Why The Wire is One of the Most Brilliant TV Shows Ever
There were a lot of moments during my first view of The Wire when I realized I wasn’t watching the usual cop procedural. But the one that sticks in my head was when an obviously blitzed and blasted McNulty, the Irish-American detective that you *might* think is the...
Bot or Not
A smiling woman unloads a dishwasher. The image, now embedded in a tweet, has been sourced from a collection of stock photos including other smiling women stationed at the same dishwasher. Partitioned into a neat, four-by-four grid, the image is topped with a familiar...
Survivors or Victims?
The #MeToo movement that began in 2017 has reignited a long debate about how to name people who have had traumatic experiences. Do we call individuals who have experienced war, cancer, crime, or sexual violence “victims”? Or should we call them “survivor,” as recent...
The Life, Work & Philosophy of Bill Murray: Happy 70th Birthday to an American Comedy Icon
Image by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons "Bill Murray is to me what calculators are to math," Jason Schwartzman once said of his esteemed colleague. "I never knew math before calculators, and I never knew life before Bill Murray." Having been born in the 1980s, a...
Wozu KI? – Buchrezension: Künstliche Intelligenz und der Sinn des Lebens
Was kann KI für den Menschen leisten? Bislang und mit den bisherigen Denkansätzen ergibt sich da nicht sehr viel, findet der Philosoph Richard David Precht. Warum nicht, das führt er plausibel aus. Wie es anders sein könnte, dazu sagt er allerdings recht...
Erasmus von Rotterdam – Mit Humor gegen Fundamentalismus
Wissenschaft und Forschung SWR SWR2 Wissen STAND 17.9.2020, 9:23 Uhr AUTOR/IN Michael Reitz Audio herunterladen (25 MB | MP3) vorherige Sendung nächste Sendung In "Das Lob der Narrheit" macht sich der niederländische Philosoph und Theologe Erasmus von Rotterdam...
„Für mich ist das Arbeiten mit Sounds eine persönliche Art der Meditation“ – Interview mit „Phasenmensch“ Wolfram Bange anlässlich der Ausstellung „Lost Places“ in Bochum
Verlassene Orte und Räume gibt es in Zeiten der Pandemie öfters zu erleben. Das eigenwillige Gefühl dabei mag ein ähnliches sein, wenn „lost places“ als Räume, die der gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung entzogen sind, besucht und Teil von künstlerischer Auseinandersetzung...
working-class solidarity may be a hard sell for most health-care workers
But over time, as I moved through medical school and became a practicing health worker, I’ve come to see the Professional as a figure of social control, a departure from the conventional usage of lowercase “professional,” which sees a professional as just someone with...
In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats
in History, Poetry | September 9th, 2020 1 Comment Advertisement Here in Korea, where I live, cat owners aren't called cat owners: they're called goyangi jibsa, literally "cat butlers." Clearly the idea that felines have flipped the domestic-animal script, not serving...
What is a plural person?
People with multiple personalities have been documented in culture and society for a long time. There's a decent overview in a reasonably recent Stuff You Should Know podcast. However, read on.Multiple Personality Disorder, now renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder,...