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“The public is organized and made effective by means of representatives who as guardians of custom, as legislators, as executives, judges, etc., care for its special interests by methods intended to regulate the conjoint actions of individuals and groups.
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Quote of the Week
In his book “ When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a new Global Order ,” Martin Jacques argues that China is not only ascendant economically. It is also on a path to marginalize the West and change global conceptions of what is modernity. Does this include modern communication
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Speech and “Harmony” in China: An Experiment
I am probably not the only philosopher to have received a copy of Doxiadis and Papadimitriou’s Logicomix for Christmas — a graphic novel, narrated by the character of Bertrand Russell, about the development of logic in the twentieth century. I’ve just finished reading it
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The Cartoon Adventures of Russell and Frege
Imagine that you are an old lady from a poor household in a town in the outskirts of Chennai city, India. All you have wanted desperately for the last year and a half is to get a title in your name for the land you own, called patta . You need this land title to serve as a collateral for a bank loan you have been hoping to borrow to finance your granddaughter’s college education
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Paying Zero for Public Services
Imagine there are accountability mechanisms and no one knows how to use them. Development practitioners in Peru wrestled with exactly this problem in the early 2000s when transparency and accountability became integral parts of government agencies – but citizens had no way of knowing what made public service delivery good and what should be complained about.
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From Inertia to Participation: The Case of RECURSO in Peru
It is generally accepted that independent news media are one of the main building blocks for good governance. Ensuring media’s independence from the control of the powerful is a difficult task, however
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A Delicate Dance between Distance and Access
Some recent research by Jens Förster, Kai Epstude and Amina Özelsel, suggests that thinking about sex, and specifically about casual sex, can increase one’s analytic abilities, whereas thinking about love (specifically, about going for a walk with a beloved person) can increase more holistic/creative thinking. From what I can tell of the explanation that Foerster and collaborators offer the causal relations might go both ways: the hypothesis that their work suggests is that analytic philosophy makes you sexy, whereas continental makes you lovely.
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Why analytic philosophy is sexy
My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government.
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A Roadmap to Open Government
CommGAP ‘s second-born has arrived! Yesterday we launched the second book in our series on governance and reform, this one baptized Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform (lovingly called “Sentinel” by all those who worked hard on getting this book published for the last year or so).
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Standing Sentinel: Media and Governance Reform
The leaders of Switzerland have a ticklish problem, one of the most difficult problems in political thought and practice.
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Minarets in Switzerland: The Dilemmas of Public Opinion
On Monday this week, I went to a presentation by Michael Buehler at the Center for Strategic &International Studies in Washington, DC. The title of his talk, “ Of Geckos and Crocodiles: Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Efforts ,” piqued my curiosity as I had blogged about Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission earlier this year. Buehler began by giving a comprehensive overview of Indonesia’s corruption eradication measures since 1998 to date, outlining the passage of corruption-related laws and regulations, establishment of independent anti-corruption bodies, and development of anti-corruption programs
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“Saya Cicak” (I am a Gecko): The Power of Public Support
Okay, I’m hearing rumblings about some sort of Dublin philosophy Grad conference, but is there any information out there somewhere on the wild web regarding the specifics of this thing? In particular is there an active due date for submissions or has that past? Are submissions still encouraged or have the organisers gathered a sufficient number of papers
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2010 Grad Conference
I’ve installed a shoutbox on the blog – it’s to be found in the sidebar to the right when viewing any of the pages or blog posts. All you have to do is type your name and your message into the little fields to have it posted on the shoutbox. The messages are persistent for a few weeks and then disappear, and it can only remember a few hundred
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The Shoutbox
I have been reading a couple of densely argued, complex and interesting papers by Paul Boghossian, “The Rule Following Considerations” ( Mind 98 (1989): 507-49) and “The Status of Content” ( Philosophical Review 99 (1990): 157-84). I thought it might help me to understand the intricacies of Boghossian’s arguments to blog about them and try to lay out the rich vein of argumentation. The main goal of the discussion is pretty clear.
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Boghossian on the Sceptical Solution
Dan Graham has been a central figure in contemporary art since the 1960s, and is widely considered one of the most significant artists of his generation. Over the past four decades, he has created a body of work that is as uncategorizable as it is influential—from early experiments with video and performance to explorations of architecture and the public sphere to collaborations with musicians such as Glen Branca and Sonic Youth. Join Graham in conversation with Bennett Simpson and Chrissie …
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Opening-Day Talk: Dan Graham in conversation with Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles
independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others. Unlike the protests of the 1960s the objections to HAARP have been registered using the tools of the 1990s
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CHemTRAILS in Spokane, Washington/ Secret Societies part 1 H.A.A.R.P. is A WMD being USED ON US!
In 1847 the great quarrel started between neoclassicism and romanticism over whether art was there to represent the eternal or express the internal. Aesthetically, I’ve always had a soft spot for neoclassical painting: mathematical precision; a moment of beauty frozen forever more. But then again, whose heart doesn’t belong to romanticism
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Les affaires semantics
I’ve recently returned to an inchoate idea which I originally discussed with Paal at the last Eigse, and which I’d like to throw open for comments here. My suggestion (which Paal rejected) was that it is necessary for me to judge my own existence, as well as my determinate identity, to be necessary, precisely because the judgement presupposes my very existence and determinate identity. So we have two related claims: (i) that it is incoherent to regret having been born.
A wrapup of the Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0 by Senator Kate Lundy. She discusses what worked well, some possible outcomes and thanks to all the people who contributed to making the topic (and the event) successful.
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A wrapup of the Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0 by Senator Kate Lundy
Kurt’s jacket Originally uploaded by OneStepBehind Eat your heart out Kenneth Branagh! With One Step Behind (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediationspix), I am experimenting with Flickr and a few other social media tools in a project that explores Sweden through fiction.
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One Step Behind