Representation

How might one represent the 2016 US presidential election? Well, here is one response, published in Artforum:



Joan Miró’s The Policeman, 1925

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R2P

So, which should have sway? R2P-responsibility to protect-or the Goldwater Rule?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence/2017/04/yale-psychiatrists-cite-duty-to-warn-about-unfit-president.html

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Is Trump conscious?

Are animals conscious? Dogs? Bees? Crabs?

Here is a link to a most informative review of what looks like a very stimulating book:

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/tense-bees-and-shell-shocked-crabs-are-animals-conscious/

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Thought leaders?

This is an interesting piece on a new book by Daniel Drezner:   https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/opinion/this-age-of-wonkery.html

According to Drezner public intellectuals have been replaced by thought leaders. This reminded me of Isaiah Berlins's riff on a fragment of the ancient Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows (just) one big thing."

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Fish have feelings

Do they?



https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/april/1490965200/james-bradley/fish-have-feelings-too

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160220-do-fish-have-feelings

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/20/482468094/fish-have-feelings-too-the-inner-lives-of-our-underwater-cousins

https://www.outsideonline.com/2106421/fish-have-feelings-does-mean-were-torturing-them

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