# Writing

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing

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.

447 pieces. Types: Blog posts, Essays, Journalism, Translations, Papers. Journalism archive: 252 pieces, 1997–2021.

## Series

[MondAI: the monthly AI news roundup](https://ainewsroundup.pages.dev). A monthly roundup of AI news, with an RSS feed. 12 issues, from November 2025 to October 2026.

## 2026

- [Common misconceptions about Large Language Models and a few literal metaphors](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/10-common-misconceptions-about-large) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 4 August 2026). The explainer corrects common misconceptions about language-model architecture, memory, capabilities, training, tool use, and emotional representation.
- [How I (Claude Code) remade this site](https://techczech.net/2026/04/19/how-i-claude-code-remade-this-site/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 19 April 2026). The piece reports how Claude Code rebuilt a dormant WordPress blog as an Astro static site while preserving content, URLs, comments, and operational records.
- [We've been using AI wrong: Agent Skills and the Semantic Powers of LLMs](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/weve-been-using-ai-wrong-agent-skills) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 2 February 2026). 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.

## 2025

- [How Humans Hallucinate and How We Deal with It](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/how-llms-understand-text-by-me-and) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 7 December 2025). The essay treats ordinary human errors as hallucinations and explains how metacognition, tools, institutions, and social norms constrain them.
- [Three Years After ChatGPT: From Chatbots to Agents and the Shifting Frontier of Generative AI](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-years-after-chatgpt-from-chatbots-agents-shifting-dominik-lukes-3e2se) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 November 2025). 
- [Symbols and Manipulation](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/symbols-and-manipulation) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 8 September 2025). The essay argues that human and language-model cognition operates through meaning-rich schemas rather than the formal symbol manipulation performed by computers.
- [Karpathy Thinks in Code](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/karpathy-thinks-in-code-but-a-computer) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 31 August 2025). The essay argues that humans and language models interpret code through schemas while computers execute formal instructions without semantic understanding.
- [50 First Dates and the ChatGPT Memory Problem](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/50-first-dates-and-the-chatgpt-memory) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 27 August 2025). The essay argues that language-model memory consists of propositional notes that cannot reproduce the tacit schemas formed through experience.
- [Schemas and Propositions: What and where I've been writing and what's next](https://metaphorhacker.net/2025/08/schemas-and-propositions-what-and-where-ive-been-writing-and-whats-next/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 24 August 2025). 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.
- [Why schemas matter](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/why-schemas-matter) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions · 22 August 2025). The explainer uses Winograd-style examples to show that propositions depend on contextual schemas that cannot be exhaustively represented as rules or facts.
- [GPT-5 is here! Long time coming but blazingly fast!](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gpt-5-here-long-time-coming-blazingly-fast-dominik-lukes-ofwge) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 9 August 2025). 
- [What is ChatGPT Agent and what does it tell us about the future of AI?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-chatgpt-agent-does-tell-us-future-ai-dominik-lukes-adewe) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 18 July 2025). 
- [Warning! "New paper" does not mean "new research" (plea for reading the methods section of AI papers)](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/warning-new-paper-does-mean-research-plea-reading-methods-lukes-58hte) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 16 April 2025). 
- [Embarrassingly out of date and unreliable! Some thoughts on the new Stanford AI Index Report](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/embarrassingly-out-date-unreliable-quick-thoughts-new-dominik-lukes-qwlve) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 13 April 2025). 
- [Creation is perception: On the role of skill in the age of AI](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creation-perception-role-skill-age-ai-dominik-lukes-bryge) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 12 April 2025). 
- [AI Fluency as a Job Requirement: Karpathy on Individual Advantage and Shopify's New Mandate](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-fluency-job-requirement-karpathy-individual-advantage-lukes-4xrge) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 8 April 2025). 
- [All art is conceptual art: Reflections on the aftershocks of an AI image-generation earthquake](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-art-conceptual-reflections-aftershocks-ai-earthquake-lukes-bpcfe) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 April 2025). 
- ["You're doing AI wrong": Choosing an AI tool is more like hiring an employee than buying software](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/youre-doing-ai-wrong-choosing-tool-more-like-hiring-employee-lukes-c8sme) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 30 March 2025). 
- [GPT-4o's native image generation is a true revolution in what is possible with AI and images](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gpt-4os-native-image-generation-true-revolution-what-possible-lukes-2todc) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 25 March 2025). 
- [The Best Programming Language Today is English: How to get Vibe Coding and make software without being a programmer](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-programming-language-today-english-how-get-vibe-coding-lukes-suore) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 23 March 2025). 
- [How good are AI Deep Research tools? Comparing 5 products](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-good-ai-deep-research-tools-comparing-5-products-dominik-lukes-2rioe) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 9 March 2025). 
- [What will 2025 be like for AI? 5 Predictions for the Future](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-2025-like-ai-5-predictions-future-dominik-lukes-0n0ee) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 January 2025). 

## 2024

- [A Year in AI: Doing more with less in 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/year-ai-doing-more-less-2024-dominik-lukes-iqvue) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 31 December 2024). 
- [Trend 2: Interface Innovations: (Re)defining the user experience of AI](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trend-2-interface-innovations-redefining-user-experience-lukes-wuxxe) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 10 November 2024). 
- [AI Trend 1: Multimodal Revolution: Generative AI at the birth of a new paradigm of computer interaction](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-trend-1-multimodal-revolution-generative-birth-new-dominik-lukes-dmq2e) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 3 November 2024). 
- [State of AI: 5 trends in generative AI that will shape academic practice in 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-ai-5-trends-generative-shape-academic-practice-2025-lukes-5d1de) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 November 2024). 
- [Whisper has ushered in a revolution in speech recognition: Here's a guide to how to use it](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whisper-has-ushered-revolution-speech-recognition-heres-dominik-lukes-daqge) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 14 October 2024). 
- [Conversation is the new reading: Listen to a podcast about your notes or readings with free tools](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conversation-new-reading-listen-podcast-your-notes-readings-lukes-ndmre) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 28 September 2024). 
- [The future of AI in Academic Practice is one million tokens and why it matters](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-ai-academic-practice-one-million-tokens-why-matters-lukes-caaef) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 11 March 2024). 

## 2023

- [One year anniversary of ChatGPT this week - where are we,  what have we learned?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-year-anniversary-chatgpt-week-where-we-what-have-dominik-lukes-zhhne) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 November 2023). 
- [How (not) to learn about AI with metaphors: And how to use ChatGPT as a metaphor generation assistant](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-learn-ai-metaphors-use-chatgpt-metaphor-generation-dominik-lukes) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 17 August 2023). 
- [Have you asked your bot to make you a table? ChatGPT as a cognitive scaffolding engine](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/have-you-asked-your-bot-make-table-chatgpt-cognitive-engine-lukes) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 8 August 2023). 
- [Narrative vs Ruminative Sense making: The Mind Red in Tooth and Claw](https://metaphorhacker.net/2023/08/narrative-vs-ruminative-sense-making-the-mind-red-in-tooth-and-claw/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 5 August 2023). The piece contrasts narrative and ruminative sensemaking and argues that durable learning combines guided sequences with iterative, non-linear exploration.
- [The State of AI for August 2023: 6 trends from the last 3 months and 6 actions you can take today](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-ai-august-2023-6-trends-from-last-3-months-actions-lukes) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 1 August 2023). 
- [Learn to Be a Prompt Engineer: PREP and other guides to uncovering the secrets to ChatGPT mastery](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-prompt-engineer-prep-other-guides-uncovering-secrets-lukes) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 2 April 2023). 
- [More AI news: Incremental but meaningful progress - From models to products](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/more-ai-news-incremental-meaningful-progress-from-models-lukes) (Blog posts · AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 27 March 2023). 

## 2022

- [Improving academic writing: Four books to read during #AcWriMo](https://metaphorhacker.net/2022/10/improving-academic-writing-four-books-to-read-during-acwrimo/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 30 October 2022). The piece recommends books and exercises for improving academic writing through habits, sentence craft, social support, emotional awareness, and deliberate practice.
- [Unintentional Pygmalions: 4 questions to ask when checking an artificial entity for sentience and how to think about the answers](https://metaphorhacker.net/2022/08/unintentional-pygmalions-4-questions-to-ask-when-checking-an-artificial-entity-for-sentience-and-how-to-think-about-the-answers/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 9 August 2022). The piece proposes tests for persistent identity, autonomous intentionality, embodiment, theory of mind, and conversational implicature when assessing claims of machine sentience.
- [Learning is a Journey: Consequences of a metaphor](https://metaphorhacker.net/2022/06/learning-is-a-journey-consequences-of-a-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 13 June 2022). The piece maps maps, itineraries, briefings, and guides onto education to show that learning requires supported travel through a domain rather than preparation alone.
- [3 fundamental problems of translating metaphor (or anything else)](https://metaphorhacker.net/2022/03/3-fundamental-problems-of-translating-metaphor-or-anything-else/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 6 March 2022). The piece explains how idiomaticity, underdetermination, and textual cohesion make metaphor translation difficult for the same reasons that translation generally is difficult.

## 2021

- [World as a directly meaningful place: A comment on Ecological Psychology and the richness of human experience](https://metaphorhacker.net/2021/11/world-as-a-directly-meaningful-place-a-comment-on-ecological-psychology-and-the-richness-of-human-experience/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 14 November 2021). 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.
- [History as weather: A fractal theory of history for Ian Morris, Jared Diamond and CGP Grey](https://metaphorhacker.net/2021/06/history-as-weather-a-fractal-theory-of-history-for-ian-morris-jared-diamond-and-cgp-grey/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 3 June 2021). The piece compares history with weather to argue that historical models can identify patterns without supporting precise causal explanations or useful long-range predictions.
- [Why I am a feminist: A reading list](https://metaphorhacker.net/2021/03/why-i-am-a-feminist-a-reading-list/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 8 March 2021). The piece recommends six books that treat feminism as a radical re-examination of gender, language, marriage, love, culture, and social inequality.
- [The nonsense of style: Academic writing should be scrupulous not stylish](https://metaphorhacker.net/2021/01/the-nonsense-of-style-academic-writing-should-be-scrupulous-not-stylish/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 17 January 2021). The piece argues that academic writing should prioritise scrupulous argument, explicit structure, and manageable sentence length over fashionable stylistic advice.
- [Metaphors and freedom: On Tolkien's notion of allegory vs applicability](https://metaphorhacker.net/2021/01/metaphors-and-freedom-on-tolkiens-notion-of-allegory-vs-applicability/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 1 January 2021). The piece uses Tolkien's distinction between allegory and applicability to argue that readers continually renegotiate metaphors rather than remain confined by authorial intent.

## 2020

- [No back row, no corridor: Metaphors for online teaching and learning](https://metaphorhacker.net/2020/06/no-back-row-no-corridor-metaphors-for-online-teaching-and-learning/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 28 June 2020). The piece uses the absence of a back row and corridor to compare the learning opportunities and support deficits of virtual and physical education.
- [Moving Events Online Part 1: Challenges: Why are not more events taking place online?](https://medium.com/techczech/moving-events-online-part-1-challenges-why-are-not-more-events-taking-place-online-a1b94533649c) (Blog posts · Medium · 19 April 2020). The piece identifies practical and social barriers that prevented more events from moving online during the early pandemic.
- [Moving Events Online Part 2: Strategies: What can we learn from successful online events?](https://medium.com/techczech/moving-events-online-part-2-strategies-what-can-we-learn-from-successful-online-events-8ae2dbf40703) (Blog posts · Medium · 19 April 2020). The piece draws practical strategies for online events from examples of successful event design and delivery.
- [Moving Events Online Part 3: Platforms: What technologies and solutions are available?](https://medium.com/techczech/moving-events-online-part-3-platforms-what-technologies-and-solutions-are-available-fd8e2b05b7f0) (Blog posts · Medium · 19 April 2020). The piece compares technologies and platforms that can support events delivered online.
- [Moving events online: Platforms, strategies and challenges](https://medium.com/techczech/moving-events-online-platforms-strategies-and-challenges-97464cdc0f2a) (Blog posts · Medium · 19 April 2020). The piece summarises the challenges, strategies, and platforms involved in moving events online.
- [It’s not personal, it’s family: Kin, strangers, guests, and the complexity of social obligation](https://metaphorhacker.net/2020/02/its-not-personal-its-family/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 16 February 2020). The piece expands a proposal for forged families by showing how kinship, hospitality, obligation, and state support interact across different societies.
- [How to actually write a sentence: The building blocks of written language](https://metaphorhacker.net/2020/02/how-to-actually-write-a-sentence-the-building-blocks-of-written-language/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 1 February 2020). The piece explains how reflective reading and editing help writers develop sentences that are coherent, cohesive, and appropriate to their genre.
- [Potemkin wisdoms, phronesis and Pixar: How wise sayings protect us from meaning](https://metaphorhacker.net/2020/01/potemkin-wisdoms-phronesis-and-pixar-how-wise-sayings-protect-us-from-meaning/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 21 January 2020). The piece argues that concise principles become empty social signals unless practical wisdom reconnects them to changing behaviour in specific contexts.
- [Predictions for the next decade: Hopes, dreams and reality checks: Part 6 of Tech That Reshaped…](https://medium.com/techczech/predictions-for-the-next-decade-hopes-dreams-and-reality-checks-part-6-of-tech-that-reshaped-b2688e0049d4) (Blog posts · Medium · 14 January 2020). The piece evaluates predictions about the 2020s by comparing technological hopes with social constraints and previous experience.
- [Hardware Trends of the 2010s: Part 2 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade](https://medium.com/@techczech/hardware-trends-of-the-2010s-part-2-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-in-the-last-decade-15946e2c9cee) (Blog posts · Medium · 9 January 2020). The piece surveys hardware changes in the 2010s and explains how they altered everyday activities and expectations.
- [Media and content consumption trends of the 2010s: Part 4 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the…](https://medium.com/techczech/media-and-content-consumption-trends-of-the-2010s-part-4-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-in-the-81a170a3bfd3) (Blog posts · Medium · 9 January 2020). The piece surveys changes in media and content consumption during the 2010s and relates them to changing forms of everyday life.
- [Software Trends of the 2010s: Part 3 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade](https://medium.com/techczech/software-trends-of-the-2010s-part-3-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-in-the-last-decade-3b824a6bb6e1) (Blog posts · Medium · 9 January 2020). The piece surveys software trends of the 2010s and describes how they changed the ways people perform ordinary tasks.
- [Technology trends that reshaped our lives in the 2010s: 10 years in 10,000 words](https://medium.com/techczech/technology-trends-that-reshaped-our-lives-in-the-2010s-10-years-in-10-000-words-f9be9dfdd22a) (Blog posts · Medium · 9 January 2020). The piece introduces a six-part account of 2010s technology trends by focusing on changes in people's lives rather than on technology alone.
- [The hype bubbles of the 2010s: Part 5 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade](https://medium.com/techczech/the-hype-bubbles-of-the-2010s-part-5-of-tech-that-reshaped-our-lives-in-the-last-decade-2e88c8ffb928) (Blog posts · Medium · 9 January 2020). The piece examines technology hype bubbles of the 2010s and distinguishes promised transformation from changes that actually occurred.

