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In the texts collected as Ethics , Foucault discusses the significance of writing as a kind of ascetic practice of self-conduct. He draws fr...

In short, for an action to be “moral,” it must not be reducible to an act or a series of acts conforming to a rule, a law, or a...

One problem I have with writing about the experience of contingent academic labor is that I seem unable to avoid writing about my own experi...

I might explain where I've been, one day. I'm working on a paper on the constitution of faculty subjectivities and faculty ethical...

RESOLVED:  That New Year's resolutions are basically worthless. RESOLVED:  That forming new resolutions does nothing but perpetuate th...

I've stumbled onto a handful of year-in-review stories published by major nooz media, as probably most of those stumbling here have done...

Sometimes, I cook. I cooked a few things this year. I planned, and cooked a portion of, the big birthday bash/debacle/party, including bee...

Like any good parents, we would invade our children's privacy by reading their email, Facebook pages, and of course their diaries. Since...

Another cheap trick of lazy media hucksters is the top 10 lists for a year: 10 Most Influential Bunnies of the Year, 10 Most Underreported N...

No matter what happens to the world today, I think all would agree that it's been a rough year for predictors of doom . One could explai...

We went to bed at a perfectly normal time. I was extremely sleepy. I fell asleep. I then woke up at four AM, feeling a little sick, and some...

Let's see (that's two four six already!) Not too comfy. Lacking thematic coherence, yet stressful. Didn't like it.

This is the first in what I hope will be an increasingly irritating series of year in review posts. In this post, I will suggest that 2012 d...

This has always bothered me. Is a good teacher a kind of actor? Is a good class a kind of performance? First of all, ...

Yes. I believe most faculty teach more than one section of a course in any given semester. This semester, I have had two sections of Bioet...

My psychologist gives me homework. Most recently, my homework was to approach the world with faith. Faith  is equivocal here. On one han...

Hey kids! It's National Novel Writing Month ! Is Doc Nagel engaging in this madness? You betcha! In fact, I'm writing a contempora...

I'm exhausted. My exhaustion has nothing to do with the content of what follows, but does for the form. Today there was a preacher on ...

It is rather amazing that there have been only two viable political parties in the US for lo these many years, especially since they offer v...

I woke up at around four AM. I'm not really sure why. Between my Loveliest and I, lately, there's someone up at nearly every hour of...