{"id":113,"date":"2008-07-15T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-10-15T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:58:13","slug":"where-this-blog-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/2008\/07\/15\/where-this-blog-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"Where this blog stands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various commitments on papers commissioned in French have kept me away from this blog. Reward is another factor: with an average of around 30 daily hits on the English blog and 2500 on the French one, vanity has been a powerful drive for concentrating on the French one. Dialogue is another one. If you\u2019ve had the opportunity of looking at the French blog<\/a> you will have noticed that commentators often engage in lively conversations, with me resting comfortably in the meantime in the bleachers.<\/p>\n

Why is that so? I believe that my reputation as a writer in English is not up to that as a writer in French, despite the 11 years I\u2019ve spent in the UK and the 11 years I\u2019ve now spent in the US. The reason is no doubt cultural affiliation: even in those days I was teaching at Cambridge University I was very much regarded as a representative of French anthropology. This applies as well to my writings in the philosophy of science: they belong distinctively to a tradition initiated by Poincar\u00e9, Meyerson and Duhem. As for my properly philosophical musings, they draw heavily on Koj\u00e8ve\u2019s reading of Hegel and on Hegel himself \u2013 definitely not a central philosopher within the Anglo-Saxon world. Lacan, one of my major influences is surely known of English speakers but the truth here is that the Lacan I\u2019m familiar with and have been a student of is an entirely different beast than the one resulting from the amazing transformation Lacan underwent when crossing the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

So should my English blog fold? Not quite yet and this for the following reason: I detect (thanks to Google Analytics!) a renewed interest in the papers I wrote last year on the subprime crisis. The reason I imagine is that although they must have looked utterly weird at the time I posted them with such considerations as calls to renationalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they\u2019ve now turned mainstream even though not due to anything of my own making.<\/p>\n

This renewed interest may entice me in turn to come up with more, restarting hence the currently stalled dynamics. In addition, further contributions to a Human Complex Systems\u2019 approach to the unfolding financial crisis are still in the making. Watch this space as only time will tell\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various commitments on papers commissioned in French have kept me away from this blog. Reward is another factor: with an average of around 30 daily hits on the English blog and 2500 on the French one, vanity has been a powerful drive for concentrating on the French one. Dialogue is another one. If you\u2019ve had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,12,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-finance","category-human-complex-systems","category-philosophy-of-science","category-subprime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}