Tag: prestige

• Aesthetics vs. Microsociology

  The problems of perception, assessment, category, association, prestige… What we are coming to call generalized reading.

  suspendedreason

  September 7, 2021

  Diagrams

  aesthetics, generalized reading, literature, meaning, microsociology, perception, prestige

• Letter to Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro

  “In each part of the poem, the goddess of cancer orders the evolving entities to compete, but the goddess of everything else recasts it as a two-layer competition where cooperation of the internal layer helps win the competition on the external layer.”  A Sextant Colder Honor culture isn’t dead, just mutated. Alternate titles: The Public-Private…

  suspendedreason

  May 5, 2021

  Essays

  Batesian mimicry, C. Thi Nguyen, Campbell's Law, capital, coordination, Dave Pizarro, David Simon, extend and retreat, Friedrich Nietzsche, game theory, generalized reading, glory, Goodhart's Law, Homer, Jerry Muller, mimicry, mutualism, Neil Postman, opticratics, optics, prestige, reputation, signaling theory, strategic interaction, surrogation, Tamler Sommers, The Wire