Not had chance to read and digest this yet, but I suspect it will prove interesting. The word has been “meta” (in information management) since just before the turn of the millenium. Metametaphysics. As well as the obvious move in the meta direction towards abstraction as generalization as the basis for … whatever … I [...]
Entries from March 2009
Meta-Meta-Physics
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March 29, 2009 at 1:45pm
by Psybertron
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Model Fatigue
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March 29, 2009 at 11:20am
by Psybertron
Interesting post from Johnnie Moore. I know how he feels.
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Beautiful
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March 26, 2009 at 4:20pm
by Psybertron
Roads via Rivets This is neat too. And the cables, and the trick bowling … and …
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love
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March 24, 2009 at 2:57am
by Psybertron
A new series of three essays and one poem from Alan Rayner, each describing his transfigural, inclusional “new way of thinking” … one which emphasizes neighbourhood over self & other, natural inclusion over natural selection, co-creation over winning & losing, love over conflict … using many of Alan’s established metaphors and quotations. This quote from Wordsworth [...]
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Doing the Gibbon
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March 23, 2009 at 2:20pm
by Psybertron
I mentioned  starting to read Gibbon only a few weeks ago, a “couple of years” after picking it up from the bookshelf at my parent’s home, and just noticed it was more like 4 years ago I first posted this. Anyway still reading it slowly, to and from work mainly. It is indeed the language that [...]
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Flexible Multiple Taxonomies from Scribu
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March 20, 2009 at 5:01pm
by Psybertron
I mentioned this WordPress plug-in from Scribu a while ago, but the link was dead … definitely in the “really must get organized” category.
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Don’t just do it; Talk !
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March 14, 2009 at 4:20pm
by Psybertron
When Zizek writes like this his sense and “wisdom” is easy to see. When he writes like this, it is harder to see because he makes so many statements against others … creating strawmen in the mouths of others, in order to disagree with them … but he is right on the topic of debate. This is [...]
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Boys Just Wanna Have Fun
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March 12, 2009 at 9:10am
by Psybertron
Saw Eagles of Death Metal at Oslo Rockefeller on Monday evening. Jesse Hughes and the boys sure have fun engaging with their audience, and a little more at the after show party and no doubt after that too. No Josh Homme touring, but Joey Castillo pounding the skins along with Dave Catching on lead and Brian O’Connor on bass [...]
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One to Watch
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March 8, 2009 at 2:44pm
by Psybertron
Literally. Performance is always the issue with these more sophisticated plug-ins … most of my WordPress 2.8 priorities were performance and database related. Also checking out Scribu … as part of a let’s get organized campaign … though that seems to have gone dead ? Oh well.
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Site Hit Update
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March 8, 2009 at 2:11pm
by Psybertron
I regularly review site hits, as in almost daily, and just occasionally I record summaries here. Last time I did this a few months ago, the stats were plagued by a number of (new) web crawlers generating loads of indexing hits, which is great, but it was skewing / disguising the real human traffic. Recently [...]
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Exceptionally Skilled Incompetence
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March 8, 2009 at 1:35pm
by Psybertron
Thanks to Sam for the link to this Telegraph piece by Charles Moore. It took exceptional brilliance not to see a crash coming …Â Just more skilled incomptetence and 20/20 SOMist hindsight, and of course the “regulation” subject is a matter of “rational” management and governance.
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On the Road with Robert Pirsig
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March 8, 2009 at 1:08pm
by Psybertron
Today at last, I had a chance to watch Ant McWatt’s second documentary on the life and work of Robert Pirsig, “On the Road with Robert Pirsig“. (The first installment “Arrive Without Travelling” I reviewed when it came out around a  year ago, and it was a little difficult to disguise my disappointment, though relatively [...]
TED Brains
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March 7, 2009 at 5:38am
by Psybertron
I was posting a more prominent link to the TED talk by Sherwin Nuland (related to the ECT Meme thread) when I noticed this interesting piece from Jill Bolte Taylor. A brain scientist who got to study her own brain and glimpsed the euphoric mystical “now” … and like Sherwin saw this mystical revelation as part [...]
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Zeitgeist Update
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March 7, 2009 at 3:55am
by Psybertron
This is a (near) verbatim copy of a MOQ Discuss forum post of mine from a month or so ago. I caused some offence last year when I dissed Zeitgeist (2007) without having seen this Zeitgeist Addendum (2008). I have since seen this version too. It is pretty comprehensive and on the money as you say. I still have [...]
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Visualizing a Trillion Dollars
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March 7, 2009 at 3:33am
by Psybertron
Thanks to Sam for this link, interesting to see what a trillion dollars looks like. Big, but not that big, but then the paper denomination is large to start with, it’s only money. Wonder what it loooks like on some internationally recognized unit of currency (rather than 100 dollar bills). The modern equivalent of Mars [...]
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Dangerous Darwin
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March 5, 2009 at 12:52pm
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Can’t see any acknowledgement of Dennett’s words in the title of this Andrew Marr piece. Looks promising though.
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Electric Sports Car
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March 5, 2009 at 3:30am
by Psybertron
OK so the Swiss ”ProtosCar Lampo” is currently only a concept car showing at Geneva, but it is built on the same Wilmington-built GM / Opel / Saturn  GT / Sky platform as my current car. Strangely my previous GM (Opel Sportster/ Vauxhall VX220) Lotus-built aluminium & fibre-glass model was the platform for an award-winning GM [...]
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
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March 1, 2009 at 10:29am
by Psybertron
OK, so enough Zizek for one day … clearly a student of Jacques Lacan is about as “foggy froggie” / PoMo as one can get, but cheeky with it. Hard work, but valuable on balance. Picked-up the Peter Sloterdijk link in my earlier reference to Zizek. Found this review of his “Critique of Cynical Reason” [...]
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Every word is a gravestone.
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March 1, 2009 at 8:00am
by Psybertron
Wikipedia page on Zizek. For Lacan and Žižek, every word is a gravestone, marking the absence or corpse of the thing it represents and standing in for it. It is partly in the light of this that Lacan is able to refashion Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” as “I think where I am not, [...]
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So what is it ?
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March 1, 2009 at 6:48am
by Psybertron
Authentic Radical Fundamentalism that is ? Still not sure, but I got one thing right with Zizek … taking things seriously and taking sides are absolutely not the same. In “The Empty Wheelbarrow” he says … The ruling ideology appropriated the September 11 tragedy and used it to impose its basic message: it is time to [...]
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Authentic Radical Fundamentalism ?
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March 1, 2009 at 6:22am
by Psybertron
I’ve just thoroughly read and re-read a piece by Slavoj Zizek in The Cabinet entitled “From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism“. Zizek is on my “must read” list for various reasons, so this was a good start, and I quoted briefly from this particuar piece in responding to Chris Locke’s reference to it in his [...]
