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October 27, 2012

New Domain

After two years of mulling it over, I have decided that Reason & Existenz Blog should have a domain that reflects me as the author. I have had a special devotion to Karl Jaspers who was the teacher of my… Continue reading

September 25, 2012

Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers

Not one to advertise things for the iPad, but so many of my buddies are musicians who will find this of great interest. Continue reading

September 17, 2012

TechnoScience & the New Pedagogy

In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps… Continue reading

September 17, 2012

Using a Compass Now vs. an Outdated Map from Before

One of my good friends, Andrew Wicklander, runs his own project management group and software company. His wife, Maile, owns a yoga studio. They are both the sort of “job-creators” touted as crucial to the success of America. Andrew says… Continue reading

September 16, 2012

How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans – NYTimes.com

Neil Heffernan was listening to his fiancée, Cristina Lindquist, tutor one of her students in mathematics when he had an idea. Heffernan was a graduate student in computer science, and by this point — the summer of 1997 — he… Continue reading

August 25, 2012

The uncanny valley of Internet advertising: Why do creepy targeted ads follow me everywhere I go on the Web? – Slate Magazine

If you ask an Internet ad guy to defend himself—to explain why you, dear Web surfer, should feel comfortable letting him serve you ads based on everything you do online—you’ll likely hear two arguments. First, he’ll tell you that targeted… Continue reading

August 5, 2012

James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana

Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading

August 3, 2012

Textifying to the Encompassing Good

Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began to… Continue reading

July 28, 2012

A Nice Entrée into Object Oriented Ontology

Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Heather Duncan and Alex Reid concerning digital humanities, blogging, twitter, and to a lesser degree object-oriented ontology. With any luck it will be posted, alongside a host of other interviews… Continue reading

July 24, 2012

The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun – Evan Selinger – The Atlantic

Dobbs questions the role of gun culture in steering “certain unhinged or deeply a-moral people toward the sort of violence that has now become so routine that the entire thing seems scripted.” But what about “normal” people? Yes, plenty of… Continue reading

June 19, 2012

Whatever Etc 0015: Death as Advisor