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Healthcare is unique among modern professions in that the primary focus is care of the OTHER, the patient. It is an occupation built on a fiduciary relationship. “FIDES”, the Latin root of the word, means “trust”. As such a fiduciary relationship is one built on a sense of abiding trust and confidence that you are [...]
Comment on The Biggest Hurdle to the Local Food Movement…?
Women's Agricultural Network Blog
1 day, 14 hours ago
Eleanor, I could not agree more about the influence of television. It is ironic that Food Network is one of the fastest growing cable channels. We seem to be more interested in watching others cook than actually getting up and doing it ourselves. I think if people were properly motivated the time could be found. [...]
Is it just me or does it seem like the politics of health are everywhere these days? We have the attempt to remove the philosophical exemption for childhood vaccines, thwarted in part by the continued perception about the risk of autism. There are the naturopathic clinicians who (ironically) want to be able to prescribe medications. There [...]
Now that a very busy semester has ended, I can return to the constructive speculative-metaphysical strand of this blog, in which I work out the process-relational philosophy I’ve tentatively labelled Ecosophy-G. A suitable acronym for this project might be “pre-G” (process-relational ecosophy-G), pronounced “pree-jee,” with the “pre” also indicating that the philosophy is a form of pre-articulation, [...]
Ian – In response to your question about twitter hashtag backchannels, in my experience I would say they are not very common at humanities conferences, but they are also not unprecedented, and they are becoming more common. (The cinema/media studies conference, where you’d expect to find use of a lot of new media, doesn’t actually [...]
Medical Ethics: Welcome. You are about to embark on an exciting discovery to determine how you reason morally. We will start our class in healthcare ethics by determining how each of you reason about and make moral decisions. To achieve this, we will study the major normative ethical theories that philosophers argue humans use to [...]
With farmstands opening and farmers markets starting this month, it’s also time to start reporting your produce prices to UVM Extension’s bi-weekly, direct market farm price report . The goal of the reporting system is to help direct marketing farmers share information about what they charge at direct markets (farmstands, farmers’ markets, etc) in order to set fair prices [...]
Dear Tutors, The past two years have been an extraordinary time for me, and I have loved my position as the Tutor Program Coordinator and the opportunity to work with all of you amazing people. As you may know, I have chosen to start a PhD program in literature at Rice University in the Fall [...]
The Champlain Valley Crop, Soil & Pasture Team is a group of UVM Extension professionals and their partners working to provide technical assistance to Vermont Farmers in the Lake Champlain Watershed. We strive to bring you research-based knowledge that has practical applications on your farm. We address many production related issues including: Quality Forage & Crop [...]
What is ethical leadership? What does it mean day-to-day in a nonprofit organization? All organizations, nonprofits, for-profits and governmental can face ethical challenges. Some result in criminal violations. The news is full of stories ranging from a large corporations misappropriation of retirement assets to a town clerk who has embezzled tax payments. Most ethical problems, however, [...]
You’re very welcome, Gregory. And yes, Levi, I do think it’s the blogosphere in general. That OOO happens to be the first philosophical movement to have basically launched itself on the blogosphere – at least from what I’ve seen (correct me if I’m wrong) – makes it the messenger that gets saddled with more blame [...]
With just enough distance to sense that I miss it already (in a brain-body hangover kind of way), but not enough for this to be taken too seriously, I offer some morning-after thoughts on the Nonhuman Turn conference. 1. It was a tremendous gathering of forces, of people doing valuable work with ideas, with knowledge-building practices [...]
Bogost’s talk not being streamed (by his request). Ian Bogost, “The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry” A talk about philosophy and the objects of which it’s made, in 12 parts (first 11 are pretend) I. Enjoying This Presentation II. The Things We Do: Airport tarmac. Philosophers in a lecture hall not unlike an aircraft approaching the runway. [...]
Mark Hansen, “Against Clairvoyance: The Future of 21st Century Media” Both the future of and the future according to … The status of the future in relation to media. 21st century media. Book on Whitehead’s philosophy as resource for thinking about 21st century media. Offering a different entry into Whitehead than most of the work that’s been done. Less [...]
The other 99% have apparently gone extinct. (The estimate is actually closer to 100% than 99%.) This I just learned form Joshua Schuster’s talk on “Digital extinction.” The earth’s biological diversity is also the highest it’s ever been. We are living between the achievement (of speciation to tremendous levels of flourishing) and the projection (that [...]
Wendy Chun, “Imagined networks” I will read quickly and show you more than I read. (Warning to readers: so this trans/re/scription will not be adequate.) Threat that internet will be turned to a series of gated communities. Spam is another way to say I love you. This danger can be attenuated not through more security but [...]
For what it’s worth, here’s the Power Point that went along with my talk. I changed the title to “Beatnik Brothers? Harman’s Objects and the Becoming-Whiteheadian of Deleuze.” I meant “of Deleuzians” (some of whom were in the audience: Manning, Shaviro, Massumi and Hansen I think). The first two slides are the original title (slide) and [...]
