Weekly Digest #83

Something for the weekend

1. ‘My challenge to all of us in this paper is to consider the ‘practice’ that we privilege. Outmoded non-virtuous ego-driven practices no longer serve nurses nor do they enable contemporary models of practice to be realised. The challenge is to shift our gaze towards an ecological commitment and consider how we facilitate cultures that enable all persons to flourish’ Link

2. Making Sense of Neoliberalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand:

   A Response to Nicholls (another Nicholls!), Duncan, Neilson, and

   Foucauldian Governmentality

3. Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain

4. Extravagances of Neoliberalism: An interview with Melinda Cooper

5. Multimorbidity as chronic crisis: ‘Living on’ with multiple long-term health conditions in a socially disadvantaged London borough and this

6. Subjectivity through the lens of Guattari: A key concept for nursing

7. The Nonperson Treatment in Higher Education: The Case of Contingent Faculty

8. Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

9. On wounds, incompleteness, and conviviality: Notes on counter-actualising the conditions of the contemporary

10. I was (am?) addicted to exercise (From the outside, no one could tell how unhealthy it was), this, and this

11. Is it water the agent of erasure, even: self-

    erasure? Or is it the sand’s nature—of both

    yield and subsume—

    that refuses, resists, the holding

    of line? Resists inheritance of the notion

    line makes record? Link

12. Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life

13. "‘Wharton Esherick’s revival of hand-crafted wooden furniture, or George Nakashima, renowned for his tables consisting of irregular slices of ancient tree trunk: both expressed a keenness to embed humans once again in nature’ Link

14. Special issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education on Foucault

15. Physiotherapy’s necessity for ableism: reifying normal through difference