The German sociologist Stephan Lessenich uses this catastrophe as a starting point to introduce the concept of the Externalisierungsgesellschaft(externalization society) in his book Neben uns die Sintflut: Die Externalisierungsgesellschaft und ihr Preis (“Around us, the deluge: The externalization s...
Among the privileges attending whatever visible genitals one might then present, society has not recognized the privilege to alter, defy, disregard or escape those genitals, except to surgically enforce the fallacy of the discrete category, in this case the reductive boy-girl binary, as in the mu...
Brace yourself, please: greater experience submitting — or even attending writers’ conferences, which tends to accelerate a writer’s learning curve about how the industry works — will not necessarily help an aspiring writer avoid the problems of over-familiarity or less-than-reasonable expectations...
My level of competence is probably around level B or maybe C since I was once a house surgeon. This, of course assumes, that there is a health service or a satisfactory availability of surgically trained doctors who can do the procedure better than I. If I was on a desert island with ...
1.Great moments in “It isn’t what it is”…This week, a student attending an event with Vice President Harris opined that Israel was conducting “ethnic genocide” in Palestine. Harris responded, “Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must...
Education is a fundamental process of human life with ethics having an important place in all areas of our life. It is thus important to incorporate ethics
Attending to the maintenance of rela- tionships with children, now and in the future, became, for us, a first consideration. . . . We realized that our attentiveness to relationship could conflict with dominant stories of what "good" teachers and "good" researchers do. Plotlines for good ...
Sara's comedic delivery and successful elicitation of laughter from the other halaqa attendees disarms the tension created around her father's actions. While the situation remains unresolved in the narrated event—Sara ends her story with the ambivalent, "It's just weird […] it's so weird"...
In others like a family we want to suppress it – but it is still around. This difference might be the most important distinction between adversarial and non-adversarial institutions. This means, in non-adversarial contexts (family, love etc.) we try to live by the principles of cooperation ...
“Since 2017, fear of being a burden has been cited by around half of those opting for assisted death“. (Emphasis added) It’s important to remember that no one has to be a medical professional to ask a friend, neighbor, church member, etc. in difficult circumstances to ask “What can...