systems
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Adventures in Applied Actor-Network Theory
The first step is to admit you have a problem, right? Well, I have a problem with computers or, more specifically, with broadband Internet service: my capacity to wallow in distraction seems almost boundless. I can sit for hours, hopping from site to site, tracking this blog and that, contributing to that discussion thread or… Continue reading
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From the Archive: A Phenomenology of Driving, and Other Matters
Continuing along the thread of music and the experience of systems and of movement, here is a post that appeared on my other blog, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth, on November 11, 2011. In it, I draw from half-remembered conversations from grad school to inform an elucidation of the fluidity of movement and the transparency… Continue reading
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The Music of Systems
As I continue to mull over possible connection between ethical experience and music, I came across a passage suggesting that systems have a kind of music to them. I provided students in my environmental ethics class with a few excerpts from Donella M. Meadows’ very useful book, Thinking in Systems: A Primer. The last chapter,… Continue reading
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Object Lessons
My post about the cyclotron case – “The Other End of the Beam” – has made me wonder whether I could build a course in practical ethics, or perhaps just the introductory segment of a course, around a single, physical object. I’d come across a brief account of the idea of an object lesson, which… Continue reading