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Teaching Exercise 01: Kant's Groundwork in Three Charts
I'm returning to this long-unused space to write up a series of teaching exercises. Each of these exercises will be a way of posting up notes on some or another issue related to teaching philosophy--it's a way to have a writeup ready to send a friend or colleague, a way of organizing my thoughts, and--should anyone ever happen to stumble upon these ( Read more... ) -
The Mad Profit of the Airwaves
Alex Epstein seems to sum up the verdict of many when he writes:
I'm having trouble with The Newsroom. Dear friends of mine love the show. And yet I find it to be a pompous show about people whose jobs are not really that important.
For those unfamiliar with the show, The Newsroom is Aaron Sorkin's latest "behind the scenes" drama, this one ( Read more... ) -
Achievement Unlocked
This evening I've finished the (rough) first draft of my dissertation. The beast currently clocks in at about 49,000 words. In a few weeks, as Spring Semester begins, I'll be dropping copies into the laps of my three readers and then awaiting their critical feedback in order to rework things from there. For the moment, however, I can stop writing ( Read more... ) -
Prelude to Punk Politics, Part 2
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to ge people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect ( Read more... ) -
Prelude to Punk Politics, Part 1
I've been thinking a lot lately about political theory and punk music. Over the next few months, when I get the chance, I'm going to be putting together some sort of lengthy essay on the subject. In the meantime, I'll be doing some of the thinking-through here, in little bits and pieces at a time. First, however, there are a couple of preliminary ( Read more... ) -
Real Life Philosophy Top Ten
Rock critic and all-around pop culture intellectual Greil Marcus has, for a number of years and across a number of different publications, written a list he calls "Real Life Rock Top Ten." It's a chance to look back across the year and take stock--mostly citing the good, occasionally citing the bad, and in general marking the important and/or ( Read more... ) -
The Fate of an Archer!
This is a republication of a column I wrote for SequArt.com, back when they were still hosting scholarly content. It is reprinted here almost exactly as it was there--I am not updating any of the ideas, links, etc., but have silently corrected a few spelling and grammatical errors.
Originally published at Sequart.com on August 12, 2007
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Let Freedom Reign
This is a republication of a column I wrote for SequArt.com, back when they were still hosting scholarly content. It is reprinted here almost exactly as it was there--I am not updating any of the ideas, links, etc., but have silently corrected a few spelling and grammatical errors.
Originally published at Sequart.com on May 24, 2007
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Ahh...The net is vast...
In very brief:
The oddest phenomenon today, and a first for me: I inadvertently came across this post on a blog called "The Classroom," written by someone called "The Professor" (a Professor Quinn, the domain name would suggest...), who writes:
Yeah, I know that it's all about comic books, but Lampert's piece is an interesting work of literary ( Read more... )
