Weekly Digest #86

Something for the weekend:

1. A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States? Care Work, Gender Equality and Welfare State Sustainability

2. Managing diagnostic uncertainty in urinary tract infection

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

4. What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning

5. Learning from diversity: Public reason and the benefits of pluralism

6. The back in art

7. How Schrödinger’s Cat Got Famous

8. “No philosopher was ever more worthy, but neither was any philosopher more maligned and hated”, Gilles Deleuze on Spinoza

9. ‘When you ask people to imagine how things could be different, they imagine how things could be better. This doesn’t depend on how we word the question, and it happens in people’s everyday thoughts. Everybody seems to do it; demographics make little difference. Polish people also imagine how things could be better, as do Chinese people answering in Mandarin. And people imagine how things could be better even though it appears to be harder than imagining how things could be worse’ Link

10. We Are Made of Waves

11. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced

12. Biopolitical Leviathan: Understanding State Power in the Era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the State

13. Vampire therapist

14. Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

15. The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction