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David Graeber's rhythm of developing thought:On poetics, imagination, and estrangement
No full textThis article proposes an analysis of David Graeber's work following the methods proposed by Antonio Gramsci of exploring Marx's work in search of “the leitmotif, the rhythm of developing thought, must be more important than single random statements and detached aphorisms.” Adopting this Gramscian approach, I argue, allows us to dispel frequent critique of Graeber's alleged idealism by recovering how Graeber's reflection on possibility and alternatives operated by decentering the distinctions between the ideal and the material, while honing in the categories of imagination and estrangement. This move recovers Graeber's work as a project of developing anthropology as the art of the possible, an enterprise directed at recovering, understanding, and offering social, economic, political, and conceptual alternatives
Injustice without Victims or Arguments from Generational Overlap?:A Reply to Gosseries on Non-Identity
No full textAxel Gosseries considers, and partly defends, several strategies to address the non-identity problem (NIP). We engage critically with two strategies endorsed by Gosseries: the severance strategy and the overlap strategy. The latter comprises two different sub-strategies: the containment sub-strategy and the indirect sub-strategy. We believe that severance is less promising than Gosseries suggests. It comes at a high theoretical cost, which is important to acknowledge even if, ultimately, there is reason to pay it. The sub-strategies that comprise the overlap strategy are more promising, and they can justify more in terms of the scope and content of inter-generational justice than Gosseries suggests in his book. Endorsing the overlap strategies is attractive because doing so limits the need for impersonal considerations in theories of inter-generational justice
Is the Common Frog, Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758, becoming uncommon? Evidence from 23 years of monitoring brown frogs in the Pilis-Visegrád Hills, Hungary
No full textRegular and annual monitoring of amphibians was initiated in Hungary in 2001, including within the Pilis-Visegrád Hills, one of the driest mountain regions in northern Hungary. The area is largely covered by forest and comprises ca. 140 ponds. These ponds are relatively small, many are temporary, and water levels can decrease significantly even in those that persist throughout the year. The 23-year-old monitoring program was initiated in one pond and after some conceptual changes it is currently being undertaken in 18 ponds. The distribution of Rana temporaria in Hungary is limited to regions with a higher and cooler microclimate, and it has long been observed in the Pilis-Visegrád Hills. In the first half of the monitoring period, we observed the species in most of the sampled ponds, although we consistently detected a lower number of eggs than those of Rana dalmatina, which utilises the same ponds for breeding in the same period as R. temporaria. Rana temporaria egg clutches have experienced a significant decline from the sampled ponds, with only one pond harbouring the species in 2023. The primary cause of this range reduction is quite likely the desiccation of the Pilis-Visegrád Hills, caused by the gradual but continuous increase in average temperature and decrease and more erratic precipitation events. A second factor may be the disturbance caused by wild game in the ponds, which decrease both water quantity and quality for breeding amphibians. We also outline other potential, and unlikely, factors which have been implicated in declines elsewhere
