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University Ultimate (1) cultural regeneration

Above photo: Edgar Morin, University Ultimate

In our last three tickets, we presented the Club of Budapest and Michel Saloff Coste - founder in 1995 of Club of Budapest in France - originally the creation of the University Ultimate in February 2008. This latest move highlights in the Francophone emergence of a new global approach to fully qualified epistemological:

U not evolutionary way of seeing the world, based on the overall science and existing knowledge, modern and traditional, Western and Eastern, scientific, artistic and spiritual. This comprehensive, inclusive, holistic and systemic gives a relief different in each discipline and a different outlook on life. It is inseparable from the necessary changes in the course of socio-organizational model of the world today. "


University Why Ultimate?

In an article entitled "Why University Complete? "the hosts of Ultimate University and analyze their sense of initiative " This is a time of great change, with a considerable technological progress and global thought and human life, especially at commercial, cultural and political. Civilizations that were not known and that developed independently of each other, are brought to live together, for better or for worse. Transport through increasingly rapid and computer networks that cover the entire planet, humans have virtually access to all knowledge of mankind.

This wealth of knowledge and meetings take place in a context of crisis civilization, which is available including ecological, social and economic, which seriously question the survival of humanity. The integrated approach means both meeting the challenges that present themselves to humanity, and announce the emergence of new thinking globally, open to cultural differences and dialogue among civilizations.

Ervin Laszlo , founder of the international Club of Budapest, is recognized as one of the initiators of the evolution theory systems, the systemic towards a more integral approach. By creating the Ultimate University in Paris, our first wish was to raise awareness of the integral approach in France, where she remained still relatively unknown and secondly to put into perspective the work of Ervin Laszlo placing them in the wider context other researchers in this field.

We are interested especially in France the work of Jean-Eric Aubert , Carine Dartiguepeyrou , Thierry Gaudin , Jacques Lesourne , Bruno Marion , Edgar Morin, Michel Saloff Coste , Jean Staune and the world in the work of Ken Wilber, Don Beck and Steve McIntosh . In the future we would like to expand this into perspective with other researchers in France and abroad. The few days we are only able to organize early development compared to a real academic work, to develop in the future. "


New forms of understanding

The creation of the University Ultimate appears as the symbol of a profound cultural regeneration and a spiritual resistance to the dominant orthodoxy, to both reductionist and materialistic. This is particularly for these two reasons that this initiative deserves attention from those interested in the movement of ideas and sensibilities.

Echoing various initiatives in other countries, creating a Ultimate University in the nation of Cartesianism is indicative of a changing cultural context. It expresses the emergence of new forms of understanding adapted to an information society in constant change and increasing complexity. These new forms of understanding are the manifestation of the evolutionary dynamics that drives the collective consciousness in this new millennium.

The official line of technocracy in power, the various crises faced by humanity require of acting and technical sector, that is to say using the thinking and organizational model for the origin of these crises . For the avant-garde cultural refuse this blindness, economic crises, ecological, social and cultural, will under no circumstances be resolved from the reference field that has generated.

By expressing the saturation of a model that has outlived its time, these crises are all signals that are used to mark the path of a necessary evolution: they literally cause a questioning of our lifestyles and thought that requires new responses inspired by an evolution of our world view.


The emergence of a full paradigm

Our worldview is directly determined by cultural representations and the epistemological paradigm that underlies it. This paradigm is a kind of implicit perspective, specific to a given culture, which validates the interpretation system through which we give meaning to our experience allows us to act and to society.

No social organization that falls within a cultural form based on an epistemological paradigm. can say that the paradigm is the underlying model that establishes the shared vision without which there is no society. This model expresses the dynamics of change at a time and a given evolutionary stage. Therefore access to a new level of complexity is still emerge a new paradigm.

The developments epistemological, cultural and social are systemic and synchronous. They interact constantly with each other. We have already discussed here relations between epistemological developments and cultural. All social bond is based on a cultural bridge, itself forged in the context of an epistemological consensus . The interaction between systemic social change and cultural change is part of the dynamics of an evolving epistemological.

It is no coincidence that in the global crisis in which humanity finds itself, there emerges a new paradigm - Full - able to simultaneously take into account the evolution of individual subjectivity and the intersubjectivity cultural like the social and natural environment . What the specificity of an integral perspective is to think and act simultaneously on three levels: that of epistemological paradigm of social organization and cultural performances ...

These three levels correspond to fields of knowledge , the community and the imaginary , social expressions of these three archetypes that are universal True, the Although and beautiful. Truth of the laws and principles developed in the architectural field epistemology. Common good that weaves the social bonds of solidarity in the field of ethics . Beauty of forms which express the spirit of the time in the field of aesthetic imagination and sensitivity.


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The problem of modern man, fascinated by the world of appearances and the victim of a fragmented view is that it would solve his problems by converting only the outside world. And this without making any effort to change themselves, without understanding that these problems are not foreign to him and they are both warning signs and opportunities for change. Thus it would transform the socio-economic development without perceiving that it is the expression of a collective mentality, correlated with underlying paradigm.

Many merchants of illusion disclaim efforts necessary for personal transformation and collective engaging in a perspective of socio-political or environmental activism that are not supported by a new worldview . It is a profound illusion that humanity has paid a high price in the last century to try to change society or behaviors without taking into account the necessary change in attitudes that must prevail in any social or behavioral changes.

