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December 5th, 2010 | Filed under: News, Philosophyne, The Written World 
There’s a cottage industry that seems to grow with every new generation of scholars with the capture, tagging and release of canonical texts. From the first hermeneutics to narratology to New Historicism to the great unknown of Google Scholar and its agenda, there’s an insistent sour desire to make the “outputs” of interpreters determinate. There’s an insistent faith that as each new strata of complexity is identified as texts are burrowed into, the goods scholars produce will yield an ordered surplus to make the work of the next generation easier. Or more realistically, to render it impossible, since what’s at faith is the goal to standardize meaning in a text.
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November 25th, 2010 | Filed under: PersonalThis will be the first American Thanksgiving my family celebrates. Although having lived in the US now for four years, 2010 will be the first year we attempt to formally celebrate whatever it is we are meant to commemorate. In an ongoing series of missives with my friend the author Paul Marlowe, I thought I’d share my thoughts on the holiday.
November 19th, 2010 | Filed under: News, Philosophyne 
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the The Black Swan, former options trader, and someone who may end up this generation’s Dr.Johnson, if only for his ability to virulently and consistently upend the disingenuous, has a new book of aphorisms I’m keen to examine: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms. Taleb is often credited with the common sense warning of not trusting narrative complexity or naively believing in determinateness. He sometimes seems a buoyant Cassandra, with the training and the articulation of someone who knows how financial analysis and trading is really done; namely, by instinct and public choice. Here he is on the Economist speaking a little more fluidly on “anti-fragility” and later on Bloomberg TV is full defiance.
November 10th, 2010 | Filed under: Everyday, Games, NewsIt may be that we’re living at the start of a new phenomena where the wealth of a modern State is dependent upon the amount of irony it has on hand. Having a surplus of cheaters may dictate the amount of real competitiveness a country can rely upon. It’s maybe the ludic-logical extension of mercantilism.
May 26th, 2010 | Filed under: NewsImagine for a second if you found one day several photos of your family misaligned on your bureau or in an album. Now imagine further if these shadow changes were small ‘clicks of sound of quick recordings of your phone calls. Someone has been rifling through your belongings, your memories and private exchanges. Unsurprisingly, last week it was revealed Google had done much of the same through a series of war-driving exercises as it drove-by on its Street View services of world cities. As its cars would pass, Google would “sniff” the local unsecured wireless LAN’s of people and capture brief copies of their transactions.
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