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Thinkers You Should Know: Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist turned environmental activist who has spent her career fighting the people who want to own seeds. Yes, seeds. Not patents on phones. The actual things that grow food.seed sovereign...
Continue readingAfrican Philosophy: The Meta-Question (Part 1)
The first question you have to answer before you can do African philosophy is whether it exists.
Continue readingThe Worst Takes of All Time: The Iraq War Was a Good Idea
The take: “The Iraq War was a justified and necessary intervention that removed a brutal dictator and spread democracy.”Who said it: The neoconservative movement (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol), and t...
Continue readingThinkers You Should Know: Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem is the other Situationist. Debord got the fame. Vaneigem got the underground reputation. And his book, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967), is actually the better read.Debord described the spectacle....
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