Systems thinking is echoed what all great thinkers have argued forcefully: there can be no social change and transformation of the epistemological framework that forms the cultural attitudes. It is much easier to propose new forms of organization to transform cognitive structures through which we interpret the world. Nothing is more difficult in effect, and slower than change filters perceptual and cognitive cause of our worldview.

ecologist Edward Goldsmith wrote about it: " Another obstacle to change a worldview: individuals and companies that invested psychologically in this collection in its entirety, defend against any who would enter into credit. This is the "principle of preservation cognitive structures " the American anthropologist AFC Wallace . It applies, for example, professionals seeking to retain the paradigm of their discipline, even though it has long been totally discredited in the eyes of sensible people . "


Symptoms and crises

Anyone who started therapy know how complicated it is to change our world map out of the rut in which we are locked and we are running around in scenarios repetitive, thus preventing us to participate in the creative dynamics of life and spirit .

symptoms, psychological or physical, always appear to express the fact that some functions and behaviors that were adapted to a point in our evolution are no longer a new situation. What is true of an individual is also good for society. Seizures are symptoms that we must know how to listen to find solutions to our evolution.

But resistance to change are enormous. We are desperate to keep our old references, even if they cause suffering because what we fear most is the unknown which requires mobilizing all our energies even though a Much of these are invested in the comfortable routine of deadly habits.

There remains the "pedagogy disaster " the only way to break the secure framework which we have identified. This catastrophe can be personal - illness, economic insecurity, the breakdown of family ties or love - as it may be collective - ecological crisis, economic, social, cultural, geopolitical - with the ambition of the possible disappearance of the species by synergy of these crises. As the

Christiane Singer " crises in the society we live in, are really what has yet to find the best, if not master, when you do not close at hand to enter into the Another dimension ... In a society where everything is blocked, where the roads are not suitable for entering in-depth, there the crisis to break through these walls around us. The crisis, which serves as a kind of battering ram to break down the doors of the fortress where we stand walled, with the full range of our personality, what we believe to be . ( Good use crises)


Sociotherapy

If you want to avoid this painful disaster pedagogy, with its share of suffering, we can begin a psychotherapy expand our world map taking into account the messages expressed by these signals are the symptoms. Since there are psychotherapy, there to meet the social crises of social therapy based on learning new models allowing the company to build a reference system adapted to new stadium evolutionary it addresses. Thus, during human history appear regularly avant-garde are the vectors of these new models. These are

creative minorities who, for fifty years, have been slow to emerge from other models of thought given to new forms of sensibility, to the amusement or inquisitor proponents of the dominant ideology . These movements are always innovative in the history of societies is the role of intuition in the individual level: that of a sensitivity visionary who participates in an organic way to the changing dynamics of life and spirit . It is this creative and intuitive sensitivity that allows the emergence of new forms of understanding.

Materialism dominant reserve these creative minorities the way it treats intuition: a subject of derision treated with condescension by an abstract thought - disconnected from the creative movement of life - who do not understand the meaning, or use. Arthur Schopenhauer describes fairly accurately the three stages of transition from one old to a new paradigm. "All truth passes through three steps. First it is ridiculed. Then, she met with strong opposition before being accepted as evidence. "


A cultural exception

Where are we in this transformation of the reductionist paradigm that was one of the modern industrial paradigm which is full of" Kosmodernité "corresponding to the information age? In a country like France where there is cultural exception of a thought analytical and abstract formalism, quite reluctant to interdisciplinarity and the integration of cognition and knowledge (that is an understatement ...), the creation of the Integral University shows that this movement deep cultural regeneration is underway.

Because profoundly transformed our world view, this movement is hardly accepted by the supporters of the institution, often enclosed in perceptions and representations of another age, as was not accepted by clerics to power the movement of Lights at the end of the Ancien Regime.

This is a true cultural regeneration sociotherapy animated by creative thinkers who have inspired, of course, as always, face obstacles and difficulties due to inertia, resistance and skepticism. But let us remember the words spoken by JF Kennedy " The world's problems can be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited to obvious realities. We need men who can imagine what has never existed. "

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" A world without monsters is a lost world "

Dado (Miodrag Djuric) died on November 27 last, aged 77.

Galerie Alain Margaron (5, rue du Perche, 75003 Paris) tribute on the occasion of the exhibition Drawings (exhibition of drawings Cojan, Dado, Fred Deux, Clara Fierfort, Godeg, Groborne's computer animation, Laubiès, Lunven, Macréau, Music, Requichot ... ) of 2 December Jan 15, 2010 to 2011.

His drawings and oil paintings, but its graphics, collages, assemblages and sculptures are located in art galleries, important private collections of many museums including the MoMA and the foundation Guggenheim and the Museum National d'Art Moderne in Paris.

