We know half the world is urban — but what will our world look like in the year 2100? We will be compressed even further up and away from each other in skyscrapers? Or will we begin to winnow out and find room to stretch the horizon?
Andreas Saugstad wrote this article.
Two of the most prolific and famous philosophers in the twentieth century were Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Russell was Wittgenstein’s teacher in Cambridge around 1911. Russell was the leading philosopher in England at that time, and one of the world’s leading thinkers in philosophy of mathematics and logic.
Continue reading → Reflections on Russell and Wittgenstein: Changing Oneself and Changing the World
It’s that time of year again when New York City once again feels sorry for itself and the parade of 9/11 martyrs make their mandatory appearance in the pit of what used to be the World Trade Center. This morning, we witnessed the young children of the dead — they “do not remember their father” — but are nonetheless forced to pretend to recall him on television, in speeches they did not write, to help perpetuate the offensive and utterly meaningless “Why Us?” chest thumping that has replaced healing and rediscovery of a forward-propelling hope in America.
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Because of our nature as selfish, yet cogent, beings — we fail to realize how hard the world spins while we are sleeping.
We miss so much with our eyes closed and minds dreaming.
Evil propagates the world over via the misled good intentions of honorable people.
After a hard-nosed — but always friendly — negotiation, we are pleased to announce the small involvement of Boles Books Writing & Publishing ™ in providing some GIS (Geographic Information Systems) material from our ongoing Dramatic Medicine project concerning GIS in Public Health to Glencoe/McGraw-Hill publishing in a three book textbook deal.
It’s time once again for our annual worldwide Urban Semiotic reader check in — if you are comfortable publicly sharing your answers — for the following three questions:
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