Posted by: lettrist on: June 20, 2008
“Man is the only animal that blushes … or needs to.”
–Mark Twain
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) affects 15 million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Anxiety Disorders as a whole affect 40 million Americans, according to the institute. Drug companies, eager to expand their markets, are now spotlighting the disorder and advertising medications [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 20, 2007
The term ‘language game’ is used to refer to:
Fictional examples of language use that are simpler than our own everyday language.
Simple uses of language with which children are first taught language (training in language).
Specific regions of our language with their own grammars and relations to other language-games.
All of a natural language composed of a family [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 19, 2007
Ideas from Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition.
“The ideology of communicational ‘transparency,’ which goes hand in hand with the commercialization of knowledge, will begin to perceive the State as a factor of opacity and ‘noise.’” It is from this point of view that the problem of the relationship between economic and State powers threatens to arise with [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 19, 2007
The postmodern condition is the fundamentally different outlook on knowledge that has arisen after the Enlightenment, and particularly since World War II in Western post-industrial, information-based society. In the Report, Lyotard makes a variety of claims and recommendations about how knowledge, particularly computerized knowledge, in the postmodern condition must be legitimated and made accessible in [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: October 17, 2006
When Nature Magazine published a study which suggested Wikipedia is far more reliable than is commonly believed, fist-waving librarians were all over the Slashdot scene with their criticisms. The study gave reviewers a blind test to examine a parallel sample of articles from Wikipedia and Britannica, and demonstrated that the average number of errors in [...]
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