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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Paradigms, conceptual frameworks, and denkkollektive

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Image: Ludwik Fleck as prisoner / scientist in Buchenwald An earlier post opened a discussion of the "historical turn" in the phi...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Social embeddedness of scientific and intellectual work

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How do complex, socially embodied processes of cultural and scientific creation work? (I'm thinking of artistic traditions, scientific r...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

The GOP descent into right-wing authoritarianism

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In December 2020 I reviewed Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism ( link ) to try to assess the dam...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Philosophy after the Holocaust

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The sustained, extended atrocities of the twentieth century -- the genocide of the Holocaust, the Holodomor, totalitarian repression, the Gu...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Dysfunctions of Soviet economic ministries

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In my book A New Social Ontology of Government (2020) I tried to provide an analytical inventory of the sources of "dysfunctions"...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Soviet atrocities in Ukraine, 1941

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In light of the horrific information now available about atrocities committed in Ukraine by occupying Russian forces in towns such as Bucha ...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Infrastructures of evil

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Politicians, generals, corporate directors, and ordinary men and women had a direct relationship to the evils of the twentieth century. Indi...
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Saturday, May 21, 2022

How will Russia's fascist aggression end?

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Ukraine has demonstrated a truly singular level of competence and commitment in its armed resistance to Russia's war since February 24. ...
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