[cross-posted at BHL]
Over at C4SS I’ve posted the abstract to a paper on Left-Libertarianism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Prospects that I’ll be presenting at the MANCEPT 2014 Workshop on the Current State of Libertarian Philosophy in Manchester UK in September.
As it happens, Kevin Carson has a more detailed post up on the same topic: What Is Left-Libertarianism?
Read them both – or be left out of all the cool conversations among the cool people in the corridors of counterpower!
I have a new blog about the Oz books. The first post, focusing inter alia on L. Frank Baum’s use of body horror, is now up.
I’ve also posted some of Baum’s comments (partly disingenuous, I argue) on his own writing methods here.
I remember watching this show, and particularly this closing scene, on tv sometime between 1972 and 1974 (i.e. ages 8-10). It caused “Giant Robot!” to become permanently embedded in my vocabulary.
I also remember thinking (not precisely in these words) that if the proportion of explosion-caused-by-destroying-the-monster to explosion-caused-by destroying-the-monster’s-fingernail is no greater than the proportion of the monster to its fingernail, the bigger explosion wouldn’t be enough to destroy the Earth.
In other news, the following promos look generally promising:
So last week I was in Vegas for the APEE, where I got to meet C4SS comrade Nathan Goodman (here’s his contribution to our Spooner panel). Then zipped off to San Diego for the Pacific APA and a panel on Eric Roark’s new book.
It’s end-of-semester time here at Auburn so not much time for blogging. More later. If you like people being cut in half I have an upcoming project that may interest you.
I’m at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, speaking to the Society of Undergraduate Philosophers about Eudaimonistic Approaches to Libertarianism on Thursday, and to the Students for a Stateless Society about Robert Nozick, Class Struggle, and Free-Market Socialism on Friday.
Here are the powerpoint slides for my presentation at the AERC this past weekend, “Surrogacy Contracts and Inalienable Rights: A Rothbardian Analysis.”
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