The Institute of Network Cultures maintains an engaging complex of activities, blogs, conferences, discussion groups, and assorted websites. A lot of what I read there is bit too much the Helium Hermenautical Armchair (HeHa) for my down-to-earth tastes, but I do see a concerted effort toward real understanding that is but rarely encountered these days.
Group: Contributors
Posts: 10,222
Joined:
From: Greater Boston
Member No.: 3,670
What Peirce called “Irritation of Doubt†I would call Cognitive Dissonance, that inchoate feeling that one's mental model or concept is incomplete or incorrect, perhaps even internally inconsistent.