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shrinkrants: GREGORY BATESON “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step…
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Cloudy Logic
Cloudy Logic To Read against the Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the moment higher ed died in the US. The LA Times is also cited: thenewinquiry: By Robin James Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes. While Theodor Adorno was exiled in Los Angeles, he…
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emergentfutures: Travelling through blood: science fiction comes to life scientists from IISc Bangalore have succeeded, for the very first time, to steer artificial nanostructures through undiluted human blood. Dubbed “nano voyagers” these tiny swimmers could open the doors to a fascinating range of biomedical applications from targeted drug delivery to microsurgery. Full Story: Scilogs
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The collusion between philosophy and the State was most explicitly enacted in the first decade of the nineteenth century with the foundation of the University of Berlin, which was to become the model of higher learning throughout Europe and in the United States. The goal laid out for it by Wilhelm von Humboldt (based on…
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hyperallergic: On Friday, January 23, some of the most progressive thinkers about the financial realities facing artists will convene in the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to explore a topic largely ignored in the art world: the artist as debtor. Organized by artists Noah Fischer and Coco Fusco, the one-day gathering will bring together people like Andrew Ross, the…
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npr: skunkbear: The top image is a photograph of a lush rainforest canopy. The bottom image colors each tree based on its species. How? It’s all thanks to a special lab built by ecologist Greg Asner inside a twin-turboprop airplane. From a few thousand feet up, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory uses lasers, spectrometers and other instruments…