Weekly Digest #100

Something for the weekend:

1. John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First Parastronaut

2. ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

3. Apple’s AirPods Pro Could Soon Disrupt the Hearing Aid Industry

4. The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse

5. Why fascists hate universities

6. A doctor’s remarkable account of an organ transplant

7. Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes

8. ‘if one very visible and vocal camp of historians remains deeply ambivalent about [Foucault’s] work, this merely disguises the fact that a far larger contingent of historians of all kinds - not just those located in history departments - use his ideas quite unremarkably as they go about their daily business’ Link

9. The art of taking it slow

10. Judith Butler vs. Judy!

11. Exploring health inequities through the actor-network theory lens

12. An anatomist of pleasure gives voice to the body in pain

13. Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism

14. Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life

15. Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed