30DoS 2020 - Day 29

Eva Feder Kittay

Kittay is a philosopher, disability scholar, social and political theorist, and care ethicist. Her book, Love’s Labor, now in its second edition, is an analysis of the liberal philosopher John Rawls and his theory of justice, extended to care and dependence. Kittay argues that acknowledging dependence is essential. Kittay has also written on cognitive disability. In a recent, more personal book, she reflects her own experiences as a mother of a disabled daughter. She reflects the age-old ethical questions of good life and flourishing from a critical point of view, one which argues that the fact of our-co-dependency does not get sufficient attention. Disability and co-dependence challenge the business-as-usual of moral philosophy: our dependent, vulnerable, messy, changeable, and embodied experience colours everything about our lives.

Website: https://evafederkittay.com/

Kittay, Eva Feder & Ellen K. Feder, eds. (2002). The subject of care: feminist perspectives on dependency. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Kittay, E. F. (2020). Love’s labor: Essays on women, equality and dependency (2nd ed.). Milton: Routledge.

Kittay, E. F. (2019). Learning from my daughter: The value and care of disabled minds. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wordpress

Wordpress is one of the original and still most useful tools for designing website, blogs, and other social media resources. Although there are other tools (Weebly, for instance), that are more visually appealing, Wordpress has a massive support community and almost limitless variability and elasticity. There are free and paid accounts, and an enormous array of tools that you can add to your site. Wordpress is behind the CPN site and history.physio and its reader allows you to discover myriad other wordpress users online.

Link to website: https://wordpress.com/discover

A world without work by Daniel Susskind

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different. Advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. Susskind argues that machines no longer need to reason like us in order to outperform us. Increasingly, tasks that used to be beyond the capability of computers - from diagnosing illnesses to drafting legal contracts - are now within their reach. The threat of technological unemployment is real. So how can we all thrive in a world with less work? Susskind reminds us that technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, solving one of mankind's oldest problems: making sure that everyone has enough to live on. The challenge will be to distribute this prosperity fairly, constrain the burgeoning power of Big Tech, and provide meaning in a world where work is no longer the centre of our lives. In this visionary, pragmatic and ultimately hopeful book, Susskind shows us the way.

Link to book: https://www.danielsusskind.com/a-world-without-work