Daniel Rourke /stream

Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments
Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments
Bookmark "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" by Jacques Rancière
We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the most…

June 23 2010, 9:48am | Comments
Bookmark Inside the Mundaneum
Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen…

April 22 2010, 2:39am | Comments
Bookmark Your Reality is out of Date
These slow-changing facts are what I term “mesofacts.” Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we…

March 5 2010, 5:14am | Comments
Bookmark The Library in the New Age
Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments
Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments
Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion
One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments
Bookmark Daniel Everett Debunks the Essence of Human Language
Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what…

July 9 2009, 1:28am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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