A student from my Aesthetics and Politics course at Berkeley (hey, Raul!) snapped the chalkboard while I was lecturing about rationality and secular pluralism and forwarded the image to me. It amuses me to realize that, contrary to those who would decry secular outlooks as nothing but atheism, I seem to be offering the bolstering reassurance that, no, it's just witchcraft.
For an inkling of the lecture that accompanied the image, here are some blog-posts that have nibbled around the edges of what I talked about in that lecture…
Technoethical Pluralism
Is Rationality Always Instrumental?
Many of the Faithful Are Really Just Aesthetes
Moralizing Isn't Politics
Disability Discourse As Moralizing
I am nervously anticipating Amor Mundi: The Animistic Edition with banner ads for nanoscale flying ointment.
ReplyDeleteI teach at Berkeley and not Hogwarts after all!
ReplyDelete> I teach at Berkeley and not Hogwarts after all!
ReplyDeleteWell that leads to an interesting question: who would
you rather rub shoulders with -- Donna Haraway or
Maggie Smith? (You don't have to answer that. ;-> )