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Saturday, May 5, 2012

I have received some interesting emails recently ... (part IV)

NOTIFICATION: YOU’RE RECENT ACTIVITY

Dear Valued Philosopher,

Based on suspicious publication activity recently appearing on your CV we suspect that yours philosophizing has been compromised. We take your intellectual virtue very seriously, for your epistemic safety we have suspended all your cognitive processes effective immediately. To reactivate please go to https://www.seeingabarnor.ru/ and log in by entering doctrines you truly believe, We thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

Kind regards, 
Management

Saturday, April 14, 2012

New Music!

We've been a little slow to update the blog the last week or so -- been a crazy kind of month actually.

But we have lots of news!

First two new songs have been released!!

"I Don't Want to Be the Chair"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbIWt6Q88C4

"The Nothing Noths"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYOthSn-bI


Second, our main webpage has moved to:

http://the21stcenturymonads.net/

So please update your blog, links, etc., to reflect the changes!

Third, we have currently raised over 600$ for charity via the "purchase" of our latest album, "Body, Monad, World".  Thank you to all of our fans who have "purchased" the album.

If you are interested in purchasing the album, please follow the link here.

http://the21stcenturymonads.blogspot.com/2012/03/body-monad-world-now-available-for.html

Thanks for listening to our music!



Monday, March 26, 2012

"Body, Monad, World" NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

Some important Monadic Information! 

We have finished mixing the remaining songs of "Body, Monad, World".  There are thirteen songs in total.  The entire album is available for purchase NOW.

Six of these songs have already been released as singles.  In the following months, we will continue to release the remaining seven songs for free on a semi-regular basis.  But if you can't wait until the remaining songs are released, you can purchase the entire album now, including artwork, liner notes, and lyrics.

In addition to the remaining as-of-now unreleased songs, included with the purchase of the album are two remixes of songs by the artist Perifery.  The two remixed songs are "I Can't Stop Buying Books" and "Are You a Zombie?"  We won't be releasing these remixed songs any time soon -- and they are really cool, so they are neat gifts for those who purchase the album.

In order to purchase the album, do the following. First, make a donation to the charity of your choice in the amount that you think is appropriate. Second, send an email to the following email address: 21stcenturymonads@gmail.com. In this email, simply tell us that you have made a charitable donation; you don’t need to tell us where if you don’t want to. We’d appreciate if you’d tell us the amount donated since we would like to know how much money has been raised in this fashion. However, we won’t require that you do this. There is no minimum amount you must donate (and obviously no maximum amount either). We are simply going to take your word that you have made a donation.

Once you have sent an email to 21stcenturymonads@gmail.com informing us that you have made a donation, your email address will be added to our address book, and you will be sent an email with a secret link to download the remaining material.

No money needs to go into our pockets even temporarily and there are no overhead costs.  We aren't trying to make money with this endeavor -- we are trying to do a little good for others.  

As mentioned, the .wav files will be 16 bit/44 khz, which is the same bit and sample rate as a CD. They’ll also be dithered to maximize sound quality. (If you don’t know what dithering is, don’t worry; basically, it’s a standard process one does when converting a 24bit file, which is the bitrate we record at, to a 16bit file; the Wikipedia article on dithering is accurate and interesting.) So the quality of the sound will be somewhat better than the free itunes/.mp3/.ogg files we’ll release.
 
We thank everyone who has already pre-purchased the album! 

(The previous post on this topic is: http://the21stcenturymonads.blogspot.com/2012/01/raising-some-money-for-charity.html) 

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

I have received some interesting emails recently ... (part III)

CONGRATULATIONS, THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW

Attention: Dear Winning Author!

This email is to notify you that your online draft was selected and entered into our Philosophicl Review free Third Category draw for automated peer review. WE are delighted to inform you that in this unsubmitted paper on-line award ballots you have subsequently emerged a winner and therefore entitled to PUBLICATION in the next issue of Philosophical REview, congratulations!!!

This is a computer generated selection of Internet philosopher, using on line drafts papers for drawings. This award is fully based on an automated peer review selection of winners using their online paper found from different World Wide Web sites.

Your paper which is designated
submission Number: 964-188
which subsequently won you the award in the 3rd category draws, prize is publication! This was organized through a computer peer reveiewing system drawn from over nine hundred million online philosophy papers from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This award is being promoted and sponsored by conglomerates of multinational academic publishing companies, as part of their social responsibilities for the benefit of the philosophers across the Globe, where they have operational bases.

For claim please contact our journal team with the below details,we will release the page proofs to you as soon as when you reply:

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Congratulation once more as we look forward to your prompt response! Be notify also that all authors must reply not later than ten days, After this date the issue goes to press and all unclaimed submissions are null and void.

