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Recommended Anime, Manga, Prose and Live Action Cinema
Great resource. I avoid using popularity in making my choices. Instead I look at story quality, the level of cultural details and other creative elements. For this reason I have many titles which newer fans have never heard of, all… Continue reading
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A Nasty Piece of Cornbread: Chait, Coates, and White Progressivism
Originally posted on tressiemc: I once set out to write a book of southern aphorisms. It was going to be a serious treatment of (mostly) black (uniquely) southern “mother wit” as philosophy. Then, grad school and so on and so… Continue reading
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Inequality and Technology Syllabus
Originally posted on tressiemc: I am fascinated with U.S. sociology’s casual and sporadic engagement with digital spaces, technologies and trends. This year, the federal government enacted one of the most sweeping public policy initiatives we’ve seen since the Great Society… Continue reading
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“Industrial Pictures Are Not Art”: Legendary Cult Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky on New Film ‘The Dance of Reality’ and How Hollywood Is Killing Cinema
A wonderful new piece from Flavorwire on Jador “…A potent blend of European art house theatrics, cult cinema madness, baroque violence, Eastern philosophy, Jungian tokens, and alluring depravity, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky have amassed a fervent following…” Continue reading
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Crowd Control
Originally posted on The Dish: Michael Bond rejects the idea of the “crazed crowd,” noting research that indicates “people in crowds define themselves according to who they are with at the time; their social identity determines how they behave”: Years… Continue reading
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Moving forward with the Society of Control
Six reasons to fear the evolving alliance of the global corporate techno-economic progress machine and the national security state. Continue reading
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting. They may not even have to don a space suit, instead simply walking down the gangplank in their civvies into a warm,… Continue reading
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success. The world’s happiest countries share surprising characteristics – a small gap between rich and poor; work-life balance; urban design favoring community over cars; high degrees… Continue reading
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LGBT Representation In Mainstream Comics: A History | The Mary Sue
Next month is June, aka LGBT Pride Month. In anticipation of this, and because it is good and necessary to discuss representation in pop culture and media, we present to you this look at how LGBT content has been portrayed… Continue reading
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Soul Spelunker » Hermetic Intelligence
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The primary way the soul is deepened is through imagination. When we have new ideas about something we’re thinking about metaphorically, such as how a spiral exemplifies the movement of the soul, or how… Continue reading
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