This book is timely and useful but is bogged down by its inclusion of liberal ideology according to reviewer Sarah Reardon. Reardon reviews "Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age" by professors Rachel B. Griffis, Julie Ooms, and Rachel M. De Smith Roberts. She says of her differences and uncertainty over their conclusions, "Would they have interpreted such a discussion as one plagued by distraction and hostility towards the past, by shallow reading? Or might they have understood it to be a “justice-oriented” conversation? I’m not sure, but, after reading Deep Reading, I do believe that Griffis, Ooms, Roberts, and I are operating under somewhat different understandings of virtue and vice." Read her full article review here: https://buff.ly/4edK8DJ
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What's the team reading? Ines Piccinino is finishing “The Knowledge Illusion” by cognitive scientists Sloman and Fernbach. This book discusses how we never think alone, and how collective knowledge is what has allowed us to prosper as humans. In government negotiations, we see this in action through how we build on each other’s ideas to reach the best solutions and balance complex (and usually contradictory) public policy objectives. #Negotiation
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Excellent review of Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics: A Requiem for the Real? by the Award-Winning Writer Dan Manolescu Here is a link to an excellent review of my latest book by Dan Manolescu in addition to a short excerpt below: https://lnkd.in/gCnFqZhW Official book website: https://lnkd.in/gSc79wwp Amazon: https://lnkd.in/gNyNp2sY Excerpt: “When the conditions are right, there are ideas and concepts that ignite and burn with such intensity that they outshine any others of the same time period. Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics presents a very good example … The current volume is meant to send a wake-up call regarding the consequences of this constant transmission of information ad infinitum that may affect our existence on this planet and even lead to a misinterpretation of democracy and its basic grasp on reality” (Dan Manolescu, Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature, vol. 5 (5), 2024)
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Editor (incl. Indigenous style/protocols), Analyst, Researcher, Canadian War Artist (Afghanistan, Task Force 3-09), Opera Architect/Librettist
This is totally a legit research paper folks. What I find particularly compelling is that not only do the authors cite Harry Frankfurt's work on 'bull$hit'* correctly (On Bull$hit, Princeton, 2005), but also the following from the introduction to the paper: "Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt, without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their output bull$hit." Def. worth a read. *note: the exchange of the $ for 's' is mine in the text. I do this so that my texts can't be scraped
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For those of you enamoured by the potential of LLM's to solve our problems using AI instead of us using NI (natural intelligence), read this paper! It is free to download from: https://lnkd.in/eUvxY9gg
Editor (incl. Indigenous style/protocols), Analyst, Researcher, Canadian War Artist (Afghanistan, Task Force 3-09), Opera Architect/Librettist
This is totally a legit research paper folks. What I find particularly compelling is that not only do the authors cite Harry Frankfurt's work on 'bull$hit'* correctly (On Bull$hit, Princeton, 2005), but also the following from the introduction to the paper: "Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt, without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their output bull$hit." Def. worth a read. *note: the exchange of the $ for 's' is mine in the text. I do this so that my texts can't be scraped
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Our new book (co-edited with Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula) "Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy - Questioning the Mission Economy" features 17 different chapter by 23 scholars from around the world. Olof Hallonsten writes about "Innovationism and the New Public Intellectuals", and argues that "innovationism" can be understood as a religious movement with its high priests in the form of new public intellectuals. These priests are pretty well paid, it seems (see fig below). The book can be downloaded free of charge here: https://lnkd.in/dWpjaNUM
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Have you discovered the new book by Jean Boulton The Dao of Complexity - Making Sense and Making Waves in Turbulent Times You can find it here: https://lnkd.in/eNSR-2qy The Dao of Complexity starts with an intention to make sense of the nature of complexity, a complexity that shows up at all levels: the global, the organisational and the personal. Embracing the world as complex will provide good guidance for how to live well, harmoniously and with resilience. The inquiry begins with the physics of open systems, engages with other diverse bodies of knowledge, and leads to process complexity – a framing of the world as always in flow, sensitive to the uniqueness of each situation, a world in which unpredictable renewal and novelty can emerge.
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It is easy to get discouraged while writing a book about progress in times as hectic as these. Still, I think its message stands: we must do a better job pursuing societal progress. For this, we need more democracy, more reflection, and more imagination. I hope my new book can feed the discussion about the societal and moral changes we need to move forwards.
Values, Institutions and Innovations for Societal Progress
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The Atlas of Social Complexity is now available!! I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript and wrote this review. https://lnkd.in/gwT-pVJ3
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Just published, "Multiliteracies," a special issue of the International Journal of Literacies. Available here, and the first two articles are open access! https://lnkd.in/g_KETGdX
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Assistant Professor (International Relations) at Jamia Hamdard. Pursuing PhD at South Asian University, New Delhi
Just finished reading this book. In the social media era, when every information is being reduced to bite sized moments, the art and science of grasping, appreciating and critiquing narratives is being lost. We need to go back to reading beyond utilitarian reasons towards appreciating it essence. Fiction is a product and a window to the socio-political milieu where it is written. As such, it can provide critical tools in building new understandings about the politics of the world. In the oncoming BA International Studies and Global Politics program, our Institute has plans to cover this interplay.
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