{"id":203,"date":"2005-01-10T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=203"},"modified":"2005-01-10T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T13:20:16","slug":"collapse-o-mania-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/collapse-o-mania-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapse-o-mania continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=0670033375\" alt=\"Collapse: the book\" align=right \/><br \/>\nThe promotion and discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/149.142.237.180\/faculty\/diamond.htm\">Jerad Diamond<\/a>&#8216;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=62-0670033375-0\"><em>&#8220;Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, continues unabated. Last week there was a full page advert in the NYTimes (as well as a review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/\">Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>&#8216;s new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/blink\/index.html\">&#8220;Blink: the power of thinking without thinking&#8221;<\/a><\/em>, in the same edition). This morning, Diamond himself was interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/\">NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition<\/a>. The interview should be online later today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/index.php?s=collapse&#038;submit=Search\">I&#8217;ve been posting on this right along<\/a> &#8212; once the semester gets going I promise to read it instead of reading about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> The word <em>Collapse<\/em> is also a key work in  Robert Putnam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bowlingalone.com\/\">bowling alone<\/a> thesis in<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0743203046\/\">&#8220;Bowling Alone : The <em>Collapse<\/em> and Revival of American Community&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat book was answered in part by Richard Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/creativeclass.org\">creative class <\/a> thesis in<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0465024777\">&#8220;The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It&#8217;s Transforming Work, Leisure,<br \/>\nCommunity and Everyday Life&#8221; <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be a book in answer to Diamond keying in on the word <em>Rise<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promotion and discussion of Jerad Diamond&#8216;s new book, &#8220;Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed&#8221;, continues unabated. Last week there was a full page advert in the NYTimes (as well as a review of Malcolm Gladwell&#8216;s new book, &#8220;Blink: the power of thinking without thinking&#8221;, in the same edition). This morning, Diamond himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}