Blog posts, essays and journalism by Dominik, from 2001 to the present, on AI, language, metaphor and learning. Each piece links to where it is published.
A monthly roundup of AI news, with an RSS feed. 12 issues, from November 2025 to October 2026.
Schemas & Propositions · 4 August 2026 · Post
The explainer corrects common misconceptions about language-model architecture, memory, capabilities, training, tool use, and emotional representation.
techczech.net · 19 April 2026 · Post
The piece reports how Claude Code rebuilt a dormant WordPress blog as an Astro static site while preserving content, URLs, comments, and operational records.
Schemas & Propositions · 2 February 2026 · Post
The guide explains how Agent Skills combine language-model judgement with reusable instructions, files, and scripts to support reliable workflows within context and memory limits.
Schemas & Propositions · 7 December 2025 · Post
The essay treats ordinary human errors as hallucinations and explains how metacognition, tools, institutions, and social norms constrain them.
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 November 2025 · Post
Schemas & Propositions · 8 September 2025 · Post
The essay argues that human and language-model cognition operates through meaning-rich schemas rather than the formal symbol manipulation performed by computers.
Schemas & Propositions · 31 August 2025 · Post
The essay argues that humans and language models interpret code through schemas while computers execute formal instructions without semantic understanding.
Schemas & Propositions · 27 August 2025 · Post
The essay argues that language-model memory consists of propositional notes that cannot reproduce the tacit schemas formed through experience.
Metaphor Hacker · 24 August 2025 · Post
The piece records the blog's semi-retirement and introduces Schemas and Propositions as a new venue for work on language, cognition, and artificial intelligence.
Schemas & Propositions · 22 August 2025 · Post
The explainer uses Winograd-style examples to show that propositions depend on contextual schemas that cannot be exhaustively represented as rules or facts.
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 9 August 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 18 July 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 16 April 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 13 April 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 12 April 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 8 April 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 April 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 30 March 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 25 March 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 23 March 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 9 March 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 January 2025 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 31 December 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 10 November 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 3 November 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 November 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 14 October 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 28 September 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 11 March 2024 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 November 2023 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 17 August 2023 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 8 August 2023 · Post
Metaphor Hacker · 5 August 2023 · Post
The piece contrasts narrative and ruminative sensemaking and argues that durable learning combines guided sequences with iterative, non-linear exploration.
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 August 2023 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 2 April 2023 · Post
AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 March 2023 · Post
Metaphor Hacker · 30 October 2022 · Post
The piece recommends books and exercises for improving academic writing through habits, sentence craft, social support, emotional awareness, and deliberate practice.
Metaphor Hacker · 9 August 2022 · Post
The piece proposes tests for persistent identity, autonomous intentionality, embodiment, theory of mind, and conversational implicature when assessing claims of machine sentience.
Metaphor Hacker · 13 June 2022 · Post
The piece maps maps, itineraries, briefings, and guides onto education to show that learning requires supported travel through a domain rather than preparation alone.
Metaphor Hacker · 6 March 2022 · Post
The piece explains how idiomaticity, underdetermination, and textual cohesion make metaphor translation difficult for the same reasons that translation generally is difficult.
Metaphor Hacker · 14 November 2021 · Post
The piece argues that ecological psychology must account for learned knowledge, language, social interaction, and deliberate reasoning if it is to explain a directly meaningful human world.
Metaphor Hacker · 3 June 2021 · Post
The piece compares history with weather to argue that historical models can identify patterns without supporting precise causal explanations or useful long-range predictions.
Metaphor Hacker · 8 March 2021 · Post
The piece recommends six books that treat feminism as a radical re-examination of gender, language, marriage, love, culture, and social inequality.
Metaphor Hacker · 17 January 2021 · Post
The piece argues that academic writing should prioritise scrupulous argument, explicit structure, and manageable sentence length over fashionable stylistic advice.
Metaphor Hacker · 1 January 2021 · Post
The piece uses Tolkien's distinction between allegory and applicability to argue that readers continually renegotiate metaphors rather than remain confined by authorial intent.
Metaphor Hacker · 28 June 2020 · Post
The piece uses the absence of a back row and corridor to compare the learning opportunities and support deficits of virtual and physical education.
Medium · 19 April 2020 · Post
The piece identifies practical and social barriers that prevented more events from moving online during the early pandemic.
Medium · 19 April 2020 · Post
The piece draws practical strategies for online events from examples of successful event design and delivery.
Medium · 19 April 2020 · Post
The piece compares technologies and platforms that can support events delivered online.
Medium · 19 April 2020 · Post
The piece summarises the challenges, strategies, and platforms involved in moving events online.
Metaphor Hacker · 16 February 2020 · Post
The piece expands a proposal for forged families by showing how kinship, hospitality, obligation, and state support interact across different societies.
Metaphor Hacker · 1 February 2020 · Post
The piece explains how reflective reading and editing help writers develop sentences that are coherent, cohesive, and appropriate to their genre.
Metaphor Hacker · 21 January 2020 · Post
The piece argues that concise principles become empty social signals unless practical wisdom reconnects them to changing behaviour in specific contexts.
Medium · 14 January 2020 · Post
The piece evaluates predictions about the 2020s by comparing technological hopes with social constraints and previous experience.
Medium · 9 January 2020 · Post
The piece surveys hardware changes in the 2010s and explains how they altered everyday activities and expectations.
Medium · 9 January 2020 · Post
The piece surveys changes in media and content consumption during the 2010s and relates them to changing forms of everyday life.
Medium · 9 January 2020 · Post
The piece surveys software trends of the 2010s and describes how they changed the ways people perform ordinary tasks.
Medium · 9 January 2020 · Post
The piece introduces a six-part account of 2010s technology trends by focusing on changes in people's lives rather than on technology alone.
Medium · 9 January 2020 · Post
The piece examines technology hype bubbles of the 2010s and distinguishes promised transformation from changes that actually occurred.
Metaphor Hacker · 8 September 2019 · Post
The piece presents a revisionist history and anthropology reading list that challenges Eurocentric, state-centred, and linear accounts of human development.
Metaphor Hacker · 23 July 2019 · Post
The piece argues that benchmark victories do not establish human-like understanding and proposes prolonged supervised performance as a stronger test of artificial intelligence.
Metaphor Hacker · 14 July 2019 · Post
The piece argues that metaphor dynamically restructures knowledge through negotiated sensemaking rather than simply explaining abstract ideas with concrete ones.
Metaphor Hacker · 30 June 2019 · Post
The piece recommends five complementary books for understanding expert performance through mental representations, deliberate practice, conceptual blending, social knowledge, and reflection in action.
Metaphor Hacker · 15 June 2019 · Post
The piece uses translation and music as partial models for how writing forces implicit thoughts into explicit commitments that require practice to express clearly.
Metaphor Hacker · 14 June 2019 · Post
The piece distinguishes associative, lexical, inferential, instrumental, and creative understanding as overlapping levels that require progressively richer mental representations.
Metaphor Hacker · 29 May 2019 · Post
The piece argues that metaphors support learning only when they function within sustained practice as invitations, instruments, or catalysts rather than isolated explanations.
