Tijdschrift Krisis Issues http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 2011, Issue 3 - - Hele nummer http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Gijs van Oenen 2011, Issue 3 - Gijs van Oenen - Revisiting Benjamin's artwork essay after seventy five years It is now 75 years ago that Walter Benjamin&rsquo;s artwork essay first appeared,an essay that has become as famous as it has remained inscrutable &ndash; or ifone prefers, inexhaustible. Probably its two most central, and most celebrated,notions are those of the &lsquo;aura&rsquo; and of &lsquo;montage&rsquo;. The aura, wemight say, is the thing about the artwork that resists being reproduced.Even if we can reproduce an original work of art &ndash; and in modern timesthis is no longer an exceptional feat, as technology has made many worksof art eminently reproducible &ndash; its aura will irretrievably be lost in reproduction.That is to say, it will lose its uniqueness, its authenticity, and itsunapproachability or <em>Unnahbarkeit</em>. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Pascal Gielen 2011, Issue 3 - Pascal Gielen - The art of democracy In the afterword of The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,Walter Benjamin links cultural mass production with the aestheticizationof politics and with fascism. Beside his main thesis that arthas lost its aura through technical reproduction, Benjamin thus initiates&ndash; in his renowned essay &ndash; another interesting train of thought, one thatassumes there is a specific relationship between art and society or, morespecifically, between cultural production and political regimes. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Thijs Lijster 2011, Issue 3 - Thijs Lijster - Art and property In January 2011 the Danish artist Nadia Plessner exhibited her paintingDarfurnica in the Galleri Esplanaden in Copenhagen. Referring to PabloPicasso&rsquo;s Guernica both in name, theme and style, the work seeks to drawattention to the conflict in Darfur, while at the same time addressing thefact that mass media in the western world have closed their eyes to it, directingtheir attention to celebrities instead. Hence, next to players in theconflict like president Al-Bashir, Barack Obama, Janjaweed militia andChinese oil companies, the picture shows paparazzi chasing stars like VictoriaBeckham, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears (shaving her head). Mostimportantly, in the center of the painting the two themes collide in theshape of an emaciated black child carrying a Chihuahua and a Louis VuittonAudra-model handbag. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 James Martel 2011, Issue 3 - James Martel - ART AND THE FETISH: SEVENTY FIVE YEARS ON In 1936, Walter Benjamin laid down a challenge to art. In his &lsquo;The Work ofArt in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,&rsquo; he writes &lsquo;Such is theaestheticizing of politics, as practiced by fascism. Communism replies bypoliticizing art&rsquo;. &lsquo;Politicizing art&rsquo; suggests realizing thesubversive possibility inherent in art, challenging the way that fascism(and, by extension, capitalism as well) has turned political life itself into a(faux) aesthetic. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Isabell Lorey and Gerald Raunig 2011, Issue 3 - Isabell Lorey and Gerald Raunig - MATRIX EXAMINATRIX. DISPERSION AND CONCENTRATION &lsquo;The mass is a matrix&rsquo; That&rsquo;s how Benjamin starts the last chapter of hisartwork essay. Before becoming the title of a blockbuster movie, a &lsquo;matrix&rsquo;was an electric apparatus for automatically steering the flows of cinema.But of course, matrix also means the place where something is born, themutant organ that gives birth. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Jaap Kooijman 2011, Issue 3 - Jaap Kooijman - TIEN JAAR NA 9/11: DE ONZICHTBARE VIJAND Onmiddellijk na de terroristische aanslagen van 11 september 2001 gingenstemmen op dat de wereld voorgoed was veranderd en dat met name hetwesten zijn onschuld had verloren. 9/11 werd het markeermoment vanonze huidige tijd, net zoals JFK een markeermoment was voor eerdere generaties. Juist doordatmiljoenen kijkers 9/11 &lsquo;live&rsquo; op televisie meemaakten was het effect zogroot. Volgens Slavoj Žižek was dat ook precies de bedoeling: &lsquo;The &ldquo;terrorists&rdquo; themselves did not do it primarily to provoke real material damage,but FOR THE SPECTACULAR EFFECT OF IT&rsquo;. Zonder het lijden van de &lsquo;echte&rsquo; slachtoffers in New York te bagatelliseren kan worden gezegd dat de werkelijke impact van 9/11 deze collectieve ervaring is. