Volume 12, Issue 2, 1-56, February 2023 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Hazan, Haim and Raquel Romberg. 2023. “‘Suicide Cultures’: A Contradiction in Terms?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (2): 1-4. ❧ Desmond, Hugh. 2023. “Expanding on Status… Read More ›
Mark D. West
Review: John Troyer’s Technologies of the Human Corpse, Mark D. West
In some ways, we moderns are as much in the dark as were the ancients when we contemplate death. Currently holding sway in the West is the “metabolic definition,” as laid out by Schrödinger in 1944, which suggests that life… Read More ›
SERRC: The Ten Most Viewed Posts in 2022
The list below provides the articles, replies, reviews, and interviews most viewed during 2022. As you will see, these pieces were published at different times over the last decade. We invite you to read a sample of the exceptional range… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 5, May 2022
Volume 11, Issue 5, 1-79, May 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Riggio, Adam. 2022. “Becoming Gestalt: Human and Algorithmic Intelligence—Review of Machine Habitus.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (5): 1-11. ❧ Prusik, Charles A. 2022. “Reply to… Read More ›
Review of Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing, Mark D. West
What do we mean when we talk about models? We mean simulacra, miniatures, objects which serve as physical abstractions in order to make a point or test a theory. More broadly speaking, models are mental or physical objects that belong… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2022
Volume 11, Issue 3, 1-84, March 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ West, Mark D. 2022. “Embodying ‘Necro-Waste’: On Toxic Discourse.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (3): 1-12. ❧ Balla, Bonaventure. 2022. “The Quest for Truth in the… Read More ›
Embodying ‘Necro-Waste’: On Toxic Discourse, Mark D. West
In previous discussions of necro-waste, I think that social epistemology has taken an important step by discussing what seems to be a constellation of concepts (“corpse”, “cadaver”, “remains”, “body”, “necro-waste”) which serve to describe, more than anything else, a set… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 12, December 2021
Volume 10, Issue 12, 1-79, December 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Levy, Neil. 2021. “Predictably Rational: A Further Response to Grundmann.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (12): 75-79. ❧ Sassower, Raphael. 2021. “It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment… Read More ›
Gaia and COVID: A Review of Bruno Latour’s After Lockdown, Mark D. West
Bruno Latour’s new After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis (2021) offers to the reader in what is said in the text Latour at his best—and also, by what goes unsaid, Latour at his most cryptic … [please read below the rest of… Read More ›
La Nouvelle Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Mark West and Miika Vähämaa
Author Information: Mark West, University of North Carolina, west@unca.edu, Miika Vähämaa, University of Helsinki, miika.vahamaa@gmail.com West, Mark and Miika Vähämaa. “La Nouvelle Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes: The Analytic and Critical Tendencies in Social Epistemology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›