Stan Persky

Stan Persky teaches philosophy at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He’s the author of many books, including Buddy’s: Meditations on Desire and Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011). His most recent book is Post-Communist Stories: About Cities, Politics, Desires (Cormorant, 2014).

Articles

The Ins and Outs of Europe’s Deep Establishment
Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015.
Stan PerskyOct 17, 2017
Say Something: Chomsky on Language
A review of a collection of Noam Chomsky’s lectures on language.
Stan PerskyJun 26, 2016
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
The Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis
Kipnis, a humorous feminist and feminist humorist, employs irony, sarcasm, satire, and a general sense of levity in her discussions of gender, feminism, and sexuality.
Stan PerskyJul 25, 2015
- Gender & Sexuality
Self, with or without Selfies
A self is not a physical object. There isn't a little homunculus inside you or a mini-person sitting inside the mini-cab of a mini-crane moving your limbs.
Stan PerskyMay 5, 2015
- Philosophy & Religion
Dirty Laundry
A tell all that tells little.
Stan PerskyFeb 1, 2014
Cliffhanger
Reading may be dead, but the question whether it is lives on.
Stan PerskyJan 24, 2014
Re-re-reading Gore Vidal: A First Anniversary Requiem
A remembrance of what he really stood for.
Stan PerskyJul 31, 2013
- Memoir & Essay
Why Did Alt Lit Cross the Road?
Lin’s affectless, grinning young people are oddly reassuring.
Stan PerskyJul 18, 2013
“The candles will blow themselves out”: The Richard Brautigan Saga
Stan PerskyAug 30, 2012
The Love That Dared to Write Its Name
"1948 was a sort of annus 'mahr-velous,' if not mirabilis, for public discussion of homosexuality."
Stan PerskyMay 13, 2012