Author Archive for typewritten
Another comparison: try this.
Comparing something to something else (say, today’s France to the Vichy Regime) does not mean that this something and that something else are exactly identical. They are just comparable, which means that the resemble at least a little bit. So let’s compare:
“On Monday 5 October the film-maker José Chidlovsky was summoned to the offices of [...]
Will Davies is the author of Reinventing the Firm, a Demos report made available today. A praise for corporate pluralism and financial mutuality:
“Capitalism is always a curious mixture of liberalism and despotism. It grants freedom, equality and participation with one hand, while it imposes orders, hierarchy and inequality with the other. We barely notice that [...]
This is a little reminder about how French policemen like to use their great weapon, the proverbial flash-ball (from Verney-Carron), in order to to fight chaos and defend order: pointing straight towards the face of the “chaotic” (a note on terminology below). Someone lost an eye in a demonstration this summer in Montreuil. And the [...]
Readers of Nature got the chance of hitting a very nice review of Robert Paarlberg’s Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa, by Ian Scoones and Dominic Grover (see also here). A little excerpt:
“The book has quickly become influential. Paarlberg was asked to speak about hunger alleviation in front of the [...]
Howie Becker’s revolutionary (hopefully) clarification on how the sciences in general, social sciences in particular and qualitative social sciences more precisely do function (initially available here as a reaction to Michèle Lamont and Patricia White’s NSF report on “systematic” qualitative research) is now fully quotable as:
Becker, Howard S. (2009), “How to Find Out How to [...]
Jan Assmann’s quick point on René Girard:
“We owe to René Girard the idea that religion is the contrary of violence, with his very remarked theses on the end of violence, expressed in an amazingly resounding way in Violence and the Sacred, and then in a series of other studies. It is therefore disturbing to notice [...]
The verb “to modernize” is very ambiguous. Sometimes it means “to do things better”, other times it means “to remove those things and get rid of them altogether”, other times it just means “to make those things sellable and see if you can get some money out of them”. In this last case, “to modernize” [...]
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