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Aristotle:
Poetics
[ca. 350 B.C.]
[ ... locus classicus of the organic metaphor of progress in arts : youth - adulthood - old age ... ]
"Brustad-buene:
Flertallet har ikke rett til å vedta hva som helst"
[3/1999]
"Globalisering:
trussel - eller frigjøring?"
[6/1999]
[ ... Bakke, tidligere direktør i konkurransetilsynet, drøfter nøkternt 'markedssvikt' og 'styringssvikt' - og har en del positivt å si om globaliseringsprosessen ... ]
Besant, Annie:
Evolution and Occult
[1913]
[ ... one of the roots of functionalism in design reached probably into theosophy ... ]
Bierce, Ambrose:
The Devil's Dictionary
[1911?]
[ ... a collection of breathtakingly sharp, acid, intelligent & funny observations ... ]
Brown, William H.:
The History of the First Locomotives in America
[1871]
Bush, Vannevar:
"As We May Think"
[1945]
[ ... the idea of hypertext launched here - more than 50 years ago ... ]
Butler, Samuel:
"Darwin Among the Machines"; "Lucubratio Ebria"
[1863, 1865]
[ ... Butler's evolutionary speculations: machines develop in a fashion remarkably similar to the evolution of living beings; are they about to take over? ... ]
Carnegie, Andrew:
James Watt
[1905]
Darwin, Charles:
The Voyage of the Beagle
Darwin, Charles:
Origin of Species
[1859]
[ ... design-like biological adaptations interpreted as a result of natural selection ... ]
Darwin, Charles:
Descent of Man
DiLorenzo, Thomas:
"The US Nationalization of Microsoft"
[2000]
[ ... a very dissenting view on the wisdom of bashing Microsoft ... ]
Elster, Jon:
"More Than Enough: Accounting for Tastes"
[1997]
[ ... Elster's review of Gary S. Becker's book Accounting for Tastes (1996) ... ]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo:
"The American Scholar"
[1837]
Engels, Frederick:
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
[1880]
Franklin, Benjamin:
"Way to Wealth"
[1758]
Ferguson, Adam:
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
[1767]
Goldstein, Paul J.:
"The Drugs/Violence Nexus"
[1985]
Greenough, Horatio:
"American Architecture"
[1853]
"Forum for verdens problemer"
[1998]
[ ... kritikk av Erik Dammanns Forum for systemdebatt ... ]
"Uten håp om å finne havn"
[1998]
[ ... kritikk av verdikommisjonens målsetting ... ]
"History of Plastics"
[199?]
Hume, David:
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
[1779]
[ ... brilliant, though ultimately ambiguous, refutation of natural theology and the argument from design, as presented by e.g. William Paley (see below) some 20 years later ... ]
"Identitet som usikkerhetsfaktor"
[1999]
[ ... "'Den som synes hans fedreland er deilig, er bare en bløthjertet begynner; den som synes at ethvert land er som hans eget, er allerede sterk; men bare den som ser hele verden som et fremmed land, er fullkommen.'" ... ]
Jacobson, Joseph:
"The Winning Ways of Weightlessness" [1997]
[ ... computer predictions for 1998: new portability, electronic ink, end of the published book, etc. ... ]
Kant, Immanuel:
An Answer to the Question 'What is Enlightenment?' [1784]
Lissitsky, El:
About 2 Squares' [1922]
Mendel, Gregor:
"Experiments in Plant Hybridization." [1865]
Mitchell, William J.:
City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn [1996]
"Teorien og nettet" [2000]
[ ... den globale landsbyen er blitt en global landsbytorv - til sosialøkonomenes overraskelse ... ]
"Seks milliarder mennesker " [2000]
[ ... Professor i sosialøkonomi PREBEN MUNTHE ved Universitetet i Oslo kommenterer forskjellige aspekter ved den globale befolkningsveksten. ... ]
Nadelman, Ethan A.:
"Commonsense Drug Policy" [1998]
[ "... Imagine a policy that starts by acknowledging that drugs are here to stay,
and that we have no choice but to learn how to live with them so that they cause the
least possible harm. Imagine a policy that focuses on reducing not illicit drug use per
se but the crime and misery caused by both drug abuse and prohibitionist policies ... " ]
Noe, N. Rain:
"[In Praise of Anonymous Industrial Design]"
[found Feb.1998]
Paley, William:
Natural Theology:
or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Diety, Collected from the Appearances of Nature [1802]
[ ... design-like biological adaptations interpreted as evidence of an Intelligent Creator; the locus classicus of "argument from design" (analysed and refuted by David Hume some 20 years earlier; cf. above) ... ]
Plato:
Phaedrus [ca 360 B.C.]
The Princeton Writing Program Handouts
Richardson, James:
Our Patent System and What We Owe to It [1878]
Schwarz, Kathryn B.:
Research and Writing
For High School and College Students [1997]
Smith, Adam:
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations [1776]
Sokal, Alan and Jean Bricmont:
Introduction to
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science [1998]
[ ... "The goal of this book is to make a limited but original contribution toward the critique of the admittedly nebulous Zeitgeist that we have called "postmodernism". (...) our aim is to draw attention to a relatively little-known aspect, namely the repeated abuse of concepts and terminology coming from mathematics and physics." ... ] -- To visit Alan Sokal's homepage, with several hundred online references debating the book, click here.
Soros, George:
"The Capitalist Threat" [1997]
[ ... a multibillionaire philanthropist argues that spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic societies ... ]
Soros, George:
"The Theory of Reflexivity" [1994]
[ ... Soros explains his notion of reflexivity, or two-way feedback mechanism typical for operation of all social sciences ... ]
Soros, George:
"Towards a Global Open Society" [1998]
Sowell, Thomas:
"Too Many Ph.Ds?" [1999]
[ ... higher education makes us perhaps lose common sense ... ]
Thomas, Cal:
"The Feminist Raping of America" [1999]
[ ... On Clinton and the kind treatment he received from the US feminists ... ]
Trebay, Guy:
"Against Collecting" [1998]
[ ... brooding of a man who hates most of what others fancy ... ]
Veblen, Thorstein:
The Theory of the Leisure Class [1899]
[ ... a classic tongue-in-cheek analysis of the phenomenon of sumptuousness and fashion ... ]
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