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Family Feuds? Relativism, Expressivism, and Disagreements about Disagreement
In Expressing Our Attitudes (OUP, 2015), Mark Schroeder speculates about the relation between expressivism and relativism. Noting that “John MacFarlane has wondered whether relativism is expressivism done right,” he suggests that this may get things back to front: “it is worth taking seriously the idea that expressivism is relativism done right” (Schroeder 2015, 25). In this piece, motivated both by Schroeder’s suggestion and by recent work from Lionel Shapiro, I compare and contrast my version of expressivism with MacFarlane’s version of relativism. I identify some significant differences concerning the treatment of linguistic disagreement, but conclude that despite these differences, MacFarlane’s version of relativism counts as a version of expressivism in my sense, in most of the respects that matter.
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Stop Telling Me What to Feel! A Clinical Theory of Emotions and What’s Wrong with the Moralization of Feelings
“Don’t be jealous of your sister.” “Don’t be angry with your father.” “You should be more forgiving.” “You ought to feel terrible for what you’ve done.” “You ought to feel ashamed of yourself!” It is common practice within our society to morally reprimand people for their emotions, thereby expressing a kind of moralism: the idea that there are morally right and morally wrong ways to feel. Drawing on an alternative way of engaging with emotions derived from my experience working clinically with people with personality disorders, I argue against the value of this common practice and the moralization of emotions that underpins it. Stop telling people what to feel!
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Presence as Thing-Speech: Quitting Correlationism and Listening to Objects in Michael Farris Smith’s Blackwood
This essay examines characters’ detachment from reality in Michael Farris Smith’s Blackwood as a revision of the Southern Gothic grotesque, revealing what Object-oriented ontology refers to as correlationism: the assumed supremacy of the perceiving subject and corresponding blindness to the ontological reality of objects. Such detachment manifests in the novel not only through the accumulation of ghost stories and other superstitions in the local idiom, but also in the systematic failure of communication: circular monologues and dialogues, endless trivial questions, elusive answers, and characters’ repeated demands for linguistic, discursive exchange with the novel’s hyperpresent, post-instrumental objects. These hyperpresent objects resonate with recurring Southern Gothic forms and “insist” upon themselves in a non-linguistic idiom through their presence and energy, resisting deconstructive approaches that would reduce them to signifiers; meanwhile, the novel’s characters remain unable to apprehend this thing-speech because of their entrenched correlationism. Blackwood therefore incorporates familiar Southern Gothic forms to reflect facets of correlationism, explores the limitations and failures of this perspective, and meditates on the potentials of thing-speech to foster new, ontologically inclusive dispositions toward reality.
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Social Protest and Beyond in Australian Indigenous Poetry: Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor and Michael J. Smith
Cerce talks about the book--Rimfire: Poetry from Aboriginal Australia by Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor, and Michael J. Smith. The book brings together poets who have on the one hand undertaken the responsibility to strive for social and political equality and foster within their communities the very important concept that indigenous peoples can survive only as a community and a nation, not as individuals. Focused on the deplorable living conditions of contemporary indigenous Australians and exploring racial discrimination, marginalization, dislocation, institutionalization, poverty and abuse, Moreton's poetry is perhaps among the most penetrating fictional indictment of colonization in Australia.
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Scales of relevance and the importance of ambiguity
A project that investigates land claims (heritage or descendant concerns), for example, may also relate to local production methods (local practical topics), to social inequality and urban sustainability (middle-range empirical and conceptual topics), and to concepts of fairness and justice (abstract conceptual topics). [...]one of the strengths and delights of archaeological research is precisely the ability to engage at multiple scales, including multiple scales of relevance (a topic in my mind since writing about this in relation to archaeological teaching, research and practice (Cobb & Croucher 2020, inspired by Harris 2017)). [...]I would like to know more about how Smith sees his arguments relating to marginalised voices.
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‘Play the Rain Down’: Prince, Paul Morton, and the Idea of Black Ecstasy
This article grapples with ‘Let It Rain’, the title track of Bishop Paul S. Morton and the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship's 2003 release, which revises Michael Farren's contemporary Christian ballad by braiding it together with Prince's ‘Purple Rain’ and the formal logic of Black gospel tradition. As the Full Gospel version of this song commingles these seemingly discordant components, Morton, choir, and band turn a sung prayer into an assertion of interworldly presence. Building on its received musical materials, this gospel power ballad performs the Black gospel tradition's characteristic inflection – an arresting turn from one level of musicking to a heightened, ecstatic frame. In so doing, this song brings rain near, illuminating the links between performances of musical ecstasy and musical Blackness.
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Diplomacy of Hope: Transatlantic Relations in the Transition from Trump to Biden
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Despite advances in the study of emotions in international relations, we have a limited understanding of the role hope plays in diplomatic practice. We draw on the scholarship on emotions in IR and psychological studies on hope to theorize the workings of hope in diplomacy. We argue that in times of political change, states are more likely to resort to a novel type of diplomacy—diplomacy of hope—to shape their future relationship. We illustrate our argument with a qualitative content analysis of Twitter communication by high-ranking officials in the Biden administration and the EU after the 2020 US election. We find that both parties engage in diplomacy of hope, expressing enthusiasm, promising to renew the transatlantic relationship, and reaffirming their mutual commitment to achieve common goals. Yet the two parties’ strategic discourses diverge in their preferred pathways to cooperation and their proposed renegotiation of global leadership roles.
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