## 2019

- [So you think you have a historical analogy? Revisionist history and anthropology reading list](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/09/so-you-think-you-have-a-historical-analogy-revisionist-history-and-anthropology-reading-list/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 8 September 2019). The piece presents a revisionist history and anthropology reading list that challenges Eurocentric, state-centred, and linear accounts of human development.
- [Turing tests in Chinese rooms: What does it mean for AI to outperform humans](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/07/turing-tests-in-chinese-rooms-what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-outperform-humans/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 23 July 2019). The piece argues that benchmark victories do not establish human-like understanding and proposes prolonged supervised performance as a stronger test of artificial intelligence.
- [Fruit loops and metaphors: Metaphors are not about explaining the abstract through concrete but about the dynamic process of negotiated sensemaking](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/07/fruit-loops-and-metaphors-metaphors-are-not-about-explaining-the-abstract-through-concrete-but-about-the-dynamic-process-of-negotiated-sensemaking/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 14 July 2019). The piece argues that metaphor dynamically restructures knowledge through negotiated sensemaking rather than simply explaining abstract ideas with concrete ones.
- [5 books on knowledge and expertise: Reading list for exploring the role of knowledge and deliberate practice in the development of expert performance](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/06/5-books-on-knowledge-and-expertise-reading-list-for-exploring-the-role-of-knowledge-and-deliberate-practice-in-the-development-of-expert-performance/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 30 June 2019). The piece recommends five complementary books for understanding expert performance through mental representations, deliberate practice, conceptual blending, social knowledge, and reflection in action.
- [Writing as translation and translation as commitment: Why is (academic) writing so hard?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/06/writing-as-translation-and-translation-as-commitment-why-is-academic-writing-so-hard/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 15 June 2019). The piece uses translation and music as partial models for how writing forces implicit thoughts into explicit commitments that require practice to express clearly.
- [5 kinds of understanding and metaphors: Missing pieces in pedagogical taxonomies](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/06/5-kinds-of-understanding-and-metaphors-missing-pieces-in-pedagogical-taxonomies/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 14 June 2019). The piece distinguishes associative, lexical, inferential, instrumental, and creative understanding as overlapping levels that require progressively richer mental representations.
- [Explanation is an event, understanding is a process: How (not) to explain anything with metaphor](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/05/explanation-is-an-event-understanding-is-a-process-how-not-to-explain-anything-with-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 29 May 2019). The piece argues that metaphors support learning only when they function within sustained practice as invitations, instruments, or catalysts rather than isolated explanations.
- [What would make linguistics a better science? Science as a metaphor](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/04/what-would-make-linguistics-a-better-science-science-as-a-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 28 April 2019). The piece argues that linguistics will improve through a productive interaction between better data and better theory rather than through more rigid definitions alone.

## 2018

- [Cats and butterflies: 2 misunderstood analogies in scientistic discourse](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/11/cats-and-butterflies-2-misunderstood-analogies-in-scientistic-discourse/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 8 November 2018). The piece shows how popular retellings of Schrödinger's cat and the butterfly effect turn cautionary scientific analogies into misleading literal claims.
- [3 burning issues in the study of metaphor](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/11/3-burning-issues-in-the-study-of-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 7 November 2018). The piece identifies unresolved questions about deliberate and automatic metaphor processing, the relation between textual and conceptual metaphor, and variation in figurative understanding.
- [3 “easy” things that are hard for both humans and AI](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/10/3-easy-things-that-are-hard-for-both-humans-and-ai/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 19 October 2018). The piece uses time zones, scheduling, and data transfer to show why seemingly simple tasks remain difficult for both people and artificial intelligence.
- [Innovation is bad for business: 3 more ‘I’ words to compare innovation to](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/10/innovation-is-bad-for-business-3-more-i-words-to-compare-innovation-to/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 16 October 2018). The piece uses infection, ignorance, and imitation as metaphors to challenge the treatment of innovation as an unqualified organisational good.
- [Does machine learning produce mental representations?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/05/does-machine-learning-produce-mental-representations/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 28 May 2018). The piece argues that machine-learning systems represent problem spaces without possessing the flexible, embodied, and metacognitive mental representations used by humans.
- [Not ships in the night: Metaphor and simile as process](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/05/not-ships-in-the-night-metaphor-and-simile-as-process/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 22 May 2018). The piece analyses an extended comparison to show that metaphor and simile operate together within a dynamic process of discourse-based meaning construction.
- [How to read ‘Women, Fire and Dangerous Things’: Guide to essential reading on human cognition](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/05/how-to-read-women-fire-and-dangerous-things-guide-to-essential-reading-on-human-cognition/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 16 May 2018). The piece provides a selective route through Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things that prioritises its account of categories, cognitive models, embodiment, and metaphor.
- [Therapy for Frege: A brief outline of the theory of everything](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/05/therapy-for-frege-a-brief-outline-of-the-theory-of-everything/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 16 May 2018). The piece argues that perfect reference is impossible and proposes pragmatic, provisional heuristics for living with the resulting limits on knowledge and rationality.
- [10 ways in which music is like language and 8 (more important) ways in which it is not](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/03/10-ways-in-which-music-is-like-language-and-8-more-important-ways-in-which-it-is-not/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 19 March 2018). The piece compares music and language to show that their shared structural features do not erase fundamental differences in meaning, acquisition, and dialogue.
- [17 Things Everyone Should Know About Language But Doesn’t Even Know to Ask](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/17-things-everyone-should-know-about-language-but-doesnt-even-know-to-ask-e078e3fe39c2) (Blog posts · Medium · 11 March 2018). The piece presents seventeen findings from linguistics that teachers, journalists, policy experts, and grammar commentators should understand about language.
- [Learning vs training in machines and organizations: Production of knowledge vs production of capability](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/learning-vs-training-in-machines-and-organizations-production-of-knowledge-vs-production-of-f1f9e6c1d9f3) (Essays · Medium · 6 February 2018). The essay distinguishes learning as the production of knowledge from training as the production of capability in machines and organisations.

## 2017

- [Guns, Glory, and Greed: Most wars were not caused by religion (but they weren't prevented by it either)](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/guns-glory-and-greed-most-wars-were-not-caused-by-religion-but-they-werent-prevented-by-it-a3002aee387f) (Blog posts · Medium · 10 June 2017). 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.

## 2016

- [Repaved paths and generative metaphors: Expressing human purposes with technology](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/repaved-paths-and-generative-metaphors-expressing-human-purposes-with-technology-321b10fa5bf) (Blog posts · Medium · 23 June 2016). The piece argues that technology expresses human purposes and that generative metaphors can reveal alternative ways to design and use it.
- [If teachers are actors, is instructional design stage directions? Exploration of a metaphor.](https://medium.com/education-voodoo/if-teachers-are-actors-is-instructional-design-stage-directions-exploration-of-a-metaphor-f4a47a9f60c6) (Blog posts · Medium · 16 February 2016). The piece develops a theatre metaphor for relating instructional design, lesson planning, and teachers' classroom performance.
- [Disruption and agency: Inherent freedoms, impatient earthworms and schemas of the ideal society…](https://medium.com/education-voodoo/disruption-and-agency-inherent-freedoms-impatient-earthworms-and-schemas-of-the-ideal-society-e19ddcc02a26) (Blog posts · Medium · 26 January 2016). The piece examines disruption as a contested concept and connects technological change with human agency and social organisation.

## 2015

- [There are too many words for scavenger in Czech but none of them was good enough for Star Wars…](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/there-are-too-many-words-for-scavenger-in-czech-but-none-of-them-was-good-enough-for-star-wars-4df5092352a9) (Blog posts · Medium · 22 December 2015). The piece argues that translation choices reflect differences in meaning and practical constraints rather than gaps in a language's vocabulary.

## 2014

- [Three abstracts for OER15: Licensing talking points, Models of OER production, and OERs and Accessibility](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2014/12/01/three-abstracts-for-oer15-licensing-talking-points-models-of-oer-production-and-oers-and-accessibility/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 1 December 2014). This note presents three conference abstracts on open licensing and accessibility, early licensing decisions in projects, and sustainable models for producing open educational resources.
- [What language looks like: Dictionary and grammar are to language what standing on one foot is to running](https://metaphorhacker.net/2014/11/what-language-looks-like-dictionary-and-grammar-are-to-language-what-standing-on-one-foot-is-to-running/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 5 November 2014). The piece argues that dictionaries and grammars depict language posed for analysis rather than language operating in social use.
- [Anthropologists' metaphorical shenanigans: Or how (not) to research metaphor](https://metaphorhacker.net/2014/08/anthropologists-metaphorical-shenanigans-or-how-not-to-research-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 3 August 2014). The piece argues that claims about exceptional metaphor use in Indigenous American languages require comparative evidence rather than cultural stereotypes.
- [What does it mean when words 'really' mean something: Dismiss the Miss](https://metaphorhacker.net/2014/05/what-does-it-mean-when-texts-really-mean-something/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 17 May 2014). The piece argues that the title Miss has no fixed meaning but remains connected to histories and practices of gender inequality.
- [Announcing Research Zoo - A Habitat for Guerrilla Research](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2014/03/23/announcing-research-zoo-a-habitat-for-guerrilla-research/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 23 March 2014). This piece introduces Research Zoo as a practical platform that could support guerrilla researchers, practitioner collaboration, shared research design, and funding.
- [What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action](https://metaphorhacker.net/2014/03/what-is-not-a-metaphor-modelling-the-world-through-language-thought-science-or-action/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 4 March 2014). The piece explains metaphor as conceptual modelling and argues that every interaction with the world applies partial cognitive models.
- [Linguistics according to Fillmore](https://metaphorhacker.net/2014/02/linguistics-according-to-fillmore/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 15 February 2014). The piece traces Charles Fillmore's contributions to case grammar, frame semantics, construction grammar, and FrameNet.
- [5 things everybody should know about language: Outline of linguistics' contribution to the liberal arts curriculum](https://metaphorhacker.net/2014/01/5-things-everybody-should-know-about-language-outline-of-linguistics-contribution-to-the-liberal-arts-curriculum/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 1 January 2014). The piece proposes five sociolinguistic principles for general education and argues against grammar-centred language teaching.

