Thank you
I spotted this review yesterday
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/23/the-dawn-of-everything-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-inequality-is-not-the-price-of-civilisation
and now look forward to the LSE seminars and more!
cheers
molly
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 9,
"As a one-time theoretical physicist, I find this quote from Gosden to be
out-dated, overly reductive, and incorrect, at least as far as the most
thoughtful scientists go."
Hmm. Well, there are thoughtful scientists who would immediately recognise in
the Gosden gobbet the story of the late
So, basically, magic is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced
technology. I mean, if we can't distinguish the two, then the observation
should cut both ways, right? But Arthur C. Clarke's formulation, "any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," is the only
Well, just to run with the definitions/connotations you provide... (and
not to get into terms like 'whole')
Most obviously perhaps in the context of Felix's point that discussion
of the environment is missing from Graeber and Wengrow's "The Dawn of
Everything", there's the emphasis on 'the
Dear all,
I just finished a research project on "Piazza virtuale" by Van Gogh TV,
an early attempt to create a social network via TV, that took place at
documenta 9 in 1992, shortly before the internet changed the rules for
remote global participation and collaboration.
Here is a
On 09/12/2021 06:59, Michael Goldhaber wrote:
> As a one-time theoretical physicist, I find this quote from Gosden to
> be out-dated, overly reductive, and incorrect, at least as far as
> the most thoughtful scientists go.
>
> Scientific understanding doesn’t “derive from abstraction,” but
>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Tilman Baumgärtel wrote:
> I just finished a research project on "Piazza virtuale" by Van Gogh
> TV, an early attempt to create a social network via TV, that took
> place at documenta 9 in 1992, shortly before the internet changed
> the rules for remote
Felix, I haven't read the book, but I would posit that the analysis would be
seriously flawed if it did not take into account that whatever the architecture
of the human system, it was fully embedded in the wider ecosystem of energy
flows. Because of that embeddedness, all forms of human
