I have picked up Cass Sunstein's latest book on cost / benefit trade offs, and am enjoying it. But it seems to me that there is a fundamental problem here with the framing. The model being put forward is one in which we straight-forwardly calculate costs and benefits for any choice and then we make … Fortsätt läsa A small note on cost and benefit
Månad: september 2018
Memory, Ricoeur, History, Identity, Privacy and Forgetting (Identity and Privacy II)
In the literature on memory it is almost mandatory to cite the curious case of the man who who after an accident could remember no more than a few minutes of his life before resetting and then forgetting everything again. He had retained long term memory from before the accident, but lacked the ability to … Fortsätt läsa Memory, Ricoeur, History, Identity, Privacy and Forgetting (Identity and Privacy II)
The Narrated Self (Identity and Privacy I)
The discussions and debates about privacy are key to trust in the information society. Yet, the our understanding of the concept of privacy is still in need of further exploration. This short essay is an attempt to highlight one aspect of the concept that seems to be crucial, and highlight a few observations about what … Fortsätt läsa The Narrated Self (Identity and Privacy I)