## 2013

- [Binders full of women with mighty pens: What is metonymy](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/12/binders-full-of-women-with-mighty-pens-what-is-metonymy/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 14 December 2013). The piece explains forms of metonymy and shows how metonymic connections shape imagery, inference, and public discourse.
- [Choosing an online and social presence for your interest group, project, event or organization](https://techczech.net/2013/12/05/choosing-an-online-and-social-presence-for-your-interest-group-project-event-or-organization/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 5 December 2013). The piece explains how groups and projects can combine websites, social networks, video platforms, and mailing lists to maintain an online presence.
- [Three books of the year 2013 and some books of the century 1900-2013](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/11/three-books-of-the-year-2013-and-some-books-of-the-century-1900-2013/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 17 November 2013). The piece recommends three books from 2013 and evaluates influential twentieth-century works on language, society, and fiction.
- [Pervasiveness of Obliging Metaphors in Thought and Deed](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/10/pervasiveness-of-oblidging-metaphors-in-thought-and-deed/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 27 October 2013). The piece argues that metaphors generate insight only when their partial mappings are not mistaken for complete identities.
- [Storms in all Teacups: The Power and Inequality in the Battle for Science Universality](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/09/storms-in-all-teacups-the-power-and-inequality-in-the-battle-for-science-universality/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 20 September 2013). The piece argues that defenders of science often ridicule low-status targets while excusing equally poor reasoning by prestigious scientists.
- [Sunsets, horizons and the language/mind/culture distinction](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/08/sunsets-horizons-and-the-languagemindculture-distinction/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 24 August 2013). The piece argues that language, mind, and culture are overlapping analytical heuristics rather than separate entities with causal priority.
- [How we use metaphors](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/04/how-we-use-metaphors/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 13 April 2013). The piece classifies metaphor use by cognitive, social, and textual functions and by degrees of salience and recoverability.
- [Do we need a gaming literacy: Literacy metaphor hack](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/04/do-we-need-a-gaming-literacy-literacy-metaphor-hack/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2013). The piece tests gaming literacy against reading literacy and argues that gaming may become necessary for cultural participation.
- [Framing and constructions as a bridge between cognition and culture: Two Abstracts for Cognitive Futures](https://metaphorhacker.net/2013/01/framing-constructions-as-a-bridge-between-cognition-and-culture-two-abstracts-for-cognitive-futures/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 26 January 2013). The two conference abstracts propose frames and construction grammar as bridges between cognitive accounts and cultural analysis.

## 2012

- [Use Google+ Communities to run Google Hangouts with your tutorial groups in a large online course](https://techczech.net/2012/12/09/use-google-communities-to-run-google-hangouts-with-your-tutorial-groups-in-a-large-online-course/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 9 December 2012). The piece explains how course participants can use Google Plus Communities, events, and Hangouts to organise small-group video sessions.
- [MOOC-induced educational blindness: Demotivation and confusion as intrinsic properties of schooling](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/11/18/mooc-induced-educational-blindness/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 18 November 2012). This piece argues that confusion, demotivation, weak expert interaction, and attrition are general properties of schooling rather than distinctive failures of MOOCs.
- [The "Profit Motive" delusion and open education #edstartup #opencontent #edchat](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/10/14/the-profit-motive-delusion-and-open-education/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 14 October 2012). 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.
- [The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics \[updated\]](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/09/the-complexities-of-simple-what-simple-language-proponents-should-know-about-linguistics/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 28 September 2012). The piece argues that accessible writing requires attention to context, text structure, and language variation beyond mechanical readability rules.
- [Turning Wikipedia into textbooks: Tools, Ideals and Accessibility](https://techczech.net/2012/09/22/turning-wikipedia-into-textbooks-tools-ideals-and-accessibility/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 22 September 2012). The piece explains how to assemble Wikipedia articles into textbooks and compares the workflow, accessibility, and alternatives for collaborative book creation.
- [I don't want to be an education entrepreneur and neither should you: Exploring the limits of metaphors in #EdStartUp](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/09/16/i-dont-want-to-be-an-education-entrepreneur-and-neither-should-you-exploring-the-limits-of-metaphors-in-edstartup/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 16 September 2012). 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.
- [The Great MOOC Slander? Realities and Narratives of Education and Learning \[UPDATED\]](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/09/15/the-great-mooc-slander-realities-and-narratives-of-education-and-learning/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 15 September 2012). 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.
- ["Why didn't anyone tell me about this?": What every learning technologist should know about accessible documents](https://techczech.net/2012/09/14/why-didnt-anyone-tell-me-about-this-what-every-learning-technologist-should-know-about-accessible-documents-altc2012/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 14 September 2012). The talk explains five practical technologies for making educational documents more accessible to people who find reading difficult.
- [Introducing myself to #EdStartUp - How can we find sustainable business/funding models for open education? \[update\]](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/27/how-can-we-find-sustainable-business-models-for-open-education/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 27 August 2012). This video introduction asks how open courses can fund participation, assessment, and recognition without depending on large institutions or proprietary scarcity.
- [Cliches, information and metaphors: Overcoming prejudice with metahor hacking and getting it back again](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/08/cliches-information-and-metaphors-overcoming-prejudice-with-metahor-hacking-and-getting-it-back-again/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 26 August 2012). The piece argues that people must use conceptual clichés while continually negotiating which ones guide judgement and action.
- [Massive open education mindspace: MOOC hows and whys](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/24/massive-open-education-mindspace-mooc-hows-and-whys/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 24 August 2012). This note presents a remixable concept map of MOOC types, pedagogies, platforms, roles, openness, scale, assessment, and accreditation.
- [What's good and what's missing in GoToWebinar and alternative solutions for delivering live online lectures](https://techczech.net/2012/08/22/gotowebinar-and-alternative-solutions-fo-delivering-online-lectures/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 22 August 2012). The piece reviews GoToWebinar's strengths and limitations against alternative platforms for live online lectures.
- [MOOC motivations and magnitudes: Reflections on the MOOC experience vs the MOOC drop out #moocmooc](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/18/mooc-motivations-and-magnitudes/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 18 August 2012). This piece argues that MOOC completion rates must be interpreted through scale, participant motivation, investment, and the different consequences of leaving a free course.
- [How to MOOCify your course and why you should do it: Reasons, skills and tools #moocmooc \[update\]](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/17/how-to-moocify-your-course/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 17 August 2012). This guide explains why and how to make a course more MOOC-like through open participation, personal learning networks, simple tools, and digital skills.
- [Zero pedagogy: A hyperbolic case for curation and creation over education in the age of the MOOC (#moocmooc)](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/15/zero-pedagogy-a-hyperbolic-case-for-curation-and-creation-over-education/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 15 August 2012). This piece argues that open access, community support, curation, and creation matter more than imposing a unified pedagogy on motivated learners.
- [Space, The Final Frontier of Online Education or Flipping the School Year #MOOCMOOC](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/14/space-the-final-frontier-of-online-education-or-flipping-the-school-year/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 14 August 2012). This video contribution proposes combining online study with concentrated in-person periods by flipping the structure of the school year.
- [What is and what is not a MOOC: A picture of family resemblance (working undefinition) #moocmooc](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/08/14/what-is-and-what-is-not-a-mooc-a-picture-of-family-resemblance-working-undefinition-moocmooc/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 14 August 2012). This explainer defines MOOCs through family resemblance by separating required, optional, marginal, and disqualifying features.
- [Pseudo-education as a weapon: Beyond the ridiculous in linguistic prescriptivism](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/08/pseudo-education-as-a-weapon-beyond-the-ridiculous-in-linguistic-prescriptivism/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 9 August 2012). The piece argues that pseudo-knowledge about grammar turns linguistic prejudice into a tool for judging and excluding people.
- [Debating the MOOC Backlash: Notes from A Primitive Screwhead](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/07/29/debating-the-mooc-backlash-notes-from-a-primitive-screwhead/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 29 July 2012). This piece answers criticisms of MOOCs by comparing them with conventional higher education and emphasising access, openness, peer learning, and institutional change.
- [The Drupal/Wordpress choice: A guide for individuals, small organizations and the Internet](https://techczech.net/2012/07/28/drupal-wordpress-choice/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 28 July 2012). The piece compares Drupal and WordPress and recommends each platform for different organisational needs, technical capacities, and maintenance budgets.
- [Make your own audio book using text to speech - Save your eyes, time](https://techczech.net/2012/07/23/make-your-own-audio-book-using-text-to-speech-save-your-eyes-time/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 23 July 2012). The piece explains how to convert ebook text into MP3 audiobook files with text-to-speech software.
- [Character Assasination through Metaphoric Pomposity: When one metaphor is not enough](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/07/character-assasination-through-metaphoric-pomposity-when-one-metaphor-is-not-enough/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 22 July 2012). The piece shows how an architectural comparison between Google and Facebook becomes misleading when its mappings and alternatives are examined.
- [Do researchers need Personal Learning Networks? Yes!](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/07/21/do-researchers-need-personal-learning-networks-yes/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 21 July 2012). This piece argues that researchers should make their learning networks more open through blogging and social media so newcomers and practitioners can participate.
- [Word 2013 Preview Accessibility and Usability Review - First Impressions \[Update 2 on uninstall\]](https://techczech.net/2012/07/21/word-2013-preview-accessibility-and-usability-first-impressions/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 21 July 2012). The piece reviews Word 2013 Preview's accessibility, reading, editing, navigation, PDF, and installation behaviour against Word 2010.
- [Who-knows-what-how stories: The scientific and religious knowledge paradox](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/07/who-knows-what-how-stories-the-scientific-and-religious-knowledge-paradox/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 20 July 2012). The piece argues that scientific and religious knowledge share social practices and narratives despite making different claims about method and utility.
- [An innovator’s dilemmas: On the resistance to technological innovation in education](https://techczech.net/2012/05/19/an-innovators-dilemmas-on-the-resistance-to-technological-innovation-in-education/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 19 May 2012). 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.
- [5 UX Improvements Moodle needs desperately](https://techczech.net/2012/04/12/5-ux-improvements-moodle-needs-desperately/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 12 April 2012). The piece proposes a coordinated redesign of Moodle navigation, dashboards, messaging, calendars, and breadcrumbs around student needs.
- [5 Moodle 2 features that waste admin time](https://techczech.net/2012/04/10/5-moodle-2-features-that-waste-admin-time/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 10 April 2012). The piece identifies Moodle 2 administration workflows that waste time and argues for a coordinated usability redesign.
- [Kickstarting research on development: Right on involvement, wrong on outputs](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2012/04/09/kickstarting-research-on-development-right-on-involvement-wrong-on-outputs/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 9 April 2012). This piece supports public participation in research funding but rejects printed outputs and context-free quantitative claims about development programmes.
- [10 (now 12) Things I learned at the Moodle Moot 2012](https://techczech.net/2012/04/08/10-things-i-learned-at-the-moodle-moot-2012/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 8 April 2012). The piece reports lessons from MoodleMoot 2012 about platform development, course design, conference formats, online presence, and educational tools.
- [4 things you thought you knew about screen readers!](https://techczech.net/2012/04/02/pecha-kucha-4-things-you-thought-you-knew-about-screen-readers/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 2 April 2012). The talk proposal corrects four common misconceptions about designing web content for screen-reader users.
- [Five features of Moodle 2 that take up most of our support time](https://techczech.net/2012/04/02/five-features-of-moodle-2-that-take-up-most-of-our-support-time/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 2 April 2012). The talk proposal identifies five Moodle 2 interface problems that generate support requests and proposes specific remedies.
- [RaAM 9 Abstract: Of Doves and Cocks: Collective Negotiation of a Metaphoric Seduction](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/03/raam-9-abstract-of-doves-and-cocks-collective-negotiation-of-a-metaphoric-seduction/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 31 March 2012). The conference abstract proposes that speakers collectively negotiate metaphors while remaining susceptible to their political force.
- [Top 6 Drupal usability problems](https://techczech.net/2012/01/28/top-6-drupal-usability-problems/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 28 January 2012). The piece identifies six recurring Drupal usability problems and argues for an extended core that can improve the product independently of the platform.
- [Putting lectures in their place with cautious optimism](https://techczech.net/2012/01/22/putting-lectures-in-their-place-with-cautious-optimism/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 22 January 2012). The piece argues that lectures remain useful for information and motivation when they support rather than replace active learning.
- [21st Century Educational Voodoo](https://metaphorhacker.net/2012/01/21st-century-educational-voodoo/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 18 January 2012). The piece argues that calls for a twenty-first-century education system rely on inaccurate histories and predictable economic clichés.
- [Is BETT good for UK education? Towards a more open alternative! #BETT2012 #C84C](https://techczech.net/2012/01/15/is-bett-good-for-uk-education-towards-a-more-open-alternative-bett2012-c84c/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 15 January 2012). 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.

