{"id":1041,"date":"2020-02-26T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:27:20","slug":"benthams-philosophical-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/26\/benthams-philosophical-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentham&#8217;s philosophical remains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the 90s, when I wanted to move my website off university servers, I brainstormed possible domain names. I settled on <em>fecundity<\/em> partly just because it sounds good, but also because I learned the word from reading Jeremy Bentham. A webcam pointed at Bentham&#8217;s dressed-up remains was a highlight of the internet back then, and the association amused me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/uk\/london\/2020\/02\/20\/jeremy-benthams-got-a-new-crib-in-the-ucl-student-centre-36200\">Bentham&#8217;s remains have been moved<\/a>. His dressed up skeleton has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/uclalumni\/\">its own LinkedIn profile<\/a>, because it is important for everyone to have a LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200225-bentham-head.jpg?resize=600%2C284&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200225-bentham-head.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200225-bentham-head.jpg?resize=300%2C142&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Bentham&#8217;s desiccated head peers from inside a glass dome, like he&#8217;s the first explorer to die in a science fiction thriller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 90s, when I wanted to move my website off university servers, I brainstormed possible domain names. I settled on fecundity partly just because it sounds good, but also because I learned the word from reading Jeremy Bentham. A webcam pointed at Bentham&#8217;s dressed-up remains was a highlight of the internet back then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/26\/benthams-philosophical-remains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bentham&#8217;s philosophical remains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-gN","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}