"[...] Amateur old planks of Anatomy, Dado draws its references from books at random libraries of his friends dermatologists or psychiatrists: The man with criminal Lombroso, we find illustrated textbooks forensic medicine, dermatology atlases. His bestiary is the result of chance encounters, but inevitable " empty me-that" booksellers: portraits anim written by Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle have married Grandville's illustrations for Scenes from privacy animals. Dado once felt drawn by the atmosphere novels of Céline, since he discovered Travel in the East, the Illuminati Gerard de Nerval. He ponders over the texts he reads them and always returns to the Book of Job which is his Divine Comedy. A few titles, it would add more prosaically small publications, pilfered his children, devoted to insects, French Revolution, which led to two series of recent drawings by Dado. [...] "

Christian Derouet, "The exasperation of the line," exhibition catalog Dado Cabinet of Graphic Art Centre Pompidou (19 Nov. 1981-18 Jan. 1982), p . 10.

"[...] Is it the fear that they would like to sow or plant, the monsters come together almost naturally to the representation of power among men. The Middle Ages believed that more demons paradise and Bosch also had better knowledge of the delights of demonic hell delights. Wild fetishes, ancient gods, except that the Greek world was raving elsewhere, are too often people who grimace and tear and are rare in the cosmologies and mythologies raw figures allayed. The fantasy of chaos reappears constantly and fantasy is chaos.

Dado Untitled, 1972-1981, Indian ink, 75 x 52.5.

Is this one title, a triptych of Pali-Kao, and the grotesque character he reminds me, what are these crucifixions pathetic phallus and vultures these growths exaggerated bulges and skulls, I link the representations of Dado happiness and fertility reaffirmed the chaos and disorder of nature. Virile power, power of the bloody cross on the world, animal power, power to the confusion of forms and mental night, so many different manifestations of power arise in any invocation of the hand that and nicely painted tower "ride", as expressed by the servants of the deities voodoo trance in particular one that awaits them at dawn, not knowing who will appear in the unique light of the day and if he can really determine the form and attributes, just knowing that someone will come because the vision is infinite and constantly renewing itself, and that human psychological tradition that the painter is the witness of this individual is already fantasy a reality ahead of the light that no mask can hide.

But monsters, aberrations called them in the place of perpetual metamorphosis. They have their zoology, anthropology their own, they have their tastes and colors of their choice of atmospheres, they like to reappear to impose their names.

Dado The butcher of St. Nicolas , 1981, collage of cut drawings, 182 x 207 (detail).

[...] The scavenging medieval liked monsters and chimeras, but it is, so far as history takes us, civilizations, thoughts that have known underworld. School for Monsters is a dream for the future. I will cite this example because the checks he makes to me is very recent, unexpected, surprising and even risky. I expect all of Egypt and the essence of the Incas, the most anthropomorphic visualizations of the world in the smallest objects, vases, pins, the basins of the fountains, the symbolism of the frescoes deployed on the infinite walls, closed in on themselves, like the tomb of the beholder. How much more surprising to find that in the delirium of reasoned Italian Renaissance in the decoration of the Palace of Te in Mantua, the work of Giulio Romano, mythology applied in the direction of the deeper meaning of all the upheaval, the frenzied eroticism gigantism and glacial enfilades get lost in a world falling apart, faces that are made and unmade without ever, deceptive look, that cheeks crush and grind themselves, revealing the meaning already destroyed. A world without monsters is a lost world, a world that would give up without return of ineffable charm to wander by itself, thus disrupting the bond linking him to other men, other countries, as night and day [...] "

"Dado: The residents of the Prairie", Henri-Alexis Baatsch, End of Century No. 3, January 1976.

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think the new civilization (2)

In our last post , we proposed the first part of an interview with Michel Saloff Coste on the site of the University Ultimate : Beyond the crisis, think the "new civilization." Michel Saloff Coste for the crisis we are experiencing is primarily a symptom of a much deeper phenomenon, the emergence of a "new civilization " which he describes some characteristics in the second part of this interview.


Interview with Michel Saloff Coste: Beyond the crisis, think the "new civilization." Second part

- What major features characterize the new civilization?

- The era of creation and communication is defined in all areas in contrast with the eras that preceded it. By studying the era of industry and commerce, one can clearly separate three major phases: an initial phase, until the '60s, where supply is less than the request. At that time, the key factor determining value creation is the capital. It is the capital that allows the construction of large production sites, which used to offer products in a market with strong demand.

Gold in the 70's begin to appear to malfunction. Communist systems mass produce goods, but being unable to adjust supply to demand, the liberal system, however, knows perfectly align supply with demand in particular by using marketing, market research, to listening to customers, but at the same time, it satisfies the consumer to buy more. The citizen, therefore, tends to transform itself into a consumer. We spend a market economy to a market society where everything starts to turn around the economy.

From " The Management of the third millennium " I put that value creation does not result solely, as at the height of the era of industry and trade, enhancement of classical investment. Similarly, the torque capital production tool, which is at the heart of value creation process of the industrial society was marginalized. This becomes essential in the new era is access to information and the ability to create information products.

Why? Because the transition from an economy of demand to supply-side economics in the 70s, introduced innovation as a key factor of competitiveness . Companies need ideas to diversify in the face of increased competition. This movement continues to grow: novelty, which was originally a "more" becomes a necessary condition to exist. What makes the value is no longer in production capacity. What can sell at a profit and sell a product is its "novelty ," the creative and innovative product.

