Saturday, September 03, 2016

The Experience Room

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Look at pictures of your parent's house as compared to yours. It's a bit cluttered but in essence not a lot different, is it? Not ...
Friday, September 02, 2016

And is it utopia we seek?

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' Utopia ',  a word coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia , describing a fictional island society in the A...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

So this was my day today

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I do find dentist appointments unsettling, even when it's something as routine as a couple of filling-repairs. To neutralise my antici...

Why Marxism refuses to die

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Link to PDF Michael Heinrich starts his book (above) with reasons we should still be interested in studying Marxism. "“At the be...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Expanded Reproduction in an Abstract Capitalist Society

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In the previous post, ' Simple Reproduction in an Abstract Capitalist Society ', we looked at a basic model of how a capitalist soci...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Simple Reproduction in an Abstract Capitalist Society

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Link to online PDF Capitalism is characterised within the Marxist tradition as generalised commodity production;  in Marx’s view, a cor...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Proxima Centauri b

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I found out about it yesterday, from Paul Gilster's blog, Centauri Dreams . It had all the right information: Link to the new W...

"Help Eliza, I'm in trouble!"

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I'm something of a subscriber to the view: 'AI's the solution .. so what's the problem?' The problem under considerati...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Croquet at the Bishop's Palace, Wells

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What a busy day today! I hoovered the house then walked across to the gym for my weight room induction session: bench-press machines and dum...

Blue Labour - so disappointing

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I was really prepared to like Blue Labour and to that end bought this book. Amazon link I read about half the essays before finally ...