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George Johnson, The anthropologists vs Jared Diamond ("A Question of Blame When Societies Fall," NYT):
'By the time I left Amerind, I realized that what I had witnessed was a clash of world views. Central to the “cosmology” of Dr. Diamond’s tribe is a principle celebrated throughout the physical and biological sciences - to understand is to ( Read more... )

The stuff you end up reading for a philosophy course on environmental sustainability... *whistles* I'd never felt so unmoored in any subject before. There is such an overabundance of literature, and the debate is so heated and fast and dynamic - because of its newness as a topic and because of the urgency which all its theorists and commentators ( Read more... )

In yesterday's philosophy tutorial, our discussion of urban spaces and "socio-technical" material infrastructures wandered obliquely into an amused commentary on the slow food culture spreading out from continental Europe and taking foothold over the developed world.

And Voila! I see today in The Nation: Slow Food NationKind of related. Paul B. ( Read more... )