Remembering Marc Bolan who died on this day not far from where I used to live in SW London. I think that though Bolan was highly respected by other major artists of the day (Bowie for one) Bolan never was able to escape the teen idol yoke. Here is a recent news item: Mystery of Marc…
Here is a rather obscure and confused invocation of stigmergy. Our habits, the way we present ourselves to others and the persona we have created, our social context – all these things constrain us, limit our capacity for change, and drag the “old” us into any attempt to start afresh. Kol Nidre annuls those vows…
Jazz As A Liberal Arts Education Liebman more directly argues that a jazz education, though unlikely to result in a full-time performance career, provides exposure to a lot more than technical knowledge. “Playing jazz combines several qualities: instinct, honesty, confidence, experience, trust, imagination and a positive attitude . . . From Why Jazz Education? david…
Having trailed the chapters comprising section II of the Companion I now present my co-editor’s piece. Michael Oakeshott’s writings on education form one of the most attractive aspects of his philosophy and have duly garnered considerable attention. They evoke an ideal of liberal learning for its own sake, freed from the narrowing necessities of practical…
Coming soon – a must have for any “Pops” fan. This release has been co-produced and with liner notes by none other than the author of the terrific biography What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. Bravo Ricky! JazzLouis Armstrongnew orleansRicky RiccardiSatchmoWhat a Wonderful World
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Martyn Thompson’s contribution to the Companion: My concern is twofold. First, I shall outline what I take Oakeshott to have meant by the phrase “the history of political thought” and then I shall consider some criticisms from Oakeshott’s perspective of the theory and practice of Quentin Skinner, the leading figure in the so-called Cambridge School…
Now why didn’t I think of this as the premise to a documentary? So, I’ll do it without the cameras around. Up to 722 stops already and as the Rev. Ray Cannata says in the video “Life flows from the table. NOLA is both heaven and hell – the former something to enjoy, the latter something to…
This from The Economist and again here: In the past year, the spirits of Keynes and Hayek have done battle for the minds of China’s policymakers. This month Andrew Batson of GK Dragonomics, a research consultancy in Beijing, argued that Hayek seems to be winning. Austrian Schooldistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionFriedrich Hayekphilosophical psychologysocial epistemologySpontaneous order
The new companion has landed in my mailbox. A fine production and my congrat to you and Paul for your efforts in bringing it to press. In an earlier message, you said there would be some surprises here, or words to that effect. Wow! What a stunner from Robert Grant! I think most of us…
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