Narratives — Entidade

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Celebrating Our Past and Shaping Our Future

This is an amazing day – celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in America! We need to celebrate history, but we also need to avoid being consumed by the past. We need to

dothemath.ucsd.edu·há 2 meses

Sociology | Do the Math

You know me: I’ll go after almost any aspect of modernity, including technology, agriculture, or even written language. Let’s now take a big swipe at “The Law.” But first, we’ll need to get a few comm

traffickingtransformations.org·há 12 meses

Marketing, Narratives, and Consumer Desire within Auction Catalogs of Cultural Objects

Yates, Donna (2025) Marketing, Narratives, and Consumer Desire within Auction Catalogs of Cultural Objects. Advances in Archaeological Practice. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2024.39. Abstract: This art

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The Story of B | Do the Math

Oh No. Is Do the Math about to get hijacked for another long series about a Daniel Quinn book, like it was for Ishmael? How about just a really long post? The Story of B is the second in a series of

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Ishmael Overview | Do the Math

Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important modernity-challenging ideas are pa

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Outside the Fishbowl | Do the Math

One consequence of having developed a perspective on the long-term fate of modernity is a major disconnect when communicating with others. Even among people who have a sense for our predicament, my vi

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The Simple Story of Civilization | Do the Math

[Note: This post inspired a podcast interview that traces a similar path.] Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay The stories we fashion about ourselves are heavily influenced by our short life spa

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Human Exceptionalism | Do the Math

For almost two decades now, I have been on a journey to understand what comes next in the grand human enterprise. I started out in a mindset superficially similar to that of most people I encounter—as