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Month: October 2019

“Even This Small Dream Feels Impossible”: Comradeship in the Face of the Posthuman

October 23, 2019 Leigh M. Johnson Marx, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Technology and Human Values Comments Off on “Even This Small Dream Feels Impossible”: Comradeship in the Face of the Posthuman

I recently finished reading the excellent new book by Jodi Dean (Political Science, Hobart and William Smith College) entitled Comrade: An Essay on Belonging. There are many reasons to recommend Dean’s all-too-brief, but brilliantly executed, text: its surgeon-like evisceration of the ideological cult of “allyship,” its elaboration of the truly liberatory promise of the “Communist Horizon” (which Dean…

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Helping Students Become “One-Handed” Writers

October 17, 2019 Leigh M. Johnson Ethics, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching, Technology, Technology and Human Values Comments Off on Helping Students Become “One-Handed” Writers

There has been a push recently to encourage more “forward facing” philosophy, a long overdue and welcome development in our profession. However, for better or worse, what gets called “public philosophy”– the aim of this push– remains pretty vaguely defined. On the one hand, some argue that public philosophy should have real-world applications, though their…

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