Vom Funkturm / From the Radio Tower » English http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog Matthias Jennys persönliches Weblog / Matthias Jenny's personal weblog Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:48:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pics from NYC & Boston http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=133 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=133#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:54:17 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=133 Budapest

A few pictures from a recent trip to New York City and Boston are now up on my deviantART page.

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=133 0 Recent Essential Mixes http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=129 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=129#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:47:09 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=129 BBC Radio 1′s Essential Mix program had three amazing DJ sets this past fall: Boys Noize, DJ Mehdi & Busy P, and The Twelves. I saw both Boys Noize and Busy P in Zurich this year and their Essential Mixes nicely capture their respective talents. (The first half of DJ Mehdi & Busy P’s Essential Mix — the one DJ Mehdi was responsible for — can be skipped though.) I’ve never seen The Twelves, but hearing their Essential Mix makes me hope they’ll visit my neck of the woods soon.

Also, Busy P’s mix features the A-Trak remix of YYY’s “Heads Will Roll”, which I wasn’t familiar with before. Now I realized that there are quite a few remixes of that song, the best of which are, in my opinion, those by Passion Pit and DIGIRAATII.

Enjoy!

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=129 0 Jon Stewart on the Swiss Ban on Minarets http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=123 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=123#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:24:35 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=123
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
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]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=123 0 Academia Engelberg http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=111 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=111#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:14:53 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=111 On Wednesday, I was given the opportunity to give a reply to a talk by Peter Meyer on the evolutionary background of violence at the 8th Dialogue on Science on “Violence in Human Society” at the Academia Engelberg. Videos of Meyer’s talk and my reply are available here; a direct link to my video can be found here. Furthermore, I’m blogging about the conference (in German) here.

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=111 0 Pictures from Budapest http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=101 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=101#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:22:12 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=101

This and seven more pictures from Budapest.

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=101 0 In Defense of a Dogma http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=48 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=48#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:35:56 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=48 From the latest New Yorker (well the latest that arrived in my mail anyway):

(C) Cartoonbank.com

“Well, it’s as we suspected—twelve inches equals a foot.”

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=48 0 Existentialism and Football http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=37 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=37#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:57:56 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=37 Very funny:

(Via Farhang Erfani at Continental Philosophy.)

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=37 0 The Photographer of Venice http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=25 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=25#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:14:38 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=25 I was in Venice over the weekend and uploaded some of the pictures I took to my deviantART page. Alas, I was too lazy to find any original titles for them. The new pictures start with this one.

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=25 0 A Rand on Rand? http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=23 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=23#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:40:08 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=23 The 2008 update of The Philosophical Lexicon includes an entry inspired by Ayn Rand. Alas, one that isn’t very favorable to her polemical style (and to some degree her overall system of thought with its tendencies to over-psychologize things, I suppose):

rand, n. An angry tirade occasioned by mistaking philosophical disagreement for a personal attack and/or evidence of unspeakable moral corruption. “When I questioned his second premise, he flew into a rand.” Also, to attack or stigmatise through a rand. “When I defended socialised medicine, I was randed as a communist.”

(Via Leiter Reports.)

]]> http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23 0 MCLA on Stockholm Syndrome http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=20 http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=20#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:51:50 +0000 Matthias Jenny http://www.matthiasjenny.name/blog/?p=20 MCLA has an intriguing post up over at Strange Blue Planet in response to my “Consent and Coercion: The Power of Stockholm Syndrome“. MCLA makes the following provocative pronouncement: “Human society as we know it is Stockholm syndrome at a gigantic scale.”

To back up this claim MCLA mentions several institutions and social facts where the mechanisms of Stockholm syndrome might be at work. While I don’t fully agree with all the points made, the post is still an engaging read. Check it out!

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