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29 Nov 2017

Reflections on Wittgenstein's Rhino

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Albrecht Dürer: The Rhinoceros (1515) Even many non-philosophers know two stories concerning Wittgenstein's time at Cambridge:...
27 Nov 2017

Cut the Crap: In Praise of Occam's Razor

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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Occam's razor is a convenient problem-solving principle attributed to a 14th-c...
26 Nov 2017

Unravelling the Mystery of the Sweater Girls 2: The Strange Case of Francine Gottfried

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Francine Gottfried being escorted by two plainclothes police officers through crowds of men on the way to work in September 1968 Pho...

Unravelling the Mystery of the Sweater Girls

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Lana Turner as Mary Clay in They Won't Forget   (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, 1937): the original Sweater Girl When fondly recalling tho...
23 Nov 2017

Notes on Identity Politics and Intersectionality

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Marc-Édouard Nabe: Lawrence assis  (2007) Ink and watercolour (24 x 32 cm) marcedouardnabe.com The ideal man! And which...
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20 Nov 2017

Becoming-Other (Part 2): Alien Sympathy and the Poetic Imagination (With Reference to the Work of D. H. Lawrence)

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Marc-Édouard Nabe: Lawrence sauvage  (2009) marcedouardnabe.com In an essay entitled 'On Being a Man', Lawrence argues...
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Becoming-Other (Part 1): The Case of Boglarka Balogh

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Seven types of digital blackface produced by Boglarka Balogh  (with the assistance of graphic artist Csaba Szábó) boredpanda.com ...
18 Nov 2017

Jews of the Wrong Sort: Notes on D. H. Lawrence and Anti-Semitism

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Honor Blackman as Mrs Fawcett in The Virgin and the Gypsy   dir. Christopher Miles (1970) An angry email arrives in my inbox (not f...
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17 Nov 2017

Peter Sloterdijk and the Question of Anthropotechnics

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Polity Press (2013) Anthropotechnics is a term widely used today across numerous fields of study and with many different meanings...
16 Nov 2017

Orophobia (With Reference to the Case of Alexander Hepburn)

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Casper David Friedrich:  Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer  (1818) [ Oder typischer romantischer Bullshit ] I don't like ...