Chomsky
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On Chomsky and Hobsbawm (cont’ned)
Upon visiting the splendid mosaics in Villa Romana del Casale (Piazza Armerina), one is reminded very clearly of…
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“It is not important what we cover, but what you discover” (Victor Weisskopf)
Otium, in ancient Roman time, was the time productively spent pursuing the agenda of your personal…
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Chomsky & Hobsbawm or: Homage to Catalonia
Let’s start again with late Tony Judt’s comment about Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, where one can read…
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“To enquire and to create”
There used to be an old concept in classical philosophy, the concept of the full and…
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“The Look of Silence” and Antonio Gramsci
Watching the stunning documentary “The Look of Silence” by Joshua Oppenheimer is a moving experience. Of…
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Democracy and Education
One of my all time favorite sentences by legendary MIT linguist (whose opus is now preserved…
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The concept of limit
In the introduction to “Anarchism” by D. Guerin, Chomsky stresses the existence of a cultural tradition going…
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“What is the logical form of this?” on Sen, Gramsci, Sraffa and Wittgenstein
In a perceptive book, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, and responsible for the Hidden Markov…
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Grammars vs feedback control
There was a point in which the AI community adopted Chomsky grammars. Grammars are Cartesian universals.…
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