## 2011

- [Moral Compass Metaphor Points to Surprising Places](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/11/moral-compass-metaphor-points-to-surprising-places/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 2 November 2011). The piece extends the moral-compass metaphor to show that ethical judgement requires contextual calibration and changing direction.
- [Peer review should be more like Hypothes.is than Hypothes.is should be like peer review!](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/11/01/peer-review-should-be-more-like-hypothes-is-than-hypothes-is-should-be-like-peer-review/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 1 November 2011). This piece argues that open, pseudonymous, trackable review could make scholarly trust more accountable and loosen academic publishing's control over knowledge.
- [CiviEvent Wishlist (#CiviCRM)](https://techczech.net/2011/09/01/civievent-wishlist-civicrm/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 1 September 2011). The piece proposes improvements to CiviCRM event administration, registration, payments, admissions, and profile handling.
- [Civi Email Wishlist (#CiviCRM)](https://techczech.net/2011/08/31/civi-email-wishlist-civicrm/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 31 August 2011). The piece proposes improvements to CiviCRM email composition, mass mailing, templates, tracking, and interface workflows.
- [There's more to memory than the brain: Psychologists run clever experiments, make trivial claims, take gullible internet by storm](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/07/theres-more-to-memory-than-the-brain-psychologists-run-clever-experiments-make-trivial-claims-take-gullible-internet-by-storm/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 17 July 2011). The piece argues that research on internet-assisted recall concerns familiar transactive memory strategies rather than changes to the brain.
- [The death of a memory: Missing metaphors of remembering and forgetting?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/07/the-death-of-a-memory-missing-metaphors-of-remembering-and-forgetting/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 10 July 2011). The piece uses two sudden losses of familiar access codes to question established models and metaphors of memory.
- [Killer App is a bad metaphor for historical trends, good for pseudoteaching](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/06/killer-app-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-historical-trends-good-for-pseudoteaching/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 3 June 2011). The piece argues that Niall Ferguson's killer-app metaphor misrepresents historical change and supplies superficial context for teaching.
- [Language learning in literature as a source domain for generative metaphors about anything](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/06/language-learning-in-literature-as-a-source-domain-for-generative-metaphors-about-anything/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 1 June 2011). The piece uses literary depictions of language learning to propose a model of expertise that includes strategy, emotion, and social participation.
- [You don't have to be a xenophobe to think Britain being an island matters, but it helps!](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/05/you-dont-have-to-be-a-xenophobe-to-think-britain-being-an-island-matters-but-it-helps/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 21 May 2011). The piece argues that Britain's island geography is wrongly treated as uniquely relevant to population, housing, and burial policy.
- [The natural logistics of life: The Internet really changes almost nothing](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/05/the-natural-logistics-of-life-the-internet-really-changes-almost-nothing/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 7 May 2011). The piece argues that the internet accelerates communication but leaves most human institutions and activities constrained by human time and attention.
- [When is subtle manipulation of data a flat out lie? Truth about Chinese prisons \[UPDATE\]](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/05/when-is-subtle-manipulation-of-data-a-flat-out-lie-truth-about-chinese-prisons/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 2 May 2011). The piece argues that grouping Chinese prison totals with American and Russian figures creates a misleading comparison despite using accurate numbers.
- [links for 2011-04-29](https://techczech.net/2011/04/30/links-for-2011-04-29/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 30 April 2011). The digest links to a comparison of simple online task-list services for students.
- [I object: A male feminist's view on the Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding dress](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/i-object-a-male-feminists-view-on-the-dutches-of-cambridges-wedding-dress/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 29 April 2011). The piece argues that formal wedding dress reproduces unequal gender roles and calls for rituals that represent public equality.
- [Towards a system of uncredentials for uneducation](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/04/28/towards-a-system-of-uncredentials-for-uneducation/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 28 April 2011). This piece proposes a web-of-trust credential system that could certify portfolios and practical competence outside conventional universities.
- [links for 2011-04-23](https://techczech.net/2011/04/24/links-for-2011-04-23/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 24 April 2011). The digest links to a URL shortener that presents linked pages in a more readable format.
- [Poetry without metaphor? Sure but can it darn your socks?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/poetry-without-metaphor-sure-but-can-it-darn-your-socks/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 24 April 2011). The piece argues that interpreting imagery in a nearly non-figurative poem requires the same conceptual mapping used for metaphor.
- [Integrating Learning Technology Support into Moodle #mootuk11](https://techczech.net/2011/04/20/integrating-learning-technology-support-into-moodle-mootuk11/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 20 April 2011). The piece presents slides on using cloud-based tools to support Moodle users in a fully online learning environment.
- [links for 2011-04-17](https://techczech.net/2011/04/18/links-for-2011-04-17/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 18 April 2011). The digest links to a presentation about technologies that support students with dyslexia.
- [Religion, if it exists, is negotiation of underdetermined metaphoric cognition \[UPDATED\]](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/religion-if-it-exists-is-negotiation-of-underdetermined-metaphoric-cognition/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 9 April 2011). The piece describes religious thought as social negotiation over schematic and underdetermined conceptual representations.
- [Life expectancy and the length and value of life: On a historical overimagination](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/life-expectancy-and-the-length-and-value-of-life-on-a-historical-overimagination/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 5 April 2011). The piece explains how life expectancy at birth can misrepresent adult longevity and distort historical narratives.
- [Why don't metaphorical hawks kill metaphorical doves?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/why-dont-metaphorical-hawks-kill-metaphorical-doves/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2011). The piece asks why political discourse rarely extends the hawk-and-dove metaphor to hawks hunting doves.
- [Is OpenIDEO a good model for a research community?](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/03/31/is-openideo-a-good-model-for-a-research-community/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 31 March 2011). This review assesses OpenIDEO as a model for community-based research while identifying gaps in brainstorming, reputation, user-led questions, tagging, and project branching.
- [Are we the masters of our morality? Yes!](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/are-we-the-masters-of-our-morality-yes/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 26 March 2011). The piece argues that people interpret moral content selectively, making behavioural effects difficult to predict from exposure alone.
- [Comedian identifies a critical flaw in structuralism: Are distinctive features like leather sleeves](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/comedian-identifies-a-critical-flaw-in-structuralism-are-distinctive-features-like-leather-sleeves/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 24 March 2011). The piece uses a comedy routine about leather sleeves to question analyses based on distinctive features.
- [Epistemology as ethics: Decisions and judgments not methods and solutions for evidence-based practice](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/epistemology-as-ethics-decisions-and-judgments-not-methods-and-solutions-for-evidence-based-practice/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 20 March 2011). The piece argues that evidence-based practice requires situated ethical judgement rather than reliance on methods as automatic solutions.
- [Do science fiction writers dream of fascist dictatorships?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/do-science-fiction-writers-dream-of-fascist-dictatorships/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 13 March 2011). The piece examines how progressive science fiction can reproduce authoritarian fantasies of rational social control.
- [The brain is a bad metaphor for language](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/the-brain-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-language/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 11 March 2011). The piece argues that neuroscience cannot explain language by assuming direct structural correspondences between brain activity and linguistic phenomena.
- [#mootuk11 session proposal: Integrating Learning Technology Support into Moodle](https://techczech.net/2011/03/09/mootuk11-session-proposal-integrating-learning-technology-support-into-moodle/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 9 March 2011). The talk proposal describes a portfolio of tools and workflows for supporting Moodle users in fully online courses.
- [Community research and "knowledge exchange network" for neuroscience](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/03/02/community-research-and-knowledge-exchange-network-for-neuroscience/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 2 March 2011). This piece proposes a neuroscience knowledge-exchange network that gives researchers and practitioners equal roles in discussion, curation, reputation, and small-scale research.
- [links for 2011-02-23](https://techczech.net/2011/02/24/links-for-2011-02-23/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 24 February 2011). The digest links to an open-source question-and-answer community platform.
- [Literally: Triumph of pet peeve over matter](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/02/literally-triumph-of-pet-peeve-over-matter/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 23 February 2011). The piece uses corpus evidence to argue that literally functions primarily as an intensifier and secondarily as a disambiguator.
- [Sharing without community is just piling stuff up](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/02/21/sharing-without-community-is-just-piling-stuff-up/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 21 February 2011). This piece argues that educational repositories need trusted communities, social curation, and regular discovery channels to make shared resources useful.
- [The most ridiculous metaphor of education courtesy of an economics professor](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/02/the-most-ridiculous-metaphor-of-education/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 20 February 2011). The piece argues that comparing schools with competing restaurants conceals the costs and complexities of educational markets.
- [Get the Data: Community for Quantitative research](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/02/15/get-the-data-community-for-quantitative-research/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 15 February 2011). This note assesses Get The Data as a quantitative research community whose question-and-answer and reputation features could help organise broader research projects.
- [Toward Community-based Research for Education](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2011/02/11/towards-community-based-research-for-education/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 11 February 2011). This piece proposes community-based educational research in which practitioners and researchers define questions, award small grants, and share situated findings during the work.

## 2010

- [links for 2010-12-12](https://techczech.net/2010/12/13/links-for-2010-12-12/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 13 December 2010). The digest links to a collection of educational audiobooks, podcasts, videos, and downloads.
- [links for 2010-12-09](https://techczech.net/2010/12/10/links-for-2010-12-09/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 10 December 2010). The digest links to an online collection of reusable icons.
- [How do you find reusable content for teaching](https://techczech.net/2010/12/01/how-do-you-find-reusable-content-for-teaching/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 1 December 2010). The piece explains copyright, fair dealing, Creative Commons licences, and ways to find reusable teaching media.
- [links for 2010-11-26](https://techczech.net/2010/11/27/links-for-2010-11-26/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 27 November 2010). The digest links to a list of freely accessible journals about online learning.
- [links for 2010-09-07](https://techczech.net/2010/09/08/links-for-2010-09-07/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 8 September 2010). The digest links to a social network for educators' professional learning and collaboration.
- [links for 2010-09-05](https://techczech.net/2010/09/06/links-for-2010-09-05/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 6 September 2010). The digest links to interactive phonics activities for literacy teaching and dyslexia support.
- [links for 2010-09-04](https://techczech.net/2010/09/05/links-for-2010-09-04/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 5 September 2010). The digest links to the Public Library of Science as an open-access academic publishing resource.
- [links for 2010-08-28](https://techczech.net/2010/08/29/links-for-2010-08-28/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 29 August 2010). The digest links to a source of royalty-free music for multimedia and podcast production.
- [links for 2010-08-24](https://techczech.net/2010/08/25/links-for-2010-08-24/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 25 August 2010). The digest links to an open platform for creating and sharing digital textbooks.
- [links for 2010-08-23](https://techczech.net/2010/08/24/links-for-2010-08-23/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 24 August 2010). The digest links to an open educational resource repository and an interactive digital textbook platform.
- [Philosophers’ songbook #philbitescomp](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/philosophers-songbook-philbitescomp/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 17 August 2010). The piece retells a short history of Western philosophy through parodic song fragments.
- [links for 2010-08-05](https://techczech.net/2010/08/06/links-for-2010-08-05/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 6 August 2010). The digest links to a WordPress-based academic social network for collaboration and online learning.
- [Metaphor is my co-pilot: How the literal and metaphorical rely on the same type of knowledge](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/metaphor-is-my-co-pilot-how-the-literal-and-metaphorical-rely-on-the-same-type-of-knowledge/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 6 August 2010). The piece argues that literal and metaphorical utterances both depend on contextual knowledge and mappings between conceptual domains.
- [links for 2010-08-04](https://techczech.net/2010/08/05/links-for-2010-08-04/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 5 August 2010). The digest links to a bookmarklet search engine and a school platform for publishing audio, video, and podcasts.
- [Anthologize: 5 lessons for microfunding of research and development projects](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/08/04/anthologize-5-lessons-for-microfunding-of-research-and-development-projects-anthologize/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 4 August 2010). This piece uses the Anthologize project to argue that short, inexpensive, public projects can produce useful tools and research through iterative work.
- [The Tortoise and the Hare: Analogy for Academia in the Digital World?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/the-tortoise-and-the-hare-analogy-for-academia-in-the-digital-world/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 4 August 2010). The piece uses the tortoise and hare fable to challenge simple contrasts between digital and traditional scholarship.
- [JISC Elevator might bring more responsiveness to research funding](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/08/02/jisc-elevator-might-bring-more-responsiveness-to-research-funding/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 2 August 2010). This piece argues that JISC Elevator should let communities and developers jointly shape small, rapid, and usable research and development bids.
- [Why Chomsky doesn't count as a gifted linguist](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/why-chomsky-doesnt-count-as-a-gifted-linguist/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 1 August 2010). The piece argues that Chomsky's formal influence did not produce comparable insight into language as a social and functional phenomenon.
- [Why ideas aren't enough to solve the Palestine-Israeli conflict](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/why-ideas-arent-enough-to-solve-the-palestine-israeli-conflict/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 30 July 2010). The piece argues that reframing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can expose assumptions but cannot replace political work and material power.
- [Harvard leads the way on building institutional academic communities](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/29/harvard-leads-the-way-on-building-institutional-academic-communities/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 29 July 2010). This piece presents Harvard OpenScholar as a model for institutional academic communities and argues that cross-institutional federation should follow.
- [links for 2010-07-25](https://techczech.net/2010/07/26/links-for-2010-07-25/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 26 July 2010). The digest links to a collection of user-interface design patterns.
- [I write like… a new more sophisticated stripper name?](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/i-write-like-a-new-more-sophisticated-stripper-name/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 22 July 2010). The piece uses inconsistent automated author comparisons to show how people construct identities from arbitrary similarities.
- [links for 2010-07-21](https://techczech.net/2010/07/22/links-for-2010-07-21/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 22 July 2010). The digest links to a location-based mobile game with potential learning uses.
- [links for 2010-07-20](https://techczech.net/2010/07/21/links-for-2010-07-20/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 21 July 2010). The digest links to a collaborative online test-preparation service.
- [What it's not about so much about](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/what-its-not-about-so-much/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 21 July 2010). The piece shares an XKCD comic about distinctions among analogies, metaphors, and similes.
- [links for 2010-07-19](https://techczech.net/2010/07/20/links-for-2010-07-19/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 20 July 2010). The digest collects mobile portfolio tools, competency-management systems, and e-portfolio interoperability resources.
- [links for 2010-07-18](https://techczech.net/2010/07/19/links-for-2010-07-18/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 19 July 2010). The digest links to a collection of free courses, lectures, videos, and audio materials.
- [Report on Mahara Con UK 2010 (#maharauk10) in 36 Tweets](https://techczech.net/2010/07/19/report-on-mahara-con-uk-2010-maharauk10-in-36-tweets/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 19 July 2010). The piece reports on Mahara UK 2010 through contemporaneous tweets about e-portfolio practice, implementation barriers, and forthcoming platform features.
- [Hacking a metaphor in five steps](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/hacking-a-metaphor-in-five-steps/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 18 July 2010). The piece presents a five-step method for identifying, testing, and extending metaphorical mappings.
- [links for 2010-07-17](https://techczech.net/2010/07/18/links-for-2010-07-17/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 18 July 2010). The digest collects Mahara, e-portfolio, education, and conference resources associated with Mahara UK 2010.
- [URL Storytelling in the Age of the Semantic Web](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/18/url-storytelling-in-the-age-of-the-semantic-web/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 18 July 2010). This note presents a slide deck as an example of a URL that serves both machine-readable and human-readable purposes.
- [What it’s all About](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/what-its-all-about/) (Blog posts · Metaphor Hacker · 18 July 2010). The piece defines metaphor hacking as examining and reconstructing the conceptual frames used in thought and language.
- [How researchers use Web 2.0](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/14/how-researchers-use-web-2-0/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 14 July 2010). This piece summarises evidence that researchers rarely use Web 2.0 services and argues that institutions should support experimentation without centralising it.
- [No Longer Mad with Desire: Exactly the anDroid I was looking for](https://techczech.net/2010/07/13/mad-with-desire-exactly-the-android-i-was-looking-for/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 13 July 2010). The piece reviews the HTC Desire after one day of use and records methods for migrating messages and contacts from a Nokia phone.
- [Friend or FOAF: The Building Blocks of Content and Identity Federation](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/12/friend-or-foaf-the-building-blocks-of-content-and-identity-federation/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 12 July 2010). This explainer surveys the protocols, services, institutions, and implementations that support federated scholarly content and identity.
- [How an unconference schedule is made #thatcamp](https://techczech.net/2010/07/12/how-an-nnconference-schedule-is-made-thatcamp/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 12 July 2010). The piece presents photographs of participants creating the schedule for THATCamp London 2010.
- [links for 2010-07-10](https://techczech.net/2010/07/11/links-for-2010-07-10/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 11 July 2010). The digest links to resources on QR codes, text encoding, federated identity, and dyslexia-friendly typography.
- [links for 2010-07-09](https://techczech.net/2010/07/10/links-for-2010-07-09/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 10 July 2010). The digest collects digital humanities research tools, open scholarship resources, text-to-speech services, and educational media.
- [links for 2010-07-08](https://techczech.net/2010/07/09/links-for-2010-07-08/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 9 July 2010). The digest collects tools and standards for text analysis, federated social networking, data portability, and digital humanities research.
- [links for 2010-07-07](https://techczech.net/2010/07/08/links-for-2010-07-07/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 8 July 2010). The digest collects digital humanities tools, archives, research resources, social platforms, and materials associated with THATCamp London.
- [Toward a Federated Academic Identity](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/08/federated-academic-identity/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 8 July 2010). This piece proposes a federated academic identity that joins sign-on, profiles, scholarly outputs, social connections, privacy controls, and professional review across services.
- [Spicy nodes of TechCzech on the Net](https://techczech.net/2010/07/07/spicy-nodes-of-techczech-on-the-net/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 7 July 2010). The piece embeds an interactive SpicyNodes visualisation of the TechCzech site.
- [links for 2010-07-05](https://techczech.net/2010/07/06/links-for-2010-07-05/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 6 July 2010). The digest links to an online dictionary and translation search tool.
- [Notes from session at THATCamp London - 6 July 2010](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/06/notes-from-session-at-thatcamp-london-6-july-2010/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 6 July 2010). This note directs readers to a collaborative document from a THATCamp London session on social tools for participatory research.
- [Twitter Posts from THATCamp 2010 discussion group](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/06/twitter-posts-from-thatcamp-2010-discussion-group/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 6 July 2010). This digest collects Twitter posts from a THATCamp discussion about social tools, participatory research, and digital humanities infrastructure.
- [Research Swarm - An Interesting Metaphor](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/05/research-swarm-an-interesting-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 5 July 2010). This note points to a presentation that uses swarm metaphors to describe research practice.
- [Researchity: An Idea for a Research Community](https://researchity-archive.pages.dev/2010/07/05/researchity/) (Blog posts · Researchity · 5 July 2010). This piece proposes an online community where practitioners, researchers, and funders jointly formulate questions, conduct research, and share results.
- [Delicious links for 2010-07-03](https://techczech.net/2010/07/04/links-for-2010-07-03/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 4 July 2010). The digest collects resources on accessible technology, educational collaboration, social media, language learning, and open educational resources.
- [Presentation on the internet from 1999](https://techczech.net/2010/02/02/presentation-on-the-internet-from-1999/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 2 February 2010). The piece embeds a 1999 presentation about the internet.
- [BETT2010: What the teachers can do and did](https://techczech.net/2010/01/17/bett2010-what-the-teachers-can-do-and-did/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 17 January 2010). The piece presents a teacher's account of using inexpensive technologies to solve educational problems.

