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One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom

...rationality — at the expense of other dimensions of our being, doesn’t philosophy create its own precariousness? * With many thanks to my co-editors, Katherine Cassese and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer for...

How Not to Be Alienated from Your Own Life

...much her thinking ran against the culture of many learning institutions, such as my own.  * Katherine: Thank you Zena for doing this interview with me. I’m excited. I first...

Acknowledge the Truth of Your Confusion: It’s Helpful

...hence the senses ‘mild and conducive to growth’ (mid 17th century), later ‘cheerful, kindly’ (mid 18th century). Thanks to Katherine Cassese for the expression "You sit with confusion when it comes" and for some strikethroughs. Tweet...

Vergangenheitsbewältigung Now: 1492 and the Roots of Planetary Injustice

...March 31st-April 1st, including Kyle Whyte for his engagement. With thanks to my family (especially Dave Keymer for Spanish history), friends, and colleagues (especially Katherine Cassese), including this Earth in...

How to Run To, Not From: Chores, Cooperatives, & Grimy Learning

In the last post of Starting Out in Philosophy, I spoke with Laura Nelson about experimental education and learning beyond the university. Since then, I wrapped up my first semester...

Understanding Academic Precarity with Iris Marion Young: Who’s Responsible?

The idea for this new mini-series—Precarity and Philosophy—developed out of conversations with my co-editors Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and Katherine Cassese over the past year. With this mini-series, I’d like to address...

“Study,” “Otherwise Worlds,” & the Issues that Arise in Life

...Karamazov, many in our class see ourselves in Ivan, the ambitious intellectual who views personal connections as a liability, rather than Dostoevsky’s community-minded hero, Alyosha.” – Katherine. Katherine: That’s lovely....

Unfinished Garden: Desislava Parashkevova

...have been redacted and the piece has been reworked for unity and coherence. The voice below is Desislava’s. – With thanks to my co-editors, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and Katherine Cassese, whose...

To Learn Is Beautiful, But Who Gets To? Katherine Starting Out

...come from? And how do you think of philosophy? Katherine’s friend Jenna; Katherine and friends; Katherine and her brother. Katherine: Hello everyone! My conventional answer is that I spent much...

Katherine Cassese

Katherine Cassese is an intentional community member of the Simone Weil House in Portland, Oregon. She studied at Harvard University, where she was an editor of the Harvard Review of...