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Beatrice de Graaf 2011, Issue 3 - Beatrice de Graaf - DE STRIJD TEGEN DE &lsquo;ZWARTE INTERNATIONALE' In 1908 verscheen de roman The man who was thursday van de Britseschrijver Giles Keith Chesterton. De roman begint met een debat tussen Gabriel Syme en Lucian Gregory, op het eerste gezicht twee po&euml;ten die allebei een pool van de op dat moment gangbare lyrische stromingen vertegenwoordigen. Gregory is een exponent van detypische laatnegentiende-eeuwse postnapoleontische stroming waarinchaos en verval worden verheerlijkt. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Joost de Bloois 2011, Issue 3 - Joost de Bloois - DE POLITIEK VAN DE HYPERBOOL Wat tien jaar na 9/11 duidelijk is geworden, is dat het pathos van die dagen&ndash; &lsquo;niets zal hetzelfde zijn&rsquo;; het pathos van de historische breuk &ndash; inderdaadprecies dat was: pathos. 9/11 is de gelegenheid gebleken voor het bestendigenen vooral intensiveren van politieke en economische ontwikkelingendie al op de grens van de jaren zeventig en tachtig zijn ingezet. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Marieke de Goede 2011, Issue 3 - Marieke de Goede - DATA-ANALYSE EN PRECRIMINELE VEILIGHEID Australische vrouw die werkt als stripper en paaldanseres verweven in eenweb van verdenkingen en verdachtmakingen waardoor zij wordt aangezienvoor een terrorist. Gina &ndash; bijgenaamd The Doll &ndash; beleeft een kortstondigeliefdesaffaire met een man die zij op het strand ontmoet en die dezoon van haar vriendin uit het water redt. De volgende morgen is de manverdwenen &ndash; maar langzaam beseft The Doll dat zij doelwit is van eengrote en steeds intensievere zoektocht van de Australische politie en veiligheidsdiensten. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Rogier van Reekum 2011, Issue 3 - Rogier van Reekum - PUTTING OUR SPACES IN ORDER The big idea that has emerged in current attempts to understand the Occupymovement is that it has actually achieved &lsquo;something&rsquo;. This somewhatappeasing statement is not meant to deflate or ignore the achievementsand prospects of the movement. What I mean to point out is thestriking extent to which actually doing &lsquo;something&rsquo; in public space, evenonly gaining a measure of mainstream recognition for certain grievances,is the omni-recurrent motif in interpretations of what Occupy represents. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Filippo Bertoni 2011, Issue 3 - Filippo Bertoni - TURNING TO SPECULATION? Review of: Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (2011) <em>TheSpeculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism</em>. Melbourne:re.press, 430 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Lonneke van der Velden 2011, Issue 3 - Lonneke van der Velden - Law interrupted? Review of: Bruno Latour (2010 [2002]) <em>The Making of Law</em>. Translated byMarina Brilman and Alain Pottage. Revised by the author. Cambridge:Polity Press, 297 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 2011, Issue 3 - - Signalementen <p>Huub van Baar (2011) <em>The European Roma. Minority Representation,Memory and the Limits of Transnational Governmentality</em>. Amsterdam:Eigen Beheer, 400 p.</p><p>Alexander Gr&ouml;schner; Mike Sandbothe (red.) (2011) <em>Pragmatismus alsKulturpolitik. Beitr&auml;ge zum Werk Richard Rortys</em>. Berlin: Suhrkamp,2011, 252 p.</p><p>Evert van der Zweerde, George Kwaad en Jeroen Linssen (red.) <em>DwarseInterventies. Politiek-filosofische opstellen</em>. Amsterdam: Parr&egrave;sia, 272 p.</p><p>Bram Ieven, Aukje van Rooden, Marc Schuilenberg en Sjoerd van Tuinen(red.) (2011) <em>De nieuwe Franse filosofie. Denkers en thema&rsquo;s voor de 21eeeuw</em>. Amsterdam: Boom, 477 p.</p> http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 <br /> 2011, Issue 2 - <br /> - Hele nummer http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Yolande Jansen 2011, Issue 2 - Yolande Jansen - Secularism and Religious (In-)security. Reinterpreting the French Headscarf Debates French secularism has often been presented as an exceptional variety of more moderate and tolerant versions of secularism in Europe, particularly after France&rsquo;s adoption of the controversial law of 2004 prohibiting the wearing of headscarves in public schools and while performing public functions. However, in at least one important regard, the French discourse on secularism presents an inflated version of other European discourses, rather than an exception to them. And so we can learn from the French case for understanding secularism in a broader European context. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Annemarije Hagen 2011, Issue 2 - Annemarije Hagen - Streven naar het actieve leven. Neoliberale governmentality als vorm van moderne politieke macht binnen het activerend arbeidsmarktbeleid The Dutch welfare state is under pressure. The ongoing transformation from social protection towards social investment is seen as the solution for the conceived problems regarding controllability, affordability and the adverse effects produced by the traditional welfare state. This article points to the neoliberal tendencies inherent in this transformation and argues that the Dutch government has to realise that enforcing specific life orientations is always accompanied by a loss of freedom. Contrary to the current tendency to reduce activation policies to market mechanisms, it is argued that actual activation requires a public debate in which personal ethics are the central concern. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Anja Eleveld 2011, Issue 2 - Anja Eleveld - Configuraties van liberale governmentality. Een vergelijking van het discours rond de Armenwet en het levensloopdiscours This article challenges the suggestion of neoliberal governmentality literature that neoliberal government reflects a new power paradigm. Comparing the Dutch discourse on poor law in the middle of the nineteenth century and the &lsquo;live-course discourse&rsquo; in the twentienth century this study argues that classical liberal government and neoliberal government instead represent different configurations of the balance between security and freedom. This conclusion is more in line with Foucault&rsquo;s lectures on governmentality and biopolitics. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Ren&eacute; Boomkens 2011, Issue 2 - Ren&eacute; Boomkens - De ontaarding van de kunst. Over het kunstwerk in het tijdperk van zijn neoliberale onteigening Op 19 juli 1937 opende in M&uuml;nchen een tentoonstelling van meer dan 650 schilderijen, beelden, affiches en boeken onder de inmiddels beroemde titel <em>Entartete Kunst</em>. Zo&rsquo;n beetje de gehele Duitse regering was aanwezig en dronk een glaasje om de expositie van &eacute;&eacute;n van de grootste en meest spectaculaire collecties van hoogtepunten van de modernistische kunst te vieren. Nooit waren zoveel zeer uiteenlopende topstukken van de toen &lsquo;hedendaagse kunst&rsquo; bijeengebracht. Alles hing betrekkelijk willekeurig door elkaar, zodat het publiek geheel vrij leek een eigen oordeel te vellen. Ieder kon zijn of haar eigen route of programma samenstellen uit het tentoongestelde. Later ging de expositie op tournee door heel Duitsland. We kunnen hier dus spreken van een uiterst succesvolle tentoonstelling van moderne topkunst. Zo zou dat althans nu worden genoemd, in onze mondiale neoliberale samenleving van markt en strijd, zoals Michel Houellebecq onze werkelijkheid in zijn eerste roman omschreef. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Lukas Verburg 2011, Issue 2 - Lukas Verburg - &lsquo;We, philosophers, are not allowed to sleep!&rsquo; Review of: Alain Badiou (2009/2011) <em>Second Manifesto for Philosophy</em>. Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press, 164 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Robin Celikates 2011, Issue 2 - Robin Celikates - Radical Democratic Chic Review of: Giorgio Agamben et al. (2011) <em>Democracy in What State?</em> New York: Columbia University Press, 130 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Daniel Loick 2011, Issue 2 - Daniel Loick - Res Sanctae. Wendy Brown&rsquo;s Critique of the Political Theology of Walls Review of: Wendy Brown (2010) <em>Walled States, Waning Sovereignty</em>. New York: Zone Books, 167 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Timo J&uuml;tten 2011, Issue 2 - Timo J&uuml;tten - Science for sale Review of: Hans Radder (ed.) (2010) <em>The Commodification of Academic Research</em>, University of Pittsburgh Press, 360 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Marc D. Davidson 2011, Issue 2 - Marc D. Davidson - Parasieten in de milieugebruiksruimte Recensie van: Gijs van Donselaar (2009) <em>The right to exploit. Parasitism, scarcity, basic income</em>. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Fran&ccedil;ois Levrau 2011, Issue 2 - Fran&ccedil;ois Levrau - Tariq Modood en de erkenning van het religieuze verschil Recensie van: Tariq Modood (2010) <em>Still not easy being British. Struggles for a multicultural citizenship</em>. Stoke on Trent, Sterling: Trentham Books, Runnymede Trust, 164 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 2011, Issue 1 - - Hele nummer http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Robin Celikates 2011, Issue 1 - Robin Celikates - Communism &ndash; Idea vs. real movement? &lsquo;It&rsquo;s quite straightforward, you&rsquo;ll understand it. It&rsquo;s not hard.&rsquo; The enthusiasm with which part of the intellectual left greeted the rehabilitation of the &lsquo;idea of communism&rsquo; by philosophers such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek may remind one of this first line of Brecht&rsquo;s &lsquo;In Praise of Communism&rsquo;. It should, however, also make one wonder whether the straightforward and easy-to-understand character of this project does not come at a certain price. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 &Eacute;tienne Balibar 2011, Issue 1 - &Eacute;tienne Balibar - OCCASIONAL NOTES ON COMMUNISM When opening up a discussion on &lsquo;communism&rsquo;, be it historical or topical, two illocutionary situations seem possible: either he who expresses himself (and whose words will then be transcribed, if necessary by himself) is included in what the term refers to, or he is external to it. It is understood that in reality each of these situations is extremely complex, divided, and conflicting, not to mention frequently contested. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Franck Fischbach 2011, Issue 1 - Franck Fischbach - MARX AND COMMUNISM The question of knowing whether Marx was communist can, at first sight, appear either as a useless question, inasmuch as the answer is obvious, or as a provocation pure and simple. And yet, it is the only question which deserves to be asked with respect to the relation of Marx to communism. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Fabian de Kloe 2011, Issue 1 - Fabian de Kloe - ARENAS OF TRUTH MAKING<br /> THE HIV/AIDS CORRELATION AS A CASE OF CONTESTED FACTICITY IN SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND JOURNALISM This article offers a reexamination of a series of controversies in the history of HIV/AIDS research. The first controversy occurred in 1987 after microbiologist Peter Duesberg attacked the HIV/AIDS correlation in the prestigious journal Cancer Research. In 2000, South African President Thabo Mbeki ignited a second controversy by publicly backing Duesberg&rsquo;s critique. And in 2006 a third controversy occurred after the American journalist Celia Farber raised doubts about HIV/AIDS in a critical article in Harper&rsquo;s Magazine. Each intervention forced the scientific community to respond to reestablish the truth about the HIV/AIDS correlation. To explore how factiticty was challenged and maintained during these controversies, they are described in terms of two opposing STS vocabularies: Bruno Latour&rsquo;s black box mechanism and Steven Shapin&rsquo;s notion of decorum. In doing so, it is argued that Latour&rsquo;s vocabulary is less suited for highlighting qualitative differences in the mechanisms of truth making. This variety is illustrated by the three contexts in which the HIV/AIDS correlation was debated, namely in science, South African national politics, and investigative journalism. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Pieter Lemmens 2011, Issue 1 - Pieter Lemmens - &lsquo;THIS SYSTEM DOES NOT PRODUCE PLEASURE ANYMORE.<br />AN INTERVIEW WITH BERNARD STIEGLER The French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952) is one of the most important continental thinkers of today. His voluminous and rapidly expanding oeuvre is gaining increased attention within academia and his three volume magnum opus <em>Technics and Time</em> has become available recently in English and German translations. The central idea guiding his work is that the human being is marked by an &lsquo;originary absence of origin', a fundamental lack of qualities that makes him into an accidental being originally in need of technical prostheses and therefore fundamentally constituted and conditioned by technics. For Stiegler, humanity is co-extensive with technics. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Daan Gijsbertse 2011, Issue 1 - Daan Gijsbertse - UTOPISCHE ILLUSIES OVER DE (INRUIL)WAARDE VAN DE UNIVERSITEIT The university&rsquo;s unique societal function is threatened by the emergence of an <em>economic performance discourse</em>. Made possible by the utopian illusion that transforming universities into market players will maximize their contribution to the (national) economy, this discourse reduces the university to a mere catalyst of economic growth - ignoring its contributions to democracy, questions of justice and culture. This essay exposes the utopian illusions behind the economic performance discourse, reveals the self-defeating character of the narrow economistic reforms that it prescribes, and calls attention to the non-economic functions and intrinsic value of the university that it neglects. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Ernst van den Hemel 2011, Issue 1 - Ernst van den Hemel - DE FABEL VAN HET MEDIUM Recensie van: Jacques Ranci&egrave;re (2010) <em>De toekomst van het beeld</em> en Jacques Ranci&egrave;re (2010) <em>De fabel van de cinema</em>. Vertaling: Walter van der Star en Aukje van Rooden. Amsterdam: Octavo Publicaties. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Konstanze Baron 2011, Issue 1 - Konstanze Baron - WHAT IS WRONG WITH CRITIQUE?<br />SECULARISM AND THE NECESSITY OF CRITIQUE Review of: Wendy Brown (ed.) (2009) <em>Is critique secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech</em>. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 154 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Lukas Verburgt 2011, Issue 1 - Lukas Verburgt - HOW TO HIDE FROM EXISTENCE Review of: Dennis Broeders (2009) <em>Breaking Down Anonymity. Digital Surveillance of Irregular Migrants in Germany and the Netherlands</em>. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 230 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Floris Solleveld 2011, Issue 1 - Floris Solleveld - PRINCIPES EN PATRONEN Recensie van: Rens Bod (2010) <em>De vergeten wetenschappen. Een geschiedenis van de humaniora</em>. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 520 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Thijs Lijster 2011, Issue 1 - Thijs Lijster - GRAND HOTEL ABGRUND <em>REVISITED</em> Recensie van: Emil Walter-Busch (2010) <em>Geschichte der Frankfurter Schule. Kritische Theorie und Politik</em>. M&uuml;nchen: Wilhelm Fink, 262 p. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 2010, Issue 3 - - Hele nummer<br /> http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Guus Dix &amp; Pim Klaassen 2010, Issue 3 - Guus Dix &amp; Pim Klaassen - Economics: a science in crisis? Introduction<br /> The economy is in a state of crisis, that much is clear. However, many people believe that this also applies to the academic discipline that studies the economy. This dossieroffers a glimpse into the heterogeneous landscape economics consists of. Itshows how much economists are granted by their chosen field of study. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Harro Maas 2010, Issue 3 - Harro Maas - Rekenmeesters, heelmeesters, vogelaars The economic crisis of 2008 and beyond raises questions concerning the future of economics; not only of the institutions of the economy, but also of the future of the economic discipline. In this paper we first discuss what neoclassical economics consists of, and how the new research programs have adapted it. We pay special attention to behavioral economics as one of the most prominent new programs. Subsequently, we discuss which fault economists of different theoretical inclinations have observed to have caused the crisis, and which solutions they have advanced to solve it. Finally, we propose what we believe is an example of a promising behavioral economic solution to help prevent future crises, the Default mortgage. The Default mortgage guards individuals against their bounded rationality while at the same time maintaining, if not enhancing, the welfare-producing capacities of the market. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Floris Heukelom &amp; Esther-Mirjam Sent 2010, Issue 3 - Floris Heukelom &amp; Esther-Mirjam Sent - The economics of the crisis and the crisis of economics. Lessons from behavioral economics The economic crisis of 2008 and beyond raises questions concerning the future of economics; not only of the institutions of the economy, but also of the future of the economic discipline. In this paper we first discuss what neoclassical economics consists of, and how the new research programs have adapted it. We pay special attention to behavioral economics as one of the most prominent new programs. Subsequently, we discuss which fault economists of different theoretical inclinations have observed to have caused the crisis, and which solutions they have advanced to solve it. Finally, we propose what we believe is an example of a promising behavioral economic solution to help prevent future crises, the Default mortgage. The Default mortgage guards individuals against their bounded rationality while at the same time maintaining, if not enhancing, the welfare-producing capacities of the market.<br /> http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Tiago Mata 2010, Issue 3 - Tiago Mata - Transgressing the boundaries. Towards a transformative hermeneutics of behavioral economics The Sokal affair prompted by Alan Sokal's infamous article to Social Text in 1996,&lsquo;Transgressing the boundaries', has occasioned a torrent of articles and books.Sokal intended a denunciation of postmodern social theory as sloppy andprejudiced, and a reassertion of physical science's claim to truth andobjectivity. The controversy has since waned, with no proclaimed settlement.Even if inconclusive the episode offered the chance for an intense crossexamination (and greater understanding) between postmodern interpreters ofscience and scientists committed to having their work functioning as aprogressive force in social and political affairs.