Weekly Digest #75

Something for the weeken

1. What’s really in that sports supplement?

2. Database of useful biological numbers

3. Hold the Line is a piece of sound art generated by data from Canada’s 2023 wildfire season

4. A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her

5. What Happened to David Graeber?

6. “What Is Critique?” and “The Culture of the Self”

7. Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology

8. What Work Meant to Thoreau

9. Slow Change Can Be Radical Change (Rebecca Solnit)

10. Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory

11. The Splintering of the Self: Annie Liontas on Life After Concussion

12. ‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary-work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID-19 policymaking

13. ‘Taking its cue from Michel Foucault’s analyses of the pastoral ‘conduct of conduct’, this paper considers social media as a specific dispositif that derives its mode of operation from the religious techniques of individualization’ Link

14. Kohei Saito’s “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto”

15. The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer