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Fail Better: Reflections on a Good Life

May 3, 2016 • by Claire Potter

On April 29 2016, I attended my high school class reunion, where I was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alumnae Association of The Baldwin School, in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania. I was asked to give a short address to the Upper School, and this is what I ...

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The Illegal Detainment of Academics for Peace in Turkey

April 10, 2016 • by Academics For Peace and Democracy

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN – ULUSLARARASI KAMPANYA January 11, 2016: 1124 academics signed a public statement for Peace in Turkey titled, “We Will Not Be a Party to this Crime,” criticizing the Turkish Government’s gross human rights violations in the Kurdish region and calling for restoration of the peace process through political negotiations. ...

The Illegal Detainment of Academics for Peace in Turkey

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Are Female Characters Impossible?

March 16, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. She is the Giddiness of Loss, the Fascination of Damnation, of Death Euripides’ Alcestis offers a unique exemplification of the themes and arguments in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Admetus’ elderly parents fail to step up and die for their son, ...

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A Short Lecture on Adorno’s “Juliette, Or Enlightenment and Morality”

March 14, 2016 • by Jamieson Webster

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Enlightenment, Adorno tells, according to Kant, is the elimination of dependency on others for understanding, or for anything really. It is the self-legislated progressive deployment of understanding, the systematization of knowledge, through coherence and the elimination of contradiction. This is ...

A Short Lecture on Adorno’s “Juliette, Or Enlightenment and Morality”

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Perspectivalism Without Relativism: A basis for Susan Henking’s “educated hope” for liberal education

March 2, 2016 • by Michael Weinman

Last month, Susan Henking, President of Shimer College (my alma mater) wrote for O.O.P.S. what she called “my educated hope for Shimer and for liberal education,” a hope “rooted in a criticism of the ways we have been commodified, [forced to] meet our budgets… empowered and disempowered as institutions and ...

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The Earthquake, the Compass, and the Use of Genealogy

March 1, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. How do survivors react to an earthquake? Fortunately, I do not have first-hand phenomenological experience of such events, so I can only guess. The readings from this past week gave me a good opportunity to do just that, ...

The Earthquake, the Compass, and the Use of Genealogy

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Which Enlightenment for Which Primitives?

March 1, 2016 • by Wayne Wapeemukwa

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. In the transition from primitive to enlightened society, “[j]ustice gives way to law,” the subsumption of primitive man’s just equilibrium under the capitalist production of surplus as legislated by the law of profit (Horkheimer, 12). In primitive society ...

Which Enlightenment for Which Primitives?

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Creating Compliant Subjects

What is permitted by whom?

February 29, 2016 • by Aaron Neber

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Reading excerpts from Spinzoa’s Theological-Political Treatise, I am reminded of one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fundamental anxieties in The Brothers Karamazov, namely, that without the presence of God “everything is permitted.” Perhaps an even more apt quotation would be Dmitri Karamazov’s ...

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Does a Successful Woman Need to Have a Pre-pubescent Vagina?

February 18, 2016 • by Elena Petrovska

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. I sat down to type up this response right after three hours of worshipping Aphrodite at the hair salon and currently, my devil red nails are dancing over a keyboard, getting ready to write about the oppressions women face. This ...

Does a Successful Woman Need to Have a Pre-pubescent Vagina?

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Self-Interpreting Animals and the Humanity of the Humanities

February 17, 2016 • by Aaron James Wendland

Last September, the Japanese minister of education wrote to Japan’s national universities instructing them to actively abolish humanities programs or transform them into initiatives that “better meet society’s needs.” This directive is part of a broader, global trend in higher education that has lead to serious funding reductions ...

Self-Interpreting Animals and the Humanity of the Humanities

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Who Is A Nigger?

February 13, 2016 • by Orlando Hawkins

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. In 1986, civil rights hero and activist, Bayard Rustin, gave a speech called “The New Niggers Are Gays”. In this speech Rustin stated that the barometer of social change is no longer related to African-Americans since African-Americans have ...

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Solidarity, Hierarchy, and the Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Discourse

February 12, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is in relation to Gender and Domination. In the first chapter of her book titled “Gender,” Tina Chanter undertakes the task of exposing “the invisible whiteness of mainstream feminist theory.” To this end, she proceeds to explain how the feminist motto adopted back in the 70s, “the personal is ...