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John Protevi
Baton Rouge LA
I'm a philosopher, though I work in a French department.
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It was correct at the time of publication in 2012, and remained true for 6 years after that. I have hundreds of posts at New APPS and cannot possibly update all of them whenever a new event occurs. Nonetheless, it is true that on June 30, 2018 at the Paris Diamond League meet Semenya ran 1:54.25 for 800m:
https://www.flotrack.org/articles/6218208-samba-semenya-seven-world-leads-top-2018-paris-diamond-league
Commented May 4, 2019 on Caster Semenya, Maria Mutola, and Pamela Jelimo at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
Caster Semenya, Maria Mutola, and Pamela Jelimo
Rebecca Jordan-Young, author of the excellent book Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Harvard UP, 2010), has -- along with co-author Katrina Karkazis -- articles in the Guardian and in New Scientist on the IOC's terrible new sex test policy. (An open-access article in the ...
Edges of the State: Introduction
Download EDGES_Intro Click the link above to download a PDF file of the Introduction to Edges of the State (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) Part of the Forerunners series at University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/edges-of-the-state $7.95 paper (available now at... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2019 at John Protevi's Blog
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PDF of Power Point: "States of Nature: Geography and Human Evolution"
Download Roanoke Feb 2019 (8M pdf file) Synthesizes material from this course, from this paper, and from these posts. Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2019 at John Protevi's Blog
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Thanks, Eric, the "synthetic philosopher" notion is very useful.
Commented Aug 1, 2018 on Rachel Carson as Synthetic Philosopher (and public thinker, environmentalist, citizen-activist, etc.) at Digressions&Impressions
Rachel Carson as Synthetic Philosopher (and public thinker, environmentalist, citizen-activist, etc.)
The whole process spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral. Since DDT was released for civilian use, a process of escalation has been going on in which ever more toxic materials must be found. This has happened because insects, in a triumphant vindication of Darwin’s principle of the surviv...
Crisis and State Marginality
(Opening disclaimer: I'm a rank amateur with regard to the sociology of squatting I mention below, but am going to be working on it, so I may come back to this note later in either shame or relief at my... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2018 at John Protevi's Blog
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Power Point draft for "Inhuman Gaze" conference
I'll be speaking at the "Inhuman Gaze" conference, to be held June 6-9 in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. I'm very grateful to the organizers, Anya Daly, James Jardine, Dermot Moran, Fred Cummins, and Brendan Kelly for the kind... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2018 at John Protevi's Blog
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Lecture notes on Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain
PDF file here: Download Lecture notes on Barrett Beyond the Brain Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2018 at John Protevi's Blog
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Lecture notes on Widerquist and McCall, _Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy_
PDF file here: Download NOTES ON WIDERQUIST AND MCCALL Chapter 1-4 and 8-10 Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2018 at John Protevi's Blog
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Lecture notes on James C Scott, Against the Grain
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Posted Jan 14, 2018 at John Protevi's Blog
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Open Letter in support of Jason Stanley and Rebecca Kukla
We stand in solidarity with Jason Stanley and Rebecca Kukla. They have unjustly been subjected to waves of online harassment produced by twisting their meaning and feeding their names to legions of online haters. Their support of colleagues, pointing out... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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ON THE ALT-RIGHTING OF PHILOSOPHY BY RC
Let's distinguish doxxing from signal-boosting, as the RC people would like us to do. Doxxing is two-fold: 1) revealing the real identity of someone using an anonymous or pseudonymous screen name, or 2) making public what is private. Signal-boosting is... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Swinburne and his "disability" claim
This piece, entitled "Homophobia and the Limits of Scientific Philosophy" by Martin Pleitz is a fine paper on Swinburne's "disability" claim. It's relevant, because if Swinburne had stuck to a claim about the immorality of homosexuality, none of this controversy... Continue reading
Posted Oct 2, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Outline of Sterelny, "Cooperation, Culture, and Conflict"
PDF available Download Sterelny notes. Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Trust the RSA! Love the RSA!
