The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
by Jacob Siegel · 24 Mar 2026 · 348pp · 103,246 words
in its contribution to technological innovation, was focused on computer engineers, coders, and programmers. Wiener’s most visible influence by contrast was on social scientists, public intellectuals, and national security officials. There was one more big discovery to come. In 1953, two molecular biologists, James Watson and Francis Crick, discovered the double
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might have certain unfortunate connotations, but it was necessary to protect democracy from the people. Perhaps no one expressed this view more clearly than the public intellectual and unofficial high priest of technocratic rationalism Sam Harris: “I don’t care what’s in the Hunter Biden laptop.… Hunter Biden could have had
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive With Enough
by Michael Easter · 25 Sep 2023 · 318pp · 95,383 words
their Twitter followers, many of whom were fellow journalists rather than the public. This in-group point scoring was diluting the Times’s worldview. The public intellectual Bari Weiss, who worked at the Times, called Twitter the Times’s “ultimate editor.” I asked Nguyen if he thinks we can use social media
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
by Michael Brooks · 23 Apr 2020 · 88pp · 26,706 words
of the IDW feels like a breath of fresh air. He meticulously and expertly challenges the shallow platitudes and certainties of a certain cohort of “public intellectuals”: by pulling away the curtain of “logic and reason” behind which these men (and yes, they are all men) hide their juvenile arguments. Yet Brooks
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 1 Jan 2001 · 111pp · 1 words
.edge.org. For a physicist’s position on the culture wars, Weinberg (2001). For a presentation of a public intellectual, see Posner (2002). Note that Florida Atlantic University offers a Ph.D. to become a public intellectual—literary, since scientists need no such artifice. The hoax: Sokal (1996). The Selfish Gene: Dawkins (1989, 1976
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the Framework. London: Routledge. ———, 2002, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 15th ed. London: Routledge. ———, 2002, The Poverty of Historicism. London: Routledge. Posner, Richard A., 2002, Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Rabin, Mathew, 2000, “Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers.” Economics Department, University of
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks · 1 Jan 2000 · 142pp · 18,753 words
; Duke’s Stanley Fish, who is often off on a lecture circuit road show with a conservative counterpart; E. J. Dionne, who serves as a public intellectual from the ever expanding world of think tanks; and Esther Dyson, who spins out her theories at expensive technology conferences. In the 1970s a group
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making contacts with all of the editors and other gatekeepers she will need to know if she is to forge her own career as a publicity intellectual. The difficult moment comes a few years hence, when she is, say, 28 and must break away from her front person and start to make
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to do a taping for the cable channel CNBC. It’s not enough to have more money than some countries. Zuckerman wants to be a public intellectual. The intellectuals react in diverse ways to Status-Income Disequilibrium. Some try to pass for members of the money wing of the educated class. They
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
by David A. Mindell · 10 Oct 2002 · 759pp · 166,687 words
physiologists, physicians, and social scientists are well documented. 42 Through the informal “Teleological Society,” the series of Macy conferences, and a growing identity as a public intellectual, Wiener elevated his thinking on control and communications to a moral philosophy of technology and enjoyed enthusiastic response. He recognized the industrial implications of widespread
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
by Robert F. Barsky · 2 Feb 1997
his students, or influenced by him). But he was only a serious, intelligent, dedicated and honourable person with an important and influential role, not a 'public intellectual,' so he is unknown. These are again the kinds of facts that never make it [into] intellectual history" (31 Mar. 1995). Another professor at the
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and the confidence to recognize that rationality could also be employed to a greater social end: encouraging people to think for, and believe in, themselves. Public Intellectuals and Radicalism The fact that Chomsky was immersed, primarily, in a scientific environment had a profound impact on his perception of the role of the
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discover some answers. Chomsky and Irving Howe By contrasting Chomsky's views with those of Irving Howe we may reach a better understanding of the public intellectual. Chomsky knew Howe personallythey were next-door neighbors for a few years. Howe was the founder of the magazine Dissent, and functioned as a kind
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unknown outside the universe of others who are actually engaged in the problems of the world. She has disappeared from history. She's not a "public intellectual"; she was far too important in modern history for that. She spent no time posturing before other intellectuals or inhabiting the various cocoons of the
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as something more than that. Furthermore, I think we can give an analysis of that as well: that's the way you become a respected public intellectual, who can preen before others of the same type. But if there is anything that can't be told to high school students in monosyllables
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Postmodernism, 167-168, 192-198 Pounds Committee, 140 Principles and parameters approach, 81, 103 Propaganda, 31 PSUC. See Partido Socialista Unificado de Catalunya Psychoanalysis, 50 Public intellectual, 137. See also Intellectual, role of Putnam, Hilary, 58 Q Quine, W. V. O., 81, 93, 107 file:///D|/export3/www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader
The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage · 21 Apr 2020 · 378pp · 121,495 words
.16 Race and civilization were scrutinized from a different angle by W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the era’s most original scholars and public intellectuals. The status quo was desperate enough for Du Bois, who wanted progress more than he feared decadence. Du Bois grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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been anticommunists and dissidents. Vaclav Havel went from internal exile to the Czech Republic’s presidential palace. Adam Michnik exchanged imprisonment for the position of public intellectual and newspaper editor in an independent, postcommunist Poland. Enamored of Europe, enamored of the United States, Havel and Michnik continued to make an eloquent case
Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W. Said · 29 May 1994 · 549pp · 170,495 words
is carried on for very high stakes. Naturally the preponderance of power has been on the side of the self-constituted “Western” societies and the public intellectuals who serve as their apologists and ideologists. But there have been interesting responses to this imbalance in many formerly colonized states. Recent work on India
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, as I noted earlier, in an intellectual politics of blame and a drastic reduction in the range of material proposed for attention and controversy by public intellectuals and cultural historians. What is the inventory of the various strategies that might be employed to widen, expand, and deepen our awareness of the way
I Hate the Internet: A Novel
by Jarett Kobek · 3 Nov 2016 · 302pp · 74,350 words
. She gave Adeline the magazine, which appeared as it does on the next page. Fareed Zakaria was one of the many best selling authors and public intellectuals who supported George Bush II’s War in Iraq. He had a decent amount of eumelanin in the basale stratum of his epidermis. Back during
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no history of participatory politics would be a net good. He believed it would stabilize the Middle East. This opinion had been very popular with public intellectuals in the run-up to the War. Most private intellectuals, who were people without best selling books or prominent media positions, had opposed the War
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. If you were from California and the year was 2013, and you were discussing the consensus amongst public intellectuals who supported the War in Iraq, you might say, “It was, like, so ironic¸ because, you know, like, all of America’s, like
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, public intellectuals supported a total, you know, disaster of a war and, like, thought, that there could be, like, you know, democracy in Iraq.” You’d be
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