April 2008
21 posts
U.S. Soldiers Persecuted for their Atheism →
Wow, yet another strong parallel between current U.S. imperialism and the Crusades. One nation under dogmatic anti-intellectualism.
Daniel Dociu's beautiful fantasy architecture for... →
Chelpa Ferro - Acqua falsa, 2005 →
- large speakers hung tensely over a shallow pool, pumping glitchy music into the water, with many wires traverse underwater, below the viewer’s feet, to end as electric diodes on a wall, blinking in sync with the music. (check out the video)
Juan Cole thoroughly debunks McCain's view of Al... →
“McCain’s whole discourse on Iraq is just a typical rightwing Washington fantasy made up in order to get you to spend $15 billion a month on his friends in the military industrial complex and to get you to allow him to gut the US constitution and the Bill of Rights. ”
"notes on a lively conference on universities" →
Eli Thorkelson’s glowing account of our conference last week.
"free will" is for theologians, conservatives,... →
“In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people’s decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them.
The decision studied — whether to hit a button with one’s left or right hand — may not be representative of complicated choices that are more integrally tied to our sense of self-direction. Regardless,...
My campus paper has a decent story on our... →
See the conference website here. The conference exceeded our expectations - it was f’ing awesome. Fortunately, we filmed the whole thing (22 hours of tape!), and we’ll post it on the website soon to share it with all. When we do so, I’ll post again and link to some of the best parts.
Watch“History did not end” - an inspirational documentary about the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil
"In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt... →
This article exemplifies why I’m not a philosopher any more. The academic discipline of philosophy has become a tool for helping students to adapt to, and become a better competitor in, the precarious flexibilization of work under neoliberal capitalism, rather than a tool for organizing to oppose that system. Yet, I must admit that it is useful for some purposes…
Jenna...
"schools are prisons" by the Sex Pistols →
They took the best years of my life And made it so I couldn’t decide I don’t turn this want To make beautiful word that goes on and on And on and on Those 13 years in prison Didn’t teach me how to love They say they have their reasons All coming from above You can forget the seasons inside your factory There’s one thing they can’t teach you is how to feel free And stand alone in...
Abolish grades! →
Grading turns us into capitalist zombies →
Paul Krugman on "The Dilbert Strategy" →
Bush’s financial reforms are superficial organizational rearrangements that mask the failures of the free market ideology and avoid regulating the financial capitalists that have been fleecing America.