http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/ pagre Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:17:51 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/518 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/518 RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Best Books of 2004: 1. Ekaterina Haskins, Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle 2. Bruno Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:54:23 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/517 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/517 Here are four very different history books that I recommend. Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:03:25 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/516 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/516 Here are four very different history books that I recommend. Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Mon, 16 Aug 2004 04:01:18 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/515 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/515 What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? Philip E. Agre August 2004 Web version: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html Liberals in the Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:19:50 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/514 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/514 Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html research introduction to Wed, 05 May 2004 01:42:24 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/513 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/513 Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html research An Entrepreneurial Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:32:38 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/512 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/512 RRE is ten years old. I stopped sending out these links because a bunch of issues all got stale at once. Like okay, you've probably got it about Enron, and Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:47:18 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/511 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/511 The other day I read John Keane's biography of Vaclav Havel (Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts, London: Bloomsbury, 1999), and I'd like to reflect Fri, 23 May 2003 00:07:07 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/510 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/510 I think the following papers are excellent and I encourage everyone to read them. Wes Sharrock and Graham Button, Empirical investigations: Practical Tue, 20 May 2003 15:25:16 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/509 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/509 [This is a much revised version of something I sent out earlier.] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was Fri, 16 May 2003 04:41:06 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/508 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/508 This reading list consists of papers that present interesting, original ideas about information of one sort or another, and are likely to be useful to people Fri, 16 May 2003 01:12:47 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/507 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/507 Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Chapter 1 available at: Sat, 10 May 2003 00:31:54 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/506 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/506 Here are some books that I recommend. Martin Pawley, Theory and Design in the Second Machine Age, Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Architects' writing about Tue, 06 May 2003 00:33:46 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/505 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/505 Here are a few links that have accumulated in the last several weeks, in no particular order. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: Tue, 06 May 2003 00:31:43 GMT Phil Agre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/504 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/message/504 [Long-time readers will remember that I wrote several commentaries on cheap pens for RRE. These can be found here: