Webern’s String Quartet

Something to entertain folks on this otherwise excellent blog – I like this piece, therefore it is good:

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Maimon Reading Group (Summer 2010)

If you are interested in participating in the conference (August 19th, 2010) dedicated to Maimon’s Essay, please see the announcement. ___________________ The dates below will have links to the posts dedicated to the discussed reading sections as the reading goes on. Click on the chapter or a rejoinder to see the post and the comments. [...]

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Academia As Commons

I received this in one of the edu-factory email updates (full text and downloadalbe pdf here).  Now, I don’t really know if say, philosophical blogging, is going to amount to a sea-change within the discipline that many insist upon, but this article about open access technology and higher ed is interesting. Academia as a Commons: How [...]

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College Kids Are Jerks: A Study.

Instead of curing cancer or doing whatever it is sciences are supposed to be doing, we get this groundbreaking study result – apparently, sit down now, this will blow your minds, college kids are lacking in empathy and are jerks: FRIDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) — A three-decade analysis of prior research reveals that American [...]

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Levels of Depravity

1. Enjoying a beer and a BBC documentary about opera: Privately pretentious but bearable.  

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Subprime Crisis of Student Debt

An interesting NY Times article, “Placing the Blame as Students are buried in Debt,” about student loans and financing education, given some of the recent discussions here as well as over at Ktistmatics: So in an eerie echo of themortgage crisis, tens of thousands of people like Ms. Munna are facing a reckoning. They and [...]

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No Privacy

Bay area artist Lucas Murgida in Ghent, Belgium. Video here. Here’s the artist’s statement: I added a mirror to 2 of the public/private male urinals in the city of Gent. Passers-by will get to share in the joy of public urination as a unwitting man relieves himself.

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Speaking of Difficult Career Choices.

Here’s an interesting story: Thomas Gurrath, est un professeur allemand de 29 ans, diplômé de philosophie, non fumeur et végétarien. Il vient d’être licencié de son établissement scolaire de Stuttgart : en cause, ses activités musicales privées. Thomas Gurrath, professeur de philosophie et d’éthique à Stuttgart est aussi chanteur et guitariste du groupe de death [...]

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An Advice Post

I think that it’s high time we here at Perverse Egalitarianism offer our own advice for graduate students.  To that end, I’m posting last week’s New Yorker cover as a sort of carrot on the one hand, and as a little dose of “the Real” (I capitalized it so everyone can know that I’ve opened [...]

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Interesting Critique of the Critique of Correlationism

I read through Markus Gabriel’s essay, “The Mythological Being of Reflection” and was reminded of something I quickly posted a few months ago, “Should Philosophers just wear Labcoats?” I was avoiding grading a stack of papers and found myself quickly purusing Rorty’s Objectivity, Relativism and Truth: …any academic discipline which wants a place at the trough, [...]

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