Finished vol. 2 of Braudel’s Civilisation and Capitalism, finally. The trio will likely be a foundational prism through which I think about the near future.

Finished vol. 2 of Braudel’s Civilisation and Capitalism, finally. The trio will likely be a foundational prism through which I think about the near future.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-ii/paper

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First came across Braudel years back when Nassim Taleb mentioned vol. 1 of Civ. and Capitalism (Structures of Everyday Life). I believe as an antithesis to broad sweep, Harari style histories.

Read a couple of his shorter texts in 2018/2019. Came for the longer trilogy b/c one of my reading tracks concerns the study of motion as an abstract phenomena (flows, folds and fields) and as an applied concept (flows, folds and fields in different domains).

Seemed quite appropriate to dig into historical, civ wide shifts given current trends and tech development.

Oversight on my part of never reading this.  What drew you to Braudel?  A history of capitalism?

Damn. Intriguing pod. @jacob and @jackson have persuaded me to actually check out @zora.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Z80plZyqGxvejklyO0tOm

Yep. His emphasis on commerce and increasing circulation as a contingent factor for the emergence of capitalism is perhaps why I’m now leaning into things like @zora. Tokenisation leads to value creation/capture shenanigans, sure. But the real point of that is to stimulate circulation?

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Yep. His emphasis on commerce and increasing circulation as a contingent factor for the emergence of capitalism is perhaps why I’m now leaning into things like @zora. Tokenisation leads to value creation/capture shenanigans, sure. But the real point of that is to stimulate circulation?
https://warpcast.com/msms/0xbd1f3f0b