Posted Jul 12, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Notes on the killing of Micah Johnson and Christopher Dorner
In a number of discussions of the use of the robot-delivered bomb in Dallas to kill Micah Johnson, I've seen some folks say it was justified, because, in addition to the present risk posed by Johnson, "he had already killed... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Thank you for this tribute to a wonderful person, Eric. My sincere condolences.
Commented May 25, 2016 on RIP: Carolina (Lini) Bunjes-Rosenthal 1918-2016 at Digressions&Impressions
RIP: Carolina (Lini) Bunjes-Rosenthal 1918-2016
Lini was born in Utrecht. On her mom's side (Cohen) the family was orthodox. She never told me much about her dad's side. In her teens she drifted toward communism and anarchism, and like many idealistic youth in the period she ended up fighting in the Spanish civil war. (I have seen evidence th...
The still-invisible dimensions of "Western philosophy"
Of all the reactions to this NYT Stone column saying that if philosophy won't "diversify," then we should rename philosophy departments as "Dept of European and American Philosophy," I thought John Drabinski's post distinguishing the decolonializing project from "diversity" approaches... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Let's not be thread-jackers all the time! Or, A Plea for Particularism
What I like in this piece by John McWhorter about the Yale president's decision to keep the name of Calhoun College is the author's insistence that we can make judgments, draw lines, and discuss particular cases. We can thereby resist... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Text of talk at DRM Ceremony, April 20, 2016
LSU Distinguished Research Master Award 2015 April 20, 2016 John Protevi Phyllis M Taylor Professor of French Studies and Professor of Philosophy I am deeply honored to receive this award before so many friends and colleagues at the university that... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2016 at John Protevi's Blog
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Thank you for these reflections, Marcus.
I highly recommend this essay by Chris Newfield on points 1 and 2 above: https://profession.commons.mla.org/2015/12/16/the-humanities-as-service-departments-facing-the-budget-logic/
The blog to which Newfield contributes: http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/
Newfield's home page, with links to his excellent books: https://www.english.ucsb.edu/people/newfield-christopher (_Ivy and Industry_ and _Unmaking the Public University_ are essential reading IMO).
My two cents: http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/12/changing-our-frame-of-reference-from-job-market-to-political-economy-of-philosophy-instruction.html
Commented Dec 30, 2015 on Grappling with "the most important issues in the profession" at The Philosophers' Cocoon
Grappling with "the most important issues in the profession"
I came across this poll today run by Brian Leiter earlier this year on "the most important issues in the profession." Although there were only 725 responses to the poll, and respondents self-selected, the top 5 issues voted for were: 1. Bad job market, decline of tenure-track faculty positio...
Notes on James C Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed -- Scott's multiplicity
Notes on James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 2009). Scott describes a multiplicity with topographical / transport-technological, political-economic, political-organizational, administrative, and violence elements. A multiplicity is a... Continue reading
Posted Dec 23, 2015 at John Protevi's Blog
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Notes on James C Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed -- Scott's dialectical method
Notes on James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 2009). PRINCIPLES OF ANALYSIS I will rearrange the order of presentation in the Preface to emphasize some connections of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2015 at John Protevi's Blog
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Notes on Geroulanos and Meyers manuscript workshop: case studies and organismic integration
Yesterday I had the chance to participate in a pre-publication workshop on a book by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers of NYU. The book concerns concepts of integration and individuality in early 20th century medicine, with special attention to military... Continue reading
Posted Dec 12, 2015 at John Protevi's Blog
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Notes on Columbia Foucault seminar 7/13: "Security, Territory, Population"
FOUCAULT 7/13: RESONANCE WITH DELEUZE In last night’s seminar Adam Tooze referred to Deleuze’s reading of Foucault. In this note I’d like to propose that we can see elements of Deleuze’s thought in Foucault's lectures in the mid-to-late 1970s. I... Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2015 at John Protevi's Blog
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Notes on Columbia Foucault seminar 6/13: "Society Must Be Defended"
Notes on meeting 6/13 (video), Monday 23 November 2015, on “Society Must Be Defended," of the Foucault 13/13 seminar held at Columbia. I’d like to make two comments here. --- First, about the “boomerang effect” (SD 103): seminar participants mentioned... Continue reading
Posted Nov 24, 2015 at John Protevi's Blog
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