Black and blur; Stolen life; and The universal machine by Fred Moton "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination. Link to author’s work: https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?AuID=1384061 Grammarly If you’d like to concentrate on your ideas and worry less about your spelling and grammar, then Grammarly is for you. There are a number of spelling and grammar checkers on the market now, but Grammarly is one of the best. It’s … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 8
The 5th free online critical physiotherapy course is this week
Our penultimate session for 2020 will be on Wednesday/Thursday this week. Viviana Silva and Wendy Lowe will be presenting work from their chapter in the soon-to-be-released Mobilising knowledge book, titled: Feeling good about yourself? An exploration of Fitbit “New Moms community” as an emergent space for online biosociality. Zoom link for the meeting: https://aut.zoom.us/j/4850164660 Looking forward to seeing you all soon. … [Read more...] about The 5th free online critical physiotherapy course is this week
30DoS 2020 – Day 7
Joan Tronto Tronto is a political scientist and care ethicist, and her classic Moral Boundaries is a must-read for everyone interested in the care ethics movement. There are other notable and interesting ethics of care theorists that could be featured here, such as Nel Noddings, Virginia Held, Michael Slote, Annette Baier, Carol Gilligan and Sara Ruddick, to name just a few. Tronto’s work is important from a deeply political point of view. In Moral Boundaries, she argues that the boundaries between ethics and politics, public and private, are not as clear cut as they may seem. Ethical question must be analysed from a political point of view, and vice versa, and therefore taking an … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 7