Tag: erisology

• Pfeilstorch Progress: Games, Dialectic, Spirit

  I launched a [Discord server with a] small community of friends, which has this year, 2021, evolved into an online forum. Our mascot is the pfeilstorch. We’re interested in the inexact sciences, and moreover, in the rigorizing pipeline that got us from natural philosophy to biology, or alchemy to chemistry.

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  May 11, 2021

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  all communication is manipulation, Bruno Latour, degenerate play, discursive games, erisology, Erving Goffman, Franz Boas, games, generalized reading, Interpretation, John Nerst, language, language games, LessWrong, linguistics, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, Sapir-Whorf, Sigmund Freud, strategic epistemology, surrogation, telephone effect, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling

• The telephone effect, and the reciprocity of perspectives

  In F. L. Allen’s Only Yesterday, a history of the 1920s published in the early 30s, Allen writes about the revolution in manners and morals that began to pick up in the early years of the decade: Like all revolutions, this one was stimulated by foreign propoganda. It came, however, not from Moscow, but from…

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  June 2, 2020

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  anthropology, erisology, ethnomethodology, functionalism, generalized compatibilism, oscillation, postrationalism, rationalism, reciprocity of perspectives, Roy Wagner, sociology, structuralism, telephone effect, the inexact sciences