In order to overcome the technocentric focus in Information Security and Identity Management, I proposed some years ago a model which correlates all aspects of Risk and Trust Management. It offers a much wider perspective which avoids the exclusive fixation on "risk avoidance."

This book by Marie Moran (SAGE Publications, 2015), is a notable contribution to the study of "identity" under capitalism, but also a great foundation to consider how the economic, social and political contexts have been determining the business and technical aspects of "Identity Management." Marie Moran, a lecturer at the UCD School of Social Justice, … Continue reading Reading “Identity and Capitalism” by Marie Moran (1)

He was still trying to understand his personal history, in particular the absurdities of his travels. Things like these happened to him without respite, underscoring the fragility of the world around his own brittle persona. One day he made a presentation at the Infrastructural Change Board of a now dead Banking Conglomerate. About the middle … Continue reading Kaleidoscope

Many managerial debates lose themselves into a vicious circle. People try to "predict" or "estimate" possible futures, while at the same time very little effort is put on determining the future. This is undoubtedly wrong. Independently of predicting or not predicting the "future" --for example the consequences of a particular public policy--what really matter is … Continue reading Action and Prediction

There are forms of imagining the future which have not been fully explored. This is one of them : " This new vision of time and space, which will be the theoreticalbasis of future constructions, is still imprecise and will remain so untilexperimentation with patterns of behavior has taken place in citiesspecifically established for this … Continue reading “Formulary for a New Urbanism” (Chtcheglov, 1953)

"The nature of things is nothing but their coming into being at certain times and in certain fashions. Whenever the time and fashion is thus and so, such and not otherwise are the things that come into being. The inseparable properties of things must be due to the mode or fashion in which they are … Continue reading Time and Space – What the Historical Method is about