Veteran radio broadcaster John Laws has died aged 90

Known as the "Golden Tonsils", Laws was one of Australia's most recognisable voices in talkback radio.

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Dan Gentile: He co-founded Burning Man. It was the least interesting thing he ever did. John Law has been on the front lines of San Francisco #counterculture for decades.

#JohnLaw #BurningMan #SanFrancisco San Francisco @Pirrewiet
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/burning-man-co-founder-least-interesting-thing-20826295.php

A convicted murderer invented paper money.

Then he ran France’s economy, created a financial bubble 20x bigger than Bitcoin… and destroyed it all.

The Mississippi Bubble:
https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/06/23/the-gambler-who-took-over-france-the-incredible-rise-and-fall-of-john-law/
#JohnLaw #FinanceHistory #MississippiBubble

The Gambler Who Took Over France: John Law and the Mississippi Bubble

John Law escaped death, invented paper money, became the richest man alive, and collapsed the French economy in the world's first financial bubble. Discover how a gambler redefined money—and destroyed an empire.

Ryan J. Hite
Time for a nostalgic trip across what was once British Railway’s Southern Region, from the 1970s onwards to approx 2017. Railways of the South East from the 1970s, by John Law. What an enjoyable read. #Nostalgia #nostalgic #BritishRail #britishrailways #SouthernRegion #britishrailsouthernregion #railwaysofthesoutheastsincethe1970s #JohnLaw #railwayphotography #railwayarchitecture #BR #arrowsofindecision #robreadsbooks #iphone15ProMax #iphonephotography #iphoneography #iphone #igers
#iphonography #potd #photooftheday #instagram #pixelfed #Flashes
Have read wonderful student work today by @KAEEGoetheUni #STS students on #Foucault within #JohnLaw's work, mathematical realism and #SSK, and of course, as always, essays on the #ontologicalturn, #deleuze and rhizomes.
Arte - John Law - Der Mann, der Papier zu Geld machte

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One of the thinkers who has influenced me most is the sociologist John Law, one of the creators of Actor-network theory, along with Bruno Latour, among others. I especially like his book "After Method" (2004), very influenced by the amazing work of Annemarie Mol (especially her "The Body Multiple"). For those who want to know more about Law, I recommend his website http://heterogeneities.net/ There is a lot of very interesting material (papers, projects, etc.).

How to study the messiness of social realities? ➡️ "I want to argue that while standard methods are often extremely good at what they do, they are badly adapted to the study of the ephemeral, the indefinite and the irregular".

#Sociology #JohnLaw #ANT #Method
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Heterogeneities: John Law's Home Page

#Datreveno #JohnLaw #Ekonomiko #CentraBanko

Je ĉi dato en 1671 naskiĝis John Law, ekonomikisto, kiu komprenis la diferencon inter mono kaj komerco, kaj inventis la nocion de centra ŝtata banko, tamen kvankam lia unua kaj nura klopodo komence sukcesas, ĝi forfalis pro malbonaj komercaj decidoj. Plejparte liaj ideoj daŭras validaj ĝis nun laŭ modernaj teorioj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Law-Casimir_Balthazar_mg_8450.jpg

John Law - Vikipedio

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

We finally sent our book Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society to the publisher, Last Gasp after two years of collecting & collating material, writing, editing, laying out pages, arguing…

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Legendary cultural icon John Law to speak on 'How Everything Started in San Francisco'

Legendary cultural icon John Law to speak on 'How Everything Started in San Francisco'

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