Now that Roger Ailes has been deposed at Fox News, it's time to dig this
out of the nettime archives:
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9512/msg1.html
I sent this to the list three years after the work was exhibited and a
year before Fox New was founded. It was a
Maybe I'm making mistake assuming that "theory" here means
normative/scientific theory, something that strives to provide
predictions in sustainable and repeatable fashion. Theories that predict
past are useless, and what someone feels the future should be and steps
to achieve that is, in my
well this is about falsificationism in social theory - and it pretty
much applies to any theory in social science - be it modernization
functionalism underdevelopment etc
in my view a good social theory must at least explain the basic facts
of the present and the recent past