<br /> There has been no equivalent scandal to initiate a dialogue between economists and their interpreters. This essaysimulates such dialogue by rewriting (a few extracts from) Sokal's originalarticle replacing &lsquo;quantum gravity' for the latest &lsquo;behavioral' approaches toeconomics. Sokal deliberately loaded his hoax piece with exaggeration andimprecision about scientific claims. Yet his argument was made plausible by athoughtful overlap between relativist readings of physical science and fringetrends in physics. My purpose is to force an imaginative reading of economicsin relation to the great hopes that have rested on behavioral economics, andthen ask if this reading can illuminate the attention given to behavioraleconomics in popular media. I conclude by arguing that lay readers of economicshave become fascinated by the promise of a science of the self that isemotional and flawed and that blends the natural with the artifactual. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Ren&eacute; Gabri&euml;ls 2010, Issue 3 - Ren&eacute; Gabri&euml;ls - Wilders' gewillige handlangers Politiek filosofen verschuilen zich tegenwoordig achter een nieuw soort <em>veil of ignorance</em> (Rawls). Zij bekommeren zich niet of nauwelijks om de politieke actualiteit. Blijkbaar hebben zij alleen belangstelling voor wat hun vakgenoten in bladen schrijven die noch door politici, noch door doorsneeburgers gelezen worden. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Katrien Schaubroeck 2010, Issue 3 - Katrien Schaubroeck - Ontheemd Having a home is closely related to the phenomenon of love. For example, when peoplefeel at home in a country, they often express that feeling by saying that theylove their country. Patriottism is sometimes considered a dangerous ideal. Iargue that the danger can be eliminated through a correct interpretation ofwhat love and the reasons for love are. Feeling &lsquo;out of place', as described byEdward Said, indicates the lack of both a home and love. Granting Said thatthis lack need not be dramatic, I still think that having a home and feelingloved (in their various forms) are values to be promoted. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Sanne Raap 2010, Issue 3 - Sanne Raap - Het vreemde en het eigene. Mondiale eenheid en verscheidenheid inzake mensenrechten en democratie. Hoe kunnen we komen tot een nieuwe conceptie van burgerschap in eentijd waarin de burger het behoud van het eigene en de natiestaat eist,terwijl globalisering en immigratie dwingen tot het afbreken vanterritoriale en conceptuele grenzen? Dit is het dilemma waarvoor dedeelnemers van de conferentie Strangeness and Familiarity, GlobalUnity and Diversity in Human Rights, zich geplaatst zagen. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 De redactie 2010, Issue 3 - De redactie - Songs of Philosophy. Waarover men niet kan spreken moet men zingen<br /> Op vrijdag 1 oktober vierde Krisis haar dertigjarige bestaan alskritisch en empirisch, eigenzinnig en actueel tijdschrift voorfilosofie. Tijdens deze feestelijke bijeenkomst spraken filosofen enwetenschappers over muziek in de breedste zin van het woord, het themawas dan ook: &lsquo;Songs of philosophy &ndash; waarover men niet spreken kan,moet men zingen&rsquo;. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Albert van der Schoot 2010, Issue 3 - Albert van der Schoot - Sie h&auml;tte Singen sollen, diese Seele! Binnenkort maakt ze weer haar opwachting in het programma van hetInleidingscollege Esthetica: Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985), de vanoorsprong Duitstalige Amerikaanse filosofe die weigerde zich te voegennaar het keurslijf van de analytische filosofie waarin de meeste vanhaar Amerikaanse collega-filosofen zich hadden laten insnoeren. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Ruth Benschop 2010, Issue 3 - Ruth Benschop - Cellovragen Het geluid van de cello. Ik luister er graag naar. Dat deed ik eigenlijk altijd al. Maar het was een sluimerende liefde. Bovendien, ik was een echte popmuziek puber: eigenlijk iets te jong voor nog goeie David Bowie, net op tijd voor het afscheidsconcert van TC Matic in Paradiso, en elke week natuurlijk swingen in de Klikspaan op Shriekback en De Div. De cello was een representant van een wereld die niet de mijne was. Te bewonderen op afstand. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Melanie Schiller 2010, Issue 3 - Melanie Schiller - Can sound be noise? Some thoughts on pop music, resistance and nationalism The motto Krisis chose for its 30th birthday is, with a playfulreference to Wittgenstein, &lsquo;waarover men niet spreken kan, daarovermoet men zingen&rsquo;. Following this wonderful idea to creativelyinvestigate connections between music and thinking in the course of acelebration, I nevertheless would like to add a question mark afterthe night&rsquo;s motto. http://www.krisis.eu/issues_feed.php 2012-05-08T15:48:48+02:00 Sake van der Wall 2010, Issue 3 - Sake van der Wall - Filosoferen zonder daar verder bij na te denken. Een interne dialoog Om te beginnen moet ik iets over mijzelf vertellen. Ik praat soms inmezelf. Dat komt, misschien, doordat ik te veel in het late werk vanWittgenstein heb gelezen.