Public Philosophy

Our Dirty War

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Democracy, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

The disappearance of citizens displays a perversely cruel and absolute sovereignty. —Ruti Teitel, Transitional Justice (2002) I should begin by noting that I started writing what follows last week, after the publication of the New York Times story on the “1.5 Million Missing Black Men in America” but before the popular uprising in Baltimore that began Monday as…

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Our Dirty War

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Democracy, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

The disappearance of citizens displays a perversely cruel and absolute sovereignty. —Ruti Teitel, Transitional Justice (2002) I should begin by noting that I started writing what follows last week, after the publication of the New York Times story on the “1.5 Million Missing Black Men in America” but before the popular uprising in Baltimore that began Monday as…

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The Leigh Johnson Mystery

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Labor Issues, Leiter, Philosophy, Politics, Professional Academy, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

Here’s the thing everyone needs to understand before s/he starts picking a fight: you can only back people into a corner so far before they come out swinging. UChicago law professor Brian Leiter has decided to pick a fight with me in a comment thread on his blog here. There, in a moderated thread allegedly addressing “issues…

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Hashtagging Solidarity

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Democracy, Human Rights, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

The printing press, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane: each in their own way radically shrunk the world, diminished the power of mere distance to maintain our strangeness to one another.  Yet, arguably, no human innovation has served as a greater tool for transcending Nature’s most seemingly impregnable boundaries, space and time, than the World…

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We’ll Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends: Dr. J’s 2015 Signal-Boosts

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson BlogCounts, Digital Humanities, Memphis, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Just a few months ago, in September, I somewhat unceremoniously celebrated my 8th year at the helm of this still-imperfect, though incrementally improving, work-in-progress blog.  My first couple of years were an experiment, to be sure, but I found my stride here at RMWMTMBM around 2008 or so, and it’s been mostly gravy since. I’m…

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What Public Philosophy LOOKS Like

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Memphis, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

A pen (or keyboard) has, for millennia, been both the preferred and most essential tool of a philosopher, but I consider my camera to be a very close second as a 21stC philosopher.  Since completing the American Values Project in 2012, I’ve come to understand my camera as another weapon in the struggle against ignorance and,…

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#Hashtags

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Technology and Human Values 0 Comments
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