Metaphor Hacker · 28 April 2019 · Post
The piece argues that linguistics will improve through a productive interaction between better data and better theory rather than through more rigid definitions alone.
Metaphor Hacker · 8 November 2018 · Post
The piece shows how popular retellings of Schrödinger's cat and the butterfly effect turn cautionary scientific analogies into misleading literal claims.
Metaphor Hacker · 7 November 2018 · Post
The piece identifies unresolved questions about deliberate and automatic metaphor processing, the relation between textual and conceptual metaphor, and variation in figurative understanding.
Metaphor Hacker · 19 October 2018 · Post
The piece uses time zones, scheduling, and data transfer to show why seemingly simple tasks remain difficult for both people and artificial intelligence.
Metaphor Hacker · 16 October 2018 · Post
The piece uses infection, ignorance, and imitation as metaphors to challenge the treatment of innovation as an unqualified organisational good.
Metaphor Hacker · 28 May 2018 · Post
The piece argues that machine-learning systems represent problem spaces without possessing the flexible, embodied, and metacognitive mental representations used by humans.
Metaphor Hacker · 22 May 2018 · Post
The piece analyses an extended comparison to show that metaphor and simile operate together within a dynamic process of discourse-based meaning construction.
Metaphor Hacker · 16 May 2018 · Post
The piece provides a selective route through Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things that prioritises its account of categories, cognitive models, embodiment, and metaphor.
Metaphor Hacker · 16 May 2018 · Post
The piece argues that perfect reference is impossible and proposes pragmatic, provisional heuristics for living with the resulting limits on knowledge and rationality.
Metaphor Hacker · 19 March 2018 · Post
The piece compares music and language to show that their shared structural features do not erase fundamental differences in meaning, acquisition, and dialogue.
Medium · 11 March 2018 · Post
The piece presents seventeen findings from linguistics that teachers, journalists, policy experts, and grammar commentators should understand about language.
Medium · 6 February 2018 · Essay
The essay distinguishes learning as the production of knowledge from training as the production of capability in machines and organisations.
Medium · 10 June 2017 · Post
The piece argues that religion rarely causes wars on its own and that military capacity, legitimating glory, and competition for resources provide stronger recurring conditions.
Medium · 23 June 2016 · Post
The piece argues that technology expresses human purposes and that generative metaphors can reveal alternative ways to design and use it.
Medium · 16 February 2016 · Post
The piece develops a theatre metaphor for relating instructional design, lesson planning, and teachers' classroom performance.
Medium · 26 January 2016 · Post
The piece examines disruption as a contested concept and connects technological change with human agency and social organisation.
Medium · 22 December 2015 · Post
The piece argues that translation choices reflect differences in meaning and practical constraints rather than gaps in a language's vocabulary.
Researchity · 1 December 2014 · Post
This note presents three conference abstracts on open licensing and accessibility, early licensing decisions in projects, and sustainable models for producing open educational resources.
Metaphor Hacker · 5 November 2014 · Post
The piece argues that dictionaries and grammars depict language posed for analysis rather than language operating in social use.
Metaphor Hacker · 3 August 2014 · Post
The piece argues that claims about exceptional metaphor use in Indigenous American languages require comparative evidence rather than cultural stereotypes.
Metaphor Hacker · 17 May 2014 · Post
The piece argues that the title Miss has no fixed meaning but remains connected to histories and practices of gender inequality.
Researchity · 23 March 2014 · Post
This piece introduces Research Zoo as a practical platform that could support guerrilla researchers, practitioner collaboration, shared research design, and funding.
Metaphor Hacker · 4 March 2014 · Post
The piece explains metaphor as conceptual modelling and argues that every interaction with the world applies partial cognitive models.
Metaphor Hacker · 15 February 2014 · Post
The piece traces Charles Fillmore's contributions to case grammar, frame semantics, construction grammar, and FrameNet.
Metaphor Hacker · 1 January 2014 · Post
The piece proposes five sociolinguistic principles for general education and argues against grammar-centred language teaching.
Metaphor Hacker · 14 December 2013 · Post
The piece explains forms of metonymy and shows how metonymic connections shape imagery, inference, and public discourse.
techczech.net · 5 December 2013 · Post
The piece explains how groups and projects can combine websites, social networks, video platforms, and mailing lists to maintain an online presence.
Metaphor Hacker · 17 November 2013 · Post
The piece recommends three books from 2013 and evaluates influential twentieth-century works on language, society, and fiction.
Metaphor Hacker · 27 October 2013 · Post
The piece argues that metaphors generate insight only when their partial mappings are not mistaken for complete identities.
Metaphor Hacker · 20 September 2013 · Post
The piece argues that defenders of science often ridicule low-status targets while excusing equally poor reasoning by prestigious scientists.
Metaphor Hacker · 24 August 2013 · Post
The piece argues that language, mind, and culture are overlapping analytical heuristics rather than separate entities with causal priority.
Metaphor Hacker · 13 April 2013 · Post
The piece classifies metaphor use by cognitive, social, and textual functions and by degrees of salience and recoverability.
Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2013 · Post
The piece tests gaming literacy against reading literacy and argues that gaming may become necessary for cultural participation.
Metaphor Hacker · 26 January 2013 · Post
The two conference abstracts propose frames and construction grammar as bridges between cognitive accounts and cultural analysis.
techczech.net · 9 December 2012 · Post
The piece explains how course participants can use Google Plus Communities, events, and Hangouts to organise small-group video sessions.
Researchity · 18 November 2012 · Post
This piece argues that confusion, demotivation, weak expert interaction, and attrition are general properties of schooling rather than distinctive failures of MOOCs.
Researchity · 14 October 2012 · Post
This piece rejects profit as a guarantee of educational quality and proposes open content, portable data, open platforms, and relationship-based services as sustainable alternatives.
Metaphor Hacker · 28 September 2012 · Post
The piece argues that accessible writing requires attention to context, text structure, and language variation beyond mechanical readability rules.
techczech.net · 22 September 2012 · Post
The piece explains how to assemble Wikipedia articles into textbooks and compares the workflow, accessibility, and alternatives for collaborative book creation.
Researchity · 16 September 2012 · Post
This piece argues that entrepreneurship is a partial metaphor for educational change whose useful funding and collaboration models do not justify importing startup assumptions wholesale.
Researchity · 15 September 2012 · Post
This piece argues that critics judge MOOCs against an idealised account of higher education and should compare evidence about access, learning, assessment, and teaching across both forms.
techczech.net · 14 September 2012 · Post
The talk explains five practical technologies for making educational documents more accessible to people who find reading difficult.
Researchity · 27 August 2012 · Post
This video introduction asks how open courses can fund participation, assessment, and recognition without depending on large institutions or proprietary scarcity.
Metaphor Hacker · 26 August 2012 · Post
The piece argues that people must use conceptual clichés while continually negotiating which ones guide judgement and action.
Researchity · 24 August 2012 · Post
This note presents a remixable concept map of MOOC types, pedagogies, platforms, roles, openness, scale, assessment, and accreditation.
techczech.net · 22 August 2012 · Post
The piece reviews GoToWebinar's strengths and limitations against alternative platforms for live online lectures.
