February 2012
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Track selection from 020712 on @cyberpunkradio:
Tomohiko Sagae – Assembly Line Tomohiko Sagae – Cold Chamber Tomohiko Sagae – Rebar Cutter Tomohiko Sagae – Sodium Cyanide Silicon Scally – Downtime The Exaltics – Irresistible Casual Violence – Dilute To Taste Lift Syndrome – 13 Makaton – Cold Reception Makaton – Lesion Mode 2 Versalife – Night Time in the Computer Labs Robert Hood -...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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“These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality. This is true in every order, even in science, in spite of science being of its nature an escape from life. (The majority of men of...
April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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“Where is the mass medium? Is it the newspaper advertisement, is it the TV...”
– Umberto Eco, “The Multiplication of the Media,” 1983
Unexpected but speculatively apt prologue to come across while reading papers. From Das, S. News Analytics: Framework, Techniques and Metrics, a preprint dated March 4 2010. (pdf: source)
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XHAL[1] checked its atomic clock. A few more hours and October 19, 2087 would be over — its vigil completed, it would indulge in some much-needed downtime, the anniversary of that fateful day...
January 2011
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POUR COMPTE
Dans l’Arabie des trois midis Des...
“The original project was not to “reveal” preferences; the original...”
– Wade Hands, D., 2004. On Operationalisms and Economics. Journal of Economic Issues. 38, 953-968. (alt. source)
Iterative Discourse and The Formation of New... →
December 2010
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“McLuhan himself, the spectacle’s first apologist, who had seemed to be the...”
– Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, 1988, Chapter XII. (source)
“But to speak more seriously, I need not tell you that the world situation is...”
– Secretary of State George Marshall’s address, the “Marshall Plan” speech, to the graduating class of Harvard University on June 5, 1947.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
November 2010
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A facet of reading that one might be ill-advised...
Mind you this is very partial and does not include many journal articles despite several of the titles coming from Springerlink. Specifically missing from the list are several issues of interest from Institutional Investor’s journals. The list also is geared in a fairly specific direction but I assure you only represents a single facet.
I drum my fingers and debate.
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The ...
October 2010
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Seeking Confirming Opinions Rather Than...
(via CXO Advisory back in June. Tend not to update any finance-related information here, but the vantage to bias is broadly worth noting.)
Is participation in stock message boards/forums a net plus or net minus for the typical investor? In their July 2010 paper entitled “Confirmation Bias, Overconfidence, and Investment Performance: Evidence from Stock Message Boards”, JaeHong Park, Prabhudev...
The Arc of Our Destruction: Reversal and Erasure... →
Driven entrepreneurs are not good guys
Mitch Kapor pointed to this at his blog:
Joe Nocera nails it here. [NYT]
“Yet where is it written that driven entrepreneurs are also good guys? More often than not, they’re anything but. As a human being, Steve Jobs is the very definition of the word “jerk;” yet he’s also the greatest chief executive alive. The young Bill Gates could be obnoxious in the extreme. At the age of 24, Marc...
September 2010
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Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism:... →
This would be much better, indeed incredibly important to understand, but such things aren’t worn on the sleeve for their own sake. Max Weber’s “Iron Cage” along with Social Institutionalism are important concepts in this context.
This is in reference to a nuanced reaction to the Less Wrong blog article on “Intellectual hipsters and meta-contrarianism”. Nothing...
“One is so often misled into thinking that because a man or a woman has embarked...”
– Kaikhosru Sorabji, Mi Contra Fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musican, 1947.
Nomadography: the 'early' Deleuze and the history...
Deleuze insists that empiricism not be confused with a theory of knowledge. Historians of philosophy tend to identify empiricism as the philosophical mode by which knowledge in the form of ideas is obtained through sensuous experience. But Deleuze argues that this epistemological view misses the point. Empiricism is, above all, a practical philosophy, in which questions of knowledge and truth...
Cybernetics as Nomad Science
Cybernetics as Nomad Science (Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology) (pdf)
Instincts confirmed, somewhat, though it veers to telling a history. My categorization would include a longer list of children fields including complexity, systems, networks. Essentially that which is utterly relevant and necessary toward broader social, scientific advancement, yet is only now finding...
August 2010
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July 2010
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Cognitive Complexity
Above is Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan’s framework of Cognitive Complexity. Background/context/subject of consciousness becomes foreground/content/object at each developmental stage.
Context of query was on global talent shortage and thought that a curiosity shortage precedes and must be recognized as such. Cognitive complexity is an immensely important trait and one which I feel...
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“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of...”
– Alexis de Toqueville
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Agnotology
C-theory has some new articles under Theory Beyond The Codes. Michael Betancourt’s Immaterial Value and Scarcity in Digital Capitalism (link) describes financialization through the notion of semiotic capitalism. Find myself a bit skeptical overall of the argument, but I certainly enjoyed the term agnotologic capitalism and the section “Agnotology and Affectivity”:
While digital...
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June 2010
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“It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the...”
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Chapter III
May 2010
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April 2010
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“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind – mass merchandising,...”
– J.G. Ballard, ”Introduction” to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973)
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