One Of The Most Significant Intellectual Errors Educated Persons Make Is In Underestimating The Fallibility

“Incantation. A prayer for apps and the latest whatever, sung by “the witch”. New things to try, a desperation, an automation to it. A heaviness, as if being joined by a yoke to our technology, it’s dragging us, making us pay per download. We’re it’s slave.”

Leah Kardos’s album “Machines”, a song cycle based on themes of technology, loneliness and the human condition, with lyrics derived from spam emails. (via Tom A.)

Could say if there is any correlation between capitalist surplus value and the excess enjoyment in fantasy,,,?

A certain excess which was ..kept in check.., perceived as a local perversion, a limited deviation, is elevated in capitalism to the very principle of social lifeIn the ..movement of money begetting more money, ..the thing can survive only as its own excess, constantly exceeding its own ‘normal’ constraints- ZIZEK

The Brazilian government has strongly rejected suggestions by two U.S. anthropologists that the only way to protect the country’s isolated tribes would be to establish contact with them.

Estonian Art And Literature: Big Ideas In A Small Country

IMG_7809 by Pooja Pant

Beijie Village: a Land Grab Case, a Village Election, and a Microcosm of China

Beijie Village: a Land Grab Case, a Village Election, and a Microcosm of China

Originally posted on China Change:

By Yaqiu Wang, published: December 16, 2014

An election in a heartland Chinese village in Henan province, held on December 13th, attracted attention from Chinese scholars, netizens and activists. A 73-year-old man, Chen Ji’en (陈纪恩), was re-elected Chairman of the 8th Village Committee of Beijie Village (北街村) by fellow villagers in what was reported by…

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REVISITING NATIONALISM - 2

REVISITING NATIONALISM – 2

REVISITING NATIONALISM  – 2       

Prasanna K Choudhary

EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

The self-identity of European countries as ‘nations’ was invariably linked with the process of denying and destroying the identities of so many tribes, societies and…

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When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within.

Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)

“To write a good book you have to have certain qualities. Great art is connected with courage and truthfulness. There is a conception of truth, a lack of illusion, an ability to overcome selfish obsessions, which goes with good art, and the artist has got to have that particular sort of moral stamina. Good art, whatever its style, has qualities of hardness, firmness, realism, clarity, detachment, justice, truth. It is the work of a free, unfettered, uncorrupted imagination…” —Iris Murdoch, at the 92Y