Researchity · 18 August 2012 · Post
This piece argues that MOOC completion rates must be interpreted through scale, participant motivation, investment, and the different consequences of leaving a free course.
Researchity · 17 August 2012 · Post
This guide explains why and how to make a course more MOOC-like through open participation, personal learning networks, simple tools, and digital skills.
Researchity · 15 August 2012 · Post
This piece argues that open access, community support, curation, and creation matter more than imposing a unified pedagogy on motivated learners.
Researchity · 14 August 2012 · Post
This video contribution proposes combining online study with concentrated in-person periods by flipping the structure of the school year.
Researchity · 14 August 2012 · Post
This explainer defines MOOCs through family resemblance by separating required, optional, marginal, and disqualifying features.
Metaphor Hacker · 9 August 2012 · Post
The piece argues that pseudo-knowledge about grammar turns linguistic prejudice into a tool for judging and excluding people.
Researchity · 29 July 2012 · Post
This piece answers criticisms of MOOCs by comparing them with conventional higher education and emphasising access, openness, peer learning, and institutional change.
techczech.net · 28 July 2012 · Post
The piece compares Drupal and WordPress and recommends each platform for different organisational needs, technical capacities, and maintenance budgets.
techczech.net · 23 July 2012 · Post
The piece explains how to convert ebook text into MP3 audiobook files with text-to-speech software.
Metaphor Hacker · 22 July 2012 · Post
The piece shows how an architectural comparison between Google and Facebook becomes misleading when its mappings and alternatives are examined.
Researchity · 21 July 2012 · Post
This piece argues that researchers should make their learning networks more open through blogging and social media so newcomers and practitioners can participate.
techczech.net · 21 July 2012 · Post
The piece reviews Word 2013 Preview's accessibility, reading, editing, navigation, PDF, and installation behaviour against Word 2010.
Metaphor Hacker · 20 July 2012 · Post
The piece argues that scientific and religious knowledge share social practices and narratives despite making different claims about method and utility.
techczech.net · 19 May 2012 · Post
The piece argues that education policy should account for the labour costs and uncertain outcomes of innovation while funding local experimentation within an equitable central safety net.
techczech.net · 12 April 2012 · Post
The piece proposes a coordinated redesign of Moodle navigation, dashboards, messaging, calendars, and breadcrumbs around student needs.
techczech.net · 10 April 2012 · Post
The piece identifies Moodle 2 administration workflows that waste time and argues for a coordinated usability redesign.
Researchity · 9 April 2012 · Post
This piece supports public participation in research funding but rejects printed outputs and context-free quantitative claims about development programmes.
techczech.net · 8 April 2012 · Post
The piece reports lessons from MoodleMoot 2012 about platform development, course design, conference formats, online presence, and educational tools.
techczech.net · 2 April 2012 · Post
The talk proposal corrects four common misconceptions about designing web content for screen-reader users.
techczech.net · 2 April 2012 · Post
The talk proposal identifies five Moodle 2 interface problems that generate support requests and proposes specific remedies.
Metaphor Hacker · 31 March 2012 · Post
The conference abstract proposes that speakers collectively negotiate metaphors while remaining susceptible to their political force.
techczech.net · 28 January 2012 · Post
The piece identifies six recurring Drupal usability problems and argues for an extended core that can improve the product independently of the platform.
techczech.net · 22 January 2012 · Post
The piece argues that lectures remain useful for information and motivation when they support rather than replace active learning.
Metaphor Hacker · 18 January 2012 · Post
The piece argues that calls for a twenty-first-century education system rely on inaccurate histories and predictable economic clichés.
techczech.net · 15 January 2012 · Post
The piece argues that education technology events and public funding should give open-source software, Creative Commons resources, and teacher-led innovation a central role.
Metaphor Hacker · 2 November 2011 · Post
The piece extends the moral-compass metaphor to show that ethical judgement requires contextual calibration and changing direction.
Researchity · 1 November 2011 · Post
This piece argues that open, pseudonymous, trackable review could make scholarly trust more accountable and loosen academic publishing's control over knowledge.
techczech.net · 1 September 2011 · Post
The piece proposes improvements to CiviCRM event administration, registration, payments, admissions, and profile handling.
techczech.net · 31 August 2011 · Post
The piece proposes improvements to CiviCRM email composition, mass mailing, templates, tracking, and interface workflows.
Metaphor Hacker · 17 July 2011 · Post
The piece argues that research on internet-assisted recall concerns familiar transactive memory strategies rather than changes to the brain.
Metaphor Hacker · 10 July 2011 · Post
The piece uses two sudden losses of familiar access codes to question established models and metaphors of memory.
Metaphor Hacker · 3 June 2011 · Post
The piece argues that Niall Ferguson's killer-app metaphor misrepresents historical change and supplies superficial context for teaching.
Metaphor Hacker · 1 June 2011 · Post
The piece uses literary depictions of language learning to propose a model of expertise that includes strategy, emotion, and social participation.
Metaphor Hacker · 21 May 2011 · Post
The piece argues that Britain's island geography is wrongly treated as uniquely relevant to population, housing, and burial policy.
Metaphor Hacker · 7 May 2011 · Post
The piece argues that the internet accelerates communication but leaves most human institutions and activities constrained by human time and attention.
Metaphor Hacker · 2 May 2011 · Post
The piece argues that grouping Chinese prison totals with American and Russian figures creates a misleading comparison despite using accurate numbers.
techczech.net · 30 April 2011 · Post
The digest links to a comparison of simple online task-list services for students.
Metaphor Hacker · 29 April 2011 · Post
The piece argues that formal wedding dress reproduces unequal gender roles and calls for rituals that represent public equality.
Researchity · 28 April 2011 · Post
This piece proposes a web-of-trust credential system that could certify portfolios and practical competence outside conventional universities.
techczech.net · 24 April 2011 · Post
The digest links to a URL shortener that presents linked pages in a more readable format.
Metaphor Hacker · 24 April 2011 · Post
The piece argues that interpreting imagery in a nearly non-figurative poem requires the same conceptual mapping used for metaphor.
techczech.net · 20 April 2011 · Post
The piece presents slides on using cloud-based tools to support Moodle users in a fully online learning environment.
techczech.net · 18 April 2011 · Post
The digest links to a presentation about technologies that support students with dyslexia.
Metaphor Hacker · 9 April 2011 · Post
The piece describes religious thought as social negotiation over schematic and underdetermined conceptual representations.
Metaphor Hacker · 5 April 2011 · Post
The piece explains how life expectancy at birth can misrepresent adult longevity and distort historical narratives.
Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2011 · Post
The piece asks why political discourse rarely extends the hawk-and-dove metaphor to hawks hunting doves.
Researchity · 31 March 2011 · Post
This review assesses OpenIDEO as a model for community-based research while identifying gaps in brainstorming, reputation, user-led questions, tagging, and project branching.
Metaphor Hacker · 26 March 2011 · Post
The piece argues that people interpret moral content selectively, making behavioural effects difficult to predict from exposure alone.
