Tag: ethnomethodology

• Notes on the Inexact Sciences

  “Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer questions in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness.”

  suspendedreason

  August 30, 2021

  Essays

  art, Bruno Latour, Camille Paglia, Christopher Alexander, deception, ethnomethodology, fit, free will, generalized compatibilism, information logistics, Karl Friston, Ken Liberman, Kevin Scharp, literary theory, literature, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meaning, New Criticism, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, predictive processing, psychoanalysis, psychology, resonance, rhetoric, Sarah Perry, stamp collecting, Tal Yarkoni, the inexact sciences

• 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…

  suspendedreason

  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

• Wasting Our Time

  Karen Horney’s (pron. “Horn-eye”) Neurosis and Human Growth is an influential but heterodox work of psychoanalytic theory that argues on behalf of self-realization (her coinage). It’s a good book that would’ve been a great essay, so I want to compress its framework of ideas here and sort what felt resonant from what didn’t. Here’s the…

  suspendedreason

  December 20, 2019

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  ethnomethodology, Karen Horney, Kenneth Liberman, Manuel Puig, neuroticism, object ontology, psychoanalysis