Weekly Digest #115

Something for the weekend:

1. Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back

2. ‘According to the literary critic Beth Blum, “self-help is widely understood as a technology of neoliberal self-governance used to discipline citizens and manage populations”: the social function of self-help is to obfuscate injustice, directing us to work not on society but ourselves’ Link

3. Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception

4. Teacher’s friend or enemy? AI could revolutionize the classroom

5. ‘If 2023 was the year of text-to-image and 2024 was text-to-video, then 2025 will mark the era of physical intelligence, with a new generation of devices—not only robots, but also anything from power grids to smart homes—that can interpret what we’re telling them and execute tasks in the real world’ Link

6. Lead and other heavy metals found in popular protein powders, new report says and this

7. Bibliotherapy: Can reading help treat your depression?

8. GPS Map Of Sophie Etheridge’s Incredible World Record Longest Swim of The English Channel In 29 Hours 4 Minutes Using Nothing But Her Arms

9. ‘The Forgotten Sense’ Review: What the Nose Knows

10. What Adorno Can Still Teach Us

11. Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution

12. Stop blaming the climate for disasters

13. Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach

14. The Tyranny of the Abstract

15. Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics