A new issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is out. Martins Kaprans (Latvia): Did We Ignore the Social Commentary? Responding to Borat on YouTube. Aaron Maurice Saari (Xavier): Beck-Styled Liberation: Bulletpoints and Bromides. From Philosophy for Business, toward corporate preeminence: Sean Jasso on the greatness of corporate soul (and Geoffrey Klempner on the right to be greedy). Who is Peta Lindsay? Meet the black woman running for president on a platform of socialist revolution. From Geocurrents, while the alter-worlds of the sci-fi literature and film may not always be geographically accurate, if not “positively simple-minded”, they do a little bit better from the linguistic perspective; a look at how to create an “exotic” language: Na’vi and Dothraki; and an article on speculative fiction, imagined geographies, and social alternatives. As important as the commons may be, why study it in a business school rather than in humanities or social science departments? Worth all the sweat: Just why exercise is so good for people is, at last, being understood. A look at 5 creepy forms of mind control you're exposed to daily.