## 2009

- [Starting the inhouse eGuides training process with a crash course in technobabble](https://techczech.net/2009/12/10/starting-the-eguides-training-process-with-a-crash-course-in-technobabble/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 10 December 2009). The piece recommends a slideshow that introduces key Web 2.0 terminology for an in-house training programme.
- [MoodleMoot Lessons Learned](https://techczech.net/2009/04/09/moodlemoot-lessons-learned/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 9 April 2009). The piece records lessons from MoodleMoot UK 2009 about Moodle, open-source learning tools, and networked conference participation.
- [A Mindset, Not A Skillset](https://techczech.net/2009/04/01/a-mindset-not-a-skillset/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 1 April 2009). The piece uses a shared image to present technological competence as a mindset rather than a fixed set of skills.
- [Software vs. Users](https://techczech.net/2009/04/01/software-vs-users/) (Blog posts · techczech.net · 1 April 2009). The piece argues that learning technologists should prioritise listening to users because simple software often supports unanticipated uses better than feature-heavy systems.

## 2008

- [Inevitability of understanding: The folk theory](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/06/23/inevitability-of-understanding-the-folk-theory/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 June 2008). The piece argues that political opponents treat language as producing inevitable conclusions and therefore interpret disagreement as incompetence or corruption.
- [Blending and framing by paradox](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/06/07/blending-and-framing-by-paradox/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 June 2008). The piece argues that paradoxical aphorisms help groups negotiate competing cognitive models without resolving their contradiction.
- [Unintended consequences of political correctness](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/03/22/unintended-consequences-of-political-correctness/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 March 2008). The piece argues that political correctness can entrench new linguistic frames that make affirmative racial identification difficult to discuss.
- [Are US copyright laws unconstitutional: Default states semantics](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/23/are-us-copyright-unconstitutional-default-states-semantics/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 February 2008). The piece argues that the US Constitution's default meaning of limited copyright conflicts with laws that extend corporate control without promoting progress.
- [Individual perspicacity, collective naïveté](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/17/individual-perspicacity-collective-navet/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 February 2008). The piece asks why individuals can recognise manipulative political discourse while collective electoral behaviour often remains predictable.
- [Two models of governance: Foundations of policy negotiation](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/10/two-models-of-governance-foundations-of-policy-negotiation/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 February 2008). The piece identifies central control and local expertise as competing models that structure policy disputes across political positions.
- [Finally! The truth about truth: Folk foundations of scientific reductionism](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/07/finally-the-truth-about-truth-folk-foundations-of-scientific-reductionism/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 February 2008). The piece argues that scientific reductionism reflects a folk theory of truth and proposes level-specific tendencies as an alternative model of knowledge.
- [Brief endorsement](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/01/28/brief-endorsement/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 January 2008). The piece endorses Barack Obama's presidential candidacy on the basis of his plans, intelligence, and public communication.
- [Primogeniture: Negotiating the internal 'logic' of social change](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/01/18/primogeniture-negotiating-the-internal-logic-of-social-change/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 January 2008). The piece argues that public arguments depend on negotiated categories, frames, and power relations rather than context-free logical validity.
- [The perception problem and the question of rationality in life](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/01/08/the-perception-problem-and-the-question-of-rationality-in-life/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 January 2008). The piece questions whether asymmetric perceptions of race and gender are best explained through individual cognition or collective social phenomena.

