http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/medicine/019medicinelemov.mp3 “Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less […]

No doubt it is often convenient to formulate the mental facts in an atomistic sort of way, and to treat the higher states of consciousness as if they were all […]

see also https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/diasaster-ahead-earthquakes-and-volcanos/

http://webuser.uni-weimar.de/~cixo5195/audio/lectures9_pickering.mp3 Andy’s new Sigma project, an update on http://www.notbored.org/sigma.html

“It is not the case that there was ever a “we” that embarked upon a journey of complexity, riven by a time lag (between a body that is over-fed and […]

Crows see us as another invention. Like summer and beauty, They shimmer at sunrise in their new cars, Change their names and color when they see us. When they fly, […]

https://audio.guim.co.uk/2016/04/14-41619-gnl.sci.160414.jp.mice_sounds_research.mp3

http://ia601502.us.archive.org/23/items/160421OSPODCASTBorders/160421-OS-PODCAST-Borders.mp3 “What makes a border in 2016? And how is it, on an earth supposedly flattened by free markets and liberal values, that the walls around us seem higher than […]

https://www.academia.edu/24546212/Poetry_is_Cosmic_War_Interview_ @InfiniteSynths

see also http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/the-global-war-on-drugs-is-a-failure http://novaramedia.com/2016/04/the-end-of-drugs-prohibition/

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/wachtel-on-the-arts-kent-monkman-1.3542643

https://soundcloud.com/globaldevelopment/city-of-women

“H.L.: Are you going to ask me questions about the Situationists? Because I have something I’d like to talk about. K.R.: Fine, go ahead. H.L.: The Situationists . . . […]