30DoS 2020 – Day 13

Xerte and OpenLearn Create – web authoring tools

Both of these tools offer accessible and affordable ways to build web content, from websites, to blogs, and social media. Both work to try to make learning as open as possible.

Links to websites: https://xerte.org.uk/index.php/en/ and https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/

Catherine Malabou

Malabou is a French philosopher, whose work addresses the concept of ‘plasticity’ which draws on medical science, neuroplasticity, and the work of G.W.F. Hegel. Her work also works in the intersection of psychoanalysis, neuroscience and philosophy, and increasingly involving political philosophy. What Should We Do with Our Brain? is one of Malabou’s more approachable books. She argues that because our brains are historical products developing through the life span in relation to themselves and to others, there is a thin line between the organisation of our nervous systems and social and political organisation. Our brains adapt to existing social and political circumstances (plasticity) but also open up a margin of freedom to intervene and transform those very circumstances.

Public FB group dedicated on sharing news and link of her work: https://www.facebook.com/groups/106398336059542/

Johnston, Adrian & Malabou, Catherine (2013). Self and Emotional Life: Merging Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience. New York: Columbia University Press.

Malabou, Catherine (2012). The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity Cambridge: Polity Press.

Malabou, Catherine (2009). What Should We Do With Our Brain? New York: Fordham University Press.

Critical Times (OpenAccess)

Critical Times seeks to publish texts that shed light on contemporary practices of authoritarian and neo-fascist politics, nativist and atavistic cultural formations, and forms of economic exclusion, as well as spaces and forms of life where emancipatory social worlds might be imagined, articulated, and pursued. Hence, our aim is to publish essays that analyze emerging forms of authoritarianism and fascism; occupation, colonialism and dispossession; race and racism; war and apartheid; neoliberal legal and economic formations; sovereignty and post-national power; articulations of memory and justice; law and violence; borders, migration and refugees; technology and politics; nature, climate change, and environmental justice; bio- and necropolitics; religion and secularism; the intellectual work of social movements and contemporary challenges to the university; socialism and ideals of transformation, equality, resistance, transnational solidarity, radical democracy, civil disobedience, and revolution.

Link to website: https://ctjournal.org

Stathis Gourgouris; Preliminary Thoughts on Left Governmentality. Critical Times 1 April 2018; 1 (1): 99–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-1.1.99

Paul Gilroy; “Rhythm in the Force of Forces”: Music and Political Time. Critical Times 1 December 2019; 2 (3): 370–395. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7862525

Marianne Kaletzky, Ramsey McGlazer; Migrating Tactics: An Interview with Ewa Majewska and Katarzyna Rakowska. Critical Times 1 April 2018; 1 (1): 226–240. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-1.1.226