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“Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,”
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
theoretical physics
Prashanth Narayan • 1 card
Nobel Prizes have been given to economists whose theories were based on idealized arguments with no empirical support, providing fodder for neoliberal policies that led to extreme inequality and fueled sociopolitical polarization.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
People trying to win respectability for clearly discredited theories—or, in the case of Holocaust revisionists, trying to whitewash entire chapters of history—exploited the postmodernist argument that all truths are partial.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
As Barad spoke, I experienced something extraordinary. For a few brief moments, as her words hung in the air above us in the darkened auditorium, I understood quantum physics. And when she stopped speaking, that understanding was gone. It was a product of intra-action too. I was left with the sense that while I would never really understand quantum
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Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
“Are they real?
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Our interests in life are not always served by viewing people and things as collections of atoms—but this doesn’t negate the truth or utility of physics.