The (Un)Making of Suicidal Modernity: Giddens' Account

Dynamic Trust in Implementation of Large Information Systems: Conceptualized by Features from Giddens’ Theory of Modernity

Trust is an important concept in the implementation of large information systems. Earlier research in this area has focused primarily on trust as either a static concept (‘what is trust’), on the consequences of a lack of trust (‘what happens if trust does not exist’), or on the different ways in which trust is created. This paper suggests a dynamic model, based on features of Anthony Giddens’ ...

The Making and the Unmaking of a Dullard

relations, but as bushels of wheat, sacks of corn, fence boards, and barn timbers. His study of mechanics began with an "old oaken bucket" swung from an iron pulley, progressed through the grindstone stage to the mechanism of a reaper, to the profound discovery that the turning of a small gear moved a larger one more slowly but with greater power, and finally broke out into an ecstasy of deligh...

Habits, Their Making and Unmaking

The Paradox of Modernity

The modernity mess

When we had the good fortune to study the Klasies River Mouth Cave remains at the South African Museum in 1989, the isolated partial zygomatic KRM 16651 presented us with a morphometric challenge. The face of the bone appeared quite large, but only a small portion of the inferior border was preserved, and that mostly under the temporal process. No measuring points allowed standard comparisons t...