Prof of Sociology, @warwickuni. Founder of Social Epistemology and Author of Humanity 2.0 and Post Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game
University of Warwick
Joined July 2011
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My new book is 'Media and the Power of Knowledge'. It is partly based on lectures I've given over the last 15 years. It updates McLuhan for the age of @X: futurespodcast.net/events/me…
I don't see the point of ridiculing something like this, but it's worth watching just to see how an entire epistemic landscape can change overnight. Gestalt switches happen in real time. That's why it's called 'flipping'.
While I don't buy everything @BretWeinstein says, his ability to manage shifting frames of reference in an argument is impressively post-truth. It's the sound of abstract logic playing itself out.
This clip with @TuckerCarlson is from March. It’s hard for me not to look at the midterm results with this hypothesis in mind.
This is the profile of someone you start laughing out loud about, once they're no longer in the room.
I suppose @NewLeftReview is nowadays leftist legacy media?
NLR 161 is out now.
Featuring Jacob Collins on economic nationalism; Sophia Goodfriend on Israeli politics; John Dunn and Wolfgang Streeck on democracy; Emilie Bickerton on Tarkovsky; and the second part of Carlo Ginzburg’s correspondence with Perry Anderson, plus book reviews…
newleftreview.org/?page
However these rankings are done, the US presidents thirty years on either side of Lincoln come out looking bad.
I've been told that I can make any crazy idea sound sensible. I take that as a compliment. It's a bit like being able to see the adult in the child. Maybe, it's an old Jesuit trick, but it ultimately goes back to Plato's Meno.
The problem with writing philosophy with the 'surface clarity' of a John Searle is that it gives you a false sense of knowing what you're talking about. It's more frustrating to read than the convoluted prose of a 'continental' philosopher, where friction is part of the message.
Underrated book.
Having only discovered the work of Tainter recently, I’ve decided to compare his approach to historical analysis along with the thinkers I am more sympathetic to (namely philosophers such as Ibn Khaldun, Hegel, Carlyle, Spengler, and Gebser.)
youtu.be/JsT9V3WQiNA?is=Jmr8…
The only 'existential threat' worthy of Existentialists is the threat that you -- not someone or something else -- might pose.
If you want reparations, you better enforce them after the harm has happened, and the harmers and harmed can properly face each other. That's why the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission worked.
He's right in all he says, and I agree with the policy. But what he suggests -- if it passes -- would be a kind of finishing the job of imperialism. Again, no problem!
Philosophy started as a way of spending your leisure, but has ended up as a way of slumming it at the meta-level of work.
If you ever doubted the value of an Oxbridge degree, it's demonstrated here (Jimmy Carr is a Cambridge graduate).
When you see all these longitudinal and statistical presentations designed to trigger your response, treat them as public service announcements that you live in the #PostTruth condition.
'Belonging' is just a politically correct way of talking about 'status quo', except the former is more exclusive in intent.
