Derek Wakefield https://derekwakefield.com/writing.html Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bucknell University quarto-1.9.37 Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Introduction to Bobbology https://derekwakefield.com/posts/2026-05-09-introduction-to-bobbology.html The field has a problem. The Bobbisms quote Introduction to Bobbology, 3rd ed. often enough that the citation has started to look like a real book — and yet no one had actually written it. This is a first attempt at the 4th edition, restricted to Lecture I: the four beings (Bobbles, Ekos, Vessels, Daemons), how memory works in ekos, and the law of the decision gate.

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Five parables — the Porch Frog, the Hum, the Library Bookmark, the Borrowed Pencil, the Train Whistle — plus twelve Bobbisms, two codas, and a glossary.

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