Percy’s progress
Bill Binnings has nearly finished the textured clay statue of his friend Walker Percy. I remember one man who hitchhiked all the way from California to meet Walker Bill Binningsphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker Percy
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The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
Soon to be released. Co-produced by Scott Wenzel and Ricky Riccardi. Liner notes by Ricky Riccardi. JazzLouis ArmstrongmusicRicky Riccardi
Bone marrow
Yummy! A new spin on an old favorite. Watch the short video for the surprise finish. bone marrowfoodnew orleansToups Meatery
Diamond Dogs @ 40
One of the more thoughtful assessments of an album that met with almost universal derision in 1974 both in terms of the presentation (pipping the Stones’ Guy Peellaert cover for “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll” to the post) and the “raw” sound. Though I concede it’s not one of Bowie’s best, Diamond Dogs retains a…
Walker Percy — born on this day
IMHO the greatest post-war writer in English and no slouch at philosophy either, each uniquely fused together. Without any doubt I’d put him up there with Kafka, Mann and Musil. The best (most elegant and most informed) biography of Percy is by the very excellent Patrick Samway, S. J. Samway also by the way was…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 61
Lana studied Jones’ face, but his eyes were invisible behind the smoke and dark glasses. “The only thing you ever be givin the orphan is siphlus. Whoa! Do gimme no shit about no mutherfuckin record player. As soon as I crack open this orphan case, I calling a po-lice myself. I sick and tire of…
Classic Zappa Interview
Zappa ever honest, insightful and articulate makes the interviewer somewhat uncomfortable. One rarely hears Zappa on radio — an appalling neglect but then Zappa doesn’t meet the corporatized taste that still prevails, not to mention that he of course is so-called “political correctness’” bete noir. musicmusic businesszappa
General theory of stigmergy: Modelling stigma semantics
New “review” paper in CSR. Artificial intelligenceComplex adaptive systemcomplexitycomputational intelligencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEmergenceExtended MindExternalismmulti-agent modelingrationalismSelf-organizationsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySpontaneous orderstigmergic epistemologyStigmergySwarm behaviorSwarm intelligence
COSMOS + TAXIS Archives
With the cessation of operations for the journal Studies in Emergent Order C+T have agreed to host and make available SIEO’s full back catalogue of papers comprising a Who’s Who of Austrians and their sympathizers. Austrian Schoolcomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEconomicsEmbodied cognitionFriedrich HayekPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySocial SciencesSpontaneous order
Optical illusion
From time to time I have posted some excellent optical illusions — this one is particularly good — and no lysergic acid diethylamide involved :) Cognitionoptical illusions
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