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We must move from the problem of ‘common-sense knowledge … What people ‘know’ as ‘reality” (Berger and Luckmann, 1966: 5) to one of embodied sensitivity, thereby explicating social reality at its level of sense - the level that is skirted by the reduction of habituality to taken-for-granted knowledge. Schutz brought sociology to the threshold, but the theoretical task remains to push to the interior, of the prereflective sociality of situations.

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James M. Ostrow, Social Sensitivity: A Study of Habit and Experience

A dig at Sartre and now one at Berger and Luckmann - oh Ostrow you beautiful person.

(Source: thepovertyoftheory)

Another consequence of the trend to only talk about data and not society, norms, politics, values and everything else confusing about the analogue world is the victim-blaming implicit in most of these articles. The cause of the problem? Women sharing data. The solution? Women need to better control their data

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(Source: The Atlantic)

Tech writers […] have focused too much on the data and have forgotten the social world in which the data is situated.

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(Source: The Atlantic)

I watched this video spread around my friends, every single one of them posting what a great cause it was and this worried me. What worried me wasn’t the cause, but the way nobody questioned it.

- Has social media killed critical thinking?

For a long time, evolutionary psychologists have claimed that we are all imprinted with adaptive imperatives from a distant past […]. This kind of thinking frames our sense of the natural order. But what if men and women were fulfilling not biological imperatives but social roles, based on what was more efficient throughout a long era of human history? What if that era has now come to an end?

- The Atlantic

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

- Robert R. Coveyou

When you write a scholarly work, it tends to be understood by very few people, and has one publication point over time,” he said. “But when you build a service, you can touch millions, to hundreds of millions of people directly.

- Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech - NYTimes.com (via markgammon)

If you set women up as sexual objects which society has, no matter what we are doing, that makes women into objects rather than human beings and what you create is a situation in which women who then stand up and make arguments about things, terrify these men who have no access to real women and so they beat them up in the terms in which they’ve been offered by society, which has nothing to do with the content of what they are saying. Women are supposed to be sexual objects, we’re still not supposed to be thinking, feeling, complex human beings. It is due to the continual representation of women as just beauties, the attempt to reduce women to a surface on which we project sexuality.

- Thought provoking statements by S. Orbach (psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer) in a Guardian article about woman bloggers