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NYT, WTF? (In defense of Socrates)
A recent column in the NYT about morality has me outraged. In The End of Philisophy, Brooks distinguishes the ‘old’ view of morality originally championed by Socrates, and a ‘new’ view of morality put forth by contemporary psychologists, cognitive scientists and “even philosophers.”
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Wrap-up: Media for the Good and the Goofy
This week on gnovis, the use of media (from the hipster glasses to old-school Museums) was the topic. We have filtered the Fools to bring this week’s wrap-up.
On gnovis
Lauren tackles the ephemeral and ever changing tastes of the hipster. “Asking how the modern hipster came to be begs many questions around the diffusion of cultural meaning via new media technologies, the paradoxes inherent with trying to create a counter-culture within a capitalist model, and whether a true counter-culture is even possible at this moment in Western society given our increasingly globalized world.” I was particularly fond of her historical account of the changing definition of the term on UrbanDictionary.com.
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Machine in the Museum: new media and the traditional museum
After reading these two very different new interactive approaches to museums,
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Internet pranks, hoaxes, and jokes
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