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Goings-on of the day

Nicholas Ostler

Søren Mau, 2023

3/16/24

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A Common quest for understanding. 1988

3/13/24

Events of the day

Travel plans

Peter L. Berger

John R. Searle, 2010. This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property,...

Mundane life

Diary of a trip

Ian Johnson, 2004

Famed art critic Boris Groys’s thoughts on time and the contemporary

Rundown of the day

E-Flux Joyrnal’s assembled these and writings by critics and curators

By Tao Tao Liu

Peter Berger

An absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions. In this book, Berger that religion is the "sacred canopy" which every human society builds over its world to give it meaning, expanding on theories of knowledge that he first explored (with Thomas Luckmann) in The Social Construction of Reality.

As per usual

Various comments on threads

Brandon Shimoda