Thus, the differentiating factor of production is more capital, but creative intelligence and proactive . A few examples illustrate this idea perfectly. General Motors, for example, showed reactivity in constantly renewing its range of 4x4 at a time when Americans wanted to buy such vehicles. But Toyota has felt better and ancipité the planetary transformation. The Japanese group has launched research on hybrid vehicles, so pro-active when no one claimed such products.

Similarly, Steve Jobs has never launched and found inspiration in market research to launch the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone, simply because the needs, at the time when created these products did not exist. That the difference between reactivity and proactivity.

Therefore, for companies - and I defined it in a second book, The Leader of the third millennium - the challenge is to adopt a management that is based on listening, valuing personal characteristics, individual and collective development . This building and controlling management styles that have preceded them in the other three eras - the fascination, instinct, enthusiasm in hunter-gatherer era , hierarchical organization, order, control agriculture-livestock , competition, negotiation, Profit-sharing era of trade and industry ... But you must place all these dimensions of management in service of the creative process .

- You also mentioned many other features of this new civilization. Which ones you think are most central, and must know that today's leaders to better understand their environment?

- As we mentioned, the industrial era is primarily based on the techniques, the ability to control and harness the energy and the development of science, which helped to deepen the knowledge and world of the infinitely large and infinitely small. The great feature of the new era, and everyone can make the finding is the extraordinary development IT.

Similarly, oil, nuclear energy was placed at the heart of the industrial age, dominated by the model of the car and that of industrial agriculture, made possible both by the development of agricultural machinery and Fertilizer, themselves derived from petroleum. Gold energy key to the new civilization is the flow of information, ability to understand, transform and move with a value that makes a difference and meet the fundamental aspirations of the man.

Google the social networks , that perfectly correspond to the innovations characteristic of this era. Inventing a search engine that allows access to a multiplicity of available knowledge on the planet, is essential for the good of our societies. The spring of these innovations is more oil, but creation, intelligence, innovation.

Power, then, is no longer linked to the shareholding, but the ability to emergence of otherness and difference. If you are not able to create the difference, to reveal needs deep, authentic, which meet at the same time a sustainable human development, so we do not create value in society for the creation and communication.

All this also brings us a new way of thinking about the world. In the era of hunting and gathering prevailed animists. The era of Agriculture and Livestock has seen the development of major monotheistic religions. The age of commerce and industry is the triumph of Descartes, that is to say the mechanistic scientific thinking. Gold engine thought the era of creation and consumption is thought systemic .

Appeared in the 50's, she was released in France in particular by Joel de Rosnay ( The Macroscope ) and Edgar Morin . My book "The Management of the Third Millennium" is an attempt to apply systems thinking to the economic and entrepreneurial. United States, Peter Senge in " The Fifth Discipline " adopted at about the same time an identical approach. The novelty of systematics is to replace a mechanistic scientific thinking, thinking of reality as a succession of relationships and chains of cause and effect, a much more complex reality, made a set of systems that interact.

This new understanding of reality constitutes a major break. Until then, science and all fields of knowledge were apprehended in the process of decomposition that sequencing the reality in sub-specialty areas. Our culture has extensive knowledge on a very small part of the knowledge, and widespread ignorance at all. Now it is essential today to address the problems in their entirety.

The ecological crisis, for example, is a crisis at all , not the party. The first contribution of systemic the discovery of interrelationships and interactions that govern the world, and has put the need for transdisciplinary approaches . It is this particular observation has led several French researchers to create, in February 2008, the University Ultimate . Many think tanks have already made the world according to this philosophy, as New Economics Foundation * , or the Club of Budapest **.

* Created in the United Kingdom in 1986, the NEF is a think tank and action working towards a "new model of wealth creation based on equality, diversity and economic stability."

** The Club of Budapest is an international network on future challenges of bringing together personalities like Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama. It is currently chaired by the science philosopher Ervin Laszlo.

- In this new era, information occupies a place quite major. Can you elaborate on this dimension?

- In the era of hunter-gatherer, prevailing oral communication and word-of-mouth. The era of agriculture and livestock is that of writing, which led to the birth of a historical approach, and the creation ultimately of history. The era of industry and commerce has been the extraordinary development of the printing press and the mass media. The big break in the era of creation and communication is that of developing networks, far beyond the mass media, because they make us both transmitters and receivers. We are still only babbling corporate network, but its implications are manifold. We thus move from a society where leaders and elected officials manage information bit fluid, a world of broadcast and real-time interaction between leaders and citizens.

This new civilization of people who continue to share them also evolve as a feature of their conscience in real time. We as such the first humans to be born into a system of representation given to grow and learn live in other systems of representation, before dying in another still different.

For each of us, time accelerates, we are called to change at least every ten years in the business, and these changes are accompanied each time of upheaval in our systems of representation. Because of globalization and communication networks, in addition we ever faced with other cultures, other systems of representation of the world as they re-examine our own.

In this sense I think the establishment, in this new era, has a fundamental place. In the fields of science, art, philosophy, creating the cosmos is constantly reset on new foundations. This is indeed a coincidence that at the time were developing the theories of Einstein on relativity, Kandinsky conceived in 1910 his first abstract painting.

designers invite us constantly to take a fresh look at all our performances, and reset our spiritual worldview. All this does not take us away from the management, quite the contrary: in the world of business, Companies like Google, Apple, were able to generate innovations bringing new visions of society.

