It amazes me that 80 years on from the end of World War II, I still must share with my students to show them quotes
Tag: society
Coordination, Subordination, and Exordination
Yesterday in our class, the discussion led me to talk for a little bit about a distinction originally made by Marcuse, I believe, regarding soft versus
Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
What kind of society emerges when it is governed by the market-driven assumption that the only value that matters is exchange value, when the common
Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
My good sister, Stephanie E., with whom I am reading Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed sent me this article yesterday on FB. It details
Madness and (American) Civilization
In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of
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