## 2007

- [Collective cognition, culture, mind share and patterns of action](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/04/collective-cognition-culture-mind-share-and-patterns-of-action/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2007). The piece argues that reducing collective concepts such as culture and popularity to individual minds removes an essential level of description.
- [Negotiating radial categories: Some mothers do have them](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/04/negotiating-radial-categories-some-mothers-do-have-them/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2007). The piece uses adoption terminology to illustrate how speakers negotiate the boundaries of the radial category of motherhood.
- [Phallic imagery in English-language comedy and the theory of image schemas](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/03/phallic-imagery-in-english-language-comedy-and-the-theory-of-image-schemas/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 November 2007). The piece uses phallic jokes to argue that mental images are schematic and can match through evoked situations without exact visual correspondence.
- [More meaningful than what? Populations and truth in social science](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/01/more-meaningful-than-what-populations-and-truth-in-social-science/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 November 2007). 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.
- [Convention over logic: Limits of implicature](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/10/14/convention-over-logic-limits-of-implicature/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 October 2007). The piece uses an anomalous newspaper reference to suspects to show how journalistic convention can override ordinary pragmatic implicature.
- [Indeterminacy in art criticism as frame negotiation](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/10/13/indeterminacy-of-framing-in-art-criticism/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 October 2007). The piece argues that art criticism hides the critic's agency within indeterminate frames and forms part of the artistic process it interprets.
- [Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/10/10/utility-of-prejudice-reducing-freedom-to-cognition-and-vice-versa/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 October 2007). The piece argues that categorisation enables both ordinary navigation and social prejudice while negotiation permits people to revise its consequences.
- [Perspectives, views and child cognition](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/12/perspectives-views-and-child-cognition/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 September 2007). 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.
- [Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/11/cogntion-information-knowledge-and-the-limits-of-serial-computing/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 September 2007). The piece argues that growing computing power and information volume will not yield human cognition or knowledge without models of embodied and social processes.
- [Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/06/poetry-in-blogs-and-cognitive-persistence/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 September 2007). The piece observes that a final poetic line can retrospectively change the rhythm and meaning of an entire prose post.
- [Changes in word meaning and folk theories of reasonable mappings](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/02/changes-in-word-meaning-and-folk-theories-of-reasonable-mappings/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007). The piece argues that a linguist's account of political word change participates in frame negotiation while drawing authority from expert status.
- [Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/02/lol-cats-and-conventionalization-of-semiotic-systems/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007). The piece uses LOLcats to show how multimodal constructions conventionalise through both emergent patterns and deliberate human codification.
- [Searching for coherence in high-stakes utterances](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/01/searching-for-coherence-in-high-stakes-utterances/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 September 2007). 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.
- [From culture-specific to the universal in the US counter-insurgency manual](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/24/from-culture-specific-to-the-universal-in-the-us-counter-insurgency-manual/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2007). The piece argues that culture-specific meanings of politeness and professionalism undermine universal instructions in a counterinsurgency manual.
- [Paradox of the evolutionary metaphor in language death](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/24/the-paradoxical-evolutionary-scenarios-and-language-death/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2007). The piece argues that evolutionary metaphors for language preservation overstate the universal value of every linguistic and cultural feature.
- [Blurring the lines of folk and expert theory](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/23/blurring-the-lines-of-folk-and-expert-theory/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 August 2007). The piece argues that folk and expert theories of clear language occupy a socially determined continuum rather than separate categories.
- [Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/20/folk-theories-of-conceptual-causality/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 August 2007). The piece challenges the news-diet metaphor by showing that audiences exercise political autonomy in ways that simple models of media causation cannot explain.
- [Girl Wars, Boy Wars](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/18/girl-wars-boy-wars/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 August 2007). The piece links literary quality to conceptual blending and explains childhood bullying through conformity, authority and group identity.
- [Bill O'Reilly on the 8:05 from Brighton](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/13/bill-oreilly-on-the-805-from-brighton/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007). The piece challenges theories that treat ordinary audiences as cognitively captive to propaganda while exempting trained analysts from the same influence.
- [Networks of trust and the newspaper business](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/13/networks-of-trust-and-the-newspaper-business/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007). The piece argues that newspapers may persist as validators within social networks of trust even after printed news disappears.
- [Bi-furcated narrative frames in public policy debates](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/12/bi-furcated-narrative-frames-in-public-policy-debates/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 August 2007). The piece examines liberal and conservative narrative frames as competing but reasonable accounts of authority, freedom and institutional identity.
- [Anecdotes, metaphors and the negotiated truth](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/11/anecdotes-metaphors-and-the-negotiated-truth/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2007). The piece argues that journalistic anecdotes acquire truth through negotiated interpretation and that verification checklists cannot remove this dependence.
- [Metaphoric inferencing in action and the negotiation of interpretive privilege](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/11/metaphoric-inferencing-in-action-and-the-negotiation-of-interpretive-privilege/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2007). The piece shows how criticism of a bookstore's supplier language unpacks market metaphors and contests their interpretive privilege.
- [Schematic imagery as euphemistic framing in war news reporting](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/07/schematic-imagery-as-euphemistic-framing-in-war-news-reporting/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 August 2007). The piece analyses schematic euphemisms in Iraq war reporting and asks how discourse analysis can avoid disguising political participation as objectivity.
- [Media and scenarios of public opinion formation](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/25/media-and-scenarios-of-public-opinion-formation/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 July 2007). The piece argues that idealised media narratives cannot by themselves explain changes in public opinion or electoral outcomes.
- [Negotiating image projections: Who has the power?](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/23/negotiating-image-projections-who-has-the-power/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 July 2007). The piece examines how gendered political frames constrain Hillary Clinton's public image while remaining partly open to conscious negotiation.
- [Walking robots and local grammars](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/14/walking-robots-and-local-grammars/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 July 2007). The piece uses autonomous walking circuits as an analogy for overlapping local language processes that do not require a central grammar module.
- [Atheism as religion and limits of rationality](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/13/atheism-as-religion-and-limits-of-rationality/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 July 2007). The piece argues that atheism must treat morality as deliberate choice or rely on secular humanism as an authority comparable to religion.
- [Negotiating scenarios of democracy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/13/negotiating-scenarios-of-democracy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 July 2007). The piece analyses a story of the president as an employee to show how public narratives negotiate duties between citizens and government.
- [Sources of usage consensus in language change](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/12/sources-of-usage-consensus-in-language-change/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 July 2007). The piece asks how internet usage and social reinforcement should inform evidence about consensus in changing spellings and idioms.
- [Collective negotiation of causal relations](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/11/collective-negotiation-of-causal-relations/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 July 2007). The piece argues that American opposition to the Iraq war collectively avoids responsibility for the consequences of the invasion.
- [Conservatism as part fo language competence](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/11/conservatism-as-part-fo-language-competence/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 July 2007). The piece argues that linguistic competence includes negotiated tension between conservative norms and innovation, including the linguist's political role.
- [Language Log: The Supreme Court Fails Semantics](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/08/language-log-the-supreme-court-fails-semantics/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 July 2007). The piece rejects a context-free semantic analysis of a school banner and argues that its anti-establishment meaning arises through shared frames.
- [Professional linguists and folk theory of language](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/08/professional-linguists-and-folk-theory-of-language/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 July 2007). The piece challenges assumptions that multilingualism uniformly improves openness, subsequent language learning or social understanding.
- [Opportunism and power of analogical mapping](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/02/opportunism-and-power-of-analogical-mapping/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 July 2007). The piece shows that historical analogies depend on opportunistic mappings whose aptness must be negotiated against the record.
- [Wittgenstein and folk theories of language and intelligence](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/01/wittgenstein-and-folk-theories-of-language-and-intelligence/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 July 2007). The piece argues that a Wittgenstein quotation reflects folk theories that separate logical intelligence from language's imperfect and deceptive expression.
- [Generative analogies as negotiation devices](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/30/generative-analogies-as-negotiation-devices/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 June 2007). The piece uses the phrase liberal fascism to show how generative analogies are judged through negotiated aptness and credibility rather than truth alone.
- [Rejection of metaphor](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/17/rejection-of-metaphor/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 June 2007). The piece argues that rejecting an explicit metaphor does not remove the conceptual integration embedded in ordinary narrative description.
- [Havel on intertextuality](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/14/havel-on-intertextuality/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007). The piece uses Václav Havel's description of political language to examine how verbal patterns spread through cognitive, textual and social processes.
- [Science vs. social science of the environment](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/14/science-vs-social-science-of-the-environment/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007). The piece argues that scientific consensus is rhetorical and that science becomes a legitimate political participant when it enters public debate.
- [Mis-entrenchment of codified blendings](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/06/mis-entrenchment-of-codified-blendings/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 June 2007). The piece uses a persistent misunderstanding of trophy wife to argue that speakers can privately misconstrue entrenched lexical and grammatical constructions.
- [Hitchens vs Hitchens](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/03/hitchens-vs-hitchens-the-daily-mail/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 June 2007). The piece criticises Peter Hitchens's claim that religious faith restrains evil and argues that moral certainty can itself enable harm.
- [Unjustified blending and the threat of terrorism](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/03/unjustified-blending-and-the-threat-of-terrorism/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 June 2007). The piece uses a bomb image on a malfunctioning fax to show how context can override intended mappings and create practical taboos.
- [Negotiating 'lie'](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/05/10/negotiating-lie/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 May 2007). The piece shows how public discourse negotiates whether political statements qualify as lies and which responses a lie permits.
- [The analogical instinct](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/05/08/the-analogical-instinct/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 May 2007). The piece uses reactions to a French presidential campaign to illustrate the political impulse to construct analogies across countries and candidates.
- [Metaphor hypostasis as a cohesive device](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/27/metaphor-hypostasis-as-a-cohesive-device/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2007). The piece shows how an explicitly named war metaphor organises the imagery and cohesion of an otherwise descriptive political text.
- [Blending a life: Personal narratives of public events](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/26/blending-a-life-personal-narratives-of-public-events/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 April 2007). The piece argues that media narratives of public tragedy continue older ritual forms of integrating events into personal and collective experience.
- [Homicide attacks and the restrictions on mapping in blending](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/26/homicide-attacks-and-the-restrictions-on-mapping-in-blending/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 April 2007). The piece explains how competing labels for suicide attacks negotiate connotations and restrictions on conceptual mapping.
- [Folk theory of meaning has hypostasis of reference in the Imus controversy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/12/folk-theory-of-meaning-has-hypostasis-of-reference-in-the-imus-controversy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 April 2007). The piece uses the Don Imus controversy to show how folk theories give figurative insults greater force when treated as literal references.
- [Evidencing negotiated frames: The Pelosi debate](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/07/evidencing-negotiated-frames-the-pelosi-debate/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 April 2007). The piece uses commentary on Nancy Pelosi's clothing to show how cultural scenarios provide evidence for frame completion and negotiation.
- [Framing the frames: The Gingrich gambit](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/04/framing-the-frames-the-gingrich-gambit/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 April 2007). The piece analyses Newt Gingrich's denial of an anti-Spanish remark through the folk frame that bilingual education produces social isolation.
- [Negotiating vocabulary and the logic of analogy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/23/negotiating-vocabulary-and-the-logic-of-analogy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 March 2007). The piece argues that word meanings and causal analogies are negotiated in discourse rather than supplied as fixed consequences of language.
- [Text worlds, anaphora and syntactic structures as spandrels](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/23/text-worlds-anaphora-and-syntactic-structures-as-spandrels/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 March 2007). The piece uses anomalous anaphora to argue that syntax can serve as a logistical vehicle for building and blending text worlds.
- [McJobs, the Dictionary Wars and Folk Theories of Meaning](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/22/mcjobs-the-dictionary-wars-and-folk-theories-of-meaning/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 March 2007). The piece contrasts usage-based and reference-based folk theories of dictionary meaning through the dispute over the word McJob.
- [Negotiating metaphoric mappings in advertising](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/10/negotiating-metaphoric-mappings-in-advertising/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 March 2007). The piece shows how an Apple Lisa advertisement visually negotiated the mapping between an office desk and a computer desktop.
- [Opportunistic blending, semantic prosody and framing in politics debate](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/10/opportunistic-blending-semantic-prosody-and-framing-in-politics/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 March 2007). The piece analyses how political journalism creates, spreads and retrospectively negotiates opportunistic conceptual blends.
- [Sex and race on and beneath the surface of discourse](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/16/sex-and-race-on-and-beneath-the-surface-of-discourse/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 February 2007). 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.
- [From surface to depth and back in discourse: A case of semantic prosody](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/13/from-surface-to-depth-and-back-in-discourse-a-case-of-semantic-prosody/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 February 2007). The piece explains how semantic prosody constrained interpretations of Barack Obama's statement that soldiers' lives had been wasted.
- [Discursive diglossia and American racial politics](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/04/discursive-diglossia-and-american-racial-politics/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 February 2007). The piece argues that perceptions of articulate Black politicians depend on racialised speech cadences, group membership and unequal social power.
- [Frame negotiation through popular culture frame hypostasis](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/04/frame-negotiation-through-popular-culture-frame-hypostasis/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 February 2007). The piece defines frame hypostasis as language that names a cultural figure or scenario to activate and negotiate a broader conceptual frame.
- [Analogy as ritually rhetorical device and 9/11 symbolisms](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/29/analogy-as-ritually-rhetorical-device-and-911-symbolisms/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007). The piece analyses how ritual qualifications and historical analogies preserve the symbolic significance of the September 11 attacks while permitting criticism.
- [Cummulative identity and failed assumptions on multiculturalism](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/29/cummulative-identity-and-failed-assumptions-on-multiculturalism/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007). The piece argues that British multiculturalism failed through symbolic exclusion that channelled young Muslims' political identity into radicalism.
- [What 'Hillary' should have said: Indeterminacy of metaphor integration](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/29/what-hillary-should-have-said-indeterminacy-of-metaphor-integration/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007). The piece explains Hillary Clinton's joke as an underspecified analogy whose possible mappings hardened during subsequent public interpretation.
- [Cognitive foundations of civilizations](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/22/cognitive-foundations-of-civilizations/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 January 2007). The piece argues that electronic books will renegotiate civilisation's imagery of books without revolutionising information consumption.
- [Death by analogy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/17/death-by-analogy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2007). The piece analyses a fatal water-drinking contest as sound-based metonymy and negotiated symbolic action.
- [Frame-relative assessments and globally warming terrorism](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/17/frame-relative-assessments-and-globally-warming-terrorism/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2007). The piece explains comparisons between climate change and terrorism through salient danger frames and Stephen Hawking's public authority.
- [Algorithms and everything](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/09/algorithms-and-everything/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2007). The piece argues that algorithmic descriptions are useful only at particular scales and must coexist with incompatible perspectives.
- [Sources of credibility and the results of education](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/09/sources-of-credibility-and-the-results-of-education/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2007). The piece argues that education chiefly supplies knowledge and membership signals that establish credibility rather than uniformly transforming attitudes or abilities.
- [Images of language and learning in mavenry](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/08/images-of-language-and-learning-in-mavenry/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 January 2007). The piece rejects claims of linguistic decline while examining literacy, educational relevance, motivation and the social variability of expression.
- [New Atheism and old religions or the other way around?](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/08/new-atheism-and-old-religions-or-the-other-way-around/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 January 2007). The piece argues that organised atheism can reproduce religion's social identity, ritual and moral certainty even without belief in God.
- [Libraries, freedom and the limits of free-market electoral logistics](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/04/libraries-freedom-and-the-limits-of-free-market-electoral-logistics/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007). The piece argues that library collections should reflect public choice without reducing cultural value to circulation figures or elite prestige.
- [Limits of social cognition research as a basis of policy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/04/limits-of-social-cognition-research-as-a-basis-of-policy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007). The piece criticises the use of cognitive-bias research to explain hawkish policy as a deterministic folk theory unsupported by political evidence.
- [Logic and conceptual frames](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/04/logic-and-conceptual-frames/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007). The piece uses a Roman sexual double standard to show that logical inference depends on categories selected by conceptual frames.
- [Elites as maintainers of conservative values](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/01/elites-as-maintainers-of-conservative-values/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2007). The piece argues that a Radio 4 poll reflects conservative elite nostalgia more than the programme's presumed liberal audience.
- [Marriage and the impact of scholarship on society](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/01/marriage-and-the-impact-of-scholarship-on-society/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2007). The piece examines how academic accounts of marriage move between descriptions of social institutions and prescriptions for individual action.