- Your analysis began in the mid 80s. Are not you surprised by the accuracy with which reality agrees with you on all these points?

- What surprises me is not so much the rapidity with which the techniques that I described - computers, networks ... - came to be part of our daily lives, but rather the appearance spectacular society with which the creation and communication has emerged. Royalty has been in France for 1000 years assert itself fully, the Rothschild dynasty 100 years, 10 years Microsoft and Google a year!

And most surprisingly, from my point of view, is the reaction time it takes for politicians construct an adapted speech. This is a good reason, since most of them remain locked in an era of trade and industry . They are not alone. All major appliances - the political parties, unions, universities, the press ... - born in the nineteenth century, still believe in this era there. These modes of thought become obsolete.

One point still surprises me: when I wrote "The Management of the Third Millennium", I thought there would be in the future much less dramatic events in the techniques and the instrumental, but much more effort in thinking and research emerging new civilization. Besides, twenty years ago, I had no trouble finding funding sources that explore such innovative ways.

Today, while these thoughts become urgent, difficulties in finding financing are extreme ! Yet another point of astonishment: I had not anticipated that the limits of planet arise as soon as our eyes from all sides. And yet we are unable to believe this! Hence the need to invest in this innovative thinking, create trade, interactions between research centers , and promote, as there were chambers of commerce and industry to support the previous era , room for reflection and communication networks operating in!

- Finally, what gives you hope that the company gains in the awareness of changes to be made?

- Remember that a crisis they are both risks and opportunities . But France has great opportunities before them. Most scholars who have discussed this new civilization of intangible - whether Edgar Morin, Thierry Gaudin , Joël de Rosnay - are French. During the passage of the civilization of agriculture-livestock trade and industry, France has managed to invent key concepts, such as separation of powers, modern democracy, the Napoleonic Code was also included in the world wide.

We live in a historical period in which France could to lead a movement. It is estimated between 20 and 30% of the total number of "cultural creatives " sensitive to ecological issues and planets, the law and the empowerment of minorities, interested in cultures in their diversity.

They are individuals who are personal development to better understand what is happening today. They are proactive in logical . It is the party of people excited for example by the election, the United States, Barack Obama, who are neither right nor left, but who think in terms of societal transformation . Now it is capital today to lead this collective work, because a new civilization never leaves the head a few. It can only result from a great global debate. And invites us all today become the creators of this new civilization!

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think the new civilization (1) The State Emergency

Michel Saloff Coste

In our last post, we presented the Club of Budapest led to the declaration on the State Emergency World . This association has mission as an emerging global consciousness based on such interconnection of cultures and integrating spirituality, science and arts. The specificity of the Club of Budapest - and originality - is the systems approach which builds and reveals the connection between the evolution of consciousness, models and strategies to implement for the twenty-first century.

painter, photographer, filmmaker, writer, teacher and consultant, Michel Saloff Coste has a multimedia and multidisciplinary. In 1995 he took the initiative in the founding of the Club of Budapest in France. In 2007, under the aegis of the Club of Budapest France, he founded the University Ultimate . Michel Saloff Coste

is the author of " The Management of the third millennium " published in 1991 and reissued several times. This book became one of the books foresight, strategy and management of reference in France. Thinking of Michel Saloff Coste led him to propose a general theory of systems of representation based on an analysis of human evolution into four main types of civilization: the Hunt Collection, Agriculture Farming, Industry, Commerce and Communication Design.

The mutation is not contemporary, he said, comparable to a new avatar of the industrial revolution but must be understood as a real change of civilization: the passage of the "era of industry and commerce" to "the era of creation and communication." The Blog Michel Saloff Coste brings together all of its activities, past, present ... and future.

On the University website Ultimate, you can read an interview with Michel Saloff Coste entitled " Beyond the crisis, think the new civilization . The author was interviewed on the responses of our leaders to the economic crisis. Michel Saloff Coste concerned about short-term measures adopted to try to resolve one of the most serious economic crises of our time. It also concerned with the growing gap between the general evolution of society and modes of governance and management companies. For him, the crisis is a symptom of a much deeper phenomenon, the emergence a "new civilization" which he describes characteristics. Elements of vision, both critical and looking for a 'management of the third millennium. "


Interview with Michel Saloff Coste: "Beyond the crisis, think the" new civilization ". Part One.

- What thoughts, what inspires you the personal analysis and crisis period quite strange that we live in today?

- In such crisis situations, it is imperative to keep his cool. Any reaction "hot" might indeed generate perverse and counterproductive. In particular, is lost in diagnosis, decisions taken to try to remedy the crisis could instead the precipitate and aggravate it. The issue of diagnosis seems now more important than the crisis we are facing is deep.

For my part, the severity of the crisis does not surprise me because in my thoughts presented in "The Management the third millennium", initiated in the 80s and which led to a publication in 1990, I explained that our advanced economies so that they operate would experience a major crisis . For me, the diagnosis is clear: we are experiencing a true "crisis of civilization . We are more likely to share that view, along with Edgar Morin and Thierry Gaudin particular.

- Why go further analysis is now becoming urgent, and the lack of reflection on this topic concern you does it?

