This Is the Most Pragmatic Way to Fix American Democracy (from @Truthdig)

This Is the Most Pragmatic Way to Fix American Democracy (from @Truthdig): The Democratic contest has repeatedly been characterized as a choice between Hillary Clinton’s “pragmatism” and Bernie Sanders’ “idealism”—with the not-so-subtle message that realists choose pragmatism over idealism. But this way of framing the choice ignores the biggest reality of all.
- 2016/01/28

söndag 24 januari 2016

Philosophical Comment: Conscientious refusal / objection in health care: ...

Philosophical Comment: Conscientious refusal / objection in health care: ...: A while back, I made a post with a number of critical remarks on the idea of a legal right of health care professionals to so-called c...

Fåglar på Öland: Talgoxen förbereder vårkonserten

Fåglar på Öland: Talgoxen förbereder vårkonserten:   Efter en januarivecka med mörker, snöyra och förkylning, blir jag så himla glad över en liten rapport från södra delen av Öland: &quo...

Ageing & Society - Fiction as a gerontological resource: Norah Hoult's iThere Were No Windows/i

Ageing & Society - Fiction as a gerontological resource: Norah Hoult's iThere Were No Windows/i: This paper starts from the premise that novelists have to some extent filled the gap left by mainstream feminism's relative silence about gendered ageing. To develop the argument, it explores the representation of memory loss and its impact on identity and self-image in Norah Hoult's novel, There Were No Windows, which was first published in 1944. The novel is set in London during the Second World War, when the traumas of a city experiencing the Blitz and the blackout reflected the terror and inner darkness experienced by the principal character, Claire Temple, herself a minor novelist, under the onslaught of dementia. There Were No Windows constructs the character of Claire through the combination of her own often-disordered thoughts and the perspectives of those who live with or visit her. This paper focuses throughout on ageing as a gendered experience and the construction of the older woman. It identifies the different gendered discourses of ageing that are imposed on Claire in order to construct her as the female , in the sense theorised by Simone de Beauvoir. It also relates the novel to contemporaneous medical and sociological discourses of ageing and old age. Hoult's implicitly feminist reading of Claire's condition brings the issue of gender to the foreground of the novel's treatment of old age. Through my reading of There Were No Windows, I suggest what it is that fictions of ageing can offer those working in the field of gerontology.

Hillary Blames Bernie for an Old Clintonite Hustle, and That’s a Rotten Shame (from @Truthdig)

Hillary Blames Bernie for an Old Clintonite Hustle, and That’s a Rotten Shame (from @Truthdig): With stupefying arrogance, Clinton tried during Sunday’s debate to tie her rival to the Great Recession—an economic crisis that actually was fostered by Bill Clinton, his aides and even one of her own campaign advisers.
- 2016/01/19

onsdag 20 januari 2016

Fåglar på Öland: Vinter i semesterparadiset

Fåglar på Öland: Vinter i semesterparadiset:   Norra Öland har haft ett mörkgrått filter för solen under alldeles för lång tid nu. Färger och fåglar smälter in i det grå och ses me...

Fåglar på Öland: Januarirapport

Fåglar på Öland: Januarirapport:   Så var den här, den öländska vintern. Den brukar vara intensiv men kort men numera kan man inte ens lita på vädret längre. Det kan bl...

Gabis Annex: A workingclass-hero is something to be...

Gabis Annex: A workingclass-hero is something to be...: ...especially if you´re far more aristocratic than the aristocrats. Men ännu bättre är en stor själ. Det är mycket få officiella person...

The Nation Magazine Endorses Bernie Sanders for President (from @Truthdig)

The Nation Magazine Endorses Bernie Sanders for President (from @Truthdig): “Bernie Sanders and his supporters are bending the arc of history toward justice,” write the magazine’s editors. “We believe such a revolution is not only possible but necessary—and that’s why we’re endorsing Bernie Sanders for president.”
- 2016/01/14

Stewe Claeson: Margot Wallström - stå på dig!

Stewe Claeson: Margot Wallström - stå på dig!: Det finns några stater i vår samtid som man inte får beröra. Nordkorea förstås, länge också Burma, men framför allt Israel.      Nu har Mar...

Fåglar på Öland: Januarirapport

Fåglar på Öland: Januarirapport:   Så var den här, den öländska vintern. Den brukar vara intensiv men kort men numera kan man inte ens lita på vädret längre. Det kan bl...

Bengt Bergs Blogg: Nytt är året (2016)

Bengt Bergs Blogg: Nytt är året (2016): Nytt är året, ännu inte en dag gammalt och ändå vet vi att det bara är en fortsättning, att solen kommer att gå upp att sol...