If Parks and Recreation is positioning itself as a kind of parable for national politics, its clear distinction between the parameters of corporate and public power, so blurred in today’s laws and practices, makes it painfully obvious that much of what we consider commonplace in today’s political scene is not just morally unsound, but truly anti-republican and anti-democratic.
The big question from Marx’s perspective is: what kind of human nature are we going to try and create, and how do we do that?
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.
Close to Home: One Man vs. the Global Climate
What is the president of a country of 350,000 to do about an issue that requires the cooperation of the world’s most powerful heads of state?
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.
What counts as literature, for me, is what has the capacity to transmit and to be received.
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.
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.
Introducing: Thinking The Present
All of us at Full Stop are excited to introduce “Thinking The Present”: a new series in which our editors and contributors will respond to contemporary academic and popular nonfiction books about our world today.