- If subprime crisis and the financial system was just more speculation on a background of infinite global growth, then we allocated as in the past. But what makes the seriousness of this crisis is that, precisely, she enrolled in a quite particular. The idea of a global growth of around 5 to 10% allowing us to pay both the debt of our States, the social protection systems - including India and China - in a system that continues to pay all stakeholders, becomes impossible, because that unsustainable for the planet and its inhabitants. The subprime United States, as such, can already be seen as an attempt to distribute purchasing power for the system will survive him and that intermediaries are remunerated "as before".

therefore provide solutions to this crisis only by learning the 30s I feel very inadequate. Of course it is for states to operate all the levers of a Keynesian stimulus - prime the pump of credit, investing heavily in recovery plans for major works and plans to relaunch demand. These three levers are absolutely necessary to avoid blocking the system in the very short term.

But the real issue is not addressed now, both by politicians, banks, enterprises, it would look like an economy that continues to grow and develop in a finite world with limited resources. Because growth, that's life! And what would a civilization based on principles other than that just ended?

Yes, I am deeply worried, because if one ignores the diagnosis, the risk is high that the patient wakes up after the crisis even worse. Today, it is the states that take over banks. With risk, tomorrow, that States enter into bankruptcy ... The urgency is a true reflection starts. Now you only see this reflection dawn nor right nor left.

- What do you recommend in this emergency?

- We are entering a very dangerous time, where nobody, including politicians, leaders of multinational companies, can say, given the multiplicity of reports or warnings, they did not know! Do not take the corners become a major act of irresponsibility. So yes, adopt measures that will allow short term, we all hope to restart the machine temporarily. But then what? On the billions injected Recovery, can not we keep a few ways to think about what is possible and desirable future?

A leader in the world, Nicolas Sarkozy, took an early intuition said it was "refound capitalism" and conduct " another civilization policy . The words are strong, and the diagnosis is correct. But where is the search committee to work on the future model of civilization and economic models associated with it? The 1 trillion into the economy to save the banking system, will they accelerate and precipitate the death of the previous system, such as injection of amphetamines to a dying man?

Some states are on the verge of bankruptcy, and many of them, tomorrow, will have more leeway to act because of their debt. Faced with financial masses placed on the market, economists fear of additional phenomena of hyper-inflation in the medium term. Everyone puts his last shot to save the system! Given the gravity of the situation, it is no longer avail himself of the right or left. Everyone must contribute to rethink the relationship between raw materials, capital, work production. It is this chain which then has to be reinvented.

- Specifically, "The Management the third millennium", you sense the emergence of a new era and you were drawing the outlines. What warning signs allow you to draw this conclusion?

- Making a brief flashback: the foundations of society, commerce and industry have emerged between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They were erected on the ruins of the previous era, that of agriculture-livestock , whose purpose was the maintenance of hierarchical structures in the same (absolute monarchy, aristocracy, corporations ...). The dominant modes of management of agriculture and livestock were the order, control. Now in the eighteenth century, there has been very innovative concepts dawn - Equality, citizenship, principles of separation of powers, and then democracy, reinvented on the basis of Greek democracy.

Therefore, the elite warrior abilities, dedicated to the conquest of territory in the era of agriculture and livestock, have given way to recognition by elites merit and ability to generate money. The competition, bargaining, but also the progress, growth in professionalism and compensation, have taken their place in this society; has the turf war has given way to economic warfare . In parallel, a new state of the world was built around the concept of Nation and the development of democracies.

From the years 70-80, I realized-with other sociologists and philosophers such as Edgar Morin, Thierry Gaudin, President of Prospective 2100 - we had arrived at the end of this era, I started thinking about the contours of the new era that would come to us. What are the substantive elements that characterize it? In the eighteenth century, of course, it was difficult to imagine that man could one day reach the planet's limits.

The state of development of science, the degree of utilization of natural resources, were far to suggest at the time. Now the second part of the twentieth century was signed earlier this awareness. In 1972 exactly, the Club of Rome , bringing together scientists, economists, researchers from 53 countries, issued a report called " Limits to Growth " a landmark and sparked debate.

For the first time through the use of the power of the first supercomputers, experts from many disciplines have been able to extrapolate current trends, and show that infinite growth on a planet to geography and finite resources, was no longer possible, and it would implode to our world by 2100.

Proponents of these theories have been accused of catastrophism. But since force is clear that many measurements and observations collected - accumulation of greenhouse gases, global warming, extinction of many species ... - have instead given their due, and even faster than expected. Everything was already showing in this report, we could not think and operate "business as usual .

- This has also given rise to the current decay . How do you distinguish yourself?

- We can agree on facts, without being entirely on the conclusions to be drawn. Observers were seized example of these developments to condemn the very notion of progress. It's not my point. Progress is a fact, has brought a lot to humanity, in the field of health, hygiene, elevation of living standards and well-being. We can not return completely back on all this. Other trends have also condemned capitalism, accused of all evils. Certainly, the capitalist system has weaknesses and has already gone through many crises.

But again, the question is not so much for me to condemn the model, than to discern what may be the result in a limited world we know and understand what can be in such a context, values, culture, operating principles of a new civilization. This civilization, as I describe in the management of the third millennium like the information society and creating , who just continue the company's trade and industry.

(To be continued ...)

