Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Cornel West. economic insecurity and cultural scapegoating
the abysmal failure of the Democratic party, and escalating poverty of working people unleashed a hate-filled populism and protectionism that threaten to tear apart the fragile fiber of what is left of US democracy.
since the most explosive fault lines in present-day America are first and foremost racial, then gender, homophobic, ethnic and religious, we gird ourselves for a frightening future.
Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad.
Obama has been reluctant to target black suffering – be it in overcrowded prisons, decrepit schools or declining workplaces. Yet, despite that, we get celebrations of the neoliberal status quo couched in racial symbolism and personal legacy. Meanwhile, poor and working class citizens of all colors have continued to suffer in relative silence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neoliberalism-cornel-west-2016-election?CMP=share_btn_fb
since the most explosive fault lines in present-day America are first and foremost racial, then gender, homophobic, ethnic and religious, we gird ourselves for a frightening future.
Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad.
Obama has been reluctant to target black suffering – be it in overcrowded prisons, decrepit schools or declining workplaces. Yet, despite that, we get celebrations of the neoliberal status quo couched in racial symbolism and personal legacy. Meanwhile, poor and working class citizens of all colors have continued to suffer in relative silence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neoliberalism-cornel-west-2016-election?CMP=share_btn_fb
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Judith Butler. On public assembly precarity Trump
http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/judith-butler-on-public-assembly-precarity-and-trump/5145
Friday, November 11, 2016
Leonard Cohen, the poet of loneliness
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/remembering-leonard-cohen-the-poet-laureate-of-loneliness/article32811810/?click=sf_globefb
Leonard Cohen. Nuestro hombre
http://www.letraslibres.com/espana-mexico/cultura/leonard-cohen-nuestro-hombre
Naomi Klein. Climate change
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/donald-trump-isnt-the-end-of-the-world-but-climate-change-may-be-20161110-gsm815.html
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Leonard Cohen. Poem
I didn’t kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn’t turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn’t sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me
when things went wrong
I didn’t turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn’t sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me
Monday, November 7, 2016
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Cornel West. Spiritual blackout
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/03/spiritual-blackout-america-election/v7lWSybxux1OPoBg56dgsL/story.html
Technology and anxiety
a search for love in the world is link to something that is essential to us as light, heat, food & water
Friday, November 4, 2016
Alain de Botton. A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Kwame Anthony Appiah. About Race
“Race is something we make; it’s not something that makes us”
Philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah examines how the modern research of genetics has cast doubt on the 19th century theory of a racial essence. He argues that genetics and environment impact on an individual’s identity, but highlights research that has proved that genes are not inherited in "racial packages", in the third of his 2016 BBC Reith Lectures, Colour.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dqwcy?
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Electronic Frontier - AT&T
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/28/electronic_frontier_foundation_police_depts_paid
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