Metaphor Hacker · 24 March 2011 · Post
The piece uses a comedy routine about leather sleeves to question analyses based on distinctive features.
Metaphor Hacker · 20 March 2011 · Post
The piece argues that evidence-based practice requires situated ethical judgement rather than reliance on methods as automatic solutions.
Metaphor Hacker · 13 March 2011 · Post
The piece examines how progressive science fiction can reproduce authoritarian fantasies of rational social control.
Metaphor Hacker · 11 March 2011 · Post
The piece argues that neuroscience cannot explain language by assuming direct structural correspondences between brain activity and linguistic phenomena.
techczech.net · 9 March 2011 · Post
The talk proposal describes a portfolio of tools and workflows for supporting Moodle users in fully online courses.
Researchity · 2 March 2011 · Post
This piece proposes a neuroscience knowledge-exchange network that gives researchers and practitioners equal roles in discussion, curation, reputation, and small-scale research.
techczech.net · 24 February 2011 · Post
The digest links to an open-source question-and-answer community platform.
Metaphor Hacker · 23 February 2011 · Post
The piece uses corpus evidence to argue that literally functions primarily as an intensifier and secondarily as a disambiguator.
Researchity · 21 February 2011 · Post
This piece argues that educational repositories need trusted communities, social curation, and regular discovery channels to make shared resources useful.
Metaphor Hacker · 20 February 2011 · Post
The piece argues that comparing schools with competing restaurants conceals the costs and complexities of educational markets.
Researchity · 15 February 2011 · Post
This note assesses Get The Data as a quantitative research community whose question-and-answer and reputation features could help organise broader research projects.
Researchity · 11 February 2011 · Post
This piece proposes community-based educational research in which practitioners and researchers define questions, award small grants, and share situated findings during the work.
techczech.net · 13 December 2010 · Post
The digest links to a collection of educational audiobooks, podcasts, videos, and downloads.
techczech.net · 10 December 2010 · Post
The digest links to an online collection of reusable icons.
techczech.net · 1 December 2010 · Post
The piece explains copyright, fair dealing, Creative Commons licences, and ways to find reusable teaching media.
techczech.net · 27 November 2010 · Post
The digest links to a list of freely accessible journals about online learning.
techczech.net · 8 September 2010 · Post
The digest links to a social network for educators' professional learning and collaboration.
techczech.net · 6 September 2010 · Post
The digest links to interactive phonics activities for literacy teaching and dyslexia support.
techczech.net · 5 September 2010 · Post
The digest links to the Public Library of Science as an open-access academic publishing resource.
techczech.net · 29 August 2010 · Post
The digest links to a source of royalty-free music for multimedia and podcast production.
techczech.net · 25 August 2010 · Post
The digest links to an open platform for creating and sharing digital textbooks.
techczech.net · 24 August 2010 · Post
The digest links to an open educational resource repository and an interactive digital textbook platform.
Metaphor Hacker · 17 August 2010 · Post
The piece retells a short history of Western philosophy through parodic song fragments.
techczech.net · 6 August 2010 · Post
The digest links to a WordPress-based academic social network for collaboration and online learning.
Metaphor Hacker · 6 August 2010 · Post
The piece argues that literal and metaphorical utterances both depend on contextual knowledge and mappings between conceptual domains.
techczech.net · 5 August 2010 · Post
The digest links to a bookmarklet search engine and a school platform for publishing audio, video, and podcasts.
Researchity · 4 August 2010 · Post
This piece uses the Anthologize project to argue that short, inexpensive, public projects can produce useful tools and research through iterative work.
Metaphor Hacker · 4 August 2010 · Post
The piece uses the tortoise and hare fable to challenge simple contrasts between digital and traditional scholarship.
Researchity · 2 August 2010 · Post
This piece argues that JISC Elevator should let communities and developers jointly shape small, rapid, and usable research and development bids.
Metaphor Hacker · 1 August 2010 · Post
The piece argues that Chomsky's formal influence did not produce comparable insight into language as a social and functional phenomenon.
Metaphor Hacker · 30 July 2010 · Post
The piece argues that reframing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can expose assumptions but cannot replace political work and material power.
Researchity · 29 July 2010 · Post
This piece presents Harvard OpenScholar as a model for institutional academic communities and argues that cross-institutional federation should follow.
techczech.net · 26 July 2010 · Post
The digest links to a collection of user-interface design patterns.
Metaphor Hacker · 22 July 2010 · Post
The piece uses inconsistent automated author comparisons to show how people construct identities from arbitrary similarities.
techczech.net · 22 July 2010 · Post
The digest links to a location-based mobile game with potential learning uses.
techczech.net · 21 July 2010 · Post
The digest links to a collaborative online test-preparation service.
Metaphor Hacker · 21 July 2010 · Post
The piece shares an XKCD comic about distinctions among analogies, metaphors, and similes.
techczech.net · 20 July 2010 · Post
The digest collects mobile portfolio tools, competency-management systems, and e-portfolio interoperability resources.
techczech.net · 19 July 2010 · Post
The digest links to a collection of free courses, lectures, videos, and audio materials.
techczech.net · 19 July 2010 · Post
The piece reports on Mahara UK 2010 through contemporaneous tweets about e-portfolio practice, implementation barriers, and forthcoming platform features.
Metaphor Hacker · 18 July 2010 · Post
The piece presents a five-step method for identifying, testing, and extending metaphorical mappings.
techczech.net · 18 July 2010 · Post
The digest collects Mahara, e-portfolio, education, and conference resources associated with Mahara UK 2010.
Researchity · 18 July 2010 · Post
This note presents a slide deck as an example of a URL that serves both machine-readable and human-readable purposes.
Metaphor Hacker · 18 July 2010 · Post
The piece defines metaphor hacking as examining and reconstructing the conceptual frames used in thought and language.
Researchity · 14 July 2010 · Post
This piece summarises evidence that researchers rarely use Web 2.0 services and argues that institutions should support experimentation without centralising it.
techczech.net · 13 July 2010 · Post
The piece reviews the HTC Desire after one day of use and records methods for migrating messages and contacts from a Nokia phone.
Researchity · 12 July 2010 · Post
This explainer surveys the protocols, services, institutions, and implementations that support federated scholarly content and identity.
techczech.net · 12 July 2010 · Post
The piece presents photographs of participants creating the schedule for THATCamp London 2010.
techczech.net · 11 July 2010 · Post
The digest links to resources on QR codes, text encoding, federated identity, and dyslexia-friendly typography.
techczech.net · 10 July 2010 · Post
The digest collects digital humanities research tools, open scholarship resources, text-to-speech services, and educational media.
techczech.net · 9 July 2010 · Post
The digest collects tools and standards for text analysis, federated social networking, data portability, and digital humanities research.
techczech.net · 8 July 2010 · Post
The digest collects digital humanities tools, archives, research resources, social platforms, and materials associated with THATCamp London.
Researchity · 8 July 2010 · Post
This piece proposes a federated academic identity that joins sign-on, profiles, scholarly outputs, social connections, privacy controls, and professional review across services.
techczech.net · 7 July 2010 · Post
The piece embeds an interactive SpicyNodes visualisation of the TechCzech site.
techczech.net · 6 July 2010 · Post
The digest links to an online dictionary and translation search tool.
