Dicembre 2011
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On Pick-Up Artists' techne
I was checking out The Game book. It may be the expat loneliness, but a couple of expat friends came up independently singing the praise of that book and the whole pick-up artists / Venusian arts  movement. Doesn’t it strike obvious and sad how much of our culture is shaped by and built on technology? It has become our basic way of thinking. When we’re faced with a problem, we invent...
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The Big Lie →
Scritto da un ex-banchiere di Wall Street. At the end of the day, the convulsion to come won’t really be about Wall Street’s derivatives malefactions, or its subprime fun and games, or rogue trading, or the folly of banks. It will be about this society’s final opportunity to rip away the paralyzing shackles of corruption or else dwell forever in a neofeudal social order. You might say that...
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein
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“[T]he stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupid one is, the...”
– Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
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The Rise of Developeronomics →
Venkatesh Rao, forbes.com There is a the­o­ry in evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gy that rec­i­p­ro­cal altru­ism and coop­er­a­tion first appeared as a solu­tion to the food stor­age prob­lem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a large mam­moth, you could not pos­si­bly e… Interessante articolo su Forbes e il ruolo dell’informatica e degli sviluppatori sull’economia contemporanea.
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Michael Hudson: Debt and Democracy – Has the Link... →
Un’interessante prospettiva storica sul complesso rapporto fra finanza e governo, democrazia e oligarchia. Raccomandato, anche se un po’ lungo.
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