"Why rocks exist."

Continuing discussion of "Systems thinking in organizations" readings; available via the YCCSA/CMODS Complexity Reading Group Google+ community.

"Systems thinking in organizations" readings; available via the YCCSA/CMODS Complexity Reading Group Google+ community.

Discussion of "Toward a Buddhist Systems Methodology 1: Comparisons between Buddhism and Systems Theory." Chao Ying Shen and Gerald Midgley, Syst Pract Act Res (2007) 20:167–194.

Discussion of  the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on "Process Philosophy":http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/.

Bickhard, M. H. (2000). "Emergence." In P. B. Andersen, C. Emmeche, N. O. Finnemann, P. V. Christiansen (eds.), Downward Causation. University of Aarhus Press. 322-348.

Discussion of the last chapter of William Empson's classic text, Seven Types of Ambiguity

Discussion of extracts from Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.

Discussion of chapter from Edward Tufte's Visual Explanations.

Discussion of the proposed structure and contents of the Narrating Complexity book.

Texts:

"The Human World." AHRC Strategy 2013-18.

Franco Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature." New Left Review 1, Jan-Feb 2000, 54-68.

Texts:

1/ A gentle introduction to text mining, originally developed for a conference of Romanticists. 
http://tedunderwood.com/2012/08/14/where-to-start-with-text-mining/

2/ An accessible paper focused on methodology (a little more detail than the web page above):  We would suggest closer reading of the initial sections (up to Section 5.2 + Section 8 at end).   Justin Grimmer "Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts" Political Analysis (2013) pp. 1–31
http://www.stanford.edu/~jgrimmer/tad2.pdf

3/ We also discussed the notion of phylogenetic relationships.  We suggest that this paper be skimmed to get a feel for this kind of analysis. The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing theevolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1559/3865.full

This looks like a lot, for a quick orientation - focus on 1/ above.