Posted by Joshua Michael
Category Archives: Cultural Anthropology
Symbolic Systems adjuvant: “Wittgenstein’s forgotten lesson” from Prospect
“Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and art can be studied as if they were sciences, with ‘researchers’ compelled to spell out their ‘methodologies’—a pretence which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.”
Collections Volunteering: The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
“The Smith has for a number of years encouraged volunteering as part of our collections cataloguing and research efforts particularly for those interested in a career in the cultural sector. Volunteers are provided with a basic training in all aspects of curatorial work and set tasks, projects and lecturing opportunities, if time permits.” (Continued in Collections Volunteering.)
Mathematics, Linguistics / “58 and other Confusing Numbers” – Numberphile
Copied from Numberphile’s Youtube page:
“Published on Mar 6, 2015
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