It was sometime in the mid-1990s that I first met Bruno Latour in person. It was the annual 4S meeting, either in Seattle or Portland. It was a smallish room that held about thirty people. In walks a tall and… Read More ›
Raphael Sassower
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 ›
It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment on Fuller’s “Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics,” Raphael Sassower
Though the question posed by Steve Fuller’s latest essay (2021) appears to be metaphysically minded, it turns out to be much more aligned with either Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts or James Carville’s famous quip about the economy.[1] After discussing Facebook’s… Read More ›
Some are Still Locked Out after being Locked Down: Review of Bruno Latour, After Lockdown, Raphael Sassower
How does it feel to be under lockdown because of the coronavirus epidemic? Bruno Latour, a leading scholar of the science studies community for the past four decades, answers: “I feel like a load of washing in the drum of… Read More ›
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021. Please see the pdf with the schedule. Speakers will include Malachi Hacohen, Nathaniel Laor, Jeremy Shearmur, Bill Berkson, Stefano Gattei, Lydia Amir, Ian Jarvie, Raphael Sassower, Michael Segr, Chen Yehezkeli, Nimrod… Read More ›
In and Beyond the Era of COVID-19
In this forum, members and associates of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective examine significant issues and contestations arising in and beyond the era of COVID-19. A focal point arises as we consider whether or not to think of… Read More ›
There is Always Time for Critique, Raphael Sassower
In this sense, the present review essay is a form of critique, just as the anthology under review comprises of fourteen critiques and as a whole is a meta-critique. In philosophical circles, critique dates back to Socrates whose dialogues are… Read More ›
The Making of Bullshit Leadership and Toxic Management in the Neoliberal University, John Smyth
My over-arching argument in this article is that both academics and students in universities have been afflicted by a set of relations that Lauren Berlant refers to as ‘cruel optimism’ (2011). Cruel optimism according to Berlant, constitutes the holding out… Read More ›
Relativism Relativized: A Review of Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challenges, Sheldon Richmond
As I commit my thoughts to ink on paper, I hear a fly buzzing around my ear. The fly happened to fly from a workshop about relativism, and its varieties, as it occurs in today’s society. Needless to say, I… Read More ›
The Neoliberal University and the Common Good, Raphael Sassower
The intense “audit culture” and digitally enhanced monitoring of faculty’s production resembles the “pre-neoliberal” or “feudal university” as much as the neoliberal university (Cruickshank 2019). Is higher education no different from other institutions plagued by the neoliberal regime of economizing… Read More ›