Ontology

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• Anti-Realism and Capitalist Ideology

  
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  A great quote from Andrew Collier’s Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy : If there is a single philosophical idea which reflects more closely than any other this commercial (rather than technological) spirit, it is the epistemic fallacy, which reduces nature to our cognitive ...
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• Most Valuable Books of 2009

  
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  As the year draws to a close I find myself looking back at this crazy year and those texts that impacted me the most. For me 2009 has been one of those years in which everything changed, where all sorts of old assumptions and fixations dissipated like so much mist, and where I’ve found myself having to rebuild ...
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• Being an Object-Oriented Ontologist and Actor-Network-Theorist is Hard!

  
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  Today in class we reached the fourth basic principle of Latour’s ontology in Irreductions as depicted by Graham in the first chapter of Prince of Networks . As I formulate it: The degree of reality possessed by an actant or object is a function of the number of its alliances with other actants. Latour’s ...
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• Earth Without People

  
  Genetologic Research — Authority: 104
  Alan Weisman Earth Without People , 2005 Given the mounting toll of fouled oceans, overheated air, missing topsoil, and mass extinctions, we might sometimes wonder what our planet would be like if humans suddenly disappeared. Would Superfund sites revert to Gardens of Eden? Would the seas again fill with fish? ...
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• Horrific Nature?/Metroidic Nature?

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 405
  Michael ends a post partially in response  to my last post that nature isn’t terrifying. Many of my posts here would seem to assert exactly the opposite – that a darkly vitalistic nature is a horrible monstrousity – but this darkness is a darkness for us and not in itself. This was suggested in comments to ...
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• Cyborg Systems: Sociology’s Proper Unit of Analysis

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 123
  by pj.rey The increasing centrality of the Internet in our daily lives has precipitated a spate of theorizing about how we – as humans and as a society – are changing (or not) due to the constant technological mediation of our most basic interactions and activities.  Let’s face it: This sort of theorizing is ...
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• The Uneasiness in Nature

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 405
  Zizek’s Unbehagen In Der Nature addresses current discussions surrounding ecology and nature. Right off the bat however Zizek’s conceptualization of nature is limited – seeming to be nature as it appears to us, nature as we can manipulate it. The anxieity or uneasiness that Zizek discusses seems more to be ...
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• Neo-Liberal Normativity

  
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  Over at Poetix Dominic has an interesting post up responding to Pete’s recent discussion of normativity over at Speculative Heresy. Dominic writes: The crux here seems to be that “man” is not in himself a normal animal: normative accounts of human being are best taken as descriptions of the commitments we ...
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• Maupassant’s Horror

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 405
  Guy de Maupassant’s short horror tale The Horla (the out there) is excellent ground for darkly vitalistic speculations. The gothic tale, one of the many celebrated in Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature” is told in a series of diary entries. The author who at the start revels in the wonders of ...
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• Translation and Information

  
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  I’m a bit groggy this morning. Last night my three year old daughter smacked her forehead against the coffee table and we had to take a trip to the emergency room. Seven stitches and five hours later we finally got home around one thirty in the morning and then didn’t get asleep until four or four thirty. I’m ...
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• SWAT4LS: wrapping up #1

  
  chem-bla-ics — Authority: 117
  Its already been five days since the SWAT4LS meeting ( matching blog ), and finally got around to writing up my personal summary. I very much enjoyed the Blue Obelisk dinner on Thursday evening with Nico , Duncan and Miguel (the CDK one). The SWAT4LS was fun, interesting, perhaps to short, but very much ...
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• Relations of Translation Between Actants

  
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  I am still experimenting with the diagram below, but as I was teaching the concept of translation in Harman’s Prince of Networks today, I found it to be a useful heuristic device for thematizing just what is new or interesting in Latour’s concept of translation. Scroll past the Scribd diagram for a bit of ...
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• Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2009, Amsterdam

  
  O'Really? — Authority: 444
  Last Friday, the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam hosted a workshop called Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2009 . Following on from last year [1], the workshop proceedings will be published at ceur-ws.org and in a special issue of the Journal of ...
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• Bhaskar Again: The Real, the Actual, and the Empirical

  
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  The post below can be enlarged by scrolling to the bottom of the post and clicking on the “full page” and “zoom” buttons. View this document on Scribd
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• The Decline and Fall of Assorted Empires

  
  The Map Scroll — Authority: 481
  A visualization of four European empires over the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries: The bubbles respresent "the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by [areal] extent"; hence Britains loss of Canada looks like a more significant bursting of the imperial bubble than its loss of ...
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• What Might Have Been; What Still Might Be

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 110
  Many progressives, even though they’ve been working for a PO-based health care reform bill, have 1) never given up Medicare for All as the goal of their activity, and 2) decided, in the first quarter of 2009, that Medicare for All could not pass the new Congress. They then reacted to their realization by concluding ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Michael Schroeder: Predicton of Drug Target Interactions from Literature by Context Similarity

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 120
  Typical researcher spends 12.4 hours a week searching for information. Why not use Google? ‘Cause Google is not semantic. Go PubMed – Filter PubMed contents against all the terms in the Gene Ontology. If you use simple categorisation for information retrieval potentially increase search burden due to ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics abd Proteochemometrics

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 120
  Image via Wikipedia (Notes frm the presentation as it happens) Knowledge is not uni or bivariate, but we think of it as such: this leads to information loss. Naming things: showing example of a trivial name, an IUPAC systematic name and an InChI and points out that these have different information content. ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Sonja Zillner: Towards the Ontology Based Classification of Lymphoma Patients using Semantic Image Annotation

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 120
  (Again, these are notes as the talk happens) This has to do with the Siemens Project Theseus Medico – Semantic Medical Image Understanding (towards flexible and scalable access to medical images) Different images from many different sources: e.g. X-ray, MRI etc…use this and combine with treatment plans, ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Matthias Loebe: TIM A semantic web application for the specification of metadata items in clinical research

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 120
  (Again, these are live notes as bullet points.) Problems with the Specification of Clinical Trials Development of trial protocol Preparation of study centres Registration of patients etc….. Case report Forms capture data at different time points (lab results, therapy outcomes, treatment history etc..) ...
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