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Monthly Archives: February 2011
This is Water – David Foster Wallace
I am currently in the process of reading David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus Infinite Jest. As I near the half way point, I stumbled across a line that immediately made me think of a commencement address that Wallace gave, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ethics, Fiction, Mental Health, Philosophy
Tagged commencement, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, This is Water
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Oliver Stone Doc on South America
Just finished watching a nice documentary film by Oliver Stone on South America titled South of the Border. You can check it out online here. Oliver Stone interviews several South American leaders, particularly those that have in recent years been … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, Politics, Religion
Tagged Argentina, Bolivar, Bolivia, Brazil, Castro, Correa, Ecuador, Evo Morales, Fernando Lugo, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, IMF, Kirchner, liberation theology, oliver stone, Paraguay, Pathologies of Power, Paul Farmer, Silva, Socialism, south america, south of the border, union, Union of South American Nations, Venezuala
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These Are a Few of My Favourite Things (About Evolution): Pt. 2: Endogenous Retroviruses
A little while back (late November) I started a series of posts discussing some of my favourite facts, or tidbits, that I’ve learned about evolutionary biology, with my first post written about the reproductive cycle of the liver lancet fluke. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Uncategorized
Tagged DNA, endogenous retrovirus, evolution, H.I.V., HIV, junk DNA, mammal, placenta, retrovirus, RNA, virus
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The Examined Life
I watched this documentary about living an ‘examined life’ (the movie, if you couldn’t tell from the above poster, is titled “Examined Life”). (note also: the ‘doc’ is more like a collection of short monologues by various philosophers). The title comes … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Film, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged amartya sen, apology, applied ethics, avita ronell, capabilities approach, cornel west, cosmopolitanism, deconstructionism, derrida, examined life, feminism, heidegger, judith butler, kwame anthony appiah, martha nussbaum, michael hardt, Peter Singer, plato, post-structuralism, Pragmatism, preference utilitarianism, queer theory, radical conditionedness, slavoj zizek, social contract, Socrates
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