Originally posted on emigrating landscapes project:
February 2nd at 5pm Gendering Migration: Women’s Writing, Displacement and Melancholy: Lecture on Selected Aspects of Polish Contemporary Literature by Urszula Chowaniec (Language and…

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
In his fantastic book The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, Paul N. Edwards forwards a quasi-literary reading of…

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
In a very interesting article, “Is God Dead, Unconscious, Evil, Impotent, Stupid … Or Just Counterfactual?“, Slavoj Zizek compares the “god hypothesis” as described by…

http://www.ecoshock.info/2016/04/from-netherlands-green-lawyer-roger-cox.html

Originally posted on Quantum Est In Rebus Inane:
In the phenomenology of spirit, as consciousness’s becoming-other-to-itself and coming-to-itself, “forms” of consciousness emerge, as Hegel says; but this emergence of forms…

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/04/lnl_20160405_2240.mp3 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/anarchy-rules/7300098 http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/anarchy-in-the-uk-comes-to-australia-and-presents-the-problem-with-liberty-these-days2 see also the Anarchist Thought of  Colin  Ward https://c4ss.org/content/34095

Originally posted on Shannon E. Williams:
Killing a garden Does not require a shovel. Just stop watering. ?

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
THE BODY IS NOTHING but the outside: skin exposed, a network of sentient receivers and transmitters. All outside and nothing like…

“When he published his dramatic, book-length poem The Age of Anxiety in 1947, W. H. Auden gave an enduring diagnostic name to the emotional malaise of the postwar era. To […]

Police and army forces shot at about 6,000 starving farmers and Lumad Indigenous people demonstrating for drought relief in the Philippines on Friday, ultimately killing 10. Observers characterized the security […]

Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. We can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, the ever-renewing sump of corpse-flesh. But in this valley the […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Interesting article on Stir I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump.  She starts off: “I’m just a poor…

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, […]