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Archive for August, 2007
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Arnold Pouteau’s View Of NYC Is Much Better Than Yours
Arnold Pouteau woke up this week and he was like “you know what the problem is? I haven’t posted any really incredible photos of NYC to Flickr recently”. And when Arnold Pouteau sees a problem, Arnold Pouteau creates a solution: You can go right now and check out his photostream here. Or you can continue to [...] -
Open Knowledge Roundup – Gearing Up For Fall
We’re going to try to do these posts whenever (a) enough stuff piles up that we have to clean it out or (b) we find something that’s time critical (“this course on rhetoric is starting next week…”) The content will be a hodge-podge of relevant disciplinary stuff, stuff that’s designed to make us come off [...] -
Bacteria Seem To Be Doing A Lot Of Thinking These Days
Physics is sometimes taken as the “hard problem” for rhetoric of science – if you can find rhetoric in physics, which is ostensibly the least rhetorical of the sciences, then you can find it in the other sciences too. In that sense, bacteria might be the hard problem for scholars of cognition – if bacteria [...] -
Pre-Darwinian Empiricism Read Through Peirce
On one hand, we’re always nervous about the “science doesn’t work the way scientists think it works” narrative – it sounds too much like a setup for the inevitable “also, science is just another narrative” punchline, and is kind of trivial to everyone who’s not a scientist anyway. That said, the recent work on pre-Darwinian [...] -
Oh Hell No
Sigh: To paraphrase the immortal Tobias Zachary Ziegler: there is literally no one in the world that we do not hate right now. Previously: * What If The Lacanian Gaze Wasn’t Totally Stupid? * The Cute Yellow Thin Wedge Of The Coming Robot Wars * Rhetoric Not So Much With the Revolution Thing Permanent link to this post (54 words, 1 [...] -
![The Cute Yellow Thin Wedge Of The Coming Robot Wars [Video]](http://www.iconindexsymbol.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/20100529keepon_640-110x110.jpg "The Cute Yellow Thin Wedge Of The Coming Robot Wars [Video]")
The Cute Yellow Thin Wedge Of The Coming Robot Wars [Video]
We deeply covet this: Make sure you stick around till the very end for the most spectacular dance party ever. When they finally launch their attack, will we even want to oppose their cuteness? Incidentally, Spoon is reuniting with this insanely cool little thing on September 10th in LA for a Creative Commons fund raiser. Naturally tickets [...] -
Particle Physicists Do It Transparently Through The Rumor Mill (Plus: Promote NCA Open Bar Transparency!)
Jim Brown has a little blurb up over at The Blogora about a new Rhetoric and Composition Job Wiki. It’s MLA-centric instead of NCA-centric, but the idea is certainly right – give people a place to post where their schools are in the hiring process, from the initial job posting through offers/rejections until an offer [...] -
What If The Lacanian Gaze Wasn’t Totally Stupid?
If you’ve never seen Chris Marker’s La Jette, do it now. The entire thing is just under 30 minutes and we assure you that there is nothing you could possibly be doing that’s more important than sitting down and watching the sublime brilliance that is this film. Don’t put off watching it until you get [...] -
Disturbingly, Quantitative Analysis May Have Methodological Shortcomings – Blogosphere Edition
We’ve been reading some academic studies about the blogosphere and – deep breath – we think that quantitative analysis might have some problems getting at what’s really going on. The problem has to do with studies that use links to evaluate trust and communication – because, well you’ve got to count something, right? You could [...]
