Tag: strategic representation

• Response to Galen Cuth on Magic & Pragmatism

  Galen recently wrote a wonderful response to my “Fool’s Gold” essay, trying to pinpoint where he and I disagree about when it comes to pragmatic theories of representation. This letter won’t make much sense unless you’ve first read his salvo. Epistemic status very much “Fumbling around in the dark”—lots of ideas and discourses invoked that…

  suspendedreason

  November 16, 2023

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  American pragmatism, communication, Galen Cuth, Lodge 49, magic, pragmatism, representation, strategic representation

• Epistemic Strategies pt. 2: Clarity, Withheld

  There is probably no contrast more striking, in the comparison of the mixed-motive and the pure-conflict (zero-sum) game, than the significance of having one’s own strategy found out and appreciated by the opponent. Hardly anything captures the spirit of the zero-sum game quite so much as the importance of “not being found out” and of…

  suspendedreason

  February 17, 2022

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  Erving Goffman, intrinsic empowerment, legibility, strategic ignorance, strategic interaction, strategic representation, strategy games, Thomas Schelling

• All Communication is Manipulation

  This essay is the first in a ten-installment series, but can be read as a standalone introduction: All Communication is Manipulation All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation Consensual and Nonconsensual Manipulation ACiM is a Natural Extension of Cybernetic Theory Response to Simpolism on ACiM A Landscape of Communication All Is Well E28: Functional Railroading All Is…

  suspendedreason

  January 11, 2022

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  Adam Smith, all communication is manipulation, Erving Goffman, evolutionary psychology, John Nerst, Kevin Simler, linguistics, meaning, Paul Grice, Richard Rorty, strategic interaction, strategic representation