Researchity · 6 July 2010 · Post
This note directs readers to a collaborative document from a THATCamp London session on social tools for participatory research.
Researchity · 6 July 2010 · Post
This digest collects Twitter posts from a THATCamp discussion about social tools, participatory research, and digital humanities infrastructure.
Researchity · 5 July 2010 · Post
This note points to a presentation that uses swarm metaphors to describe research practice.
Researchity · 5 July 2010 · Post
This piece proposes an online community where practitioners, researchers, and funders jointly formulate questions, conduct research, and share results.
techczech.net · 4 July 2010 · Post
The digest collects resources on accessible technology, educational collaboration, social media, language learning, and open educational resources.
techczech.net · 2 February 2010 · Post
The piece embeds a 1999 presentation about the internet.
techczech.net · 17 January 2010 · Post
The piece presents a teacher's account of using inexpensive technologies to solve educational problems.
techczech.net · 10 December 2009 · Post
The piece recommends a slideshow that introduces key Web 2.0 terminology for an in-house training programme.
techczech.net · 9 April 2009 · Post
The piece records lessons from MoodleMoot UK 2009 about Moodle, open-source learning tools, and networked conference participation.
techczech.net · 1 April 2009 · Post
The piece uses a shared image to present technological competence as a mindset rather than a fixed set of skills.
techczech.net · 1 April 2009 · Post
The piece argues that learning technologists should prioritise listening to users because simple software often supports unanticipated uses better than feature-heavy systems.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 June 2008 · Post
The piece argues that political opponents treat language as producing inevitable conclusions and therefore interpret disagreement as incompetence or corruption.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 June 2008 · Post
The piece argues that paradoxical aphorisms help groups negotiate competing cognitive models without resolving their contradiction.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 March 2008 · Post
The piece argues that political correctness can entrench new linguistic frames that make affirmative racial identification difficult to discuss.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 February 2008 · Post
The piece argues that the US Constitution's default meaning of limited copyright conflicts with laws that extend corporate control without promoting progress.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 February 2008 · Post
The piece asks why individuals can recognise manipulative political discourse while collective electoral behaviour often remains predictable.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 February 2008 · Post
The piece identifies central control and local expertise as competing models that structure policy disputes across political positions.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 February 2008 · Post
The piece argues that scientific reductionism reflects a folk theory of truth and proposes level-specific tendencies as an alternative model of knowledge.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 January 2008 · Post
The piece endorses Barack Obama's presidential candidacy on the basis of his plans, intelligence, and public communication.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 January 2008 · Post
The piece argues that public arguments depend on negotiated categories, frames, and power relations rather than context-free logical validity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 January 2008 · Post
The piece questions whether asymmetric perceptions of race and gender are best explained through individual cognition or collective social phenomena.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2007 · Post
The piece argues that reducing collective concepts such as culture and popularity to individual minds removes an essential level of description.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2007 · Post
The piece uses adoption terminology to illustrate how speakers negotiate the boundaries of the radial category of motherhood.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 November 2007 · Post
The piece uses phallic jokes to argue that mental images are schematic and can match through evoked situations without exact visual correspondence.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 November 2007 · Post
The piece shows how converting a population-level gender pay gap into an individual unpaid-work scenario changes the claim's meaning and policy implications.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 October 2007 · Post
The piece uses an anomalous newspaper reference to suspects to show how journalistic convention can override ordinary pragmatic implicature.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 October 2007 · Post
The piece argues that art criticism hides the critic's agency within indeterminate frames and forms part of the artistic process it interprets.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 October 2007 · Post
The piece argues that categorisation enables both ordinary navigation and social prejudice while negotiation permits people to revise its consequences.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 September 2007 · Post
The piece argues that explanations of the September 11 attacks for children should present competing perspectives explicitly instead of using syntactically simplified but conceptually opaque prose.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 September 2007 · Post
The piece argues that growing computing power and information volume will not yield human cognition or knowledge without models of embodied and social processes.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 September 2007 · Post
The piece observes that a final poetic line can retrospectively change the rhythm and meaning of an entire prose post.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007 · Post
The piece argues that a linguist's account of political word change participates in frame negotiation while drawing authority from expert status.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007 · Post
The piece uses LOLcats to show how multimodal constructions conventionalise through both emergent patterns and deliberate human codification.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 September 2007 · Post
The piece explains a pageant contestant's incoherent answer as a failed attempt to integrate stock public frames under pressure rather than evidence of low intelligence.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2007 · Post
The piece argues that culture-specific meanings of politeness and professionalism undermine universal instructions in a counterinsurgency manual.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2007 · Post
The piece argues that evolutionary metaphors for language preservation overstate the universal value of every linguistic and cultural feature.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 August 2007 · Post
The piece argues that folk and expert theories of clear language occupy a socially determined continuum rather than separate categories.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 August 2007 · Post
The piece challenges the news-diet metaphor by showing that audiences exercise political autonomy in ways that simple models of media causation cannot explain.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 August 2007 · Post
The piece links literary quality to conceptual blending and explains childhood bullying through conformity, authority and group identity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007 · Post
The piece challenges theories that treat ordinary audiences as cognitively captive to propaganda while exempting trained analysts from the same influence.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007 · Post
The piece argues that newspapers may persist as validators within social networks of trust even after printed news disappears.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 August 2007 · Post
The piece examines liberal and conservative narrative frames as competing but reasonable accounts of authority, freedom and institutional identity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2007 · Post
The piece argues that journalistic anecdotes acquire truth through negotiated interpretation and that verification checklists cannot remove this dependence.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2007 · Post
The piece shows how criticism of a bookstore's supplier language unpacks market metaphors and contests their interpretive privilege.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 August 2007 · Post
The piece analyses schematic euphemisms in Iraq war reporting and asks how discourse analysis can avoid disguising political participation as objectivity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 July 2007 · Post
The piece argues that idealised media narratives cannot by themselves explain changes in public opinion or electoral outcomes.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 July 2007 · Post
The piece examines how gendered political frames constrain Hillary Clinton's public image while remaining partly open to conscious negotiation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 July 2007 · Post
The piece uses autonomous walking circuits as an analogy for overlapping local language processes that do not require a central grammar module.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 July 2007 · Post
The piece argues that atheism must treat morality as deliberate choice or rely on secular humanism as an authority comparable to religion.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 July 2007 · Post
The piece analyses a story of the president as an employee to show how public narratives negotiate duties between citizens and government.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 July 2007 · Post
The piece asks how internet usage and social reinforcement should inform evidence about consensus in changing spellings and idioms.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 July 2007 · Post
The piece argues that American opposition to the Iraq war collectively avoids responsibility for the consequences of the invasion.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 July 2007 · Post
The piece argues that linguistic competence includes negotiated tension between conservative norms and innovation, including the linguist's political role.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 July 2007 · Post
The piece rejects a context-free semantic analysis of a school banner and argues that its anti-establishment meaning arises through shared frames.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 July 2007 · Post
The piece challenges assumptions that multilingualism uniformly improves openness, subsequent language learning or social understanding.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 July 2007 · Post
The piece shows that historical analogies depend on opportunistic mappings whose aptness must be negotiated against the record.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 July 2007 · Post
The piece argues that a Wittgenstein quotation reflects folk theories that separate logical intelligence from language's imperfect and deceptive expression.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 June 2007 · Post
The piece uses the phrase liberal fascism to show how generative analogies are judged through negotiated aptness and credibility rather than truth alone.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 June 2007 · Post
