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How to Think through Cages

November 3, 2016 • by Santiago Zabala

What I liked so much about these suggestions was the subtle call to think without fear and without expectations. The cages will always be there, but I came to understand how important it is to create a philosophical cage that allows you to leave it. When would leaving become necessary? ...

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Does a Successful Woman Need to Own a Gym Membership?

November 2, 2016 • by Elena Petrovska

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I never thought that I’d be saying this, but I live in a fitness center. I don’t mean that I’m a gym rat, pumping iron and downing protein shakes. I actually live on top of a gym, otherwise known ...

Does a Successful Woman Need to Own a Gym Membership?

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What Is A Woman?

October 31, 2016 • by Sarah Chant

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I thought it would be cheeky to start this response with the question present in all the readings for this course -- “What is a woman?” -- but, feeling unsure, I decided to do what any sophisticated academic might ...

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The Postcoloniality of Gender

October 27, 2016 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. To elucidate further the connection among (post)colonialism, gender, and domination, two texts in particular come to mind: Chandra Mohanty’s “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” from 1984 and M. Jacqui Alexander’s “Not Just (Any)Body Can Be A ...

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The Plurality and Quasi-Anarchism of Drag

October 6, 2016 • by Sarah Chant

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I am often told that the subject of my research, drag -- as a pastime, a spectacle, a performance, or an art form -- makes some people “uncomfortable.” The reasons offered as explanation range from (legitimate) concerns about transphobia ...

The Plurality and Quasi-Anarchism of Drag

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Understanding the Bio-Logic of Mexico’s Fight for Equal Marriage

October 5, 2016 • by Paula Landerreche Cardillo

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On Saturday, September 24, 2016, the National Front for the Family organized a march in Mexico City asking the Mexican government to revoke its decree to legalize gay marriage and adoption nationwide. Members of the Front defend what they ...

Understanding the Bio-Logic of Mexico’s Fight for Equal Marriage

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Deweyan Response to Hyperdemocracy

October 2, 2016 • by Patrick Gilger, S.J.

This piece is part of the OOPS Series, "Social Interaction." This past May, Andrew Sullivan -- political blogger extraordinaire -- made his much anticipated return to the land of talking heads with an essay on hyperdemocracy and the rise of tyranny. In it, he argued that the overexpansion of direct democracy ...

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Records of Planetary Suicide

September 13, 2016 • by James Wheeler

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. As Beatriz (now Paul) Preciado keenly points out in “The Principle of the Auto-Guinea Pig,” the centralization of information into human memory, stone, paper, and, recently, digitally readable circuits carved into silicon chips, subjects information to an ineradicable vulnerability. ...

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Bodies, Gender, and Domination

August 31, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

Why do people fight for their own servitude as if it were their own deliverance? This is a question that has been at the heart of philosophy for a long time under the headings of voluntary servitude, ideology, and more recently domination. The aim of this seminar is to explore ...

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What Could History Have Been?

Imagining new approaches to the humanities

August 26, 2016 • by Matthew Strother

“What could history have been?” The question asks how events might have turned out otherwise, if only X had happened instead of Y. What if JFK hadn’t been assassinated? What if Hitler had? The official term for this kind of what-if thinking is “counterfactual history,” and it covers anything from ...

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Voting Rights, Olympics Commentary, and Think Tanks

Past Present Episode 47

August 18, 2016 • by Neil J. Young, Nicole Hemmer and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: This summer, courts struck down restrictive voting laws in North Carolina, Kansas, and Wisconsin. Niki pointed out that there have been only 31 cases of voter fraud since 2000. We recommended Ari Berman’s history of voting rights, Give Us ...