http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=100641&iv=09&mac=100641- The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows' or not prefigure present day philosophical arguments. In his talk to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum Huw Price chose as his starting point the views of cosmologist Sir Arthur Eddington - a prominent figure in the first half of the 20th century, but little known today. What made Eddington's view of time interesting is that he was prepared to part company with most physicists - who conceive time as it… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 08:12:52 -0700 http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=100641&iv=09&mac=100641- http://chronicle.com/article/What-if-They-Had-a-Science-War/125828 In November the executive board of the American Anthropological Association, of which I am a member, met for one and a half days. In preparation for the meeting, we were expected to read a 250-page briefing book. About three pages of that 250-page book were taken up by what the meeting will now be remembered for: a revision of the association's statement on its long-range planning. We did not know it, but those three pages were to set off a short "science war" within anthropology. Now that tempers have died down, we can ask what the controversy shows about the… ]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:18:26 -0700 http://chronicle.com/article/What-if-They-Had-a-Science-War/125828 http://www.ballardian.com/myths-of-a-near-future-sellars-sterling-vale Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) as part of the Kosmopolis 08 literary festival, the panel was chaired by the Spanish critic Jordi Costa, the driving force behind the CCCB’s magnificent ‘JG Ballard – Autopsy of the new millennium‘ exhibition.

Jordi began with a Spanish-language introduction, and then Vale followed with a 15-minute video detailing his relationship and collaborations with Ballard. Jordi’s questions… ]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:31:00 -0700 http://www.ballardian.com/myths-of-a-near-future-sellars-sterling-vale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8-Yxdphsg&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:21:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8-Yxdphsg&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0sDwqsrrI&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:06:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0sDwqsrrI&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9IPoAdct8 Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards ]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:59:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9IPoAdct8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9IPoAdct8 All text taken directly from online Christian fundamentalist forums. http://www.fstdt.net ]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:42:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9IPoAdct8