Something for the weekend: How Should One Live?Intelligent humanoid robots expressing artificial humanlike empathy in nursing situationsIntersecting the body and curriculum: Nineteenth-century dandyism and physical trainingPublish and perishThe touch taboo in psychotherapy and everyday life (20% off with code FLR40)Millions are forced to live without touch. But technology now has a solutionWomen’s Writing on Illness and DiseaseThe philosophical leftovers of Gilles DeleuzeHappy Birthday: Critique of Dialectical Reason!Health systems as venture capital investors in digital health: 2011–2019The constitution of space in intensive care: Power, knowledge and the othering of people experiencing … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #108
30DoS 2020 – Day 30
The progress of this storm by Andreas Malm In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable. Link to book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3140-the-progress-of-this-storm Elizabeth … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 30
30DoS 2020 – Day 29
Eva Feder Kittay Kittay is a philosopher, disability scholar, social and political theorist, and care ethicist. Her book, Love’s Labor, now in its second edition, is an analysis of the liberal philosopher John Rawls and his theory of justice, extended to care and dependence. Kittay argues that acknowledging dependence is essential. Kittay has also written on cognitive disability. In a recent, more personal book, she reflects her own experiences as a mother of a disabled daughter. She reflects the age-old ethical questions of good life and flourishing from a critical point of view, one which argues that the fact of our-co-dependency does not get sufficient attention. Disability and … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 29