There is a vote to delete Library 2.0 from Wikipedia. I am not going to say anything except quote my comments on the AFD page:
I hate the term. But the very fact that there is a debate around the issue means that that debate should be vocalized. The article should spell out completely the […]
I would apply this to my philosophy of religion (or the religious at the core of various religions) in general:
It is not good to talk about Zen because Zen is nothingness … If you talk about it you are always lying, and if you don’t talk about it no one knows it is there.
-Robert […]
Today is the first day of winter here; not officially, but today I had that first realization that fall has gone and the seasons have changed. It is the perfect time too, just cold enough to make you feel uncomfortable and you walk at a brisk pace to keep warm. I have my […]
Walking in the rain today I was amazed by some of our major biases towards the book as a vehicle of thought transmission. We give much credence to the book: an author’s thoughts are represented by his books, so much to the point that when we say “Augustine’s thought on this subject” what we […]
The critique I can give to her position is that classification schemes give only the illusion of order and hierarchy where it doesn’t truly exist. We all know that classifications have their own cultural–i.e. relativist–biases. What we don’t like to admit is that these classification systems come from not only group discussion and agreement amongst professionals, but also the cultural environment where the system is developed. And societies will cover over the fact that the classification systems used to define its reality have no fundamental basis (Foucault). Peterson doesn’t consider the possibility that reality is relativist, thereby making “traditional” classification are static, possibly not reflective of current cultural beliefs, or even the tool of dominate power structures. This is not something I am arguing is true, mind you, but traditional classifications do have their own philosophical problems.
