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September 17, 2019music

Ken Burns’ Country Music

Looking forward to this new offing from Ken Burns — and its Hank Williams’ birthday. country and westernhank williamsken burnsroots music

September 14, 2019adam smith

What My Dog Can Do: On the Effect of The Wealth of Nations I.ii.2

In the midst of one of the most famous passages in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes “nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog” (WN I.ii.2). In and of itself, this is probably not a noteworthy sentence, but it has always rubbed…

September 12, 2019michael oakeshott

Michael Oakeshott Association: Lisbon Final Programme

Hosted by Institute for Political Studies – Universidade Católica Portuguesa classical liberalismConservatismMichael OakeshottPhilosophyPoetry

September 11, 2019stigmergy

Cognitive stigmergy: A study of emergence in small-group social networks

Given the significance of today’s date, I thought I’d repost details of a collaborator of mine’s paper in Cognitive Systems Research. 9/11Emergencehuman-human stigmergyNetwork topologySelf-organizationSimulationsituated cognitionSmall worldSocial networkSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergyTed Lewis

September 10, 2019new orleans

New Orleans: A Literary History

This could be interesting since it includes Cory MacLauchlin’s “A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy Of Dunces.“ a confederacy of duncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literatureT.R. Johnson