http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/majorityfm/02-08-16-Ronnie_Kasrils-PUB.mp3 “the South African freedom fighter and former Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils joins us to talk about the new film project London Recruits and the current state of South […]

a discussion on christian institutions but the parallels in secular institutions run deep http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_suicide_of_the_liberal_church_20160124

“ Contemporary capitalism has a big problem. And no one seems to be able to refute it. The problem, as Robert J. Gordon sees it, is that economic growth is slowing […]

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/02/pze_20160207.mp3 http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/

By Jennifer Xu and Hsinchun Chen SCIENTISTS FROM A variety of disciplines, including physics, sociology, biology, and computing, all explore the topological properties of complex systems that can be characterized as […]

“Is 100% memory loss possible? Is the past ‘preserved by itself, automatically’? Is the notion of decay linked intimately to the concepts of order and memory? Does life grow towards […]

“SynTalk thinks about the (sometimes?) subterranean world of things, and wonders how the world might look from the standpoint of the Thing. We also tentatively wonder if things indeed have […]

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
[I’ll post some more from my course on Arendt this semester. I began with Aristotle and Rousseau to set up the…

“Is your (everyday) life repetitive and mundane? Does squirming life lie just underneath the layer of banality? Is the everyday always laced with fantasy and/or skepticism? What is the place […]

one of my favorite living playwrights but this election cycle many of these US baby-boomers are tragically out of touch with the splintering states of the union.

Fascism is as American as Henry Ford. And Donald Trump. Source: Fascism, from Fordism to Trumpism

http://inalllanguages.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-egyptian-revolution-jan25-important.html