The Use of Bodies by Giorgio Agamben The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground while clarifying the stakes and implications of the project as a whole. It comprises three major sections. The first uses Aristotle's discussion of slavery as a starting point for radically rethinking notions of selfhood; the second calls for a complete reworking of Western ontology; and the third explores the enigmatic concept of "form-of-life," which is in many ways the motivating force behind the entire Homo Sacer project. Interwoven between these major sections are shorter reflections on individual thinkers (Debord, Foucault, … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 17

Journal of humanities in rehabilitation The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open-access journal published in collaboration with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. The purpose of this journal is to raise the consciousness and deepen the intellect of the humanistic relationship in the rehabilitation sciences. Our mission is to encourage dialogue among rehabilitation professionals, patients, families and caregivers that describe the human condition as it experiences the impact of illness or disability. We hope to highlight and illustrate the special relationship between the patient and rehabilitation provider, as well as provide a venue for … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 16

Silvio Almeida Almeida is an interdisciplinary scholar of philosophy, law and race. He has written books on structural racism in Brazil, as well as on Sartre and young Lukács. In Racismo Estrutural, Almeida draws on the idea of institutionalised racism and discusses through statistical and judicial research how racism manifests in the social, political and economic structures of Brazilian society. Almeidas writing in Blog Da Boitempo: https://blogdaboitempo.com.br/category/colunas/silvio-luiz-de-almeida/ Almeida, Silvio (2019). Racismo Estrutural. Pólen Livros. Sartre - direito e política: ontologia, liberdade e revolução. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2016. O Direito no Jovem … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 15

MERLOT - open educational resources MERLOT is an international community of educators, learners, and researchers interested in the open sharing of learning resources. Link to website: www.merlot.org/merlot/ Link to YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MERLOTPlace Medical Humanities Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 14

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 … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 13

Critical Theory: The Key Concepts by Dino Felluga ‘Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of the last twenty years such as Actor-Network Theory, Global Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. This book explains the key concepts at the heart of a wide range of influential theorists from Agamben to Žižek. Entries range from concise definitions to longer more explanatory essays and include terms such as: aesthetics, desire, dissensus, dromocracy, hegemony, ideology, … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 12

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The SEP has been a like the Wikipedia of philosophy for years now. It’s authoritative, regularly updated, and comprehensive, with more than 1,600 articles. If you pay a small fee and support SEP, you gain access to pdfs of all entries. The free dictionary book depository are excellent too. Link to website: https://plato.stanford.edu/about.html The book depository https://www.bookdepository.com/ And The free dictionary https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ Radical Philosophy (OpenAccess) We hope that, among other things, the pages of Radical Philosophy will become a venue for reflection upon the question of what it might mean to … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 11