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Agency and mores

If agency is more than (freedom to/from) what are its mores? Mores (/ˈmɔːreɪz/, sometimes /ˈmɔːriːz/;[1] from Latin mōrēs [ˈmoːreːs], plural form of singular mōs, meaning "manner, custom, usage, or habit") are social norms that are widely observed within a particular society or culture.[2] Mores determine what is considered morally acceptable or unacceptable within any given culture. A folkway is what is created through interaction and that process is what organizes interactions…

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agency versus structure

There are gaps. Of knowledge. Of systemic completeness. And. These days I feel that this is where we are dancing, either the gap itself, or at least dancing all-about the gap/s, pivoting around and roundabout… —from the logical hindsight of yesterday into a hangover of that logic/determinism/detmination with whatever it is we dance/live/thunk/feel/intend into the morning. That threshold between our…

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Agency

Agency recognises the world we live in, not the one we fight over. All animals who are more equal than others, force King John into signing the magna carta © 2023 meika loofs samorzewski In A panarchy of relativism: and the meta of me and you (substack.com 2023) which follows on Panarchy and me from (substack.com 20230) I left room…

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Games in the hide of our names

Skin in the game & Agent Nassim Nicholas Taleb's journey in the new world [Originally posted at Substack.com in March 2024] Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life mentions that in ‘teh’ west we have trained ourselves to contrast the individual and the collective, so much so, we miss out noticing the grey tiers in…

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