Coming soon — check out the trailer and documentary’s website for details. Also Cosmos + Taxis has a special themed issue dedicated to Jane Jacobs’ work soon to be published, edited by Sanford Ikeda and featuring some of the leading theorists in the field. distributed knowledgeJane JacobsSanford IkedaSpontaneous orderurban planning
THERE IS NO FASHION so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer. E.g., bustles in the West, bound feet in the East. 00000 The efficacy of fashion turns on the self’s perception of itself either…
My correspondent, the very excellent Aaron Mishara, has just alerted me to his latest freely available coauthored paper in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. For those familiar with Andy Clark’s “Whatever next? predictive brains, situated agents and the future of cognitive science” and Shaun Gallagher’s “Neurocognitive models of schizophrenia: a neurophenomenological critique” — this article should be…
I own enough square footage (albeit not contiguously) of Laphroaig to build a decent sized detached house on. Last night I tried Lore for the first time and my default scepticism was immediately and absolutely blown away. This was possibly the greatest all round Islay I’ve ever had. If I were to offer an analogy…
The very underrated Matt Monro (Terry Parsons, Fred Flange) always gives respite from the unrelenting dissonance of the day. I know this is controversial but I’ve always thought that he was far more interesting than Sinatra, Como, Williams and the like (and to their credit they pretty much acknowledged this). For my money Nat King Cole was…
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The painter whom the establishment loves to hate and no doubt so do a whole raft of pearl clutching regressives. aestheticseroticFilm noirJack Vettrianopainting
Latest issue now available. complexitycosmos+taxisFriedrich HayekLiberalismspontaneous orders
This popular book is garnering some very warm reviews — The Economist — NYT — NPR chat with author Alan Burdick alan burdickaugustineJohn M. E. McTaggartmetaphysicsMichael Dummettphilosophy of timePsychologysciencetime
Question: Is amnesia a favorite device in fiction and especially soap operas because (a) The character in the soap opera is sick and tired of himself and his life and wants a change. (b) The writer is sick and tired of his character and wants a change. (c) The writer is sick and tired of…
