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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 45
“Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!” Ignatius screamed savagely (p. 122). “Oh, shut up your little pussymouth, you mongoloid” (p. 123). “A little job in a office and you can’t hold it down. With all your education.” “I was hated and resented,” Ignatius said, casting a hurt expression at the brown walls of…
Bad Decision Bars
This bit of froth I actually found amusing. It is wryly written, it is about New Orleans and alcohol — oops the latter two are of course at one — and most of all, it is true. I think that were I a student at any of the terrific universities in New Orleans, I wouldn’t…
Political Studies Review of Oakeshott Companion
Here is a very warm review of Paul and my Companion. A Companion to Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh (eds). Pennsylvania PA: Penn State Press, 2012. 346pp., £52.95, ISBN 978 0 271 05407 0 The publication of this Companion by Penn State Press is proof of the increasing recognition of Oakeshott’s philosophical…
COSMOS + TAXIS 1:2
Coming Soon: C+T 1.2 Frederick Turner — “Quality, quantity, granularity, and thresholds of emergence” Stefano Moroni — “Two different theories of two distinct spontaneous phenomena: orders of actions and evolution of institutions in Hayek” Chor-yung Cheung — “Hayek on Nomocracy and Teleocracy: a critical assessment” Lauren K. Hall — “Guiding the invisible hand: spontaneous orders…
Politics in a poetic key
This from ABC (Australia) from a few years back — audio and transcript — featuring two chaps who made it over to London for MOA 2001. The fresh Oakeshott images below by Brian John Spencer. a companion to michael oakeshottBrian John Spencerian tragenzaMichael Oakeshottpeter colemanPolitical philosophy
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 44
He dramatically whipped from his pelvis the sheet, flapping it open. Among the yellow stains the word FORWARD was printed in high block letters in red crayon. Below this Crusade for Moorish Dignity was written in an intricate blue script. “Sheet? What sheet!” Ignatius replied. “I am holding before you the proudest of banners, an…
New Editor for EPISTEME
Jennifer Lackey assumes the editorship of EPISTEME. Here is an interview with Jennifer. Here also is the programme for the recent 10th anniversary conference. collective beliefcollective intentionalitycollective knowledgeEPISTEMEEpistemologyjennifer lackeysocial epistemologytestimony
Dinner Lab
Now this is my idea of being a social activist and in the long term I’d imagine a whole lot more authentic and thus more effective. dinner labdistributed knowledgefoodnew orleanssocial activismSpontaneous order
The Global Brain
Here’s a paper by David Weinbaum that invokes stigmergy, my first mention of stigmergy and the global brain this year. Cognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended Mindglobal brainNetwork Sciencenetwork theoryPhilosophy of mindSpontaneous orderStigmergy
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