The piece argues that rejecting an explicit metaphor does not remove the conceptual integration embedded in ordinary narrative description.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007 · Post
The piece uses Václav Havel's description of political language to examine how verbal patterns spread through cognitive, textual and social processes.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007 · Post
The piece argues that scientific consensus is rhetorical and that science becomes a legitimate political participant when it enters public debate.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 June 2007 · Post
The piece uses a persistent misunderstanding of trophy wife to argue that speakers can privately misconstrue entrenched lexical and grammatical constructions.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 June 2007 · Post
The piece criticises Peter Hitchens's claim that religious faith restrains evil and argues that moral certainty can itself enable harm.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 June 2007 · Post
The piece uses a bomb image on a malfunctioning fax to show how context can override intended mappings and create practical taboos.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 May 2007 · Post
The piece shows how public discourse negotiates whether political statements qualify as lies and which responses a lie permits.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 May 2007 · Post
The piece uses reactions to a French presidential campaign to illustrate the political impulse to construct analogies across countries and candidates.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2007 · Post
The piece shows how an explicitly named war metaphor organises the imagery and cohesion of an otherwise descriptive political text.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 April 2007 · Post
The piece argues that media narratives of public tragedy continue older ritual forms of integrating events into personal and collective experience.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 April 2007 · Post
The piece explains how competing labels for suicide attacks negotiate connotations and restrictions on conceptual mapping.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 April 2007 · Post
The piece uses the Don Imus controversy to show how folk theories give figurative insults greater force when treated as literal references.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 April 2007 · Post
The piece uses commentary on Nancy Pelosi's clothing to show how cultural scenarios provide evidence for frame completion and negotiation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 April 2007 · Post
The piece analyses Newt Gingrich's denial of an anti-Spanish remark through the folk frame that bilingual education produces social isolation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 March 2007 · Post
The piece argues that word meanings and causal analogies are negotiated in discourse rather than supplied as fixed consequences of language.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 March 2007 · Post
The piece uses anomalous anaphora to argue that syntax can serve as a logistical vehicle for building and blending text worlds.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 March 2007 · Post
The piece contrasts usage-based and reference-based folk theories of dictionary meaning through the dispute over the word McJob.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 March 2007 · Post
The piece shows how an Apple Lisa advertisement visually negotiated the mapping between an office desk and a computer desktop.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 March 2007 · Post
The piece analyses how political journalism creates, spreads and retrospectively negotiates opportunistic conceptual blends.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 February 2007 · Post
The piece argues that emphatic slurs do not reliably reveal underlying prejudice and that discourse analysis cannot securely recover an individual text's hidden meaning.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 February 2007 · Post
The piece explains how semantic prosody constrained interpretations of Barack Obama's statement that soldiers' lives had been wasted.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 February 2007 · Post
The piece argues that perceptions of articulate Black politicians depend on racialised speech cadences, group membership and unequal social power.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 February 2007 · Post
The piece defines frame hypostasis as language that names a cultural figure or scenario to activate and negotiate a broader conceptual frame.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007 · Post
The piece analyses how ritual qualifications and historical analogies preserve the symbolic significance of the September 11 attacks while permitting criticism.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that British multiculturalism failed through symbolic exclusion that channelled young Muslims' political identity into radicalism.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007 · Post
The piece explains Hillary Clinton's joke as an underspecified analogy whose possible mappings hardened during subsequent public interpretation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that electronic books will renegotiate civilisation's imagery of books without revolutionising information consumption.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2007 · Post
The piece analyses a fatal water-drinking contest as sound-based metonymy and negotiated symbolic action.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2007 · Post
The piece explains comparisons between climate change and terrorism through salient danger frames and Stephen Hawking's public authority.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that algorithmic descriptions are useful only at particular scales and must coexist with incompatible perspectives.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that education chiefly supplies knowledge and membership signals that establish credibility rather than uniformly transforming attitudes or abilities.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 January 2007 · Post
The piece rejects claims of linguistic decline while examining literacy, educational relevance, motivation and the social variability of expression.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that organised atheism can reproduce religion's social identity, ritual and moral certainty even without belief in God.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that library collections should reflect public choice without reducing cultural value to circulation figures or elite prestige.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007 · Post
The piece criticises the use of cognitive-bias research to explain hawkish policy as a deterministic folk theory unsupported by political evidence.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007 · Post
The piece uses a Roman sexual double standard to show that logical inference depends on categories selected by conceptual frames.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2007 · Post
The piece argues that a Radio 4 poll reflects conservative elite nostalgia more than the programme's presumed liberal audience.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2007 · Post
The piece examines how academic accounts of marriage move between descriptions of social institutions and prescriptions for individual action.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 December 2006 · Post
The piece argues that online collectives reorganise social connections without removing hierarchy, marginality, or human limits on maintaining relationships.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 December 2006 · Post
The piece argues that critics of free-market doctrine can reproduce the same ritualised ideological reasoning when they present their own framework as human nature.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 December 2006 · Post
The piece shows how Left Behind encodes evangelical moral frames that are intelligible within its community but contradictory outside it.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2006 · Post
The piece analyses the term civil war as a negotiated frame whose descriptive, political, and scalar meanings cannot be separated.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2006 · Post
The piece uses changing camera posture to show how new technologies alter visual expectations and habitual behaviour.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2006 · Post
The piece argues that plausible stories about textbooks and mathematical achievement cannot establish causal explanations for education policy.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2006 · Post
The piece proposes narrative as a primary means by which people make sense of experience across journalism, drama, and science.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2006 · Post
The piece argues that education primarily socialises learners into communities and therefore requires both skill-based and memory-based perspectives.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006 · Post
The piece reviews Accepted as a comedy that combines progressive educational theories while avoiding the unwanted consequences of genuine student choice.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006 · Post
The piece compares Wikipedia with the Encyclopédie as collaborative, contested, commercially divergent projects for organising and spreading knowledge.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 October 2006 · Post
The piece analyses how Team America's final anatomical analogy can override the film's broader critique of American interventionism.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 October 2006 · Post
The piece argues that a Tom Waits song gains force by violating stylistic expectations established across his body of work.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 October 2006 · Post
The piece compares engagement with The Archers to an optical illusion in which listeners switch between an imagined world and awareness of its construction.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 October 2006 · Post
The piece reviews Revenge of the Nerds as a blend of liberation narrative and teenage comedy whose celebrated protagonists commit acts now recognised as sexual abuse.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006 · Post
The piece argues that public discussion uses analogies to negotiate conceptual frames and the communicative medium at the same time.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006 · Post
The piece argues that rhythmic delivery and short sentences can intensify an ordinary news report through localised textual performance.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006 · Post
The piece uses the Electrophone to argue that technological ideas can disappear for decades before infrastructure makes them viable.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 October 2006 · Post
The piece argues that prioritising psychological harm over physical injury reflects a cultural frame that can impede communication across societies.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 October 2006 · Post
The piece argues that foundational mathematical rules were partly established by exploring the consequences of alternative assumptions.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 October 2006 · Post
