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Worthwhile Reading

typewritten wrote 1 week ago: Jacqueline Rose concludes her recent LRB review of Rana Husseini’s Murder in the Name of Honou … more →

Tags: Explaining, Speaking, Honour, Killing, LRB, Women

Another Comparison

typewritten wrote 1 month ago: Another comparison: try this. … more →

Tags: Capturing, invading, Alien, besson, France, Nationalism, Patriotism, Pride, Sarkozy

Comparison1 comment

typewritten wrote 1 month ago: Comparing something to something else (say, today’s France to the Vichy Regime) does not mean … more →

Tags: Politicizing, besson, Europe, France, Frontex, Immigration, Nationalism

Against Corporate Monoculture

typewritten wrote 2 months ago: Will Davies is the author of Reinventing the Firm, a Demos report made available today. A praise for … more →

Tags: Economizing, Performing, Politicizing, printing, Socializing, Testing, capitalism, Cooperatives, Davies

Starved for Review

typewritten wrote 3 months ago: Readers of Nature got the chance of hitting a very nice review of Robert Paarlberg’s Starved f … more →

Tags: Explaining, Performing, Publicizing, Africa, Agriculture, Biotech, fedoroff, Food, GMOs

Message to the Youth1 comment

typewritten wrote 4 months ago: Howie Becker’s revolutionary (hopefully) clarification on how the sciences in general, social … more →

Tags: Explaining, Publicizing, Becker, Methods, NSF, qualitative, Research, Science, Sociology

Antidote

typewritten wrote 5 months ago: Jan Assmann’s quick point on René Girard: “We owe to René Girard the idea that religion … more →

Tags: apocalypse, assmann, Girard, Monotheism, polytheism, Religion, Violence

Learn Spanish1 comment

typewritten wrote 8 months ago: This blog’s lasting advice: in times of crisis, learn Spanish with El Roto. This month’s … more →

Tags: capitalizing, Politicizing, Publicizing, El Roto

The Mastery of Contradiction

typewritten wrote 8 months ago: Christophe de Margerie, CEO of Total, expresses the following opinion on today’s strikes in Fr … more →

Tags: capitalizing, Explaining, Politicizing, Speaking, contradiction, Corporate, ESCP-EAP, France, Maoism

Objection

soulshkdwn wrote 9 months ago: So today at Meeting for worship the idea of not following a calling and it eating away at me was pre … more →

Tags: Co, Peace, Friends

Another Clawback1 comment

typewritten wrote 10 months ago: Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Roubini (formerly economists, now financial sociologists, apparently) have … more →

Tags: Politicizing, Socializing, Economics, Sociology, Finance, Socialism, Roubini, capitalism, Taleb

Speaking in Planes

typewritten wrote 10 months ago: Online petitions are quite useless. That said, it doesn’t hurt signing one once in a while. So … more →

Tags: Capturing, Speaking, Politicizing, Publicizing, France, Africa, police, Violence, planes

Thirty Thousands1 comment

typewritten wrote 11 months ago: Readers interested in the fate of quantified performance can have a look here at the performance tar … more →

Tags: Capturing, Counting, quantifying, cimade, deportations, France, Hortefeux, Immigration, LOLF

Against Optimization

typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Just one quick snapshot from the battlefield of the war for the financialization of everything. Here … more →

Tags: Economizing, Politicizing, Economics, Finance, Optimization, Power, Energy, electricity, Markowitz

Finance Goes Rational12 comments

typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Many like to think that the trouble with finance is that it often goes irrational. But here is a cle … more →

Tags: Testing, capitalizing, Pricing, Explaining, Finance, credit, mortgage, Banking, Money

Good on Transparency2 comments

typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a good one on transparency: “If each time we actually are transparent we get such … more →

Tags: Speaking, France, Nuclear, Areva, tricastin, Radiation, ASN, Transparency, lauvergeon

Leak and Reminder1 comment

typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Water is not good around the Tricastin nuclear power site in France since early July’s uranium … more →

Tags: Explaining, Politicizing, Testing, andra., Areva, ASN, CEA, criirad, France

More Business for Privatization

typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Robert Peston blogs here about a document leaked from the UK government (authored by DeAnne Julius, … more →

Tags: Economizing, taxes, Public, Performance, UK, Brown, Money, Labour, state

Scandal

typewritten wrote 1 year ago: The purpose of this post is to quickly insult the guy who destroyed Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in to … more →

Tags: Performing, Music, Marthaler, Opera, Wozzeck, berg, Mortier


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