Monthly Archives: July, 2024

How to Prevent a Shipwreck…

Welcome to the first post of the Tech & Society blog series. Each month, this series will delve into the various challenges, issues, and advancements in both...

The Train is Coming for Us: The crushing power of fiction

The above image was AI-generated using Microsoft Copilot. In the early days of cinema, rumor has it that some viewers were so captivated by the...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nietzsche and the Now

Glenn Wallis is an independent scholar and founder of Incite Seminars in Philadelphia. He has taught at several universities, including Brown University and the...

APA Member Interview: Brian LePort

Brian LePort is a Social and Religious Studies Instructor at TMI Episcopal in San Antonio, TX. He teaches high school classes on subjects ranging...

Devising Opposition in Feminist Philosophies of Care

I was always amazed by and envious of the aloof effect conjured effortlessly by my peers when I was younger. I longed to master...

Latin American Philosophy, Mariah Partida

In the Fall of 2022, I began teaching in the philosophy department at Texas State University (TXST), which has been a proud Hispanic-serving institution...

Teaching as an Act of Service

Even though I have taught my courses several times, I find that I am always excited to begin each new semester and to better...

Chasing Desire

In her 2023 Netflix special It’s Great to be Here, comedian Michelle Wolf makes two trans jokes. The second joke comes in the context...

Resurrecting Dangerous Minds

Within military studies, scholars regularly analyze and teach the strategies and victories of great military strategists, whether ancient (Sun Tzu), modern (Napoleon Bonaparte; cf....

Doorways and Rivers: Reintroducing the Graduate Student Reflection Series

I recently taught an eight-week course at Trinity Episcopal Parish in Searcy, Arkansas, on architectural and liturgical semiotics. I sought to answer this question:...

The Intersection of Black, Caribbean, and Deaf Communities: An Interview with Dr. Derefe Chevannes

Originally from Jamaica, Dr. Chevannes is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Chevannes’s research surrounds the intersection of...

Loneliness and Philosophy: The Ontological Dislocation of Loneliness

This post is part of a new series exploring philosophical perspectives on loneliness. If you are interested in contributing to this series, please submit...

From the Hermeneutic Priority to a Phenomenology of (Shared) Questioning

I. The Hermeneutic Priority of Questioning How does a sentence heard, seen, or felt transform into a meaning understood? We—linguistically shaped human beings—hear and see...

Breaking ChatGPT to fix Echo Chambers?

1      Introduction There are many ways that generative AI, such as ChatGPT or AI image generators, relates to social epistemology, not least of which is that...

The Wildlife State of Gaia

Forests in which our ancient australopithecine ancestors evolved are in our archetypal unconscious, and it’s time we heed nature’s call for attention. In short,...