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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…
Marcello Veneziani & l’ “Illuminismo Radicale”

Ne ‘Il Giornale’ del 14 Maggio 2012, Marcello Veneziani articolava una riflessione veramente degna di nota.…
On Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” & eusociality

“What brought a single primate line to a rare level of eusociality?” asks Edward Wilson, the well-known…
Practical reason as sorcery (ii): development economics

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the towering figure of Josif…
Wir sind unschuldig

The text at the bottom of Marx and Engels monument in Alexander Platz in Berlin reads…
“Religions keeps us from thinking to hard problems”

Marvin Minsky needs no presentation: his unflinching atheism was proverbial as the video below clearly testifies.…
“To learn how to swim, one must go to sea”

The great G. W. Leibniz articulates very neatly the relationship between philosophy and mathematics (and indeed human…
Video Transcoding: Handbrake + libdvdcss

Suppose you had your collection of DVDs which you lawfully bought in the marketplace. Suppose you…
Mass reproduction & reproduction of the masses

In “Illuminations“, pg. 251, Walter Benjamin makes the following remark: “Mass reproduction is aided especially by the reproduction…
Feed-forward networks and teleology

Bertrand Russell, in “History of Western Philosophy” pgg. 86-87, writes: The atomists, unlike Socrates, Plato, and…