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Posted Sun, 11/26/2006 - 17:49 by PaulBHartzog
My family have all been ill, including myself, and my 5-year-old and 8-week-old kids have been in and out of hospitals and doctor offices for the last few weeks.
I am back now that all of us are getting better and hopefully will be catching up with blogging and schoolwork in the coming weeks.
Much thanks to all who offered their sympathies and support during the last few weeks.
Posted Mon, 11/13/2006 - 17:50 by PaulBHartzog
This from my
Rush blog:
Righteous America
Well, now that any citizen of the U.S.
Posted Thu, 11/09/2006 - 15:09 by PaulBHartzog
If you have reached here, then you are definitely looking for
http://www.panarchy.com !
Posted Tue, 11/07/2006 - 12:45 by PaulBHartzog
Chris Anderson was here at the
University of Michigan recently giving a talk about "Problems with
the Long Tail."
What really impressed me is that he has moved beyond the "Hey, look at that tail!" rhetoric. He has arrived at an argument about copyright that follows naturally from the logic of the long tail economy.
He notes that there are
actually two tails (a city of two tails?).
Posted Mon, 10/23/2006 - 21:00 by PaulBHartzog
I blogged a couple of good papers about microbial cooperation over at The Cooperation Commons:
Diversity Promotes Cooperation Among Microbes
Posted Fri, 10/20/2006 - 11:50 by PaulBHartzog
I recently read
Sven Birkerts' book
The Gutenberg Elegies (partially online
here), and this post stems from a
recent dialogue with friend and colleague Dale Hunscher:
"The figure-ground model, which has always featured a solitary self before a background that i
Posted Wed, 10/18/2006 - 11:01 by PaulBHartzog
When Althusser distinguished between the
public, state-operated mechanisms of social repression and the
private, civil-society-operated mechanisms, he noted the following:
"Whereas the [public] (Repressive) State Apparatus constitutes an organized whole whose different parts are centralized beneath a commanding unity,...
Posted Mon, 10/09/2006 - 23:13 by PaulBHartzog
The whole premise of panarchy is that technology matters because it changes our culture, both materially and ideationally.
Posted Mon, 10/09/2006 - 20:15 by PaulBHartzog
"Mass ideological factors always lag behind mass economic phenomena, and that therefore, at certain moments, the automatic thrust due to the economic factor is slowed down, obstructed or even momentarily broken by traditional ideological elements -- hence that there must be a conscious, planned struggle to ensure that the exigencies of the economic position of the masses, which may conflict with the traditional leadership's policies, are understood.
Posted Mon, 10/02/2006 - 21:15 by PaulBHartzog
Yes, strange title for a post. Also, I have been "away" for a bit. All will be explained in a few sentences....
Sean Lewis Hunter Hartzog, our second son, was born on Wednesday, September 20, 2006. Mom and baby are healthy and happy.
NOTE: Future posts to this blog will be highly sleep-deprived :-)
