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 readingThe first question you have to answer before you can do African philosophy is whether it exists.
Continue readingThe 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 readingRaoul 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....
Continue readingLast year I watched Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, just on a whim because I had nothing better to do. Which is probably the most Rohmerian reason possible to watch a Rohmer film. A casual decision made from a position...
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