Category: Philosophy
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Eros and Ethos Cover
by Jason Stotts You probably already know this, but my book Eros and Ethos: A New Theory and Application of Sexual Ethics is done in draft and is being edited now. I’ve been working with a graphic designer (http://josephpearsondesigner.com/) to create the cover and he’s come up with some really good stuff. At this point, we…
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Ill-Defined Harm: A Review of Jesse Bering’s Perv
by Jason Stotts Let me start by saying that overall, I enjoyed Jesse Bering’s new book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. Bering does a great job of parsing psychological studies and medical texts in a way that’s easily readable and interesting. In fact, overall I recommend Perv and think that most people…
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Marxist Theory of Sexual Labor
by Jason Stotts Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a new amazing comic that is not only hilarious, but also shows the absurdity of the Marxist theory of value creation through labor. In case you don’t know, Marx believed that value is created through labor. So, for example, let’s say that you have a factory with…
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The Obama DOJ and the War on Porn
by Jason Stotts In a move that sounds like it should be coming from the Republican/Theocratic party, the Obama administration is targeting the bank accounts of porn stars and forcing banks to close them through a program they’re calling “operation choke point.” This is a massive overreach (again) of the Obama administration and a flatly…
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Erotic Comprehension
by Jason Stotts I just got done talking with my friend Patrick about Merleau-Ponty and a chapter in one of his books (I don’t know which, strangely) called “The Body as a Sexed Being.” One of Patrick’s specialties is in phenomenology and it’s exceedingly good that it was, because I’m not sure I would have…
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Capitalism and the Death of Writing
by Jason Stotts Writing is hard. Not only is it hard to string words together into sentences that people want to read, it’s hard to express your thoughts clearly in writing. You can think you have a great grasp of an idea until the moment you go to write about it, only to find that…
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A Government For, or Against, The People
by Jason Stotts In honor of Halloween, I recently watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time. One of the things that really struck me about the movie, which is probably not most people’s response, was just how very different the government’s position was in regards to the people. Night of the Living…
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Concretizing Philosophy
by Jason Stotts I really love what this website http://zenpencils.com/ has done in setting some really great quotes into a visual form so that you can read the words and understand them intellectually, while concurrently understanding them in a concretized form through the artwork. Wonderful. http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/