The Royal Institute of Philosophy (RIP) has announced the creation of a new book prize to recognize “the most original philosophical research that transcends academic disciplines”. The prize comes with a monetary award of £20,000 (≈ $24,600). The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy will aim to reward the authors of books that, according to a press release from the RIP, demonstrate rigorous original and high-quality transdisciplinary research are accessible and engaging to read are original, innovative, and impactful intend to advance and contribute to the understanding of human behaviors. They add: We welcome philosophical work that transcends academic boundaries, and furthers our understanding of the key challenges facing the world today, and that may face us in the future. The work may be from philosophers, neuroscientists, social scientists, or from other disciplines. Among other work we welcome submissions from those researching disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from those concerned with climate change, and from those concerned with the future of democracy.
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Doctor Who comic book legend Dave Gibbons autobiography arrives next month Dave Gibbons forthcoming autobiography, Conflabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography is almost here. One of Britain’s most celebrated comic book artists, Gibbons also has a strong associated with Doctor Who. He was the artist on the very first comic strip in Doctor Who Weekly (now Doctor […]
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Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2022 Book Award. The award aims to recognize books in Continental philosophy, taking into account originality and importance to its subfield. Typically only one book wins the award, but this year, three have. They are: Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World (Rowman & Littlefield) by Ian Angus (Simon Fraser University) Anxiety: A Philosophical History (Oxford University Press) by Bettina Bergo (University of Montreal) Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (Columbia University Press) by Lorenzo C. Simpson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) Symposium is the journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (CSCP). You can see a list of previous winners of its Book Award here.
Herewith, a scene from last night’s interview with legendary web & book designer (and Dean of The Cooper Union School of Art) Mike Essl, who shared his portfolio, career highlights, early web design history, and more. Fun! If you get a chance to meet, work with, or learn from Mike, take it. He’s brilliant, hilarious, […]
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I finished this audiobook last week, and I’m taking a few minutes to write down my thoughts before I forget them. It’s a hard thing to remember to do! The book is called Gangsters of Capitalism, by Jonathan M. Katz. Superficially, it’s a biography of the American Marine officer Smedley Butler, best known, I think, … Continue reading Gangsters of Capitalism
Any Australian who has paid even cursory attention to this country’s poisonous politics over climate change these past two decades will be familiar with this long and sorry story, but to see it all laid out in sequence, in every depressing detail, is breath-taking. In ‘The Carbon Club’ (Allen& Unwin), […]
In the wake of St Barnaby’s latest resurrection/resuscitation, the ABC news flashed up with a story about an aborted attempt by his National Party of opportunists, carpetbaggers and grafters to rewrite the Murray-Darling Basin plan, a 2012 bipartisan agreement about how to use the water that flows down Australia’s longest […]
Unfortunately, for all their skills as observers of the world, journalists are notoriously unable or unwilling to see how the business that subsidised their story-telling actually worked and the economic forces that destroyed them
“How democracies can be sustained as the likely contests over climate change and energy consumption destabilise them will become the central political question of the coming decade.” Professor Helen Thompson, ’Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century’ Like others, I became aware of Professor Helen Thompson’s astounding breadth of knowledge […]
‘The Successor’: The title of Paddy Manning’s unauthorised biography of Lachlan Murdoch, oldest son of media giant Rupert, is a conscious play on the immensely popular fiction TV series Succession, which itself is clearly based on the Murdoch dynasty. So if you’re familiar with the series, one of the first […]