ParaDoxa

Reading as Counter-Practice Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse Adorno on Philosophy and Sociology Im/Probabilities of Post/Authorship and Academic Writing Otherwise in Postfoundational Inquiry Immanence Interview with Brian Massumi: From the Ecology of Powers to an Aesthetics of the Earth Spinoza: Fiction and Manipulation in Civic Education ‘Everybody intends to become authentic and unique – and in that way become rather similar.

I was struck by Kiechle’s critical reading of public health here as a vehicle for discrimination — in every sense of the word — in 19th-century America and thought it might be of interest to ParaDoxa peeps. Wednesday 19th April 2023, 4 – 5:30pm (UK time). Online. Register here. Organized public health got its start in the United States by rooting out and regulating “nuisances,” those elements of the environment that were understood to be detrimental to health.

Before he became many other things, Woody Allen was a stand-up comedian, and once he joked that he’d been on a speed reading course where they’d read Tolstoy’s epic story War and Peace. “It’s about Russia”. In today’s infolopolis people use TL;DR (too long; didn’t read) for pretty much the same purpose. Just give me the bullet points, they say.

The series hopes to create generative and robust debate around issues of inequality, historical violence and the continuums of care. Our invited Speakers are from a variety of disciplines and this cross-pollination of ideas will enhance our shared epistemic referents. First session 11th April. All events are online. Link details below.

Smithsonian Open Access Falling, as a training exercise for mind and muscle “I'm not good enough not to practice”.

The 3rd in the growing series of ParaDoxa podcasts comes out tomorrow. This one is with Professor James Thompson and explores his work using theatre to better understand the aesthetics of care. It’s another wonderful conversation with someone with something genuinely innovative and interesting to say about the future of healthcare. You may not have noticed it, but the site’s Quote Hord is becoming a bit of a beast.

Pain and shock in America: Politics, advocacy and the controversial treatment of people with disabilities Blake Hill-Saya, Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street Agnes Arnold-Forster, The Cancer Problem.

Having set out my own position among the different schools of posthumanism in Part 3 (link), I thought I should probably now lay down the key principles that follow from this, and then I can try to explain how I apply them to healthcare thinking and practice — my methodology if you will — in the next installment. Before we begin, I offer you a mea culpa for some of the pretty heavy theory that is littered throughout this post.

Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology Digital health tools need a new benchmark Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants Disability History and the History of Emotions: Reflections on 18th-century Britain Philosophy of Space and Time: What is Space?

New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney, Australia The art of movement : the Deleuze and Guattari art therapy assemblage.