Ode to Editors
True confession: I love working with good editors! English grammar has always been a bit of stretch for me. What is a split infinitive? Should I attempt to provocatively write or should I write provocatively? What is the current perspective on adverbs? Should I be using them liberally or sparingly? Of course a good editor does much more than catch dangling participles!
So in this post I can share two new pieces of writing relevant to the subject of Biomythic that were edited by someone besides me:
In my most recent article in Neo.Life I consider our ubiquitous and long-standing use of machine metaphors to understand nature. I explore three broad classes of harm stemming from this family of metaphors and suggest alternatives.
In this co-authored piece in Salon I examine Ockham’s Razor. Ockham’s Razor, aka the principle of parsimony, has existed for 700 years. In a nutshell, it suggests a preference for the simpler theory when there are two competing hypotheses that equally explain a given phenomenon. I suspect that part of its longevity is that it is encapsulated in a metaphor - the Razor. The question explored in the piece is whether the Razor has dulled/rusted (pick your pun!) over the centuries.