{"id":247029,"date":"2010-01-29T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:06:53","slug":"jhabermas-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247029","title":{"rendered":"@JHabermas | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only person to find it endlessly amusing that <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas\">J\u00fcrgen Habermas<\/a>, octogenarian theorist of communicative rationality, has <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JHabermas\">taken to Twitter<\/a>. (The account seems to be legit, but it&#8217;s hard to be sure.) This is so over-determined that just last year Lauren Fisher gave a presentation entitled &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.simplyzesty.com\/social-media\/habermas-twitter-blog-post\/\">If Habermas could Twitter<\/a>.&#8221; Well, now we know.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still trying to master the 140-character limit, though. Here&#8217;s his latest set of tweets: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2010\/01\/habermas.jpg\" alt=\"habermas\" title=\"habermas\" width=\"573\" height=\"642\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah. The internet is (in some sense) an egalitarian public sphere, but it raises the danger of fragmentation into self-reinforcing interest groups. Remains to be seen how it will all ultimately play out.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zBlyVYhpSeEZX_AawueaF4X6LfM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zBlyVYhpSeEZX_AawueaF4X6LfM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zBlyVYhpSeEZX_AawueaF4X6LfM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zBlyVYhpSeEZX_AawueaF4X6LfM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CosmicVarianceBlog\/~4\/5kfedA_voow\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/xWwB87QRNSw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only person to find it endlessly amusing that J\u00fcrgen Habermas, octogenarian theorist of communicative rationality, has taken to Twitter. (The account seems to be legit, but it&#8217;s hard to be sure.) This is so over-determined that just last year Lauren Fisher gave a presentation entitled &#8220;If Habermas could Twitter.&#8221; Well, now we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}