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World

Club Budapest

A number of NGOs have emerged in the last fifty years to act and raise international public opinion on a number of topics. Known including Greenpeace who fights for environmental causes and Amnesty International for human rights.

On another scale, Club Budapest founded in 1993 by the Hungarian philosopher of science Ervin Laszlo , is an international association dedicated to the development of thought and a new ethic to help solve the social, political, economic and environmental implications of the twenty-first century. His philosophy is based on the observation that these daunting challenges can be met only by the development of a global cultural consciousness.

The Club Budapest has a mission to be a catalyst for the transformation to a sustainable world by working the emergence of a global consciousness at integrating Spirituality, Science and Arts and that 'the interconnection of generations and cultures. What makes originality of this organization is its systemic and comprehensive approach which operates the connection between the evolution of consciousness, models and strategies to implement the twenty-first century.

It is in this spirit that the Club Budapest offers France a number of theme nights and activities that can be read on its website. Among these activities, members of the Club of Budapest founded and host the Ultimate University, initiative on which we will have the opportunity back. Editor Carine Dartiguepeyrou , the Club of Budapest just completed a book entitled Prospective a changing world which have notably contributed Ervin Laszlo , Edgar Morin and Matthieu Ricard which can be found here an interview he gave at the exit of this book.

This book offers a series of contributions by authors from various backgrounds, all friends of the Club of Budapest , working in their own way to the planetary consciousness. Through their original visions, they seek to answer the following questions: "Why major global changes that we live in? What is the nature of this transformation and how impact she our political, economic and social? How to build a sustainable development beyond the debate on growth and decay? Is a "turn" or "metamorphosis" that leads us toward a new civilization? "

We propose below the reading of a declaration Club Budapest entitled " The State Emergency World" written by Ervin Laszlo and David Woolfson in response to the alarming situation of the planet. This statement is a call to leaders for a change of civilization based on a profound cultural transformation .

It reads in part: " The current dominant mode of thought can be maintained longer ... Every crisis brings with it an opportunity for change and transformation. The ideas and models needed the new systems already exist ... millions of individuals and groups of avant-garde for years referred to these threats and challenges. This "awakening" is a positive sign of the vitality of the human spirit and its ability to respond flexibly and creatively to threats to humanity ... A way of thinking and different tools can accelerate the emergence of a new world to escape worst scenarios. But we must act now. Time is short and the task is unprecedented. "

be found on the website of the French Club Budapest the translation of three annexes to this statement reminiscent of some quantitative and qualitative thematic data on the state of the planet and some solutions for them.


The State Emergency World . 30/09/08 - Ervin Laszlo and David Woolfson

Preamble

The financial crisis and global economic, global climate change, the ongoing wars, terrorism, nuclear risks and challenges, the climax or the end of nonrenewable natural resources, the emerging crisis of water, the net annual increment of about 80 million of the world population, increasing poverty, housing shortages, famine in absolute terms, the widening gap between rich and poor within a nation and between countries, and other macro -related trends, are all growing and unmistakable evidence that the world is fundamentally non-viable and that mankind is rapidly heading towards a collapse of current ecological and societal .

Despite these global crises that threaten global human community, the mode of thought and actions of most politicians, or business, remain fixated on short-term rather than the long-term on national priorities rather that 'international on personal interests rather than on community interests, on the confrontation and the militarization rather than on cooperation and dialogue on values and the level of consciousness nineteenth century rather than those of XX th on maintaining the status quo of current affairs, rather than on the urgent passage new systems of economic, energy and social locally nationally and internationally .

Therefore, aware of these emerging global crises and the constant lack of necessary governance at national and global in the entire political and business, we call for urgent action, a "Declaration of the State Emergency World "on behalf of the inhabitants of our planet and profit.


The Global Situation

The global crisis that humanity is facing today affects all people and all societies. If we continue at the current rate, in the middle of this century, Earth could become largely uninhabitable for humans and most other life forms. Such a total system collapse could occur much sooner due to runaway global warming and other eco-disasters , or nuclear wars sparked by religious conflict, ethnic or geopolitical or overuse of dwindling natural resources. The macro

- trends continue for several decades and are now reaching a plateau irreversible. Scientific modeling of complex systems shows that when systems reach a critical state of instability, or they break down, or they reach a level of improved functioning. From these " points of no return " it is no longer possible to maintain the status quo and this mode of organization and operation.

Various estimates have been given as a date of "point of no return". It has been predicted for example that the average temperature of Earth would increase by about 3 degrees Celsius in 2100, then was told that this level would be reached around mid-century and more recently that this level could be achieved within a decade. The figure of global warming has increased from 3 degrees to 6 degrees or more. A global warming of 3 degrees would create serious breaches of human activity, while an increase of 6 degrees would cause a global collapse, making the most of the planet unfit for human life.

These forecasts, however, does take into account only the time trend: global warming, water availability, production food, poverty, population pressure, pollution of air, etc.. They do not take into account the impacts created by the interconnection of macro - trends, nor the effects of feedback loops. When trend reaches a critical point, its effect on other trends can be very significant. For example, if global warming creates a prolonged drought in some areas and coastal flooding in others, the masses of poor and homeless people invade the regions least affected, including creating social movements and economic relations with the lack of water and food critics.

