Dear #sociology community: I was foolhardy enough to announce an MA seminar on "Social #transformation" for the summer semester. We start with the idea that every change has to go through a complex society, so there are no automatisms. I'm not without any plan, but I would be interested to know what reading you would recommend - thanks!
Via another channel yesterday came more references from @immersender#organization / #fieldtheory :
SAFs (Fligstein & McAdam); reflexive innovation (Windeler); issue fields (Hoffman).
And as an evergreen: Eisenstadt.
Neurons forge direct physical connections to create functional networks. What drives these circuits and networks to come together? New evidence suggests that some of this coordination comes from electric fields.
@ekmiller Oh My Various Goddess Abstractions. This is so incredibly beautiful 😍
STDP reveals that timing reshapes connections.
This paper reveals how, and it's... musical.
The brain as an "instrument" takes on new meaning.