Saturday (February 6th) Linkorama

By Phil Percs

Then came the march past the victims.
The two men were no longer alive.
Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish.
But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.
And we were forced to look at him at close range.
He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.

Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."

That night, the soup tasted of corpses.

     - Elie Wiesel

Aesthetics:

1. A fake of art
2. Tiny Adventures to Please Our Dirty Minds: A review of Sophia by Michael Bible
3. Donal Harris on Cold War Modernists : Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
4. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20
5. Confucian confusions
6. A Strange and Quiet Fullness
7. Veteranas and Rucas: Documenting 1990s Chicano Youth Culture
8. Meet the Black Architect Who Designed Duke University 37 Years Before He Could Have Attended It

Class War:

1. Professors in homeless shelters: It is time to talk seriously about adjuncts
2. EXCLUSIVE–Voicemails: ‘Ben Carson Suspending Campaigning’; Cruz: ‘Accurate Report’
3. Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point
4. The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Disability:

1. Disability and Ideology
2. Asymmetrical Luck

Ethics and Political Philosophy:

1. The Psychologists Take Power
2. The irrational and Ignorance in Natural Life Sentences
3. Lessons of Demopolis
4. Sympathy in J.S. Mill and Elizabeth Anderson
5. Fantasies of Europe: Žižek against Žižek
6. Happy St. Brigid’s Day!
7. Fast-world values
8. Safe Spaces and the Space of Reasons: Reflections on the Global Campus Protests
9. Courage, Camaraderie, and Survival

Gender and its Discontents:

1. The CDC’s incredibly condescending warning to young women
2. Under the Shadow review: the feminist horror film that scared Sundance silly

History of Philosophy:

1. Rousseau and Smith’s radical resemblances

Metaphysics, Broadly Construed:

1. FEYERABEND’S ONTOLOGY: pluralist, diachronic, apophatic, empirical, and democratic
2. Self-causation, persistence and presentism
3. The Wall at the End of Things
4. The Dim Future of Human Brilliance

Philosodogs:

1. Ranger
2. Harvey
3. Super Ella (Ellie?)
4. Blossom
5. Willow

Philosophers, Stylin' and Profilin':

1. Nietzsche, Art and the Neo-Hegelian Commitment
2. APA Member Interview: Ian Olasov
3. Early-Career Research Spotlight: Adrian Currie
4. APA Member Interview: Arina Pismenny
5. The Reluctant Philosopher – A Q&A with Cardozo Law Professor Ekow Yankah

(Pseudo-)Science and Techmology:

1. When life gives you lemons, make science
2. NSF breaks new ground in reprimanding authors of flawed Science paper
3. Casting Authenticity

Race and Racism:

1. "New Jim Crow" Author Michelle Alexander on Hillary Clinton's Embrace of Mass Incarceration
2. Former N.A.A.C.P. President Endorses Bernie Sanders
3. Bernie Sanders and Black Voters
4. 'Stigma and Culture'
5. Why James Baldwin’s Truth Still Holds Today

Superfunpack:

1. Rock Apparently Factors Into Girlfriend’s Shower Routine
2. Sanders Admits Receiving Free Checking from Big Banks
3. This Week's To φ Or Not To φ
4. Eight Excuses I Have Told My Son to Use for His Failure to Hand in English Homework, Excuses I Have Learned are Acceptable During a Thirty-Year Career in Journalism, Books, and Film
5. Walt Whitman Rides the Steamin’ Demon Rollercoaster at Six Flags

This Week’s IEP:

No new articles this week.

This Week’s NDPR:

1. James B. Haile reviews Iván Jaksic (ed.)'s Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity: Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics
2. Jeff Malpas reviews Rudolf A. Makkreel's Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics
3. Adam Green reviews J. L. Schellenberg's The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy's New Challenge to Belief in God
4. Deborah Achtenberg reviews Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas (eds.)' Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
5. Elizabeth Foreman reviews Patricia Marino's Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World
6. Gerald L. Bruns reviews David Kleinberg-Levin's Beckett's Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning
7. Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee reviews Henry Rosemont Jr.'s Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion
8. Michael L. Frazer reviews Robert Lamb's Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights
9. Katerina Ierodiakonou reviews Mark Eli Kalderon's Form without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception
10. Michael J. Almeida reviews William E. Mann's God, Modality, and Morality

This Week's SEP:

1. Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry (Charles L. Griswold) [REVISED: February 4, 2016]
   Changes to: Bibliography, notes.html
2. Hegel's Aesthetics (Stephen Houlgate) [REVISED: February 2, 2016]
   Changes to: Main text, Bibliography
3. Liberalism in Latin America (Faviola Rivera) [NEW: February 1, 2016]
4. Disability and Health Care Rationing (Jerome Bickenbach) [NEW: January 29, 2016]
5. Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender (Mari Mikkola) [REVISED: January 29, 2016]
   Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html
6. Philosophy of Liberation (Eduardo Mendieta) [NEW: January 28, 2016]
7. Margaret Fell (Jacqueline Broad) [REVISED: January 27, 2016]
   Changes to: Main text, Bibliography
8. Incommensurable Values (Nien-hê Hsieh) [REVISED: January 25, 2016]
   Changes to: Bibliography
9. Immanuel Kant (Michael Rohlf) [REVISED: January 25, 2016]
   Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html

This Week’s Wifi:

1. Elizabeth Camp's Mind: Personal Identity (The Narrative Self)

University/Teaching/Professional:

1. APP is Not Alone 4: “The Fragmentation of Philosophy, The Road to Reintegration” (AC.EDU Re-Post)
2. Philosophy Data from the Open Syllabus Project (Guest Post by Andrew Higgins)
3. DIVERSITY AND NON-STANDARD PHILOSOPHY
4. Enrollment Caps: How High is Too High?
5. Applying for Jobs You Won’t Take
6. On Being Nervous before a Lecture
7. Is diversity just too hard? A hypothesis
8. Philosophical works for 12-15 year olds?
9. Thoughts on Cluster Hiring
10. If I Only Knew Then...Tenured Scholars on Professionalization

Unheard Word [Charon’s Cosmology]:

With only his dim lantern   
To tell him where he is
And every time a mountain   
Of fresh corpses to load up

Take them to the other side
Where there are plenty more
I’d say by now he must be confused   
As to which side is which

I’d say it doesn’t matter
No one complains he’s got
Their pockets to go through
In one a crust of bread in another a sausage

Once in a long while a mirror   
Or a book which he throws   
Overboard into the dark river   
Swift and cold and deep

     - Charles Simić