Jordi Cat
@jordicat.bsky.social
science, philosophy, history, politics, art and so much else
Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.
Policing and pugilistic models of philosophy are still prevalent around me both in practice and education. In line with the new social mores.
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Policing and pugilistic models of philosophy are still prevalent around me both in practice and education. In line with the new social mores.
Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?
Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.
owlcation.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
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It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942
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The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.
buff.ly
September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.
Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.
Dark times in broad daylight.
September 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.
Dark times in broad daylight.
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#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics
facultypositions.stanford.edu
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"
Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.
September 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.
'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
September 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
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Proust in Venice, 1900
September 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Proust in Venice, 1900
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Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3J7b...
September 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3J7b...
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
"by relinquishing the claim to join authority and autonomy, the scene of teaching can be better understood as a network of obligations. Arguing that teaching is a question of justice not a search for truth..." Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (1993)
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"by relinquishing the claim to join authority and autonomy, the scene of teaching can be better understood as a network of obligations. Arguing that teaching is a question of justice not a search for truth..." Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (1993)
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"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
www.cnbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...