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...
My Body, Not My Choice: The Complicated Ethics of Abortion
Editor's note: This post is part of the Blog of the APA's continued engagement with arguments related to the topic of abortion. Posts providing alternative...
Is Writing for Robots?
Ada opens her eyes at the designated time in the morning. She looks out her open window and notices that the sun is shining....
Phronêsis, or, a Plea for Critical Thinking
You know what I am sick of hearing and reading about? How facts, logic, and reasoning don’t matter to people.
Likewise, if there’s one stereotype...