioni (1 star Amazon reviews here – it is definitely a “borrow don’t buy”), which is a “business fable” (growing sub-genre, … Continue reading →

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Efficient vs Effective vs Resilient Social Movements?

Posted on December 29, 2010 by dwighttowers

What’s efficient? What’s “effective”? What is hidden in these two terms? What does it mean for campaigning and designing resilience into systems? Two regular visitors to “Dwight Towers” have both written interesting things on these questions of late. Antonio Dias … Continue reading →

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Protest or demonstrate? They ain’t the same thing

Posted on November 5, 2010 by dwighttowers

When Gandhi and his comrades marched to the sea and made salt in defiance of the British Imperial ban on salt-making that was making a demonstration, not a protest. This distinction is important: A protest merely involves some wailing over … Continue reading →

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Transruptive video

Posted on July 2, 2010 by dwighttowers

OK, so I created a youtube channel. I wanted dwighttowers, but that was taken. So I went for “dwighttowering” instead. The first video has a slightly less happy clappy ending than is probably appropriate (for any ‘come join the activism’ … Continue reading →

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