Thursday, March 27, 2025

esepora / EZE, 2025

 


An Asemics of Garbage Speech / EZE, 2025

Garbage Speech ~ Trash Talk

GIGO

Refuse

Refusing to Interpret

On the Importance of Being Understood

Interpretation Refused

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On Garbage Speech 

Beyond its aspect of insult as trash talk, which seems, in part, to promulgate the values of one community over the values of another, garbage speech is the excess of the communal. It is performance.

What is the meaning of such performance? Its meaning is in the emphasis of power so embodied. After all, the power to escape interpretation is the power to escape community.

But the power to escape community is also the power to escape an immediate need to be understood as anything other than power(ful) itself.

Not that there is not an excess of non-sense in such performance, but the outcome of acommunal speech is not so much non-sense as much as it is the excess of speech itself. This aspect of excess is waste. This excess is the very act of refuse.

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Skepticism as Asemics / EZE, 2025

Skepticism acknowledges the incomplete and the disconnected, but skepticism does not necessarily offer another path, i.e., another means, i.e., another solution, to the path it has thrown into question. Indeed, at one extreme, skepticism might just force us to let go of an issue entirely, and at the another extreme, skepticism might (at least, seemingly) throw the entire world into question. Yet when it draws our attention to the tenuousness of our connections, skepticism may help us acknowledge the cul de sac. But by calling a matter into question, skepticism forces us to suspend belief and in so doing, also give us a means to investigate the matter at hand. Such is asemics.


Political Skepticism

Politics as a Circuit

Sunday, March 2, 2025

An Asemics of Science / EZE, 2025

Science as a Method of Inquiry and Science as a System of Belief


Objectivity






Science { ... } the Public

 Authority

Junk Science

Junk Science

Science, Good or Bad?

Misuse

Legalities

Importance

Literacy

Politicized

Degree of Freedom

Science by Substitution

Science Redefined

Unacceptable Experiments

Populism and the War on Science

Saving Science

Pro-Science

Research


Scientific Argumentation

Argument

On Dubious Claims

Replicability

Validity


Scientific Truth as ...

Least Wrong

Mythologized

Untotal

Without Objective Reality

The Unknown Unknown

Inference

Learning from Mistakes

Misconception


Against Science

Government

History of Government

Funding?

Scrap

Brainwashing


History of Science

Chinese Science

Science in China

Feudalism

Data Rescue

Culture of Science


Happy Accidents

Cute Mice

Outcome Asemics


Asemics

Alzheimer's

Tobacco

COVID

Odin

Scientific Integrity

On Gold Standard Science


Limitations

Engaged Science

Anti-Science

The Failure of Peer Review

Reproducibility


Toward Community

Open Science

Team Science


AI

Digital Twins


Funding for Science, Historically

Science Policy

Funding

An Argument about Government Funding


Asia

China


Europe

European Science Foundation

European Union


Great Britain

The British Academy

The Royal Society


United States

Public Funding

Science of Science Policy

Funding

NIH

Funding Asemics

NSF

Funding


Science, Philosophy