Jun 16 2021
Survey, “These Truths” jill lepore, only original research on information Civic life and information from punch cards to ENIAC to… Negative outcome
Episodic in there…ok, people were already categorizing,… Go back to Charles Babbage,… Moment… by moment
Book by Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge, human sciences
Focault, “genealogy” prison…let’s go all way the way back… The Archaeology of Knowledge, what does it mean to have a category at all.
Scotus nominalists vs realists
Plesssy was 1/8 constitutional right to pass for white Constitutional right to categorize himself
Ian Hacking books **
Oliver Sachs island of colorblind people
Digital dialectics Too many negations
Nietzsche against categorize Uses of history for life Second-rate Indigestible stones of knowledge that you can’t do anything with Unfashionable observations, untimely meditations
Cases
Narratives: Start with an anecdote… Find something that sticks out… What are the 5 concepts that come out of that. Follow each Book:Louis Menant…the metaphysical club The Law of Errors (on statistics) begins with a court case about whaling and forged signature….Miserly widow not satisfied with her inheritance How do you know if a signature is forged? what are the chances?
Risk… maritime connections, John Levy
(Maurice Ponte phenomenology of perception)