Tag: ecology of practice
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Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 1
Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the world of people, that which refuses to be nailed down to a particular meaning. […] Each character has a different response to the unknowable white whale, who…
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charisma, cultural relativism, depressive ontology, disenchantment, ecology of practice, enchantment, framing, G.K. Chesterton, Herman Melville, hyperstition, literature, Lodge 49, magic, Max Weber, panacea, pragmatism, Randall Collins, reflexivity, Roman Polanski, Sarah Perry, television, The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, utopia, vibe, vibe theory -
Primitive Peacemakers, pt 2: Polytheism & an Ecology of Practice
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.Water came to rebuke the too clear water.One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a rippleShook whatever it was lay there at bottom,Blurred it, blotted it…
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Bruce Lee, cognitive science, David Chapman, ecology of practice, Erving Goffman, fitness, frame problem, George Eliot, Herman Melville, heuristics, Hubert Dreyfus, Jake Orthwein, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, maps, metarationality, metasystematicity, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, mood, mood affiliation, No Free Lunch Theorem, PIG optimality, postrationalism, postrationality, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rationality, Sarah Perry
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