Law & Society Blog

The last couple of months have been extremely busy, at work (lots of great cases), at home, and academically (in the middle of a challenging article and preparing for a fall semester antitrust course). As a result, I have not been able to keep up with my regular posting schedule on the Law & Society […]

Among the many gems on YouTube are rare videos of philosophers. This is the first time that I have seen Adorno, Horkheimer, Heidegger and Husserl!
Vilem Flusser
On communication, part 1, part 2
Juergen Habermas
Interview
Jean Baudrillard
2004 Lecture
Theodor Adorno
Blasting Joan Baez
On humanity
Max Horkeimer
On critical theory
Jean Paul Sartre
About himself, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Michel Foucault
Discussion with Noam Chomsky, […]

As seen in Chinatown, NYC.Technorati Tags: NYC, advertisement

I never quite bought into the penguin craze, but I am a complete sucker for pictures, videos, and articles about polar bear cub Knut. Der Spiegel, a reliable source for all things Knut (if not much else), now has a photo gallery of other animal babies. I know, we usually ponder heavy stuff on this […]

Here’s the latest Newsweek poll. Interestingly, 68% think that one can be a moral person and be an atheist. That’s encouraging.
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My apologies for the recent dearth of postings, which (fortunately) is the result of a number of good things having taken over my life more or less completely. Among them, one great case after another (including on the pro bono side ACLU v. Gonzales, even though I hasten to add that I only played a […]

Fabio Giglietto took the time to translate my comments on Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form into Italian. Thanks! Check out Fabio’s website, which looks very interesting.Technorati Tags: Spencer Brown, Fabio Giglietto

Check out David Scharf’s brilliant Flash video on YouTube or on his homepage. (HT: BB). Very timely in light of the (altogether unsurprising) revelations about the FBI’s rampant abuse of the National Security Letters. But the problem lies deeper. The ubiquity of privacy invasions (e.g., photographs whenever you enter an office building in New York, […]

In Hobbes’ state of nature, self-interested robots descend into mutual warfare, because they cannot resolve their resource conflicts by non-violent means. If every robot is programmed to maximize its own welfare, if all goods are rivalrous, and if there is no powerful central authority to change the cost/benefit calculus, then a state of mutual warfare […]

Cory Doctorow is teaching a course on copyright, DRM, and IP policy at USC. His syllabus contains a wealth of well-chosen links, which make for a great introduction to the subject. The lectures are available for download here (podcast subscription link).Technorati Tags: IP policy, DRM, doctorow