Category Archives: philosophy

Mozilla Open Education course

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Reverend

(Jan) Philipp Schmidt of Peer 2 Peer University has organized an open course (along with Mozilla and ccLearn) focused on designing the “open educational platform of the future.” It’s a great idea for a course (especially a free one!), and … Continue reading →

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Audio of “The Medium is the Massage” from Ubuweb

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Reverend

I am currently embarking on the journey of reading Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage for the first time. I have set up a distributed reading group here after discussing with Rafael Alvarado and Ed Webb the idea of … Continue reading →

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Jefferson’s Permanent Revolution

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Reverend

I have been on a Thomas Jefferson kick lately. Given this, I was really excited to read Peter Rock’s recent post “Jefferson, ideas, property, and the constitution”, which discusses the fallacious logic that ideas can be treated as property. So, … Continue reading →

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Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein and other philosophers on YouTube

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Reverend

Last night, Anto and I spent the evening playing with YouTube. Anto did her Laurea in Philosophy at the Unviersity of Milan and here thesis was on Ludwig Wittgenstein, so it is always a joy to listen to her talk … Continue reading →

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