The piece argues that familiar but formally irregular expressions can be understood as products of local grammars rather than dismissed as errors.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 October 2006 · Post
The piece uses disputes over calling Iraq a civil war to show how media participants negotiate both descriptions and their political consequences.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 September 2006 · Post
The piece argues that metaphors can describe complex experiences more accurately than adjectives because readers construct richer mental images from them.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2006 · Post
The piece argues that education debates negotiate competing images of schooling while overlooking the logistical burden of reform.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 August 2006 · Post
The piece argues that a story about one student's use of Google Books cannot establish the technology's systemic effect on higher education.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2006 · Post
The piece argues that partisan frames shape perceptions of news bias and that readers can only challenge them through sustained questioning.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2006 · Post
The piece proposes that jazz in the United States and classical music in Europe occupy functionally equivalent positions of cultural prestige.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 August 2006 · Post
The piece uses mismatched internet skills and self-assessments to examine how language and research evidence represent gender models.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 July 2006 · Post
The piece exposes the market frame that connects national freedom with choice and competition in education policy.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 July 2006 · Post
The piece argues that conscious public discussion of new dictionary entries may be part of linguistic change and linguistic competence.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 May 2006 · Post
The piece identifies an appeal to logic in the US language debate as a rhetorical syllogism that equates linguistic uniformity with national unity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 May 2006 · Post
The piece argues that allied countries can treat the United States as an empire through symbolic analogies even when the United States rejects that identity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 May 2006 · Post
The piece argues that debates over declaring English a national language reveal that English-speaking countries are not exempt from linguistic nationalism.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 May 2006 · Post
The piece asks whether examples of individual experience can explain social systems or whether those systems require analysis at their own level.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 May 2006 · Post
The piece argues that liberal democracy and religion become destructive when their ideals are imposed as complete political doctrines.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 May 2006 · Post
The piece argues that an analogy between feminism and Islam reproduces teleological history and accepts distorted accounts of both movements' visible extremes.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2006 · Post
The piece analyses a conservationist account that connects biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity through an alternative narrative of change.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2006 · Post
The piece cautions that an apparent association between gender equality and sexual satisfaction may be a research-generated symmetry without explanatory meaning.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 April 2006 · Post
The piece argues that male identification with Lara Croft complicates accounts of gaming based solely on the male gaze and objectification.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 January 2006 · Post
The piece argues that familiar narrative structures can trigger emotional responses independently of a work's perceived artistic quality.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 January 2006 · Post
The piece proposes testing whether public discourse exhibits recurring periods of nationalist social conservatism.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 January 2006 · Post
The piece examines how multiple competing cognitive models operate simultaneously in fictional representation, education debates, and interpretation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2006 · Post
The piece analyses Geena Davis's award speech as a challenge to gender expectations and an example of role-model narratives used to represent social change.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2006 · Post
The piece compares the halo effect of first impressions in web design with semantic prosody and other forms of rapidly formed prejudice.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 January 2006 · Post
The piece uses a Google prejudice map to propose local grammars as tools for mining how people talk about nations.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 15 January 2006 · Post
The piece uses portrayals of Benjamin Franklin to argue that American identity follows the same sociocognitive patterns as other national identities.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 January 2006 · Post
The piece argues that policy should not treat women as category instances when research repeatedly overturns assumed physiological differences.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 January 2006 · Post
The piece uses spelling frequency islands to propose that language patterns combine rules, structural by-products, and stochastic organisation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Post
The piece distinguishes predictions about individual future events from probabilistic descriptions of past trends and treats prediction claims as integrative narratives.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Post
The piece uses a literal news headline to consider whether reporting can function as a cognitive or social act.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Post
The piece distinguishes public interest from public attention and describes news selection as a market-based form of collective censorship.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Post
The piece treats online pronunciation surveys as evidence that social internet participation can collect useful language data.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Post
The piece argues that communities transform imported symbols such as McDonald's by integrating them into local cultural practices.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Post
The piece argues that urban legends both express and shape the cognitive models people use to interpret events.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006 · Post
The piece uses an urban-planning metaphor to explain how coding methods constrain and enable visual web design.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006 · Post
The piece examines Pandora's genome metaphor and compares expert music classification with automated and collective recommendation systems.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006 · Post
The piece argues that school vouchers overextend a market metaphor that cannot represent education's multiple participants, purposes, and social consequences.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2006 · Post
The piece argues that mature electronic-paper devices will eventually replace paper for most reading without radically changing literacy or information sharing.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2006 · Post
The piece defines analogies as elaborated metaphors and outlines their cognitive, textual, and interactive functions.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that reporting on gendered internet use assimilates evidence into conventional stereotypes while minimising findings that contradict them.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 December 2005 · Post
The post proposes a cognitive revision of Propp's folktale morphology in which narrative elements pair form with meaning and combine through conceptual integration.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that traditional narratives combine contradictory images of women and that their social effects cannot be reduced to direct causation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 December 2005 · Post
The post compares meaning-making to continuously adjusting a musical note in order to challenge static and minimal definitions of concepts.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 December 2005 · Post
The post defends feminism as the appropriate name for analysing women's position in society and cognition because the term preserves the movement's critical force.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that imposed psychological debriefing can obstruct culturally situated recovery and examines rebuilding as a metaphor for emotional life.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 December 2005 · Post
The post identifies a radio debate about parental involvement as an example of competing and shifting cognitive models of education.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that personal experience can motivate both scientific and unscientific conclusions, so scientific authority requires more than an idealised method.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that expertise can narrow judgement, while public decision-making still depends on experts selected through political and group identities.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 December 2005 · Post
The post announces that My Week in Thought has moved to the current site.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 15 December 2005 · Post
The post announces the first CADAAD conference and its call for papers.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that claims about video-game effects depend on narrative and cognitive schemas used to interpret evidence about large groups.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that myth-busting and scepticism are themselves narrative forms whose legitimacy must remain open to questioning.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 December 2005 · Post
The post defends Wikipedia as a broadly reliable and correctable reference source while arguing that all encyclopaedias require source criticism.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 December 2005 · Post
The post examines how the quantity and survival of evidence constrain historical interpretation without preventing extensive scholarship from fragmentary sources.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that rigorous narrative scholarship can appear online and address popular culture without institutional approval of the subject.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Post
The post presents three conflicting conservative positions on increasing women's parliamentary representation as a persistent conceptual dilemma.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Post
The post explains how news formulas structure mental spaces that are blended with events to produce political reporting and argument.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that powerful and subordinate cultures construct reciprocal stereotypes that combine resentment, admiration, condescension, and identification.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that fictional narratives can normalise exceptional violence and that legal exceptions for torture would expand the circumstances treated as exceptional.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Post
