February 2012
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interruptions asked: For me, the skepticism of human nature sorta just follows a fortiori from broader anti-essentialist commitments - just out of curiousity, where's it coming from for you?
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“Nevertheless, this leaves us with a puzzle. Much of Marx’s description of...”
– Jonathan Wolff, “Karl Marx,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Marx is too often treated with either outright and vehement rejection or sibylline reverence. In the latter case, many Marxist philosophers simply assert the same things that Marx asserted, and quote him as though that...
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Bouletcorp - Darkness →
This is a wonderful comic.
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“At it’s sugar!, the largest specialty sweets store in the world, visitors...”
– “Meadowlands Xanadu Unveils First Wave of Major Tenants, Consumer Brands and Entertainment Experiences,“ Business Wire (October 2004)
It just gets better and better, the more I read about it.
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“Visitors to the Entertainment District also will have a ‘bigger than...”
– “Meadowlands Xanadu Unveils First Wave of Major Tenants, Consumer Brands and Entertainment Experiences,“ Business Wire (October 2004)
It’s really the last bit that kills me.
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“In epistemology it can too often seem as if a concern with truth and rationality...”
– Miranda Fricker, “Rational Authority and Social Power: Towards a Truly Social Epistemology”
(reprinted in Social Epistemology: Essential Readings, p. 55)
This is a good paper.
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“The process starts with the Borough of East Rutherford selling bonds and using...”
– “The Confusing Financing Plan That Could Revive the Former Xanadu,” ParamusPatch
This strikes me as more than slightly absurd.
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January 2012
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bbcity replied to your quote: As this last contrast makes clear, however,…
so what? underdetermination is a problem and i don’t cherry pick theories that suit my political agenda for their own sake.
You may not, but Wolff and Resnick gleefully do so in support of their horrifically vague account of ‘overdetermination.’ They even excuse themselves for it by endorsing a form...
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“As this last contrast makes clear, however, recognizing the limitations of...”
– Kyle Stanford, “Underdetermination of Scientific Theory,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
If you claim that ordinary scientific theories are radically underdetermined by the available evidence as a premise, then you have to accept the conclusion that your politicized accounts of...
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“Nevertheless, the topic of truth-relativism is important. We want to know- it’s...”
– Jason Stanley, “Philosophical Progress and Intellectual Culture,” A Symposium on Philosophical Progress (via andrewfm)
I’m reblogging this because the latter half of the quotation is precisely what’s going on in a graduate geography seminar I’m taking.
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hollovv:
That’s funny, I frequently read post-structuralism and I would quickly identify as a scientific realist.
To be sure, you can do it. I’m in a seminar where we address post-structuralist approaches to the economy, and I also am very much a realist. I agree with the spirit that informs the enterprise: namely, that the economy is something that is produced, not something...
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“There are several disquieting things about all these attacks on realism. The...”
– John Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, p. 158
(via newleft)
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Why Twitter’s new policy is helpful for... →
lukesimcoe:
A little counterpoint to the ZOMG! TWITTER IS CENSORING STUFF! hysteria today.
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“It is by no means certain that the application of deconstructivist literary...”
– Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, p. 30
This book is making me roll my eyes a lot, but it has some interesting observations as well. This point, in particular, can be extended to a wide variety of other academic fields.
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Gary Hall - Withdrawal of labour from publishers... →
20yardsoflinen:
Media theorist Gary Hall withdraws his labour from presses supporting the Research Works Act.
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WatchPost-Minimalist Percussion in Aisle 12: Michael Gordon’s Timber
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Politics
interruptions:
so-meta:
The more money you cut to poor and young people, apparently the “smarter” your government automatically becomes!
The more draconian and brutal the cuts, the more “serious” the politician proposing them.
The more money you give to rich people, the more “prosperous” your country becomes.
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Food52: Baked Eggs with Mushrooms, Leeks,... →
Dinner tonight.
“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)
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becoming-wave asked: First of all, I suspect it's even more foolish to judge a person's position based on a short quote found on an animated gif. Also, why do you imagine she's not including Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia? I doubt she was refering to the United States alone, or any single event. No, I suspect she had a more long-view historical perspective than that. There are nuanced and well argued...
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Nice Guys™
bbcity:hollovv:bbcity:
Have you ever liked someone and then been nice to her?
Have you ever been interested in someone for reasons not circumscribed within how ~physically attractive~ she is?
Have you ever hung out with someone and tried to get to know her?
I guess we should congratulate you for not acting like a complete douchebag?
But perhaps (just maybe) you should de-convince yourself...
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“Libertarianism becomes self-defeating as soon as it recognises the existence of...”
– George Monbiot - ‘Why libertarians must deny climate change, in one short take’ (via guardian)
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