The very excellent scathe merchant Justin Shubow in Forbes. Betsky explicitly said that context was appropriately irrelevant to the design. It was clear that for Betsky and Kroloff, the anonymous globalized starchitecture that is all the rage in Dubai, Davos, and Shanghai equally belongs in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. If the architects had their…
A new paper from the very excellent David Corey. Abstract Michael Oakeshott’s critique of ‘political rationalism’ is often regarded as a unique contribution to the study of 20th-century ‘ideologies.’ But, in fact, Oakeshott understood rationalism and ideology as distinct phenomena. This article exposes the essence of each in Oakeshott’s writings, analyses their complex relationship and…
H/T to Sanford Ikeda (click image for podcast). Sandy (with Gene Callahan) has written on this topic for C+T (issue 1:3): “Jane Jacobs’ Critique of Rationalism in Urban Planning”. Austrian Economicscitiescosmos & taxisEconomicseconomics detectiveemergent orderGene CallahanJane JacobsPierre DesrochersrationalismSanford IkedaSpontaneous order
Elizabeth Corey’s recent discussion in Academic Questions. An extract below: Oakeshott’s Critique In his most famous essay, “Rationalism in Politics,” published in a book of the same name, Oakeshott calls the American Founding a “Rationalist” project. In Oakeshott’s lexicon, Rationalism is not something to be praised but a pathological condition, a cast of mind exhibited by…
Check out the latest (and last) raft of papers from the soon to be defunct SIEO now hosted under auspices of C+T: Symposium on Luigino Bruni’s The Genesis and Ethos of the Market Symposium on Gary Chartier’s Anarchy and Legal Order Symposium on Deborah Stevenson’s The City Austrian Economicscomplexitycosmos & taxisplanningrationalismsocial epistemology
My chum and editor of C+T has just had this book published. I learnt much from his companion volume of a few years ago. citiescities and private planningdavid emanuel anderssonplanningrationalismspontaneous orders
Here’s a follow-up to the last post, this featuring a debate between Dawkins and Lennox. dawkinsGodgod delusionlennoxphilosophy of religionrationalismReligionscience and religion
Issue 1:3 now available. complexitycosmos & taxisFriedrich HayekMichael Oakeshottphilosophy of social sciencerationalism
New “review” paper in CSR. Artificial intelligenceComplex adaptive systemcomplexitycomputational intelligencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEmergenceExtended MindExternalismmulti-agent modelingrationalismSelf-organizationsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySpontaneous orderstigmergic epistemologyStigmergySwarm behaviorSwarm intelligence
Here’s a film that I chanced upon (I haven’t seen it yet). Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, or, might they still be around, in the form of modern day masters,…
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