'Fuelled by dreams and powered by imagination': considering digital technologies through the lens of a theology of play

The boundaries between information and entertainment, work and leisure, and professional devices and toys are blurred. This has implications for understanding the ways in which we interact with digital devices. This article argues that these new cultural developments are not adequately addressed in existing theologies of technology and proposes that a theology of play provides an important additional critical perspective. Particular focus is placed upon Roman Catholic teachings, including the past decade's Papal messages to the World Communications Day.PostprintPeer reviewe

A tiger by the tail: The artistry of crisis management

This paper explores the reasons for the failure of local and national leaders to adequately deal with the crisis that resulted from Hurricane Katrina September 2005. It is argued that the failure of instrumentality demonstrates alternative management strategies are required. The aesthetic lens offers options that could have helped avoid many of the disastrous consequences of the flooding

The Cowl - v.4 - n.25 - May 5, 1939

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 4, Number 25 - May 5, 1939. 6 pages

Information Outlook, April 2000

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Life-Giving Speech Amid an Empire of Silence

It will come as no surprise to readers of the Law Review that James Boyd White is a daring and wise practitioner of what Clifford Geertz terms blurred genres. By appeal to Kenneth Burke, Victor Turner, and Paul Ricoeur, among others, Geertz envisions a broad interpretive venture that breaks out of the rigid regulations of a particular discipline to the larger constructive enterprise that entertains life and its meaning as a game of face-to-face engagement, or as a drama that presses on to the next scene. White\u27s work fits that vision precisely. In Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force, White is rooted in his own proper study of the law, but he blurs his work over in many directions, notably to classical drama, poetry, and philosophy, even with indirect traces and hints of theology. The effect is to summon readers-especially, but by no means exclusively, students of law-beyond the conventional limits and procedures of their discipline or, alternatively, to depths in their discipline that touch human realities that technical reason can never probe. Thus his book is an exercise in the humanities of a wise and urgent kind. In Part I, I lay out White\u27s agenda in the book, and identify a key tension in speech upon which White focuses. Developing upon this, in Part II, I describe the sort of speech that White attributes to the empire of force, while in Part III, I describe what White defines as living speech. In Part IV, I apply White\u27s speech framework to three concepts that have long preoccupied me, namely intention, imagination, and interpretation, and in Part V, I examine what White\u27s thesis means in own my field, theology. Finally, I conclude the essay with my thoughts about what the book means to each of us, its readers both inside and outside of the field of law

The Virtues and Vices of Equilibrium and the Future of Financial Economics

The use of equilibrium models in economics springs from the desire for parsimonious models of economic phenomena that take human reasoning into account. This approach has been the cornerstone of modern economic theory. We explain why this is so, extolling the virtues of equilibrium theory; then we present a critique and describe why this approach is inherently limited, and why economics needs to move in new directions if it is to continue to make progress. We stress that this shouldn’t be a question of dogma, but should be resolved empirically. There are situations where equilibrium models provide useful predictions and there are situations where they can never provide useful predictions. There are also many situations where the jury is still out, i.e., where so far they fail to provide a good description of the world, but where proper extensions might change this. Our goal is to convince the skeptics that equilibrium models can be useful, but also to make traditional economists more aware of the limitations of equilibrium models. We sketch some alternative approaches and discuss why they should play an important role in future research in economics.Equilibrium, Rational expectations, Efficiency, Arbitrage, Bounded rationality, Power laws, Disequilibrium, Zero intelligence, Market ecology, Agent based modeling