Science Methodology

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research—specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.

The benefits of data-driven methodologies are numerous. They allow organizations to make informed decisions based on data, which can lead to better results and increased competitiveness. Data-driven methodologies also help organizations to identify areas for improvement and make more accurate predictions about future outcomes.

What if the "wisdom of the ages" isn't poetry, but fossilized data? In Foundations of Intellectual Substrate Mining, Boris Kriger shatters the boundary between the humanities and hard systems science. He proposes that our cultural heritage—proverbs, maxims, and ancient doctrines—is actually a high-density Intellectual Substrate: a record of formal laws tested by reality over millennia and compressed into "lossy" linguistic forms. Stop interpreting. Start mining.