The post compares competing schemas for interpreting scientific consensus and dissent, using obesity and climate change as examples.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Post
The post compares aggregate and case-based models of media influence and shows how apparently incompatible causal accounts can be reconciled.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 December 2005 · Post
The post identifies the idea of human terrain as a conceptual blend connecting military targeting with cultural knowledge.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 December 2005 · Post
The post examines how arguments for universal preschool combine economic returns, individual benefits, and social outcomes within one causal model.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that civil partnerships reveal the ritual basis of marriage and that changes in heterosexual marriage made same-sex marriage conceptually possible.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005 · Post
The post recommends an online anthropology community as a model for a similar resource on metaphor and cognitive linguistics.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that democratic laws and elections cannot substitute for institutions rooted in civil society.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that an author's stated intention is only one perspective on a text and does not conclusively determine what the text means or does.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005 · Post
The post uses inconsistent attitudes to execution to argue that human reasoning relies on prototypes and weighted schemas rather than strict logical entailment.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that locating a perceptual illusion in the brain does not establish that identity or higher cognition consists of independent modules.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005 · Post
The post explains how communist legacies and post-communist hostility to feminism have limited recognition and enforcement of gender equality in the Czech Republic.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that digitised excerpts do not destroy literacy because readers use both fragmentary and immersive modes to understand texts.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that fiction can supplement academic inquiry by presenting composite experiences and insights that analytic research may not capture.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005 · Post
The post asks whether granting men greater reproductive and parental rights could weaken the gender symbolism that constrains women's choices.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005 · Post
The post uses attitudes to homosexuality to warn against assuming that one conceptual position deterministically produces another.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that American culture-war participants experience opposing institutions as threats to the validity of their identities and conceptual frames.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005 · Post
The post separates symbolic judgements that a criminal deserves death from the irreversible and error-prone act of execution.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 December 2005 · Post
The post argues that synthetic phonics cannot transform literacy or society because educational interventions operate within complex and recurring institutional patterns.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 November 2005 · Post
The post contrasts individualist and collectivist accounts of sacrifice and argues that Western reporting interprets collective duty through individual motives.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that isolated school successes do not provide a sufficient causal model for reforming a complex education system.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2005 · Post
The post highlights how competing narratives about capitalism and labour shape arguments over job losses and social protection.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that women's participation in terrorism can be absorbed into existing gender hierarchies rather than weakening them.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that complex social systems are more amenable to changes in their conditions than to direct control, while still requiring regulation of harmful outcomes.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005 · Post
The post rejects a single model of real literacy and argues that concerns about digital snippets must account for varied reading and information practices.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that rapid increases in computing power do not predict social change because technical capabilities interact unevenly with cognitive and social constraints.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005 · Post
The post challenges research that treats all effects of divorce as damage and argues that children normally develop multiple identities across contexts.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 November 2005 · Post
The post asks how professionals construct and reconcile conflicting models derived from aggregate evidence and salient individual cases.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that discrepancies between state and federal tests expose the limited relationship between test performance and broader knowledge or ability.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that xenophobic accounts may describe intercultural conflict more accurately than naive multiculturalism while failing because they treat cultures as static.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that admiration and resentment of the United States coexist in foreign perceptions of the American dream.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that English colonists judged Indigenous food practices through cultural assumptions about proper cultivation and asks how such judgements shaped settlement.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005 · Post
The post uses a misspelled name to examine how names and other social markers contribute to mental representations of personal identity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005 · Post
The post examines how market language about choice enters academic discourse while questioning broad claims about the damage caused by such language.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005 · Post
The post compares competing causal models of extended pub hours and argues that rule changes may create conditions for cultural values to change.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Post
The post identifies an extended political analogy as a cohesive frame that holds an argument together.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that social regularities can be treated like natural laws whose effects may be mitigated even when their exact outcomes cannot be predicted.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Post
The post considers a cautious analogy between Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and Marx's account of historical development.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Post
The post weighs the access and flexibility provided by digital media against losses in accidental discovery and exposure to varied content.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Post
The post uses an interactive comparison of Thatcher-era trends to question claims that prosperity reliably trickles down.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that women reaching high political office does not by itself advance women's rights and compares the symbolic roles of several women leaders.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Post
The post uses the contrast between access journalism and close reading to argue that guided analysis can matter more than expert transmission in education.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Post
The post uses conflicting claims about homeopathy to examine how facts are reconciled with scientific and symbolic theories of causation.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Post
The post argues that new media alter the relative dominance and delivery of oral and written storytelling without simply replacing older forms.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Post
The post examines Bosnia as an analogy for Iraq and asks how private analogies become established structures for public reasoning.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Post
The post highlights an account of the press as a communal ritual that sustains democratic identity.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 November 2005 · Post
The post distinguishes evolutionary facts from theories of evolutionary mechanisms and proposes a way to discuss intelligent design in science education.
Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 November 2005 · Post
The post introduces a blog intended to track thoughts arising from the author's online life.
Britské listy · 28 July 2005 · Journalism Czech
The piece interprets the Harry Potter stories through recurring mythic structures while explaining their appeal to child and adult readers.
Literární noviny · 21 March 2005 · Journalism Czech
The piece argues that banning communist expression weakens democratic principles and confuses political opposition with criminal prohibition.
Britské listy · 28 February 2005 · Journalism Czech
The piece argues that political scandals become intelligible through competing metaphors that select different causes and responsibilities.
Britské listy · 21 February 2005 · Journalism Czech
The piece rejects linguistic purism as a collection of social prejudices that mistakes ordinary language change for decline.
Britské listy · 4 June 2003 · Journalism Czech
The piece argues that anxieties about ageing populations and migration depend on political choices about family, labour, and social provision.
Britské listy · 24 February 2003 · Journalism Czech
The piece uses a Washington Post quotation to argue that even liberal American commentary treats the world as a domain of United States responsibility and control.
Britské listy · 7 January 2002 · Journalism Czech
The piece argues that broadcasting True Lies without critical context reinforces dehumanising representations of Palestinians and Arabs.
Britské listy · 18 October 2001 · Journalism Czech
The piece criticises post-September 11 rhetoric that treats dissenting commentary as moral complicity with terrorism.
Schemas & Propositions · Post
The essay introduces a publication about how tacit schemas enable humans and language models to construct and understand propositions.
Medium · Post
This essay argues that moralising about accidental phone interruptions reinforces unequal power between lecturers and their audiences.
Medium · Essay
The essay argues that measurement can reduce uncertainty without turning quantified models into the things they represent.
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Dominik wrote for the Czech and English press from 1997 to 2021. The pieces below are the ones with an online address; the rest of the print archive is not published on this site.
| Outlet | Pieces written | Online |
|---|---|---|
| Lidové noviny | 175 | 0 |
| FitStyl/Puls | 16 | 0 |
| Literární noviny | 15 | 1 |
| The Prague Post | 14 | 0 |
| A2 | 11 | 0 |
| Britské listy | 10 | 7 |
| CR Business Guide | 5 | 0 |
| Respekt | 4 | 0 |
| Future Radio | 2 | 0 |
| All outlets | 252 | 8 |
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