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mike_hales 💔*!?¿* (mike_hales@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:19:34 JST mike_hales 💔*!?¿*
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On non scaleability, thanks. I know Anna Tsing (mushroom) but not this.
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  band@octodon.social's status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:19:30 JST band
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  @bhaugen @mike_hales @ckohtala @lynnfoster I just wrote Prof Tsing an email asking for an open access copy and she sent me a copy within 15 minutes.
  
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  bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:19:31 JST bhaugen
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  Would https://12ft.io/ help jump over any of those paywalls?
  This one https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/18/3/505/6827/On-NonscalabilityThe-Living-World-Is-Not-Amenable did not offer a link to the pdf.
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  1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: 12ft.io
    
    12ft – Hop any paywall
    
    Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
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    On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
    
    Because computers zoom across magnifications, it is easy to conclude that both knowledge and things exist by nature in precision-nested scales. The technical term is “scalable,” the ability to expand without distorting the framework. But it takes hard work to make knowledge and things scalable, and this article shows that ignoring nonscalable effects is a bad idea. People stumbled on scalable projects through the same historical contingencies that such projects set out to deny. They cobbled together ways to make things and data self-contained and static, and thus amenable to expansion. In European New World plantations, the natives were wiped out; coerced and alienated plants and workers came to substitute for them. Profits were made because extermination and slavery could be discounted from the books. Such historically indeterminate encounters formed models for later projects of scalability. This essay explores scalability projects from the perspective of an emergent “nonscalability theory” that pays attention to the mounting pile of ruins that scalability leaves behind. The article concludes that, if the world is still diverse and dynamic, it is because scalability never fulfills its own promises.
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  mike_hales 💔*!?¿* (mike_hales@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:19:32 JST mike_hales 💔*!?¿*
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  Other paywalls too, except for Forlano. Ho hum, that's academic life... :-( But thanks for referring.
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  mike_hales 💔*!?¿* (mike_hales@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:19:33 JST mike_hales 💔*!?¿*
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  Tsing sadly, behind a paywall @ Duke U Press.
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  band@octodon.social's status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:27:51 JST band
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  @bhaugen i am happy to pass it on, but not have it posted online (that is a copyright violation). email is probably one way to do that. maybe DM me addresses?
  
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  bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:27:52 JST bhaugen
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  Can you pass it on or does everybody need to send their own email?
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