24
Mar
Plato was a bore.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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24
Mar
Plato was a bore.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Professors know the difference between practice and theory-especially when it comes to dating. Tony Judt knew the rules-he read Foucault! What made him thinks he could get away with it?
By Tony Judt
http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/441569341/girls-girls-girls
Checkov at 150 and the Russian Winter’s Longest Road:
Anton Checkov took a trip to “hell” in 1890, Sukhalin Island. A sadistic penal colony located closer to Japan than Russia. Why did Checkov go? what did he learn?
By Robert Fulford
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2713317
Remebering Haiti:
“A good anthropologist is, among other things, one who knows how to apologize locally”
By Sidney W. Mintz
http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/mintz.php
Inside Man:
An insightful profile of Timothy Geithner.
By Joshua Green
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/inside-man/7992
Autopia: Futuristic Pod Car Combines GM Vision, Segway Practicality:
Can this concept help stop urban congestion? And at the least the Japanese will like it.
By Stuart Schwartzapfel
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/general-motors-en-v/
An Atheist Meets the Masters of the Universe:
A.J. Ayer the great atheist professor of logic at Oxford-died twice! The first time he experienced God, and then discreetly told a doctor of his . Did the doctor lie or did Ayer have an Voltaire remission?
By Peter Foges
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/an-atheist-meets-the-masters-of-the-universe.php
American Tea Party Top 40:
A collection of smash hits by those who tea bag with their pants on (sometimes).
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/tea-party-top-40-ron-paul-rand-lloyd-marcus-ted-nugent
09
Mar
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ”
Jacques Lacan
Gendercide: The Worldwide War on Baby Girls:
Male preference, prenatal sex-determination technology, and declining infertility are part of the global trend of disastrous gender in-balance in many of the worlds leading countries.
By The Economist Print Edition
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15636231&fsrc=rss
Heroic Impatience:
The ‘Red Army Faction a.k.a The Baader-Mienhof Gang’ fought a guerilla war for Germany liberation for 30 years. With all it’s members either dead or in jail - many now think it is now time to recall it’s history and explore why some radicals choose to turn to revolution.
By Diego Gambetta
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/gambetta/single
The Acre:
A dead mother and an acre of land that serves for escape and childhood nostalgia for a struggling writer.
By Brian Calvert
http://www.guernicamag.com/features/1589/the_acre/
What’s Left of Orange Ukraine?:
The orange revolution was neither bad or good, it simply put Ukraine back on it’s evolutionary development, but has the re-election of Viktor Yanukovych thrown Ukraine back into ‘muddled progress’?
By Mykola Riabchuk
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-03-04-riabchuk-en.html
For Us Surrender is Out of the Question:
The few brave men who risk their lives documenting the atrocities and genocides that go on behind the borders of the military junta of Burma.
By Mac McClelland
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/mac-mcclelland-burma-genocide-karen
Hipster Moonshine:
Maybe the last refuge for the hipster who wants to do something so cool - no one may even know about it.
By Wayne Curtis
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/hipster-moonshine/7993
04
Mar
Tolerance makes everything boring, we need more conflict!”
Slavoj Zizek
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead:
What have business scholars and management theorists learned from the Grateful Dead.
By Joshua Green
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/03/management-secrets-of-the-grateful-dead/7918
The Death of Film Criticism:
Why the minute minutia of online reviews have left the study and practice of film criticism staring into the abyss.
By Thomas Doherty
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Death-of-Film-Criticism/64352/
Race in the South in the Age of Obama:
The story of Southern politics of a new generation that is both subtle and complex; juxtaposed against the election of a black man James Fields in a majority all-white Alabama town.
By Nicholas Dawidoff
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28Alabama-t.html?ref=magazine
Ex-Nymphet (or: My Brief Career as a Teenage Nude Model):
The sad truth of one girls experience being under the lens.
By Kirsty Logan
http://therumpus.net/2010/03/ex-nymphet/
The Bomb for Beginners: A DIY Guide to going Nuclear:
A simple step-by-step instruction for maximizing material and minimizing fallout.
By Michael Ruhle
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,681525-2,00.html
The Hindu Festival of Holi:
Photos-The Big Picture.
By Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/holi_2010.html
03
Mar