From the BBC this morning, an hour’s meditation on the nature, practice and moral questions regarding war photography: Regarding the Pain of Others In her 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag grappled with this question. War photograp…
Arachnophobia can eclipse our ability to feel compassion
Why so many of us are casual spider-murderers – “The moment we sense the pitter-patter of their tiny feet across the living room floor, or catch a glimpse of movement in the corner of an eye as they abseil down from the ceiling, they’re likely to end u…
A Specialist Occupation?
Hotpoint All Pink Kitchen, 1961 by JoeInSouthernCA (cc by-nd)I’ll put it bluntly: modern cooking is a social dick-measuring contest: Kadin2048 has an intriguing comment about the “fixation on cooking at home as a moral good” in theora55’s post on Ultr…