## 2006

- [New societies and old societies](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/28/new-societies-and-old-societies/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 December 2006). The piece argues that online collectives reorganise social connections without removing hierarchy, marginality, or human limits on maintaining relationships.
- [Free Market Doctrines: From analogy to ritual](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/17/free-market-doctrines-from-analogy-to-ritual/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 December 2006). 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.
- [Left Behind Games: The moral frames of evangelical Christianity](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/17/left-behind-games-the-moral-frames-of-evangelical-christianity/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 December 2006). The piece shows how Left Behind encodes evangelical moral frames that are intelligible within its community but contradictory outside it.
- [Framing the Civil War](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/05/on-the-media-transcript-of/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2006). The piece analyses the term civil war as a negotiated frame whose descriptive, political, and scalar meanings cannot be separated.
- [Image schemas blends and new technologies](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/03/image-schemas-blends-and-new-technologies/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2006). The piece uses changing camera posture to show how new technologies alter visual expectations and habitual behaviour.
- [Images of cummulative causation and a theory of education](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/11/29/images-of-cummulative-causation-and-a-theory-of-education/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2006). The piece argues that plausible stories about textbooks and mathematical achievement cannot establish causal explanations for education policy.
- [On making sense of](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/11/29/on-making-sense-of/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2006). The piece proposes narrative as a primary means by which people make sense of experience across journalism, drama, and science.
- [Education reform, memory, skill and secondary socialization](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/11/04/education-reform-memory-skill-and-secondary-socialization/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2006). The piece argues that education primarily socialises learners into communities and therefore requires both skill-based and memory-based perspectives.
- [Accepted, the review - Images of the educational process in popular culture](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/31/accepted-the-review-images-of-the-educational-process-in-popular-culture/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006). The piece reviews Accepted as a comedy that combines progressive educational theories while avoiding the unwanted consequences of genuine student choice.
- [Wikipedia - the Original Encyclopedia](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/31/wikipedia-the-original-encyclopedia/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006). The piece compares Wikipedia with the Encyclopédie as collaborative, contested, commercially divergent projects for organising and spreading knowledge.
- [Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/29/of-dicks-and-doves/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 October 2006). The piece analyses how Team America's final anatomical analogy can override the film's broader critique of American interventionism.
- [Tom Waits and the surface of text](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/29/tom-waits-and-the-surface-of-text/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 October 2006). The piece argues that a Tom Waits song gains force by violating stylistic expectations established across his body of work.
- [Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/27/trouble-in-ambridge-optical-illusion-and-hypostesized-narratives/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 October 2006). The piece compares engagement with The Archers to an optical illusion in which listeners switch between an imagined world and awareness of its construction.
- [Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - Review 1](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/24/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 October 2006). 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.
- [Analogies in public discourse: Negotiation of Frames and Hypostasis of Channels](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/21/analogies-in-public-discourse-negotiation-of-frames-and-hypostasis-of-channels/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006). The piece argues that public discussion uses analogies to negotiate conceptual frames and the communicative medium at the same time.
- [Localized textual performance in everyday narrative](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/21/localized-textual-performance-in-everyday-narrative/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006). The piece argues that rhythmic delivery and short sentences can intensify an ordinary news report through localised textual performance.
- [YouTube of the 1890s](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/21/youtube-of-the-1890s/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006). The piece uses the Electrophone to argue that technological ideas can disappear for decades before infrastructure makes them viable.
- [Psychological violence, cuts, bruises and world peace](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/20/psychological-violence-cuts-bruises-and-world-peace/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 October 2006). The piece argues that prioritising psychological harm over physical injury reflects a cultural frame that can impede communication across societies.
- [Is mathematics an empirical science?](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/19/is-mathematics-an-empirical-science/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 October 2006). The piece argues that foundational mathematical rules were partly established by exploring the consequences of alternative assumptions.
- [Local grammars and space exploration](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/06/local-grammars-and-space-exploration/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 October 2006). The piece argues that familiar but formally irregular expressions can be understood as products of local grammars rather than dismissed as errors.
- [Frame negotiation on the media](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/03/frame-negotiation-on-the-media/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 October 2006). The piece uses disputes over calling Iraq a civil war to show how media participants negotiate both descriptions and their political consequences.
- [Accuracy of metaphor and debates](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/09/16/accuracy-of-metaphor-and-debates/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 September 2006). The piece argues that metaphors can describe complex experiences more accurately than adjectives because readers construct richer mental images from them.
- [Scenarios behind education](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/24/scenarios-behind-education/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2006). The piece argues that education debates negotiate competing images of schooling while overlooking the logistical burden of reform.
- [Scenarios behind technology and education debate](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/22/scenarios-behind-technology-and-education-debate/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 August 2006). The piece argues that a story about one student's use of Google Books cannot establish the technology's systemic effect on higher education.
- [Framing in perceptions of news bias](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/11/framing-in-perceptions-of-news-bias/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2006). The piece argues that partisan frames shape perceptions of news bias and that readers can only challenge them through sustained questioning.
- [Jazz in America/Classical in Europe: Functional equivalence](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/11/jazz-in-americaclassical-in-europe-functional-equivalence/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2006). The piece proposes that jazz in the United States and classical music in Europe occupy functionally equivalent positions of cultural prestige.
- [Gender models and types of evidence for them](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/02/gender-models-and-types-of-evidence-for-them/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 August 2006). The piece uses mismatched internet skills and self-assessments to examine how language and research evidence represent gender models.
- [Values and statements about education](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/07/24/values-and-statements-about-education/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 July 2006). The piece exposes the market frame that connects national freedom with choice and competition in education policy.
- [Language awareness as part of linguistic competence](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/07/09/language-awareness-as-part-of-linguistic-competence/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 July 2006). The piece argues that conscious public discussion of new dictionary entries may be part of linguistic change and linguistic competence.
- [Rationality and immigration](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/23/rationality-and-immigration/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 May 2006). The piece identifies an appeal to logic in the US language debate as a rhetorical syllogism that equates linguistic uniformity with national unity.
- [Limes Americanum - the symbolic and the practical in US foreign relations](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/22/limes-americanum-the-symbolic-and-the-practical-in-us-foreign-relations/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 May 2006). 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.
- [Linguistic nationalism and the USA](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/20/linguistic-nationalism-and-the-usa/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 May 2006). The piece argues that debates over declaring English a national language reveal that English-speaking countries are not exempt from linguistic nationalism.
- [Role of examples in social debate and research](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/17/role-of-examples-in-social-research/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 May 2006). The piece asks whether examples of individual experience can explain social systems or whether those systems require analysis at their own level.
- [Beginning of History](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/14/beginning-of-history/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 May 2006). The piece argues that liberal democracy and religion become destructive when their ideals are imposed as complete political doctrines.
- [Feminism as Islam](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/11/feminism-as-islam/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 May 2006). The piece argues that an analogy between feminism and Islam reproduces teleological history and accepts distorted accounts of both movements' visible extremes.
- [Extension of 'diversity' as a conservationist metaphor](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/04/27/cbc-radio-quirks-quarks-april-8-2006/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2006). The piece analyses a conservationist account that connects biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity through an alternative narrative of change.
- [Research-generated assonant symmetries, equal gender rights and global sexual satisfaction](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/04/27/npr-global-sex-survey-satisfied-in-the-west/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2006). The piece cautions that an apparent association between gender equality and sexual satisfaction may be a research-generated symmetry without explanatory meaning.
- [Feminism and computer gaming](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/04/24/feminism-and-computer-gaming/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 April 2006). The piece argues that male identification with Lara Croft complicates accounts of gaming based solely on the male gaze and objectification.
- [Cadences and harmonies of verbal and dramatic narratives](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/25/cadences-and-harmonies-of-verbal-and-dramatic-narratives/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 January 2006). The piece argues that familiar narrative structures can trigger emotional responses independently of a work's perceived artistic quality.
- [Periodicity of nationalist conservatism: A hypothesis to be tested](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/25/periodicity-of-nationalist-conservatism-a-hypothesis-to-be-tested/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 January 2006). The piece proposes testing whether public discourse exhibits recurring periods of nationalist social conservatism.
- [Multiple perspectives-models-stories in fiction and science](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/24/multiple-perspectives-models-stories-in-fiction-and-science/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 January 2006). The piece examines how multiple competing cognitive models operate simultaneously in fictional representation, education debates, and interpretation.
- [Geena Davis and the importance of individual role-model narratives](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/17/geena-davis-and-the-importance-of-individual-role-model-narratives/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2006). 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.
- [Semantic prosody of web design](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/17/semantic-prosody-of-web-design/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2006). The piece compares the halo effect of first impressions in web design with semantic prosody and other forms of rapidly formed prejudice.
- [Prejudice, shared meanings, local grammars and Google as a resource for research](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/16/prejudice-shared-meanings-local-grammars-and-google-as-a-resource-for-research/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 January 2006). The piece uses a Google prejudice map to propose local grammars as tools for mining how people talk about nations.
- [Franklin and the complexities of American national identity](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/15/franklin-and-the-complexities-of-american-national-identity/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 15 January 2006). The piece uses portrayals of Benjamin Franklin to argue that American identity follows the same sociocognitive patterns as other national identities.
- [Wired News: Military Women Can Hack It](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/13/wired-news-military-women-can-hack-it/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 January 2006). The piece argues that policy should not treat women as category instances when research repeatedly overturns assumed physiological differences.
- [Self-organization of iconic linguistic items](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/10/self-organization-of-iconic-linguistic-items/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 January 2006). The piece uses spelling frequency islands to propose that language patterns combine rules, structural by-products, and stochastic organisation.
- [Nature of the predictions genre](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/nature-of-the-predictions-genre/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006). The piece distinguishes predictions about individual future events from probabilistic descriptions of past trends and treats prediction claims as integrative narratives.
- [News reporting as a cognitive (speech) act](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/news-reporting-as-a-cognitive-speech-act/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006). The piece uses a literal news headline to consider whether reporting can function as a cognitive or social act.
- [Public interest, public interestedness and the self-organization of need](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/public-interest-public-interestedness-and-the-self-organization-of-need/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006). The piece distinguishes public interest from public attention and describes news selection as a market-based form of collective censorship.
- [Social hypostasis of linguistic items](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/the-gif-pronunciation-page/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006). The piece treats online pronunciation surveys as evidence that social internet participation can collect useful language data.
- [Transformation of symbols across cultural borders](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/transformation-of-symbols-across-cultural-borders/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006). The piece argues that communities transform imported symbols such as McDonald's by integrating them into local cultural practices.
- [Urban Legends as examples of folk theories and cognitive models](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/urban-legends-as-examples-of-folk-theories-and-cognitive-models/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006). The piece argues that urban legends both express and shape the cognitive models people use to interpret events.
- [City as metaphor for visual aspects online design](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/a-list-apart-articles-thinking-outside-the-grid/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006). The piece uses an urban-planning metaphor to explain how coding methods constrain and enable visual web design.
- [Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/discover-music-through-the-music-genome-project-by-pandora/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006). The piece examines Pandora's genome metaphor and compares expert music classification with automated and collective recommendation systems.
- [Florida high court kills school voucher program](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/florida-high-court-kills-school-voucher-program/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006). The piece argues that school vouchers overextend a market metaphor that cannot represent education's multiple participants, purposes, and social consequences.
- [Are printed books dead? God I hope so!](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/04/are-printed-books-dead-god-i-hope-so/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2006). The piece argues that mature electronic-paper devices will eventually replace paper for most reading without radically changing literacy or information sharing.
- [Analogies and blends - new category old ideas](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/01/analogies-new-category-old-ideas/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2006). The piece defines analogies as elaborated metaphors and outlines their cognitive, textual, and interactive functions.

