Video of my talk on #Althusser, #Deleuze #Climate, and #Cars for the CSU Fresno #Ethics Center here: #philosophy #PoliticalTheory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34Hy4MPByec&t=2s
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Global Studies @WPI. Father, Bostonian, Bike Commuter. https://geoffpfeifer.com
Wrote a short blog post connecting this talk to a larger project I am slowly working on. https://geoffpfeifer.com/blog-2/
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Zack LabeMy visual summary of the record global temperatures in August and extending back over the last three months - all of the graphs exhibit a remarkable spike in 2023...
Data is freely available from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ and https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html.
Giving a talk in a few weeks as a part of CSU Fresno’s Ethics Lecture Series on #Automobility, #authoritarianism and #ClimatePolitics. Will definitely talk about #cycling and other forms of transport as well. The talk is open to the public. Free registration link here if anyone is interested. https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1692/GID2/blank.aspx?sid=1692&gid=2&pgid=2512&cid=4750
#philosophy people:
New issue of the Journal of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World is out now.
It includes a collection on Andrew Fiala’s very recent book: Tyranny From Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens.
An Article on Climate Change and the idea of ‘green borders’ by Michael Ball-Blakely
an article on dance, Lugones, and Hartman by Joshua Hall.
Link here: https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=pcw&fq=pcw/Volume/8972%7C28/8998%7CIssue:%202/
It's Going Down"The right is explicitly seeking, through legislation and media demonization, the elimination of transgender life. In the wake of the Black uprisings and the defeat of Trump, the right is seeking to scapegoat trans people. The right, the gender fascists, understand transness as being an ideology and a social contagion." https://itsgoingdown.org/revolutionary-trans-politics-and-the-three-way-fight-an-interview-with-rowan/
Revolutionary Trans Politics and the Three Way Fight: An Interview with Rowan
Rowan speaks with Three Way Fight about creating a revolutionary analysis of growing gender fascist attacks on trans-people and the need to develop a broad resistance movement. 3WF: Trans and other gender-nonconforming people have become a major target of right-wing political attacks in recent years, and they continue to be major targets of systemic oppression...
David SacerdoteAnother example of government being captured by the fossil fuel industry, in this case the Modi administration in India choosing to pursue legal action against activists, rather than work towards decarbonization.
Gift link is paywall-bypassing for the next two weeks.
Chip StewartWe can expect to see a lot of this. Prof turns down a tenured job at University of Texas - to join their conservative institute no less - because of the legislature politicizing higher ed and uncertainty about tenure. Regardless of outcome, the government’s hostility to its state universities will leave a mark. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/23/civitas-institute-professor-tenure/?utm_source=articleshare&utm_medium=social
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