I noticed that too Brian, and acknowledge him for that! Well done. But
then? this is all about a network, a context, community attribution.
Maybe we do not need anything like that. Keith is right about that.
Good theory and criticism does not need that at all. As long as it
hits, and hurts. Our
It takes time and energy to impose order on a system. Clearly
many many segments of the 'developed world' are manifesting the
inevitable decrease in the energy available to maintain their own
order.
Or, the perceived decline in fact-checking could rather be
the result of a continued ascendance
John (H), I'm not sure how it helps anyone to say that the declining
editorial quality of a posh magazine is inexorably linked in some
thermodynamicky way with the ultimate fate of the universe. If it is,
then so is everything else, which doesn't really lead us anywhere but a
metaphysical
What occurs to me in this affair, is the New Yorker's presumption of its own
cutting edge originality. The editors assumed they were going to the source, or
at least the best informed and most highly pedigreed (read: fashionable)
journalist when they went to Morozov.
The New Yorker has never
A simple example was a number I ran across when researching the US
Interstate (aka, the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of
Interstate and Defense Highways) system -- that right now it would
take the energy equivalent of all remaining declared Suadi oil
reserves to re-build that system.
