March 2004 24
Posted By : Adrian Chan

“Thus, as Adam Smith argued in his Theory of the Moral Sentiments, the individual must phrase his own concerns and feelings and interests in such a way as to make these maximally usable by the

January 2004 29
Posted By : Adrian Chan

one of today’s email exchanges One reason I think you’d like luhmann! he separates communication and interaction. Unlike w/ habermas, under luhmann’s approach you can put associate writing with the dissemination of communication, speech as

January 2004 15
Posted By : Adrian Chan

This from today’s NYT: Game companies are not like phone companies, which have a legal obligation to carry all speech over their lines. The Constitution does not protect speech once it has been signed away

July 2003 01
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I had this thought the other day. I don’t know if it qualifies as an insight or not, but it had that “aha” quality about it that thoughts sometimes have. To find out what a

June 2002 28
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Sampling It’s been said that a characteristic irony of this information age in which we live is that the more information we have the less informed we seem to be. For indeed, it would seem

June 2002 25
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Record There’s more than just a hint of irony in the fact that at the time when we have less quality time being present with ourselves and with others, we have more recording and archiving