Climate Targets and Moral Corruption
Imagine a parent–teacher conference. The teacher tells you your child is “on track” to graduate from high school. Relieved, you follow up: “Great! Can...
The Aesthetics of Perfection: The Value of Culinary Achievement in The Menu
“It needs an ending that ties everything together conceptually. Otherwise, it just tastes good and who cares?”
Chef Julian Slowik, the villain of the film...
Fighting for Freedom with Philosophy: An Interview with A.J. Wendland
Aaron James Wendland is organizing a conference on the value of philosophy in light of the events in Ukraine during the last year. It...
Looking Back and Acting Out
Over 40 years ago, in Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality, Iris Marion Young gave us a...
Building Community and Trust During a Graduate Student Strike
There is this passage from Camus’s The Rebel that I taught to my students a couple of years ago and has stuck with me...
The New Panopticon
With my work bringing me back in touch with public high school education, and as someone recently acquainted with a third decade of mostly...
The Dead Eyes of “Decision to Leave”
Roland Barthes once wrote of the disturbing effect of the point-of-view shot from the eyes of a dead man in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr:...
Well-Informed About Misinformation
Misinformation. Disinformation. Fake research. Fake news. Nowadays, these terms are everywhere. Misinformation, in its various guises, seems to threaten every aspect of our lives:...
Rage Against the Machine
Reactive emotional responses to machines are a commonplace in our lives.
I get angry at the Kroger checkout machines when they never register the item...
Nope’s Social Demons
In an interview that has gone viral in several places, Jordan Peele stated that he had five films planned on what he referred to...