I think Situationism is aligned with my goal to attempt to understand reality (if not with my purpose, to maximize my odds of living forever). The blog seems well done.
From the Situationist blog, a description of what Situationism is:
"Situationism is premised on the social scientific insight that the naïve psychology—that is, the highly simplified, affirming, and widely held model for understanding human thinking and behavior—on which our laws and institutions are based is largely wrong. Situationists (including critical realists, behavioral realists, and related neo-realists) seek first to establish a view of the human animal that is as realistic as possible before turning to legal theory or policy. To do so, situationists rely on the insights of scientific disciplines devoted to understanding how humans make sense of their world—including social psychology, social cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and related disciplines—and the practices of institutions devoted to understanding, predicting, and influencing people’s conduct—particularly market practices."
Sounds quite different from the "situationism" that resulted in the Sex Pistols and Processed World.
Posted by: TGGP | March 20, 2008 at 06:56 PM
I looked at some of the links there and it did not strike me as realism. More the sort of mush you can only find in academia because it could never be sustained by the market, which isn't all that high a bar.
Posted by: TGGP | March 20, 2008 at 07:24 PM