http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/04/lnl_20160404_2220.mp3 “Alexei Sayle grew up in Liverpool in the 1960s. As the son of Communist party members he was expected to be a revolutionary. He did join a revolution, but […]

jewish philosophy place The news from Israel is full of the tension between norms and practice –the universal norms of a democratic polity versus the dehumanizing practice of military occupation. […]

“Is Donald Trump actually a CIA asset with implants in his small hands or are our brains just wired for paranoia – or both! Rob Brotherton, author of Suspicious Minds, […]

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Originally posted on Collapse of Industrial Civilization:
In a civilization gone mad with delusions of grandeur, we’re left with tatters of human sociability held together by rancid mythologies. Despite human fossil fuel…

http://www.citylightspodcast.com/castplayer?castfile=citylightspodcast.com/episodes/FinnBrunton_011316.mp3&id=3809 “With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight […]

http://www.ttbook.org/book/conspiracy-theories

Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, […]

“Philosophical concepts are conceptually articulated in ways that distinguish them from the literary use of catachresis in Lovecraft, or in a very different context, J G Ballard’s Crash or his […]

http://www.ecoshock.info/2016/03/climate-war.html see also http://radioopensource.org/syria-the-21st-century-disaster/

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03nxn92.mp3 “On Start the Week Kirsty Wark asks how we make choices about freedom and authenticity – questions that preoccupied Paris intellectuals in the 1930s. Sarah Bakewell looks back at […]

also “It all looks awful in Brazil today. A scary articulation of corrupt politicians, class-driven judiciary and big capital is getting close to produce a coup d’état showing how colonized […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The much-hyped consumer virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift, is finally hitting the market. The reviews have been mixed. As…