I have some other books
on memetics in my personal library here as well but I foresee that they will
move to the CLEA library or to my office there pretty soon.
The idea I have in mind is too pool our personal belongings into a shared "library" in the following way. If somebody owns an interesting book, but does not need it at the moment and is willing to let other ECCO members read it, that person can store that book in a place accessible for ECCO members (e.g. the book cupboards in the basement of the CLEA house), but including a label or "ex-libris" that clearly identifies the owner, so that no discussion can arise about who owns what.
If someone sees that book in the library and wants to borrow it for reading, that person inserts a piece of cardboard with his/her name, date of borrowing, and title of the book in the space where the book used to be. If someone else (including the owner) would like to get the borrowed book, they then immediately know who to ask for it. The same system would apply for books that belong to ECCO as a group (or even to CLEA, which has also quite a collection). In this way, the scattered collections of books that we have built upt individually or collectively can be easily converted into a pretty extensive and easy-to-use library. It will help *me* at least to create some more space and order in my own book cupboards at home and in the office, while supporting the research of others...
In a later stage, we can enter all books titles, authors, and perhaps keywords in a database that can be consulted and edited over the web, so that you can check from a distance which books are available in the library and who has borrowed what.
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I've got some interesting books as well. I like to have them near to look something up, storing them in the CLEA house would be uncomfortable. Still with a good database readable form the internet it would be as easy to borrow this books as they where in the house. So I like to skip the first stage and get more involved in the later one. I would love to start talking about webhosting for ECCO. We could create a separated workgroup on it.
The book I had planed to order, could be interesting for ECCO:
"On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of Experiencing", Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela, Pierre Vermersch
"The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living", Fritjof Capra
"Freedom Evolves", Daniel C. Dennett
"Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology", Mary Catherine Bateson (Foreword), Gregory Bateson
"Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy", Bruno Latour, Catherine Porter
"A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings", Richard Dawkins
(still need to be published)=> "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (Allen Lane Science S.)", Jared Diamond
Interesting books for ECCO that I posses:
"Pandora’s hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies", Bruno Latour
"Nature via Nuture", Matt Ridley
"Rationality in action", John Searle
"The Rise of the Creative Class and How It's Transforming Work, Life, Community and Everyday Life", Florida Richard
"Growing Artificial Societies", Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell
"Artificial Minds", Stan Franklin
"Self-Organization and the City", Juval Portugali
"Machine consciousness" edited by Holland Owen
Francis Heylighen--- --- --- ---
Center "Leo Apostel"
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Mixel Kiemen: http://www.mixel.be/
PhD student at ECCO: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ECCO/
