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Science Networks Monsters Religion (Bruno Latour)

Posted on August 20, 2012 by zjb

Just finished reading We Have Never Been Modern. It’s an old book which I never got around to reading. Now that I’m dipping a little into science, technology, and religion, it was time to take a look. Much of the … Continue reading →

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Technologies and the Body (Sunday New York Times)

Posted on August 19, 2012 by zjb

A group of articles in today’s Sunday New York Times caught my eye. I grouped them in a kind of cluster. They all relate to the blending of bodies and technologies in contemporary life, a form of life that would … Continue reading →

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Ga-ga and Cynical? (The Ersatz Religion of Popular Science Writing — Higgs)

Posted on July 11, 2012 by zjb

About science I don’t know much at all, but I have a pretty good nose for smelling out the manure in a bad argument. I’m of three minds about this article from the NYT Science section:  It’s either ga-ga, cynical, … Continue reading →

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Higgs (Skeptic)

Posted on July 8, 2012 by zjb

I’m not smart enough to be a Higgs skeptic. The skeptic here is Stephan Wolfram, who is disappointed that the big Higgs boson discovery only proves what the physicists already suspected, namely the “Standard Model” for the organization of sub-atomic … Continue reading →

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Immanence (New Doxa)

Posted on July 7, 2012 by zjb

I read on Facebook this passage from Deleuze “No one has insisted more than Proust on the following point: that the truth is produced, that it is produced by orders of machines which function within us, that it is extracted … Continue reading →

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Science of Illusion (Brains)

Posted on July 5, 2012 by zjb

(http://www.chefs-resources.com/Lamb-Brains-Offal)  Last Sunday in the New York Times, there was this article about neurology, neurological firing, and the illusion of consciousness. I think it’s a lot of hokum, not because I don’t trust the scientific findings, but because I don’t trust what seems to me … Continue reading →

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Higgs Boson (Science & Metaphor)

Posted on July 4, 2012 by zjb

So this is what I’m getting from the exciting discovery of what more cautious physicists are calling a (the!) Higgs-like boson. All of this is severely beyond my ken, but I think it’s incumbent for laypeople to try to grasp … Continue reading →

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Public Spaces (Privatization of Higher Education in the Age of Big-Data-Big-Science)

Posted on June 21, 2012 by zjb

If you are interested in what the privatization of public space of higher education looks like, check out the ongoing scandal at the University of Virginia. Surrounding the recent sacking of President Teresa Sullivan by the Board of Visitors is … Continue reading →

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“Angels in New York” (Random Attention)

Posted on May 29, 2012 by zjb

  I spotted these pretentious little sh%ts on a walk past the ABC offices around W.66th Street between Central Park West and Columbus the other week. I can’t recall what it was that caught my eye from street level, why … Continue reading →

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religion & science (response to Norbert Samuelson)

Posted on May 20, 2012 by zjb

I was invited to respond in a special edition on Judaism and science in the Reform Jewish Quarterly to an essay by Norbert Samuelson, who is one of the few scholars in modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy to take contemporary … Continue reading →

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