An emotional highlight of the 2013 Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans as legendary record producer George Avakian was interviewed by Louis Armstrong historians Ricky Riccardi and David Ostwald about a 9-CD boxed set of live recordings of Armstrong that Avakian produced in the 1950s. Towards the end of the interview, the 94-year-old Avakian listens to audio of a conversation he had with Armstrong in 1956, resulting in a beautiful moment and a record-length standing ovation for the Satchmo Summerfest.
Mardi Gras
Some photos of the main parade.
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 51
“The sisters loved Ignatius. He was such a darling child. He used to win all them little holy pictures for knowing his catechism.”
“Them sisters shoulda knocked his head in.”
“When he useta come home with all them little holy pictures,” Mrs. Reilly sniffed, “I sure never thought then he’d end up selling weenies in the broad daylight.” Mrs. Reilly coughed nervously and violently into the telephone. “But tell me. sweetheart, how Angelo’s making out?”
“His wife Rita rings me up a little while ago to tell me she thinks he”s coming down with pneumonia from being stuck in that toilet all the time. I tell you true, Irene, that Angelo’s getting as pale was a ghost. The cops sure don’t treat that boy right. He loves the force. When he graduated from the cops’ academy, you woulda thought he just made it outta the Ivory League. He was sure proud.”
“Yeah, poor Angelo looks bad,” Mrs. Reilly agreed. “He’s got him a bad cough, that boy. Well, maybe he’ll feel a little better after he reads that thing Ignatius gave me to give him. Ignatius says it’s inspirational literature.”
“Yeah? I wouldn’t trust no ‘inspirational literature’ I got from that Ignatius. It’s prolly fulla dirty stories.” (p. 150).
David Chalmers and Andy Clark Interview
This from the New Philosopher.
Andy’s colleagues at Edinburgh in the epistemology department proposed the extended knowledge project, where you start thinking of knowledge as this extended process that involves interaction with the environment.
I’ve been calling it stigmergic epistemology.
Why Study Philosophy?
This from The Atlantic.
What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks
This from The New Yorker.
Extended cognition: New philosophical perspectives
Here’s a special issue of Philosophical Psychology that features some top-notch names that includes Ed Hutchins, Rob Wilson and Sven Walter.
The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 5
He was unaffected by the singularities of time and place. His abode was anywhere. It was all the same to him whether he catheterized a pig at four o’clock in the afternoon in New Orleans or at midnight in Transylvania. . . . Yet I do not envy him. I would not change places with him if he discovered the cause and cure of cancer. For he is no more aware of the mystery which surrounds him than a fish is aware of the water it swims in (p. 52).
The Philosophy of Robert Musil
Here is the long awaited lineup for Bence Nanay’s issue for The Monist (97:1 Jan 2014).
Bence Nanay
The Dethroning of Ideocracy: Robert Musil as a Philosopher
Robert Musil was not a professional philosopher. He was a novelist— and according to the widely accepted canon, his contribution to the twentieth-century novel is only matched by very few. Why then should there be a special issue on him in The Monist? The reason is that Musil was a philosopher—just a different kind of philosopher. He was trained in philosophy (he wrote his Ph.D. on Ernst Mach) and gave up a promising career in academia, turning down a job offer in Meinong’s department because he thought it better to express his philosophical ideas by means of writing novels.
Philip Kitcher
The Youth Without Qualities
Achille C. Varzi
Musil’s Imaginary Bridge
Sabine Döring
What Is an Emotion? Musil’s Adverbial Theory
Kevin Mulligan
Foolishness, Stupidity, and Cognitive Values
Barbara Sattler
Contingency and Necessity: Human Agency in Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
Catrin Misselhorn
Musil’s Metaphilosophical View: Between Philosophical Naturalism and Philosophy as Literature
Philippe Mach
Ethics and Aesthetics: Reuniting the Siamese Twins
Catherine Wilson
Mach, Musil, and Modernism
Tamás Demeter
Mental Fictionalism: The Very Idea
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Here’s a just published book on Pops.
