Weekly Digest #61

Something for the weekend:

1. 2023’s infographics awards

2. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Europeans in the Middle Ages took pains to keep themselves clean

3. Umbilical cable for iPhone

4. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

5. Vanishing academics: On the importance of speed and becoming-imperceptible

6. Un Abécédaire de la psychiatrie: An ABC of psychiatry, from NO SOVEREIGN AUTHOR

7. African philosophy and nursing: A potential twain that shall meet?

8. What if reason actively generates monsters?

9. Ressentiment: the World-Improving Poison

10. Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review

11. ‘Either the link between language and mind has been severed, or a new kind of mind has been created’ Link

12. Psychoanalytic Feminism

13. ‘If you want to be a writer, you gotta stand in the middle of the traffic to see how fast the train goes’ Link

14. The importance of leisure

15. ‘Nietzsche offered us a way of battling against fanaticism, showing us how we can combat its spread and prevent the emergence of new fanatics’ Link