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Book Review - 'The Myth of the Rational Market,' by Justin Fox; and 'The Sages,' by Charles R. Morris - Review - NYTimes.com
THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL MARKET A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street.By Justin Fox
THE SAGES Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets By Charles R. Morris
Our Cherished Paradoxes | The American Prospect
Orlando Patetrson reviews - A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom by Jedediah Purdy
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas
Paul Schmelzer is editor of the Minnesota Independent, former editor of the Walker Art Center blogs, creator of Signifier, signed, a former editor at Adbusters, and contributor to Cabinet, Raw Vision, The Progressive, Utne Reader and others.
OnTheCommons.org » Even Dead Celebrities Sell
Ad Nauseam chronicles the manipulative pathologies of advertising culture.
Francesca Bordogna - William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge - Reviewed by Ruth Anna Putnam, Wellesley College - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame
Francesca Bordogna, William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge, U. of Chicago Press, 2008,
FlickFilosopher.com: Bruno (review)
When so many public figures are deliberately shocking and offensive because they want us to join them in being small and mean and petty and tribal -- I’m thinking of the likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh -- Baron Cohen is doing so for the very opposite reasons. And that is a good thing, and a thing very much worth celebrating.
Books of The Times - Chris Anderson’s ‘Free’ and Ellen Ruppel Shell’s ‘Cheap’ Consider the Surprising Profits of Things That Cost Nothing - Review - NYTimes.com
CHEAP : The High Cost of Discount Culture
By Ellen Ruppel Shell
FREE: The Future of a Radical Price
By Chris Anderson
Book Review - 'Methland - The Death and Life of an American Small Town,' by Nick Reding - Review - NYTimes.com
The agricultural conglomerates that have gobbled up Oelwein and similar farm towns may feed the world, but they starve the folks who work for them, breeding a craving for synthetic stimulants that conveniently sap the appetite while enlarging the body’s capacity for toil.
Popularization Is Its Own Reward? : Uncertain Principles
One of the major problems contributing to the dire situation described in Unscientific America is that the incentives of academia don't align very well with the public interest. Academic scientists are rewarded-- with tenure, promotion, and salary increases-- for producing technical, scholarly articles, and not for writing for a general audience. There is very little institutionalized reward within academia for science popularization.
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By strongly discouraging young scientists from doing small-scale popularization (that is, by not including it as a positive factor in tenure and merit reviews), we cut some of them off from the opportunity to discover whether they would be good at the sort of outreach and popularization that is rewarded (albeit outside the academic system). Which leaves it for people who, for whatever reason, regard that sort of work as its own reward. Which is part of why there are relatively few scientists blogging, writing articles for the general press, and appearing in the media.
Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum : Uncertain Principles
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Unscientific America is divided into three main parts, as is traditional for this sort of book. The first section summarizes the historical context, presenting a short history of the rise and fall of the American science establishment. The second section breaks down the main sources of the current problems facing science-- disconnects between the "culture" of science and four other "cultures" in American society: "political culture, media culture, entertainment culture, and religious culture." The final part lays out some suggestions for how to move forward in a productive way.
Money for Art, Pt 1: Arts Funding in America - book/daddy
The important conclusion to draw from this history is this: Being used as a weapon or a whipping boy has been a political function that the arts have repeatedly been dragged into well before the '90s. Of course, sometimes artists weren't dragged at all; they joined the fray willingly, eager to stick a thumb in the eye of the bourgeoisie, and then demand federal payment for the service.
Richard Deming - Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading - Reviewed by David K. O'Connor, University of Notre Dame - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame
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The "sociality" of language, writes Deming, "brings up close the issue of ethics" (14). In a way, it is no surprise that Ralph Waldo Emerson figures prominently in such a project. "I do then with my friends as I do with my books," Emerson said,<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--> and he meant it. For Emerson, reading and writing are the paradigm of all human life, and Deming does Emerson no violence in looking to him for an "ethics of reading," that is, to find guidance in our practices of attentive reading for how to treat people.
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Deming, then, does see the darker side of sociality, but he tends to treat competitiveness and rivalry as a pathology to be eliminated rather than as part of the very structure of the "dialectic of mutual recognition." Perhaps the desire to make recognition possible without requiring struggle is a noble one. Nevertheless, this desire seems to distort Deming's discussion of Herman Melville's struggles to free himself from Nathaniel Hawthorne's precedence
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