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Carlin’s point leans on one made by the British science historian James Burke in his TV series Connections.
for - adjacency - Dan Carlin - James Burke - Connections
adjacency - between - Dan Carlin - James Burke - Connections - progress - adjacency statement - What an interesting adjacency! - James Burke's Connection has been a major influence on my own thinking on progress and progress traps - Seeing it influence Dan Carlin as well
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- Mar 2024
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Burke, Colin B. Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss. History and Foundations of Information Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262027021/information-and-intrigue/
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- Sep 2023
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kairos.technorhetoric.net kairos.technorhetoric.net
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Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance.
—Kenneth Burke. The Philosophy of Literary Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.
via Doug Brent at https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/2.1/features/brent/burke.htm
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- Jul 2023
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The Thukdam Project Inside the first-ever scientific study of post-mortem meditation
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Die US-Umwelztbehörde EPA hat die Emissionsregeln deutlich verschärft. Wenn diese Regeln nicht politisch verwässert werden, könnten die USA damit in die Nähe der von der Biden-Regierung propagierten Klimaziele kommen, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/16/epa-climate-rules-climate-crisis
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Die britische Regierung streicht den höchsten diplomatischen Posten für Klimapolitik. Fachleute sind über diesen rückwärtsgewandten Schritt entsetzt. Der neue britische Energy Security Plan reicht nicht aus, um die Pariser Klimaziele zu erreichen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/13/uk-accused-of-backwards-step-for-axing-top-climate-diplomat-role
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- Jan 2023
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humansandnature.org humansandnature.org
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In our real world of corrupted, minimalist democracy, we privilege individual, special-interest thinking and ask citizens to do no more than express their private preferences. We confound opinion and knowledge and sometimes even seem to think that by denying expert science we honor “democratic” thinking (as if shared ignorance and democracy were the same thing). In this corrupted version of democracy, “now” trumps “later,” today takes precedence over tomorrow, and no one takes responsibility for that greater democracy about which Edmund Burke spoke—the democracy that encompasses not only the interests of the living, but the interests of those who are gone and those as yet unborn. Generational thinking can only be cultivated in a setting of prudent deliberation; contrarily, our short-term present-mindedness shrinks the temporal zone.
!- claim : we live in a corrupted and minimalist democracy with the consequence that we lack generational thinking - privilege individiual, special-interesting thinking - only ask citizens to express their private preferences - confound opinion and knowledge - we even deny expert science, believing it is tantamout to democratic thinking !- claim : within this minimalist, corrupted version of democracy, present thinking trumps future thinking - we do not apply generational thinking aka Edmund Burke - Burke's idea of generational thinking conceptualizes an ideal democracy that encompasses past, present and future generations - generational thinking requires a space of prudent deliberation rather than present-mind thinking only
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- Aug 2022
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www.popularmechanics.com www.popularmechanics.com
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Amherst College library described in Colin B. Burke's Information and Intrigue, organized books and cards based on author name. In both cases, the range of books on a shelf was random.
Information and Intrigue by Colin B. Burke
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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experimental intonation
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- Dec 2019
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frankensteinvariorum.github.io frankensteinvariorum.github.io
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wonderful and sublime
The sublime is a notion in aesthetic and literary theory of striking grandeur of thought and emotion. The most important English work on the sublime is Edmund Burke's Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement, which influenced nineteenth-century English thought.
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- Jan 2019
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ausal relationship
Is it true that post humanism takes issue with the cause and effect pattern? In the sense that these two things are separate entities? (Referring to Burke's belief that we are naturally divided from other people)
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Kenneth Burke
Another way he attempts to define rhetoric strikes my fancy: the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents."
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identification
can burke"s identification be seen as a rhetorical theory or concept and if so what is the difference?
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- Apr 2018
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explorecommonsense.com explorecommonsense.com
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was a British statesman, political thinker, and Parliamentary orator who was active in the major political issues occurring in Britain in 1785. He was part of the controversy between King George III and Parliament, who, he believed, were attempting to exert too much control over the executive. He argued that though the king's actions did not legally defy the constitution, they went against the constitution in spirit. Similarly, during the American imperial crisis, Burke argued that the British government's treatment of the colonies followed the letter of the law, but lacked consistency and respect for the colonies' claims.
As a Whig Parliamentarian, Burke supported Americans grievances against Great Britain, especially in the area of taxation. However, he criticized the French Revolution for being destructive to society.
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- Apr 2017
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networkculture.Everythingusesandisused,andthereisnoclearboundarybetweentheoneandtheother.
Re: my microresponse from 3/11 regarding Perelman, Burke, networks, community, and social fabric
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- Mar 2017
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a network [une grille]
Nice, I like the appearance of "network" here in this musing about "code", especially after our last class discussion about ambiguity ("code" is inherently ambiguous...) being entangled with itself, and ultimately supported by "spider webs" and "nets" and "molten masses" of various communications, à la Burke and Perelman.
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In brief, we have to guess them and we guess much better when we realize we are guess-ing, and watch out for indications, than when we think we know.7
Burke appears to believe the same; if you realize that what you're are doing is rhetorical, then your rhetoric will be good, or better.
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Good use is the general, present-day practice of the best writers." One bone we could pick would be with that "best." How are they the best writers except by using the words in the best ways? We settle that they are the best writers because we find them using their words successfully. We do not settle that theirs is the right, the "good usage" of the words because they use them so.
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mbiguity,
Makes sense to be free of ambiguity if choosing to find "true meaning" Unlike Burke who found happiness in all things ambiguous.
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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The orator has little use for an imaginative world three inches in diameter. His world must be twenty feet in diameter and must include every atom of his own
This talk about "diameter" reminds me of Burke's notions of "circumference."
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The conservative influence of property does not, however, depend on primogeniture or even inheritance -- features that gave property a valuable role in Burke's political system as well as in the political theories advanced by Hegel and Plato. n11 Within a single lifetime, property tends to make the property owner more risk-averse. This aversion applies both to public decisions [*291] affecting property, such as taxes, and to personal decisions that might diminish one's property, such as investment strategies and career choices. Inheritance and capital appreciation are only additional characteristics of traditional notions of property that tend to stabilize social stratification.
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In the eighteenth century, Edmund Burke argued that property stabilized society and prevented political and social turmoil that, he believed, would result from a purely meritocratic order. n8 Property served as a counterweight protecting the class of persons who possessed it against competition from nonpropertied people of natural ability and talent. To Burke, the French National Assembly -- dominated by upstart lawyers from the provinces -- exemplified the risk of disorder and inexperience of an unpropertied leadership. n9 In contrast, the British parliament, a proper mix of talented commoners and propertied Lords, ruled successfully.
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Intellectual property is far more egalitarian. Of limited duration and obtainable by anyone, intellectual property can be seen as a reward, an empowering instrument, for the talented upstarts Burke sought to restrain. Intellectual property is often the propertization of what we call "talent." It tends to shift the balance toward the talented newcomers whom Burke mistrusted
intellectual property is often the propertization of what we call talent.
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