2012

The acceleration of these developments and their implications for cross indicates that out of this global crisis and to achieve a more peaceful and sustainable world, we do that likely 'to Just three or four years after 2008. This is close to the Mayan prophecy 2012 as marking the end of the world today.

The period around the end of 2012 will probably be a turbulent period for the reasons mentioned above and for others. The predictions by the physical sciences anticipate disruptions in the geomagnetic field, electromagnetic and others around the world, causing significant harm to telecommunications and impacting many aspects of the activity and human health. For esoteric traditions, the end of 2012 will be the end of the known world, other interpretations more optimistic talk of a new world taking the place of the old.

Although the majority of the world's population has not yet recognized the danger of total collapse on a large scale millions of individuals and groups of avant-garde for years referred to these threats and challenges. This "awakening" is a positive signal the vitality of the human spirit and its ability to respond flexibly and creatively to the dangers that threaten humanity. This should be supported and facilitated by all appropriate means, because the scale and urgency of required transformation are well above the range of current efforts. This will be "too little, too late" unless the entire human community is mobilized quickly to reverse these macroeconomic trends before they become irreversible.

This must now become our global priority. We must act before that it is too late. We risk the collapse of our civilization and the disappearance of our species. We recognize the real possibility that a child born today will witness the final chapter of the 200 000-year history of modern man on this planet.


The way forward

We must face and deal creatively unintended consequences of narrow thinking and short-term approach which led us to the current global situation and can not be maintained. No "quick recipe " or "miracle technology" will save us consequences of wrong values and actions of the past. It engaging the human spirit in all its creative potential and wisdom that we can give birth to new modes of thought and action needed.

The current dominant mode of thought can be maintained longer . We must overcome the inertia societal generated by powerful self-destructive eras reminiscent of date to prepare for each region, nation and community to systemic failures and possible collapse. We must radically reconsider our worldview and restructure our systems such as energy, economy, governance, transportation, food, use and distribution of resources. We must act to widen the window of opportunity we have before it's too late to avoid a collapse of global scale. Every crisis brings with it an opportunity for change and transformation. The ideas and models needed for new systems already exist.

Today we are rediscovering the essential elements of the wisdom inherent in the great cultural traditions of the world , and let important scientific discoveries on the relationship between nature and us. At the same time, we develop alternative energy sources, sustainable technologies, communications and global information flows, biotechnology, nanotechnology , artificial intelligence and other technologies that can pave the way a mode of global sustainability for human communities and the environment.

A way of thinking and different tools can accelerate the emergence of a new world to escape worst scenarios. But we must act now. The clock is ticking and the task is unprecedented.

To cope with this emergency, effective and pragmatic solutions as soon as possible should be brought to the attention of many. Global communication and collaboration between peoples, nations, cultures, religions and sectors of society, professions, associations, networks, organizations, and other groups, is essential for the survival of humanity on this planet.

The new report " WorldShift 2012" Club of Budapest proposes the transition (" world shift ") A path of non-sustainability, conflict and confrontation, a path of global sustainability, wellness and peace. The proposals in this report and the proposals of the signatories of the Declaration have inspired this document.

So we hereby appeal urgently to all inhabitants of our planet so that if they show their awareness of the global state of emergency and their intention to help implement a significant change in all sectors of society (education, governance, economics, media, culture, technology) and at all levels (local, national and global) for the common good of all people, all societies and all life on Earth.


can be reached here to support the proposed Declaration of State Emergency World. Dedicated to sustainable development and the evolution of social networking conscience.Le WorldShift 2012 can follow this initiative and participate.

Loette Hormone Levels

International Symposium" Drawing "

We organize

International Symposium
"Drawing"
25, 26 and 27 February 2011
As part of the exhibition
"Drawing In An Expanded Field"
300 years of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and 30 years of drawing workshop at De
Markten, 5 Oude Graanmarkt / Place du Vieux Marché aux Grains, 1000 Brussels
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Friday, February 25, 2011 10 am
Philip Armstrong (The Ohio State University): Show Through
Laura Lisbon (The Ohio State University): Drawing / Set-up / Ground
14 h.
Michael Schwab (Royal College of Art, London and University of the Arts, Bern): Drawing the Transbody
Pirenne Raphael (University Catholique de Louvain): Signed, signature and countersignature. Notes on Cubism of Braque and Picasso between 1907 and 1914
Hans De Wolf (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): The poetry of precision. Some quasi-accurate drawings by Marcel Duchamp.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011 10 am
Jean Arnaud (University of Provence): The drawing saturated
Peter Baumann (University of Bordeaux 3): Drawing, carving, boron and be bored
(communication French)
14 h.
Sylvie Pic (artist): What the drawing allows me, "What I did not draw, I have not seen." Carine and Elisabeth
Krecké Krecké (artists, University Aix-Marseille III): The withdrawal of the line

Michel Guerin (University of Provence): The intention plastic
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Sunday, February 27, 2011 10 am
Cédric Loire (art critic, curator, doctoral candidate in art history and lecturer) Creepage, cutting lines. About the drawing in the work of Catherine Melin
Tristan Trémeau (College of Art and Quimper Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels): Works without rest. About Guerbadot Bernard (1948-2005)
14 h.
Chaka Matossian (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels): Scribble, scribble: drawing at work
Jackie Pigeaud (University of Nantes): The act