Weekly Digest #104
Something for the weekend:
‘The protesters believe that they are entitled, by the justice of their cause, to ignore and disrupt the university’s normal pursuit of its mission. The university believes it is entitled, by its own principles, to resist this disruption. Each side uses force to get what it wants, and the details of these disruptions—exactly how much force is permitted, by which party, and when—are hotly disputed by the media as well as on campus. And yet the real scandal lies in all the ways in which this disgracefully anti-intellectual debacle gets normalized and gilded. When we use force to manage our disagreements, we are admitting that this place is nowhere special, that the ethos of the classroom cannot be the ethos of the university as a whole. There is no deeper insult to an intellectual community than the suggestion that, when its conversations drift onto a topic that really matters—when, as the saying goes, “push comes to shove”—they have to stop talking and start pushing and shoving’ Link
Subversive mythical figures and feminist resistance: On the rise of posthuman ‘professionals’
‘Morgan and Loeb show us that regeneration does not simply mean a return to ‘normal’ like the 18th-century naturalists believed. Rather, they saw regeneration as an adaptive process’ Link
Interpersonal comparisons of well-being: Increasing convergence
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire
“Every day, read at least one essay or chapter related to your research, write at least one paragraph, and jog at least one mile” Link
Critical posthumanism: A double-edged sword for advancing nursing knowledge in planetary health