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Nicola Perullo, "Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food."
No full textNicola Perullo\u27s Taste as Experience draws on the author\u27s philosophical background and his experience as a professor of aesthetics at a culinary institute. He aims to understand the experience of taste, analyzing it into three \u27modes of access\u27: pleasure, knowledge, and indifference. His perspective, influenced by Dewey, illuminates various elements of taste, eating, and drinking
Joseph J. McInerney, "The Greatness of Humility: St. Augustine on Moral Excellence."
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Sebastian Sunday Grève and Jakub Mácha, eds., "Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language."
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Elizabeth Hinton, "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America."
No full textBetty Broadbent: "The Lady Who\u27s Different"
No full textAs one of the most famous circus performers in early twentieth-century American culture, Betty Broadbent\u27s extreme appearance mirrored other tattooed performers at the time. However, Fabiani explores the ways that Broadbent deviated from the common social and cultural practices of tattooed circus women by resisting sexual objectification, breaking from the boundaries of the freak show stage, and rejecting captivity narratives. Broadbent\u27s circus career spanned four decades, but this article focuses on the peak of her popularity from her debut in 1927 to the outbreak of World War II. This essay identifies Broadbent as a unique case within her subculture in an effort to critically deconstruct the social context of negative stigmas and gendered normativity that dominated American tattooing practices at the time. Employing a vast primary source base, Fabiani demonstrates that Broadbent really was "the lady who\u27s different."
Curiosities
No full textIt’s my first visit to the British Museum. Previously, I’ve avoided it, viewing the space as an homage to the spoils of colonialism. That, and I tend to feel anxious around large groups of tourists. I find myself here now, on the recommendation of a professor who suggests that, given my interest in the history of ideas and their ordering, the Enlightenment Gallery would be the one spot in the Museum I really should see. I arrive only a couple of hours before the museum’s 5:30 closing time and right away, I am sucked into the vast gift shop that takes up most of the central section of the Museum’s Great Court, a wide marbled space with rooms and hallways jutting off to the galleries. Much of the gift shop is aimed at children -- there are toy Vikings, toy pharaohs, costumes, colouring books. A series of costumed rubber ducks, including one wearing what appears to be a version of..
The Quantum in the Quotidian
No full textIt began with a graduate seminar: Topics in Feminist Science Studies. A theoretical particle physicist housed in the Feminist Studies department of the university taught the seminar, and the course listing declared the seminar’s focus would be exploring "the virtual." As a returning student who left a fifteen-year career in inpatient pharmacy (a field which falls squarely within what are often referred to as the "hard" sciences) in order to pursue a PhD in a field largely characterized as interdisciplinary, I was intrigued. Generally, my research -- which touches upon disciplines as varied as medicine, social sciences, and the humanities -- results in me being faced with an "either/or" decision every time I want to register for a seminar, publish, or speak at a conference. I have learned, as one advisor stated early in my career, that I "will probably have two versions of everything I ever write, and will have to learn to..