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Homer and Dewey
I am studying in both 4010 and 4078 (Hist of Tech&Ed, with R. McClintock), so I guess it’s my responsibility to point out some nice connections between this week’s readings in the two classes. In 4010, obviously, we are reading Dewey’s ‘The public and its problems’, where he stresses a posteriori approach to the analysis [...]
Bare Ruined Choirs
(I wrote a bit about this earlier in the year, in a post with ‘electric sheep‘ in the title.) More on Kurzweil. I was thinking about standards and web standards. I just finished css/htmling a page for a site and I thought about how basic my ‘look’ is (you can see it here, it’s for [...]
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Post 2012…
When I was 7, I was taken into a special class where we were asked to make predictions about 2040. The only thing I remember is that I thought that there would be flying cars and moving sidewalks. That was also the first year that I interacted with the green terminal of a computer. I [...]
The global warming narrative
Let me see. How do I say this without seeming, or being, a fool? For a while now, I have been deeply uncomfortable with the talk surrounding global warming. It’s not that I think that global warming is untrue. It’s not that I would prefer to die of thirst on Morningside Island, surrounded by New [...]
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Youtubing Bank of America
Bureaucracy has exploded since the early 19th century, and many thinkers have expressed themselves in relation to it (see Kafka, Orwell, Gogol, and of course Terry Gilliam) The inability to communicate with the appropriate person (see ‘The Trial’) has been a growing problem, born from, among other things, industrialization, the nation-state, and corporatization. This new [...]
Lanier and Steger. 2 “er”s, together at last.
Notes on Steger 1. Steger talks about the rise of individualism and its association with the printing press and the reformation. I’ve heard this before. I’ve never seen the evidence. I’m not opposed to it. I just find it very difficult to imagine a pre-individualist world? Actually, I think this comes from a pretty vague [...]
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Deibert: tightrope and loyalties
I’m always uncomfortable when ‘materialism’ determinedly walks in the room (oops, I applied agency to an abstract concept again…). Hairs tingling on the spine and so forth. Descartes and Democritus tap,tap,tapping at my chamber door. So I’m glad that Deibert seems to take the relevant accusations of determinism seriously. But it’s a thin rope on [...]
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