# 2023-06-10 - [[Read]]: [[How systems theory can help us reflect on the world]] - Part of [[Robert Biel]]'s series of articles for [[The Ecologist]]. [[Systems theory]] and [[ecosocialism]] kind of. - [[Read]]: [[When nature and society are seen through the lens of dialectics and systems thinking]] - Also part of [[Robert Biel]]'s series of articles for [[The Ecologist]]. - [[Panarchy]] - Ecosystems are characterised by multiple levels. From individual organisms to communities to regional ecosystems to global systems. Sounds not unrelated to [[viable system model]], [[Institutional Analysis and Development]], etc. - [[Listened]]: [[After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia]] - Regardless the impressiveness of AI and automation, it isn't doing anything useful for us economically. - [[Listened]]: [[The Mute Compulsion of Capitalism]] - Why do we seem so stuck with capitalism, when it is clearly failing us?