CONFUSION will resonate with anyone who has felt the tension between desire and knowledge that sits at the heart of pedagogical relationships.
If your main motivation is the sense of outrage at cruelty and injustice — fascism, imperialism, what capitalism does to the vast majority of human beings — then you may not need the stimulation of good news to keep yourself going in what then becomes for you an obligation.
The argument of the students of Quebec goes far beyond bowing to the cold economic realities proffered by state and provincial governments, who claim that public money for education is simply not there.
The Femicide Machine – Sergio Gonzáles Rodríguez
That even biology cannot save us now is the gloomy possibility that THE FEMICIDE MACHINE places on the contemporary horizon.
After the seizure of “The People’s Library” at Zuccotti Park last November, Paolo Mossetti asked leading writers, activists, and academics how they would repopulate the empty shelves.
Finding Time to Read at South by Southwest
During SXSW, It’s always fun to take an afternoon to wander a little west and visit Book People, Austin’s landmark independent book store. I spoke with the staff of Book People about SXSW and the reading habits of Austinites.
If people are seeing you too much as a machine and someone who has no emotions, just this driving force to resolve questions in the philosophy of education, all you have to do is take off your clothes.
Many people think Experimental Philosophy is a mistake, but in this very unusual way where they think, “You know, those guys are doing something interesting. Let’s give them a try.”
The book does for the novel what modal jazz did for soloists: uncouple your improvisations from a rigid structure, radically simplify your range, and you’ll be shocked to hear how good this new freedom sounds.
While an intern at Harpers Bazaar, a fashion magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, Xuedan Wang was not paid, even though she was in fact working what amounted to a full time job. This, argues Wang and her lawyer, is in direct violation of federal and state wage and hour laws.