For obvious reasons, Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire has been getting a lot of attention on the Internets. For…
If you, probable medievalist, are not at this very moment publishing amazing books (seriously! AVMEO!) and joining the manic symposium of Kalamazoo, and–so long as I’m…
UPDATE: And let me introduce you to a blog all about medieval robots. Last weekend, I had my own April madness (in my case, more…
This Thursday I’m flying from Paris to State College, PA, for Robot Weekend: Being Human Gizmos,” where I’ll do my wormy song-and-dance. The conference starts with Anthony Clarvoe’s…
Above is a picture of the oldest work in the Louvre, a 9000-year-old statue of a human, made from gypsum plaster smeared over a skeleton of…
As Jeffrey knows, medieval treatises on magic, science, and various nonhuman lively objects offer a world of resources to the new materialists. With that in…
“Le monstre sert d’outil conceptuel, au même titre que d’autres cas limites comme l’embryon ou le cadavre, pour penser la personne humaine et les rapports…
Thanks a million, everyone, for your comments on my previous posts. Thanks to the later engagements by J. Allan Mitchell, Ashby Kinch, Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Michael…
I think this will be the last bit I’ll post to ITM, at least in this round of sharing. A bit of a roadmap of…
Picking up from yesterday: ….I will develop this idea in more detail below, but what must be done, first, is to argue against death being…
