Monthly Archives: July 2011
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Elden, Foucault on Writing
Leave a commentJuly 29, 2011 by Peter Gratton
Elden links to this quote by Foucault on writing: Does there exist a pleasure in writing? I don’t know. One …
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Getting to Know Your Hacker…An Open Letter to My New Friend
1July 21, 2011 by Peter Gratton
Since hacking is in the news, I’ll give a quick story that involved a bit of my day (I know–I …
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Stuart Elden on Foucault’s 70-71 lecture courses
1July 21, 2011 by Peter Gratton
Here is his Berfrois review of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. These lectures come from a period of Foucault’s work that has …
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Comic-Con Arrives in SD
Leave a commentJuly 21, 2011 by Peter Gratton
This might explain some of the outfits I saw around town this morning…
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The Empirical Evidence against Karma
Leave a commentJuly 21, 2011 by Peter Gratton
Nice catch by Leiter. Speaking of long and wicked lives, isn’t it about time a gang of cosmopolitan hackers incept …
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Case Study for When Ethics is allowed to Trump Politics
Leave a commentJuly 20, 2011 by Peter Gratton
You start worrying about whether Rupert Murdoch got a pie in the face instead of, you know, his place at …
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My Take on the Pluralist’s Guide…
2July 19, 2011 by Peter Gratton
While I was away getting housing to work at an incipient Ph.D. program with an emphasis in Continental philosophy, but …
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This last line is quite sad…
Leave a commentJuly 19, 2011 by Peter Gratton
Back from St. John’s, NL, securing housing there and getting immigration stuff in order. First up: here’s a nice catch …
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Not Quite a Fanonian “Look a Negro,” but …
Leave a commentJuly 12, 2011 by Peter Gratton
The Washington Post discovers–wow!–that African Americans bike too. Coverage comes complete with this: Yet some people pause and look again …
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Reactionary republicanism in a nutshell
Leave a commentJuly 8, 2011 by Peter Gratton
Here, from Herfried Münkler in today’s Der Spiegel: In light of this failure of the elites, it is hardly surprising that …
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