In the newest upcoming Batman animated series, “Batman teams up with swordstress Katana and his gun-toting ex-secret agent butler Alfred Pennyworth to face the criminal underworld led by the twisted Anarky ….”
Oh, wonderful.
Archive | April, 2012
Anarchy In Atlanta – Call for Papers
The Molinari Society
Call for Papers
for the Society’s Symposium to be held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting December 27-30, 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Symposium Topic:
Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy
Submission Deadline:
May 18, 2012
The past two decades have seen a resurgence of interest, both in activist and academic circles, in Anarchist politics and theory, with new and challenging work from several different directions. Renewed academic interest in Anarchism has drawn attention to the importance, vitality and philosophical fruitfulness of key Anarchist arguments and concepts – such as the conflict between authority and autonomy; tensions between collectivism and individualism; critical challenges to hierarchy, centralized power, top-down control and authoritarian conceptions of representation; and the development of concepts of spontaneous social order, decentralized consensus, and the knowledge problems and ideological mythologzing inherent in relations or structures of domination.
Most of this discussion has, naturally enough, taken place within the field of political and moral philosophy. But Anarchist theory (like marxist or feminist theory) embodies more than a policy orientation or a system of moral or political theses. The Anarchist tradition offers a wide-ranging, diverse and vigorously argued literature, concerning the nature and foundations of human society, with implications for every aspect of philosophy, including not only political and moral theory but also aesthetics, social-science methodology, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, religion, history, language and logic. We are looking for papers that address possible connections, approaches, challenges or insights that anarchy and its conceptual environs may suggest for philosophy broadly – or that philosophy may suggest for anarchy – beyond the familiar territory of political and moral theory, especially in such areas as epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and metaphilosophy or philosophical method. Papers from all analytical and critical standpoints (both with regard to philosophy and with regard to Anarchism) are welcome.
Please submit complete papers of 3,000-6,000 words for consideration for the 2012 Symposium by May 18, 2012. Papers should be of appropriate scope and length to be presented within 15-30 minutes. Submitting authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their papers by May 31, 2012.
Submit papers as e-mail attachments, in Word .doc format or PDF, to longrob@auburn.edu or feedback@radgeek.com.
For any questions or information, contact us at the above email addresses.
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Some possible topics include – but are by no means limited to:
- Authority and Epistemology
- Anarchy and Logic
- Illusions of control in philosophy
- Decentralism or spontaneous order in philosophy of language
- Philosophical implications of the work of “canonical” Anarchist theorists (Godwin, Proudhon, Molinari, Tucker, Spooner, Kropotkin, Tolstoy, De Cleyre, Goodman, Bookchin, Rothbard, Wolff, Zerzan…)
- Anarchy and Rationality
- Hierarchy, legibility and knowledge problems
- Philosophical Method and Anarchism
- Claims of representation and claims of knowledge
- Etc.
Please spread the word to anyone who you think would be interested in the symposium topic!
Leaked Scene?
Something I thought up during lunch:
You may not get it if you haven’t seen this.
Trip Pics II
I’ve put photos from my recent Las Vegas and Seattle trips online, as well as an Orange Beach trip from 2009. More to follow.
Wrap Artist
Robert Rodriguez is finally beginning work on a sequel to Sin City. According to the announcement, the title will be Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, and “details of the film’s story have been kept tightly under wraps.”
Um, no. I don’t think a movie based on a graphic novel that’s been out for nearly twenty years can really claim that its story is “tightly under wraps.”
This reminds of the reporter who claimed that Steven Moffat was being “tight-lipped” about the storylines for Sherlock’s second series because the only clue he would give was the three words “Adler, Hound, Reichenbach”!
The Old Rugged Cross
Genius. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist.
For some reason I’m on the mailing list of an outfit called “Conservative Action Alerts.” (They seem more libertarian than the conservative mainstream, so that’s probably the connection.) Their latest missive complains that the word “individualism” has been “poisoned by deceptive propaganda that disparaged it as ‘rugged.’”
Well, not exactly. “Rugged individualism” was introduced as a positive term, either coined or popularised by Herbert Hoover (who liked to pose, at least sometimes, as a free-market type even though his actual policies were straight-up big-government dirigism). Admittedly it’s often used pejoratively now, but that’s mainly due to the (ludicrous) perception that Hoover’s ineffective response to the Great Depression was somehow driven by individualism.