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margaret_weddle

The Real Difference between a Book Report and a Book Critique - 1 views

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Book Critique

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  • margaret_weddle on 14 Oct 10
     
    Another article on the difference between a book report and a book critique
Gideon Burton

Digital in 2012: The web will make us smarter / Constant Beta - 1 views

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critique internet web sharing art

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  • Gideon Burton on 14 Jan 12
     
    A healthy critique of problems with internet culture to date with some suggestions for engineering a more substantial online experience. 
Gideon Burton

The Parachute: Holy Cow, Peer Review - 0 views

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peer review science scholarly communication change

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  • Gideon Burton on 02 Feb 12
     
    A critique of the value of peer review in contemporary science. He examines the costs vs. benefits of peer review and points to more viable alternatives (such as the endorsement system used on arXiv.org)
Gideon Burton

Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - 0 views

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culture philosophy adorno theory consumerism modernism

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10
     
    Critique of consumer culture from an important theorist about modernism, Theodor Adorno (with Max Horkheimer)
Gideon Burton

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 1 views

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distraction critique internet

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  • What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
torn halves

Ken Robinson, the Element & the Iron Cage - 0 views

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ken robinson max weber work the element finding your element critique economy

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  • torn halves on 27 Aug 13
     
    Reading Ken Robinson's The Element and Finding Your Element from the viewpoint of Max Weber's Iron Cage. Welcome to the Machine!
Megan Stern

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. - 0 views

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digiciv bourgeois French Flaubert Bovary

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  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Still remains an excellent critique of the bourgeois lifestyle that developed in the Industrial Revolution.
Jeffrey Whitlock

What's Wrong with Keynesian Economics? | Scoop News - 0 views

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      Jeffrey Whitlock on 08 Nov 10
       
      Read this decent critique Keynsian Economics
Morgan Wills

Freud, "Civilization and its Discontents," 1930 (excerpt) - 0 views

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  • If private property were abolished, all wealth held in common, and everyone allowed to share in the enjoyment of it, ill-will and hostility would disappear among men.
  • But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the systems based are an untenable illusion.
    • Megan Stern
      Megan Stern on 30 Oct 10
       
      Freud says something worthwhile.
  • It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness
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  • horrors of the recent World War
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      Something people would like to forget, but which shapes their world views. 
    • Morgan Wills
      Morgan Wills on 02 Nov 10
       
      definitely. Looking at much of Europe's reticence to join the US in armed conflict is a case in point.
  • s the factor which disturbs our relations with our neighbor and which forces civilization into such a high expenditure [of energy]
  • civilized society is perpetually threatened with disintegration
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      Tyranny to Anarchy to Tyranny
  • instinctual passions are stronger than reasonable interests.
  • commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself -- a commandment which is really justified by the fact that nothing else runs so strongly counter to the original nature of man
  • liverance from our evil
  • The communists believe they have found  the path to de
  • Since everyone's needs would be satisfied, no one would have any reason to regard another as his enemy; all would willingly undertake the work that was necessary.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      The problem is that people have more than needs. 
  • but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness, nor have we altered anything in its nature. Aggressiveness was not created by property
  • If we were to remove this factor, too, by allowing complete freedom of sexual life and thus abolishing the family, the germ-cell of civilization, we cannot, it is true, easily foresee what new paths the development of civilization could take; but one thing we can expect, and that is that this indestructible feature of human nature will follow at there.
  • We can now see that it is a convenient and relatively harmless satisfaction of the inclination to aggression, by means of which cohesion between the members of the community is made easier
  • n this respect the Jewish people, scattered everywhere, have rendered most useful services to the civilizations of the countries that have been their hosts;
  • find its psychological support in the persecution of the bourgeois
  • s Civilization imposes such great sacrifices not only on man's sexuality but on his aggressivity, we can understand better why it is hard for him to be happy in that civilization.
  • primitive man was better off in knowing no restrictions of instinct.  To counterbalance this, his prospects of enjoying this happiness for any length of time were very slender.
  • Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      John Locke
  • But I shall avoid the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization; I do not wish to give an impression of wanting myself to employ American methods.
Ariel Szuch

Future Shock Re-assessed by Richard Slaughter - 2 views

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future shock

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  • both individuals and societies needed to learn how to adapt to and manage the sources of over-rapid change.
  • Possibly the best section in the book is that on education. Here he advanced a powerful critique: ‘what passes for education today, even in our ‘best’ schools and colleges, is a hopeless anachronism.’ He then added: for all this rhetoric about the future, our schools face backwards towards a dying system, rather than forwards to an emerging new society. Their vastenergies are applied to cranking out Industrial Men - people tooled for survival in a system that will be dead before they are. (2) The thesis was then advanced that the prime objective of education should be to ‘increase the individual’s ‘cope-ability’ - the speed and economy with which he can adapt to continual change.’ (3) Central to this was ‘the habit of anticipation’. Assumptions, projections, images of futures would need to become part and parcel of every individual’s school experience.
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