Media Distribution & Disruptive Technologies
One of the most insightful industry commentators talks about the Popcorn “bomb” and the company I’m involved with — mediAm. digital distributionmediAmmonopoliespopcorn timetom locke
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“Everyone has an anthropology,” wrote Walker Percy
“Everyone has an anthropology,” wrote Walker Percy, right on the money as usual. “There is no not having one. If a man says he does not, all he is saying is that his anthropology is implicit, a set of assumptions which he has not thought to call into question.” James Parker, The Twee Revolution, The…
F. A. Hayek’s The Sensory Order: An Evolutionary Perspective?
A new paper by Jack Birner CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceFriedrich Hayekjack burnerphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindthe sensory order
Alban Berg documentary
Good find — H/T Edmund Neill Below, my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces of music (To the Memory of an Angel) alban bergcolin davisgidon kremermusicTo the Memory of an Angeltwelve tone
Happy Birthday Satchmo
JazzLouis Armstrongmusicnew orleanspopsSatchmo
Lionel Ferbos’ Funeral
A snippet from yesterday’s funeral. JazzLionel Ferbosnew orleanssecond line
A Question of Madness
My favorite of Shannon’s short stories, probably because it has some philosophical issues nicely woven in. Percy, of course, deployed “what if” devices in his novels and non-fiction: One can’t read of that [Civil] War without playing the fascinating game of what-if . . . What if Jackson had lived through Chancellorsville? What if McClellan had…
Conventionalism, coordination, and mental models: from Poincaré to Simon
Feely available as HTML version Bounded Rationalityconventionscoordination problemdavid lewisdecision processHerbert Simonmental modelssocial identificationvalue system
New Herzog collection
Just released. An extravagance, I know, but if you don’t already have the DVDs this might be the way to go. cinemafilmphilosophical cinemaWerner Herzog
EPISTEME 11: 3
Now available EPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
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