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Utisz has a series of interesting posts up on human/nature interdependence, anthropocentrism, and the needs fulfilled by metaphysics: It would be important to recognise this need, not only in the gene… more →
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Utile hurling
Carl wrote 5 days ago: Utisz has a series of interesting posts up on human/nature interdependence, anthropocentrism, and th … more →
Hubert Harrison at Temple
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Carl wrote 2 weeks ago: At the conference I met Jeffrey B. Perry, whose work is on the history and consequences of white sup … more →
The left intellectuals and the God trick
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Carl wrote 1 month ago: I’ve had bits of a thought on some recent blog exchanges on intellectual activism and the role … more →
Existential infinity
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Carl wrote 1 month ago: I suspect that the ‘infinity standard’ is a dead, beaten and buried horse, but for my ow … more →
Infinity and the 'total institution'
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Carl wrote 1 month ago: The reference was tickling the edge of my brain so I tracked it down. OK, cool – here’s … more →
You and me, and baby makes infinity
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Carl wrote 2 months ago: (Brace for lengthy preamble:) I’m teaching a section of the freshman orientation seminar again … more →
The infinity standard
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Carl wrote 2 months ago: The infinity standard will be familiar to anyone who is interested in doing good in their work. It g … more →
Better the demon you know
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Carl wrote 2 months ago: In a bit of amusing local news, conservative groups got together in Raleigh recently for workshops, … more →
Bells and whistles
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Carl wrote 2 months ago: In the comments on the last post Owen suggests, and Kevin seconds, using student blogs leading into … more →
A gramscian?
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Carl wrote 3 months ago: Every once in awhile friends are kind enough to describe me as a gramscian, as when Levi wondered in … more →
Latour/Bloom
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Carl wrote 3 months ago: I just read Bruno Latour’s short essay “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?” It is … more →
Meme vaccine
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Carl wrote 3 months ago: Over at the really excellent Neuroanthropology, where I always learn something, Daniel has been kind … more →
One more on 'grey vampires',
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Carl wrote 3 months ago: trolls and insufferable scholars who, as we all know, infiltrate our thoughts and drain our precious … more →
Pick your poison
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Carl wrote 3 months ago: Like most people I’ve been glued to the health care debate, which has predictably turned into … more →
Freedom squish
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Carl wrote 7 months ago: I was recently involved (as a bit of a thread-jacker) in a conversation over at Edge of the West abo … more →
Death
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Carl wrote 8 months ago: John Hope Franklin died the other day. He was a towering figure for whom all praise is too faint. Pr … more →
Teaching (social) theory
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Carl wrote 8 months ago: A series of posts at scatterplot about how to teach sociological theory have been helping me bring t … more →
When failure is an option
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Carl wrote 9 months ago: At Now-Times Alexei has opened an interesting discussion by firing a shot across the bow of grading: … more →
Stigma, privilege and contact lenses
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Carl wrote 10 months ago: Here in North Carolina there’s a peculiar conjunction of weather conditions, my metabolism and … more →
