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Entropy in the cul-de-sac
I noticed this morning [yesterday, now] that the bathroom floor had collected enough schmutz to pass my action threshold. Leaves blanket our lawn and laundry blankets a corner of our bedroom. There ar… more →
Dead Vole
Entropy in the cul-de-sac
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Carl wrote 1 week ago: I noticed this morning [yesterday, now] that the bathroom floor had collected enough schmutz to pass … more →
Existential infinity
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Carl wrote 1 month ago: I suspect that the ‘infinity standard’ is a dead, beaten and buried horse, but for my ow … more →
Infinity and the 'total institution'
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Carl wrote 2 months ago: The reference was tickling the edge of my brain so I tracked it down. OK, cool – here’s … more →
Latour/Bloom
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Carl wrote 3 months ago: I just read Bruno Latour’s short essay “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?” It is … more →
Philosophy is an excellent thing
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Carl wrote 7 months ago: Over at Edge of the West, in the context of one of the usual pseudo-discussions about what philosoph … more →
Wanted: Prof Whisperer
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Carl wrote 11 months ago: A couple of remarks by Profacero here and olderwoman at scatterplot are coming together in my head w … more →
Kool-Aid cocktails
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Carl wrote 11 months ago: I’m still chewing on the conversation at the earlier lumpenbourgeoisie post. Profacero remains … more →
More thoughts on the lumpenbourgeoisie
Carl wrote 11 months ago: *I’m staying away from faculty unions for a second in this one. Yay, unions. For further discu … more →
Grading
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Carl wrote 11 months ago: I’ve figured out, again, that if I want to get any serious work done I have to get away from m … more →
Readability: Hitler
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Carl wrote 12 months ago: The Dec/Jan 2009 issue of Bookforum has an interesting interview with Timothy Ryback about his book … more →
Class consciousness in the lumpenbourgeoisie
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: I’m going away for the long weekend, so for those of you escaping the loving clutches of famil … more →
The art of the possible
Carl wrote 1 year ago: How to tell the leaders from the led in political discourse: …[I]f the concrete political act, as Cr … more →
Liberal bias in the liberal arts
Carl wrote 1 year ago: No one much disputes that academics are disproportionately liberal, although it may be the case that … more →
Palinpsest
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: It’s something of a cottage industry right now for snarky intellekchles like me to gloat over … more →
The wonders of college
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: It’s that time of year in the halls of academe when hope springs and experience pings, when we … more →
"Science as a Vocation"
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: Max Weber’s famous essay, delivered as a speech at Munich University in 1918, has since been r … more →
Undecision
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: It turns out that when we’re undecided we may not be. Science reports a study by Canadian and … more →
Strategic incompetence
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: This Fall I’ll be teaching my normal four-course load, three sections of introductory world hi … more →
PITA
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Carl wrote 1 year ago: Up to 43.7% of the stuff that bugs me can be traced directly to me being a pain in the ass. Of the r … more →
