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Dead Sea Tapes
Chuffed to come across this recently broadcast (previously blocked) programme. Among the featured gems are The Dead Sea Tapes, Peter’s views on religion, his taste in reading and much more besides. I have a chum who used to live around the corner from Perrin’s Walk in Ellerdale Road, near the convent (or was it a girls school) mentioned in…
Lo and Behold
Not Herzog’s best but certainly, as one would still expect, an insightful and elegant take highlighting some of the most disturbing and techno-ebullient aspects of this technology, a technology that surely marks the cultural tipping point, ushering in the global shit storm that we are now in. The section on AI is fascinating: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? You know we…
47th Greasing of the Poles
One of my favourite NOLA traditions is this one because it is sure to piss off the humourless authoritarian cultural Marxists, forever doomed to piss in the wind. Read about it. purple for justice, green for faith and gold for power greasing of the polesMardi Grasnew orleans
Preservation Hall Jazz Band New Album
As reported in OffBeat. cuban musicJazznew orleansPreservation Hall Jazz Band
Jazz and Philosophy Intermodal Conference
This event was brought to my attention by Martin Rosenberg, one of conference speakers and a contributor to the forthcoming themed C+T issue on jazz. Here is the conference website. JazzJazz Improvisationmusicphilosophy of musicSpontaneous order
Ernie K-Doe
The birthday of one of New Orleans’ great characters. Read all about Ernie here. Antoinette also led a tongue-in-cheek campaign for K-Doe’s election for mayor of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans in 2006, five years after his death. She is quoted as saying, “He’s the only one qualified—that’s my opinion.” Ben SandmelErnie K-Doemother-in-law loungenew orleanssoul music
Kenneth Arrow
A giant in social choice theory — the true heir to Condorcet. The NYT obituary. collective intentionalityCondorcetEconomicskenneth arrowsocial choice theorytransitivityvoting paradoxes
Walker Percy Wednesday 124
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second’s glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century…
Models of Environment: Full Draft
Marcin Miłkowski has made available a full draft of his chapter from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Bounded RationalitycomplexityExtended MindHerbert SimonMarcin Miłkowskisituated cognition
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