[This is Part 12 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 11 here .] d. Calories Calories - in general A calorie is a unit of heat energy, interchangeable with all other forms of physical energy. H.T. Odum & Elisabeth Odum: “Since all kinds of energy can be converted into heat, we can measure the energy flowing into and out of a system in units of heat energy such as the Calorie… All processes require energy in some form—light
[This is Part 11 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 10 here .] As Value and Action are always mingling inseparably, anything which can be considered a basic unit of our reality must in some sense reflect their ongoing dramatic union. That said, some of the units we will discuss tend to emphasize certain domains of that reality—whose absolute first principle, we know, is the Good. And there are other units which could have
[This is Part 10 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 9 here .] Our meaning crisis has been our portal into our broader system of crises known here as a metacrisis, as well as the system of action-centers known as a metarevolution. This section will get more specific about the particularities of complexity, such that the reader will gain an appreciation for how this manifesto is about all of the urgent political and social i