Coherence Metaphors
My mind is an almost total blank today unfortunately, so the nearest thing I can get to a coherent thought is this fairly rambling one about ...
The Breivik Veto
When asked by prosecutors to identify the point at which he committed himself to anti-Muslim violence, Breivik cited the American-led bombing campaign against Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia, then diligently murdering Balkan Muslims, as “the straw... In his paranoid vision of a forthcoming European civil war, it is clear that Israel was merely an ally of convenience, an enemy of his enemy. ” His manifesto complains that the Western media have been unduly tough on Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic and Russian president Vladimir Putin (“a fair and resolute leader worthy of respect”), who, after all, converted Muslim Chechnya to a... Breivik’s manifesto thunders against the “paralyzing Jewish Holocaust religion,” lamenting the “school classes being bussed to former concentration camps and taught to reject their culture. Like many autodidactic cranks, Breivik treated every stray political thought as a revelation, collecting them in a tedious and vulgar manifesto: 1,500 pages, clipped and plagiarized from both mainstream writers and far-right bloggers.Sandy Starr Is autism just another identity?
What it has done, however, is make me realise that people who share my views of autism are somewhat on the back foot at the moment, in autism advocacy and campaigning circles and in broader debate and discussion. If you had asked me these questions a few years ago, before I became involved with the Autism Ethics Group at King’s College London, then my answer would have been a clear ‘yes’ and ‘no’ respectively. My involvement in the Autism Ethics Group hasn’t changed my views in that respect. And clearly, it is not useful to understand autism as an identity. Clearly, autism is most usefully understood as a disorder. I’d like to look at why that is, what it means, and what the consequences might be. I am interested in autism for three main reasons:. Is autism an identity.Conceptual coherence in software design « Software Keith
There’s no doubt about it, a good design is hard to find . But design is critical in software engineering, just as in hardware engineering – bridges, skyscrapers, iPads, anything in the physical world. I always try to take extra time in the design phase to ensure that I’ve got it right, since I find that with a good design, everything is easier – from the start. And rather than empty academic prescriptions — “flexible, layered, blah blah blah” — I tend to use a series of acid tests whenever I’m coming up with a software design. After all, no one in the world can sum up the essentials of good design in a meaningful way for everyone....
Coherent Conceptual - News
Saatchi captures the confusion of contemporary photography
strategies and conceptual conceits. The title, Out of Focus, may have been meant ironically, but it takes on a more pointed meaning if you approach the show as a mirror of the fractured world of contemporary practice. For me, the most coherent
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The Breivik Veto It was an appropriate moment of puzzlement; there still exists no consensus on what, if any, coherent ideology—beyond a hatred of Muslims—underpinned Breivik's rampage. As in the aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by a deranged |
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Sandy Starr Is autism just another identity? But what has gone largely unremarked upon is the fact that such measures also constitute the price we pay for a loss of coherence in our medical concepts and terminology. In a beleaguered economy, surely it's unsurprising that the state – faced with a |
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Implementation Could Derail Common Core Informational text is seen as a way for students to build coherent general knowledge, as well as reading and writing skills. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text. The standards place a premium on students' use of evidence from texts to |
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Correlation and Resemblance Between Human and Animal Consciousness (CRHAC) What is the difference between awareness, forming concepts, and rational thought? What do we know about consciousness? Is it dualistic, materialist, or somewhere in between? Do animals have consciousness, and how do we know they have or do not have it? |