Tag Archives: epistemology

Dec
04
2008

BLogic at nyt.com

Last night I was reading Andrew Sullivan’s piece on blogging as a literary form in the current Atlantic (in the dead tree edition no less, a format I now use almost exclusively in the bathroom). “Andrew” argues that blogging is to writing as jazz is to music: an improvisational form that at its best is a conversation [...]

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Sep
15
2008

madden’s epistemic break

Today’s Times had a brilliant article about John Madden that makes the counterintuitive argument that the man is a true public intellectual, responsible for a drastic shift in how people watch, understand, and follow american football. Before the internet made fantasy sports into a multi-billion dollar industry and even casual fans were able to access [...]

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