online archive
9:00AM
FEB 14 2008
Humanitarianism as a politics of life
From Public Culture, Didier Fassin on humanitarianism as a politics of life. From Ovi, an essay on Vico's poetic philosophy: between Descartes and Nietzsche. A review of John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice by Thomas Pogge. From Mute, all problems of notation will be solved by the masses: If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? There is more to Richard Posner’s book on public intellectuals than the Top 100 list, and Scott McLemee revisits it. Time to liberate the Liberator: Chavez rewrites the history of his hero; and a review of Simon Bolivar: A Life by John Lynch. For polyamorists with a whole lotta love, three, or more, is never a crowd. Brain and behavior researchers say many couples are going about date night all wrong. Misunderstanding "Generation Me": Research on whether young people today are more self-involved than previous generations confuses narcissism with disillusionment. A review of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web. Buying a cure: Jerome Groopman on what business know-how can do for disease. A review of Contraptions by Heath Robinson. The Identity Dance: The idea that genes determine identity has been replaced with a new view in which DNA and life experience work together to mold personalities.