Yours Truly
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

I have received some interesting emails recently ... (part II)

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Monday, March 19, 2012

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

New Song Coming Feb. 24: Call on Me

Our next song will be released Friday, Feb. 24. The song is titled "Call on Me". Cover art coming next Monday. Also, please keep this in mind:

http://the21stcenturymonads.blogspot.com/2012/01/raising-some-money-for-charity.html

We are four songs in to album #4. We hope you are enjoying them. And thanks as always for listening.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

New Song This Tuesday, Feb. 14!

About two years ago, we released a song to make your Valentine's Day a little sweeter or at least a little stranger. This year, we'll be doing it again. On Valentine's day, we'll release a song about what happens when someone loves wisdom just a little too much.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Monday, February 6, 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

new song coming soon!

Our next song will be released Feb 10, 2012. More details coming soon....

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Meet the Infinite Progression

As many of you know, the 21CM family has recently expanded. We have a brand new member, Hille Paakkunainen, whose drumming can be heard all over our new album. In order to introduce her to you all, Kris sat down with Hille to do a brief interview, which was conducted after the final note had been recorded for our new album, Body, Monad, World.

Kris: It’s been great having you as both a band mate and a departmental colleague! Would you mind telling people a little bit about your musical background?

Hille: Thanks, Kris, I’ve had a lot of fun starting to drum for 21CM, and I’m loving being at the Syracuse philosophy department. As to my musical background, I’ve played a couple of different instruments before, sometimes in bands, but this is the first time I’m drumming in a band. I played accordion as a kid and a teenager. You know, a lot of Argentinian and Finnish tangos and French and Finnish waltzes. This is very popular stuff in Finland. Then I got obsessed with the guitar when I was about 13, and I’ve played guitar on and off ever since. I’d like to try my hand at playing bass properly at some point. But I’m really enjoying the drumming. It’s very relaxing to get to hit objects as hard as you want and have rhythmic noises come out.

Kris: What kind of music do you like to play on the guitar? Do you prefer playing electric guitars or acoustics or both equally?

Hille: I play both, depending on mood. I go through phases. Currently I seem to be stuck in a quiet acoustic phase. Sometimes I like to (try to) shred on the electric. (I can't actually shred.) I guess my general tendency on the electric is towards somewhat restless playing -- genre-wise, maybe post-hardcore, post-rock, and some type of math-rock come most naturally to me. (I hope these genre names are right -- I had to look them up based on bands I like that are similar in style to how I think I play.) On the acoustic I just play folk, sometimes with some jazzy overtones. But I haven't been playing guitar that actively for a while now. I tend to just pick up the acoustic for a half an hour and amble around in the sounds for a while, as a break from other things. I should pick up my guitars more actively again.

Kris: Since we are a band composed of philosophers who write music about philosophy, would you mind talking a little bit about your philosophical background and orientation?

Hille: I do ethics, broadly construed, and philosophy of action. I finished my PhD at Pittsburgh about 6 months ago. Before the PhD, I did my undergrad in Glasgow, Scotland. I seem to gravitate towards ex-industrial towns.

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about whether and how metanormative theorizing might help us settle first-order normative questions, and about what the consequences are if it can’t. For instance, could there be a satisfying metaphysical explanation of the nature of norms that didn’t at the same time yield a criterion (however unwieldy) for settling first-order normative disputes? I’ve also been thinking a lot about internalism about reasons, about its relationship to various sorts of subjectivism, about the nature of practical reasoning, about the norms for good reasoning and what explains them… And I wonder what, if anything, normative realism’s explanatory commitments are, just as such; and what semantic and epistemic theses it is possible to (sensibly?) combine with a realist metaphysics of norms. I’m not sure whether this gives you a sense of my philosophical orientation. I couldn’t give you an -ism or a set of -isms that I’m definitely happy buying into, though there are obviously loads of -isms that I’m interested in, and I think some are more viable than others. Ask me again in a few years.

Kris: And are there any current projects you are working on that you are excited about?

Yes, there are a couple of different things. There’s a series of papers on constitutivism, the idea that you can derive practical norms from the metaphysics of agency. (I wrote about that a lot in my dissertation; I’m reworking it into papers now.) I think the constitutivist idea is very powerful, and that there is a valid argumentative schema from metaphysical premises, about the nature of agency, to first-order normative conclusions about what the norms of practical reason are. And I think we have to do some really in-depth philosophy of action in order to show either that there are sound instances of the schema, or that there aren’t. Either way, philosophy of action is indispensable for metanormative theorizing. I myself don’t think the constitutivist project succeeds, and that’s because of what I think is true about the nature of agency. But I won’t go into the details now.