## 2005

- [Conceptualizing gender differences in behavior](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/29/conceptualizing-gender-differences-in-behavior/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 December 2005). The post argues that reporting on gendered internet use assimilates evidence into conventional stereotypes while minimising findings that contradict them.
- [Towards a cognitive morphology of the folktale](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/29/towards-a-cognitive-morphology-of-the-folktale/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 December 2005). The post proposes a cognitive revision of Propp's folktale morphology in which narrative elements pair form with meaning and combine through conceptual integration.
- [Complexities of  representation of women in traditional narrative](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/25/complexities-of-representation-of-women-in-traditional-narrative/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 December 2005). The post argues that traditional narratives combine contradictory images of women and that their social effects cannot be reduced to direct causation.
- [Creation of meaning and music analogies](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/25/creation-of-meaning-and-music-analogies/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 December 2005). The post compares meaning-making to continuously adjusting a musical note in order to challenge static and minimal definitions of concepts.
- [New category: Feminism](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/25/new-category-feminism/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 December 2005). 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.
- [Individuality and culturality of psychotherapeutic needs](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/20/individuality-and-culturality-of-psychotherapeutic-needs/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 December 2005). The post argues that imposed psychological debriefing can obstruct culturally situated recovery and examines rebuilding as a metaphor for emotional life.
- [Parents' role in education - framing in practice](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/20/parents-role-in-education-framing-in-practice/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 December 2005). The post identifies a radio debate about parental involvement as an example of competing and shifting cognitive models of education.
- [Determinism and evidentiary value of belief based on personal experience](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/19/determinism-and-evidentiary-value-of-belief-based-on-personal-experience/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005). The post argues that personal experience can motivate both scientific and unscientific conclusions, so scientific authority requires more than an idealised method.
- [Expertise and suitability for policy responsibilities](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/19/expertise-and-suitability-for-policy-responsibilities/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005). The post argues that expertise can narrow judgement, while public decision-making still depends on experts selected through political and group identities.
- [New home](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/18/new-home/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 December 2005). The post announces that My Week in Thought has moved to the current site.
- [CADAAD - Conference on Discourse Analysis](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/15/cadaad-conference-on-discourse-analysis/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 15 December 2005). The post announces the first CADAAD conference and its call for papers.
- [Consequences of video games - and the cognitive aspects of data interpretation](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/14/consequences-of-video-games-and-the-cognitive-aspects-of-data-interpretation/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005). The post argues that claims about video-game effects depend on narrative and cognitive schemas used to interpret evidence about large groups.
- [My Week In Thought and Hermeneutic Suspicion](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/14/my-week-in-thought-and-hermeneutic-suspicion/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005). The post argues that myth-busting and scepticism are themselves narrative forms whose legitimacy must remain open to questioning.
- [There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility' | The Register](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/12/theres-no-wikipedia-entry-for-moral-responsibility-the-register/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 December 2005). The post defends Wikipedia as a broadly reliable and correctable reference source while arguing that all encyclopaedias require source criticism.
- [Perspective and data in historical analysis](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/11/perspective-and-data-in-historical-analysis/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 December 2005). The post examines how the quantity and survival of evidence constrain historical interpretation without preventing extensive scholarship from fragmentary sources.
- [Online scholarship](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/10/online-scholarship/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 December 2005). The post argues that rigorous narrative scholarship can appear online and address popular culture without institutional approval of the subject.
- [Complexities of women's rights](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/complexities-of-womens-rights/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005). The post presents three conflicting conservative positions on increasing women's parliamentary representation as a persistent conceptual dilemma.
- [Conceptual integration and the creation of news](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/conceptual-integration-and-the-creation-of-news/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005). The post explains how news formulas structure mental spaces that are blended with events to produce political reporting and argument.
- [Cultural images of the powerless](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/cultural-images-of-the-powerless/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005). The post argues that powerful and subordinate cultures construct reciprocal stereotypes that combine resentment, admiration, condescension, and identification.
- [How we should judge torture - Los Angeles Times](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/how-we-should-judge-torture-los-angeles-times/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005). The post argues that fictional narratives can normalise exceptional violence and that legal exceptions for torture would expand the circumstances treated as exceptional.
- [Reliability of common wisdom - models and power](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/reliability-of-common-wisdom-models-and-power/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005). The post compares competing schemas for interpreting scientific consensus and dissent, using obesity and climate change as examples.
- [Salient cases and social causality](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/salient-cases-and-social-causality/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005). The post compares aggregate and case-based models of media influence and shows how apparently incompatible causal accounts can be reconciled.
- [Navigating the 'human terrain' - Los Angeles Times](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/07/navigating-the-human-terrain-los-angeles-times/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 December 2005). The post identifies the idea of human terrain as a conceptual blend connecting military targeting with cultural knowledge.
- [Universal preschool's and cause and effect in education](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/07/universal-preschools-and-cause-and-effect-in-education/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 December 2005). The post examines how arguments for universal preschool combine economic returns, individual benefits, and social outcomes within one causal model.
- ['Gay weddings' become law in UK](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/gay-weddings-become-law-in-uk/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005). The post argues that civil partnerships reveal the ritual basis of marriage and that changes in heterosexual marriage made same-sex marriage conceptually possible.
- [Anthropology.net | Beyond bones & stones](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/anthropologynet-beyond-bones-stones/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005). The post recommends an online anthropology community as a model for a similar resource on metaphor and cognitive linguistics.
- [Kazakhstan and the principles of democracy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/kazakhstan-and-the-principles-of-democracy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005). The post argues that democratic laws and elections cannot substitute for institutions rooted in civil society.
- [Authors and texts](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/authors-and-texts/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005). 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.
- [Common sense vs.hypocrisy](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/common-sense-vshypocrisy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005). The post uses inconsistent attitudes to execution to argue that human reasoning relies on prototypes and weighted schemas rather than strict logical entailment.
- [Identity and modularity](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/identity-and-modularity/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005). The post argues that locating a perceptual illusion in the brain does not establish that identity or higher cognition consists of independent modules.
- [Challenges facing feminism in post-communist Czech Republic](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/03/challenges-facing-feminism-in-post-communist-czech-republic/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005). The post explains how communist legacies and post-communist hostility to feminism have limited recognition and enforcement of gender equality in the Czech Republic.
- [Digitizing literature and styles of reading](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/03/digitizing-literature-and-styles-of-reading/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005). The post argues that digitised excerpts do not destroy literacy because readers use both fragmentary and immersive modes to understand texts.
- [Fiction as a resource for academic inquiry](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/03/fiction-as-a-resource-for-academic-inquiry/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005). The post argues that fiction can supplement academic inquiry by presenting composite experiences and insights that analytic research may not capture.
- [A Man's Right to Choose - A Feminist Issue?](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/a-mans-right-to-choose-a-feminist-issue/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005). The post asks whether granting men greater reproductive and parental rights could weaken the gender symbolism that constrains women's choices.
- [Conceptual consequences](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/conceptual-consequences/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005). The post uses attitudes to homosexuality to warn against assuming that one conceptual position deterministically produces another.
- [Culture wars and personal identity](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/culture-wars-and-personal-identity/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005). The post argues that American culture-war participants experience opposing institutions as threats to the validity of their identities and conceptual frames.
- [Death penalty: Time to rethink? :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/death-penalty-time-to-rethink-the-daily-herald-provo-utah/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005). The post separates symbolic judgements that a criminal deserves death from the irreversible and error-prone act of execution.
- [Why is the 'new' UK drive toward synthetic phonics ridiculous](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/01/why-is-the-new-uk-drive-toward-synthetic-phonics-ridiculous/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 December 2005). The post argues that synthetic phonics cannot transform literacy or society because educational interventions operate within complex and recurring institutional patterns.
- [Some remarks on individualism and collectivism](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/30/bbc-thought-for-the-day-29-november-2005/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 November 2005). The post contrasts individualist and collectivist accounts of sacrifice and argues that Western reporting interprets collective duty through individual motives.
- [Why school achievement isn't reaching the poor - The Boston Globe](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/30/why-school-achievement-isnt-reaching-the-poor-the-boston-globe/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 November 2005). The post argues that isolated school successes do not provide a sufficient causal model for reforming a complex education system.
- [Labor's Lost Story](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/29/labors-lost-story/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2005). The post highlights how competing narratives about capitalism and labour shape arguments over job losses and social protection.
- [Terror's stealth weapon: women - Los Angeles Times](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/29/terrors-stealth-weapon-women-los-angeles-times/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2005). The post argues that women's participation in terrorism can be absorbed into existing gender hierarchies rather than weakening them.
- [Managing social processes vs. managing the context of social processes](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/managing-social-processes-vs-managing-the-context-of-social-processes/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005). 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.
- [Real literacy?](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/real-literacy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005). The post rejects a single model of real literacy and argues that concerns about digital snippets must account for varied reading and information practices.
- [Speed of technological progress and social effects](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/speed-of-technological-progress-and-social-effects/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005). The post argues that rapid increases in computing power do not predict social change because technical capabilities interact unevenly with cognitive and social constraints.
- [There's no 'good' divorce - The Boston Globe](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/theres-no-good-divorce-the-boston-globe/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005). The post challenges research that treats all effects of divorce as damage and argues that children normally develop multiple identities across contexts.
- [Models in professional knowledge](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/27/models-in-professional-knowledge/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 November 2005). The post asks how professionals construct and reconcile conflicting models derived from aggregate evidence and salient individual cases.
- [Discrepancies in Testing](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/26/discrepancies-in-testing/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 November 2005). The post argues that discrepancies between state and federal tests expose the limited relationship between test performance and broader knowledge or ability.
- [Intellectual defense of xenophobia](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/26/intellectual-defense-of-xenophobia/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 November 2005). The post argues that xenophobic accounts may describe intercultural conflict more accurately than naive multiculturalism while failing because they treat cultures as static.
- [The American Dream and varieties of national self-esteem](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/25/the-american-dream-and-varieties-of-national-self-esteem/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 November 2005). The post argues that admiration and resentment of the United States coexist in foreign perceptions of the American dream.
- [They Held Their Noses, and Ate - New York Times](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/24/they-held-their-noses-and-ate-new-york-times/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 November 2005). The post argues that English colonists judged Indigenous food practices through cultural assumptions about proper cultivation and asks how such judgements shaped settlement.
- [On some mental representations of personal identity](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/23/some-mental-representations-of-personal-identity/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005). The post uses a misspelled name to examine how names and other social markers contribute to mental representations of personal identity.
- [Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/23/turning-academia-into-a-cafeteria-los-angeles-times/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005). The post examines how market language about choice enters academic discourse while questioning broad claims about the damage caused by such language.
- [Values, rules, patterns and theories of social causation](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/23/bbc-news-politics-a-third-of-pubs-to-open-longer/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005). The post compares competing causal models of extended pub hours and argues that rule changes may create conditions for cultural values to change.
- [Ad-hoc metaphors as cohesive devices](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/ad-hoc-metaphors/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005). The post identifies an extended political analogy as a cohesive frame that holds an argument together.
- [Laws of social and natural sciences](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/laws-of-social-and-natural-sciences/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005). 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.
- [Marx's and Darwin's accomplishments: Finding the mechanism of evolution and social change?](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/marxs-and-darwins-accomplishments-finding-the-mechanism-of-evolution-and-social-change/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005). The post considers a cautious analogy between Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and Marx's account of historical development.
- [Possible cognitive and affective implications of the new media paradigm shift](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/possible-cognitive-and-affective-implications-of-the-new-media-paradigm-shift/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005). The post weighs the access and flexibility provided by digital media against losses in accidental discovery and exposure to varied content.
- [Socio-economic trends in interaction](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/socio-economic-trends-in-interaction/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005). The post uses an interactive comparison of Thatcher-era trends to question claims that prosperity reliably trickles down.
- [Thatcher's role for women and the influence of women in politics on women's rights](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/thatchers-role-for-women-and-the-influence-of-women-in-politics-on-womens-rights/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005). 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.
- [Access vs. close-reading journalism as a metaphor for educational standards](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/access-vs-close-reading-journalism-as-a-metaphor-for-educational-standards/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005). The post uses the contrast between access journalism and close reading to argue that guided analysis can matter more than expert transmission in education.
- [More on theory and fact (medicine and ritual)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/more-on-theory-and-fact/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005). The post uses conflicting claims about homeopathy to examine how facts are reconciled with scientific and symbolic theories of causation.
- [Oral vs. written tradition and new technologies](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/oral-vs-written-tradition-and-new-technologies/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005). The post argues that new media alter the relative dominance and delivery of oral and written storytelling without simply replacing older forms.
- [The Bosnian Example for Iraq](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/the-bosnian-example-for-iraq/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005). The post examines Bosnia as an analogy for Iraq and asks how private analogies become established structures for public reasoning.
- [The rituals and mythic nature of democracy and the press](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/the-rituals-and-mythic-nature-of-democracy/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005). The post highlights an account of the press as a communal ritual that sustains democratic identity.
- [Some misconceptions by the defenders of the Theory of Evolution](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/18/reason-fact-and-fiction-on-evolution-intelligent-designs-five-favorite-myths/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 November 2005). The post distinguishes evolutionary facts from theories of evolutionary mechanisms and proposes a way to discuss intelligent design in science education.
- [Welcome to Dominik's Week in Thought](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/17/welcome-to-dominiks-week-in-thought/) (Blog posts · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 November 2005). The post introduces a blog intended to track thoughts arising from the author's online life.
- [Harry Potter a Mýtus věčného návratu](https://blisty.cz/art/24310-harry-potter-a-mytus-vecneho-navratu.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 28 July 2005). The piece interprets the Harry Potter stories through recurring mythic structures while explaining their appeal to child and adult readers.
- [Nerušme komunisty: Aneb polemický deník angažovaného emigranta o utopické demokracii](https://blisty.cz/art/22540-polemicky-denik-angazovaneho-emigranta-o-utopicke-demokracii.html) (Journalism · Literární noviny · 21 March 2005). The piece argues that banning communist expression weakens democratic principles and confuses political opposition with criminal prohibition.
- [Kauzy a příčiny: metafory politického chápání](https://blisty.cz/art/22198-kauzy-a-priciny-metafory-politickeho-chapani.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 28 February 2005). The piece argues that political scandals become intelligible through competing metaphors that select different causes and responsibilities.
- [Purizmus, předsudky a pitominy](https://blisty.cz/art/22106-purizmus-predsudky-a-pitominy.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 21 February 2005). The piece rejects linguistic purism as a collection of social prejudices that mistakes ordinary language change for decline.

## 2003

- [Milujte se a nemnožte se](https://blisty.cz/art/14248-milujte-se-a-nemnozte-se.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 4 June 2003). The piece argues that anxieties about ageing populations and migration depend on political choices about family, labour, and social provision.
- [Americký prezident, císař světa](https://blisty.cz/art/13036-americky-prezident-cisar-sveta.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 24 February 2003). 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.

## 2002

- [Pravé lži](https://blisty.cz/art/9604-prave-lzi-v-televizi-nova.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 7 January 2002). The piece argues that broadcasting True Lies without critical context reinforces dehumanising representations of Palestinians and Arabs.

## 2001

- [Brezinovy hyeny](https://blisty.cz/art/8990-brezinovy-hyeny.html) (Journalism · Britské listy · 18 October 2001). The piece criticises post-September 11 rhetoric that treats dissenting commentary as moral complicity with terrorism.

## Undated

- [About Schemas and Propositions](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/about) (Blog posts · Schemas & Propositions). The essay introduces a publication about how tacit schemas enable humans and language models to construct and understand propositions.
- [Gangsta teachers need 'spect: Discursive positioning of a pedagogic power play](https://medium.com/education-voodoo/gangsta-teachers-need-respect-on-a-pedagogic-power-play-382273cce8a7) (Blog posts · Medium). This essay argues that moralising about accidental phone interruptions reinforces unequal power between lecturers and their audiences.
- [Quick Notes on Measurement](https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/quick-notes-on-measurement-measuring-anything-and-nothing-29bd0d1a2e9) (Essays · Medium). The essay argues that measurement can reduce uncertainty without turning quantified models into the things they represent.