Category: Control
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Deleuze for realz
“If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked.” ― Gilles Deleuze “The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?” ― Gilles Deleuze “Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!” ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia “A concept is a brick. It can…
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The slim chances of getting on tenure track without an “elite” school PhD
This is why I am keeping my PhD studies oriented toward these targets: (1) becoming a coffee consultant, (2) setting up a practice as a philosophical counselor, and (3) looking for a job in the academy. Why do folks sign up for a PhD program outside the top 20 of their respective…
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Counting Down to Doomsday: Can We Turn Back the Clock?
…there’s an important difference between a real clock and the Doomsday Clock. A real clock, as long as its batteries are working, will always move forward, from second to second and minute to minute. The Doomsday Clock, in contrast, does not have to move forward, for apart from its astrophysical…
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These Computer Programs “Feel You”
Rhafi Khatchadhourian at the New Yorker takes a look at new developments in recognition software that are game changers on computers interpreting our emotive reactions to what we are reading/viewing on our electronic devices. Like every company in this field, Affectiva relies on the work of Paul Ekman, a research…
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Outrospection
Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves.
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Does Cultural Oppression Affect Us Genetically?
Whether one is talking about coffee farmers in Ethiopia or the service employees at a local McDonald’s, there are the stressors being pressed down upon the working poor at every turn. What are the epigenetic consequences of oppression?
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State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner
The larger reasons behind Eric Garner’s execution seem to be missed by most commentators. The issue is not simply police misconduct, or racist acts of police brutality, however deadly, but the growing use of systemic terror of the sort we associate with Hannah Arendt’s notion of totalitarianism that needs to…
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Cotton and Capitalism: The Tapestry of Domination
The truth is that no one knows what “the history of capitalism” is because its history is just now being written. But if there is any indication of what it might look like, it appears in Sven Beckert’s remarkable and unsettling new book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Beckert…
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Declaration Against Modern Slavery – 2014
Dec 02, 2014 – Vatican City – The Global Freedom Network organized an historic moment with Pope Francis I acting as host to a cadre of religious leaders from around the world in order to draw attention to modern slavery. Catholics will be represented by Pope Francis; the Orthodox, by…
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“Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of the American counterculture in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Wilson’s…
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the burden of “white ignorance”
“…modernity is cognitively marked by a broad pattern in which whites generally endorse racist views (one type of ignorance) in the period of formal global white domination, and then (roughly from the post-World War II, decolonial period onward) shift to the endorsement of views that nominally decry racism, but downplay…
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