There’s another project that I’m quite excited about, on a topic that I’d like to see written about more: namely, the idea that you might try to derive practical norms from the conditions of concept-possession, in something like the way that people have tried to derive epistemic norms from the conditions of concept-possession. Again, I think there is a valid argumentative schema here, though it’s a bit hard to tease out; and that we need to look very hard at the conditions of possessing various normative concepts in order to figure out whether there are sound instances of the schema or not. What this metasemantic idea has in common with constitutivism is that it’s an attempt to derive first-order normative views from purely metanormative premises, thus giving a normatively non-question-begging argument for first-order normative conclusions.

There are a couple of other projects that are a bit less developed that I’m working on right now, but I already go on too much. Time to rock on.

Friday, January 27, 2012

NEW SONG: ACHIEVER

Our first song of the new album "Body, Monad, World" is finally available! You can listen or download it here:

http://people.umass.edu/phil110-klement-2/monads/Achiever.mp3

Be sure to check out our main webpage for lyrics and liner notes!

Thanks for listening!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Our Music

As announced, the first song of album #4 will be released in eight days.

In the meantime, you can listen to and download (for free) all of our previously released songs here:

http://people.umass.edu/phil511/monads/

There's also lyrics, liner notes, and cover art available for your viewing pleasure at our official home page.

Thanks for listening.

We Got Mentioned By the NYT!

Pretty neat! Check out the last link:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/stone-links-17/

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Charity FInder

If you are considering "purchasing" the new 21CM album (as discussed below, here: http://the21stcenturymonads.blogspot.com/2012/01/raising-some-money-for-charity.html), you might want to check out this website, which rates charities on their effectiveness:

www.charitynavigator.org


First Single

The first song from our new album "Body, Monad, World" will be released on Friday, Jan. 27.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

We Are On Facebook

We have a fanpage here:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-21st-Century-Monads/156897734405

If you are on facebook, why not 'like us' and join in the fun?

Album #4 is Coming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQvVrHWWkM

Raising Some Money for Charity

In a few weeks, we’ll release the first single from our new album “Body, Monad, World”. We are very excited with how things have turned out, and we think that you are really going to enjoy the album.

As always, we’ll release free versions of the songs in .mp3, itunes .m4a, and .ogg formats at semi-regular intervals as the semester progresses.

We are also going to try something new this time round. In the past, we have encouraged the people who download our music to make a donation to the charity of their choice after downloading our songs. This time around we are also going to offer the chance to “purchase” the uncompressed 16 bit/44.1 khz .wav files in order to raise some money for good causes. We’ve wanted to do this for a while, but figuring out how exactly to do this has been tricky. We’d like to avoid the overhead costs associated with having our songs on a third-party website; and we’d like to avoid having your money in our pockets even for a short while.

So what we are going to do is this. From now until the end of May 2012, you can purchase the uncompressed .wav files by taking the following steps. First, make a donation to the charity of your choice in the amount that you think is appropriate. Second, send an email to the following email address: 21stcenturymonads@gmail.com. In this email, simply tell us that you have made a charitable donation; you don’t need to tell us where if you don’t want to. We’d appreciate if you’d tell us the amount donated since we would like to know how much money has been raised in this fashion. However, we won’t require that you do this. There is no minimum amount you must donate (and obviously no maximum amount either). We are simply going to take your word that you have made a donation.

Once you have sent an email to 21stcenturymonads@gmail.com informing us that you have made a donation, your email address will be added to our address book. In early June 2012 we will send an email to everyone in our address book that will contain the address where to download the .wav files. No money needs to go into our pockets even temporarily and there are no overhead costs.

As mentioned, the .wav files will be 16 bit/44 khz, which is the same bit and sample rate as a CD. They’ll also be dithered to maximize sound quality. (If you don’t know what dithering is, don’t worry; basically, it’s a standard process one does when converting a 24bit file, which is the bitrate we record at, to a 16bit file; the Wikipedia article on dithering is accurate and interesting.) So the quality of the sound will be somewhat better than the free itunes/.mp3/.ogg files we’ll release.

We don’t know how many people will take us up on this offer, but we have a large enough audience for our music that it seems worthwhile to try. Even if only 10% of our audience donates an average of five dollars each, thousands of dollars will be raised for charitable causes.

And as always thanks for listening.

Album #4 is Coming

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Up and Running

Hi. We are the 21st Century Monads. We'll be using this space to periodically update our fans on what we've been up to, post pictures of the band, link to things our fans might enjoy, and most importantly, we'll use it as a place to share our new songs.

In a few weeks, we'll start releasing the first singles from our forthcoming fourth album, "Body, Monad, World".