You’re welcome. No, I don’t think the break-out sessions were live-streamed. I was happy that most of the big guns seemed to be in the audience. Didn’t expect it to become a bashing-OOO panel, but Ben’s piece was an all-round critical mash-up (that tried to do too much), while Bruno’s was a bit too first-step [...]
Thanks, Jason. I’ve been hearing this refrain, “I disagree with him, but…” Those kinds of buts are good buts.
I had to laugh hard at that line “How on earth does it stand with Being?”
Tim Morton, “They are here” Talking Heads video “Crosseyed and painless” (dir. Toni Basil, featured the Elecric Boogaloos). Is the non-national anthem of global anxiety. The sound of the end of the world and beginning of history. The first moonwalk is here (not Michael Jackson). The Levinasian “il y-a”, environmental creepiness, but we don’t know what [...]
Most of Vermont got hit by a pretty hard frost last weekend, and we’ve received numerous calls about what to do about frosted hops. In our two-year-old variety trial, Nugget in particular got a good wallop, whether that was because it isn’t as frost-tolerant as some of the varieties or because it was a little taller [...]
I took a break from live-blogging during the break-out sessions, taking advantage of the time to work a bit more on my own paper, to be given this afternoon. I’m picking things up now with Steven Shaviro’s plenary. Since Steven regularly blogs his work (at The Pinocchio Theory ), and since I’m getting a little worn out [...]
The Biggest Hurdle to the Local Food Movement…?
Women's Agricultural Network Blog
1 week, 4 days ago
Amid all the debate surrounding local foods, consumer health and preserving our regional agriculture the biggest hurdle of all might be the issue that we are not talking about–time! All the locally produced food in the universe will only be valuable if people have the time to buy it, prepare it and eat it. According to the [...]
Our morning plenarist is Jane Bennett, whose work has been discussed extensively on this blog before (e.g., here). Introduction by Kennan Ferguson: will Jane B. be throwing down a gauntlet? Jane Bennett: “Systems & Things: a materialist and an object-oriented philosopher walk into a bar…” Rich philosophical tradition of engaging materialities: Spinoza’s conatus, Diderot’s cosmos as spiderweb of [...]
Most plenaries so far (3 altogether) are critical or at least raise critical questions to OOO… We haven’t had break-out sessions yet, but my guess is that the pro-OOO will come out more there.
Day 2 at The Nonhuman Turn. Richard Grusin: Why Nonhuman? Why Now? The CFP for this conference elicited lively comments and concerns on Facebook walls (Ken Wark’s and Alex Galloway’s): expression of ” turn fatigue ” (:-) , and a concern that this would ipso facto be a conference of speculative realism or OOO.The CFP reactivated debates from [...]
The most popular word in the paper titles of this conference is…
Object (10 mentions)
Runner-up: Media/mediation (9)
Honorable mention: Nonhuman; Affect/affectivity/affection; Animal(s)/animality (4 each).
Figure that… Yet, judging by yesterday’s plenaries, objects are under fire.
Plenary #2: Erin Manning, “Another Regard” Discussion of Nathaniel Stern’s art installation. Epigraph from Dawn Prince (anthropologist, worked with gorillas, written memoirs on her autistic experience with gorillas) 1st movement: Are you a gorilla? Dawn Prince’s experience with bonobo Kanzi: ” I fell into the gorilla language I knew, a language of body, mind, spirit…” Then, something uncanny: [...]
I got stupid again this week and decided to investigate management of Mac computers. Since we are both cheap and overworked, I wanted a solution that would be both free, and would not require any new infrastructure. The only options that came to mind were either to extend our OpenLDAP server to support apple schema, [...]
The naked bike ride is a tradition at UVM where people strip down and do laps around campus. It has become less of a bike ride and more of a run, but the fact that people are naked hasn’t changed. First semester I had to go see what the NBR was, I knew I wasn’t [...]
Symptoms: Throughput about 700Mbps outbound, 500Mbps or less inbound. Horrible SMB2 speeds with regards to small file reads/writes and especially enumeration of folder contents. Enumerating a folder with tens of thousands of files, hundreds of folder could take over five minutes. Anything that accessed a network share when using a basic function (e.g. Save as) could [...]
I’m on my way to Milwaukee for the Nonhuman Turn conference. I will do my best to live-blog from it, though that will depend on the technology the U of Wisconsin Milwaukee offers conference participants. Stay tuned.
Hello, Tutors– A few last minute reminders as the semester comes to a close. TODAY is the last day of tutoring. You may not schedule any tutoring appointments through the Learning Co-op after today. The next deadline for payroll approval is Sunday, May 13. Please be sure to have all of your hours for the [...]
In FileZilla, after connecting to zoo.uvm.edu on port 22, enter the following in the Remote site field on the upper right: /shares/uvmweb/htdocs/it Thus: it will immediately redirect to the full path: Other symbolic links exist, but anything containing location data may change in the future. For example, these work as of the post time of this [...]
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immanence
40 minutes ago
Hi Jason – Glad you liked those mentions. I haven’t read a *lot* of either Neville or Rosenthal, but it seems to me they ought to be part of the map/territory for work like ours. You write: “Given your inclusion of withdrawal, it appears that you want to name the negative implication of being present [...]