February 2012
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“[We] must not take imagination as the middle term that gets inserted between an...”
– Hegel, Faith and Knowledge
January 2012
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“Utopia is the form of Ideal Society.
Perhaps it is impossible to achieve it on...”
– Plato, The Republic
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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility,...”
– Sigmund Freud
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“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter...”
– Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
“Je pense qu’il faut qu’il n’y ait qu’allusion.”
– Stéphane Mallarmé
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“The object of logical knowledge is Truth, the object of æsthetic knowledge is...”
– Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
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'How the US Crushed Youth Resistance' →
1. Student-Loan Debt. Large debt—and the fear it creates—is a pacifying force. During the time in one’s life when it should be easiest to resist authority because one does not yet have family responsibilities, many young people worry about the cost of bucking authority, losing their job, and being unable to pay an ever-increasing debt. In a vicious cycle, student debt has a subduing effect on...
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'US Plans Trade Wars with Nations Opposed to GMO' →
The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. […] The WikiLeaks cable reveals that in late 2007, the United States ambassador to France and business partner to George W. Bush, Craig Stapleton, requested that the European Union along...
“Of all the spiritual values we can conceive and wish to be brought before us...”
– D. T. Suzuki, The Awakening of Zen
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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Bolivia: 'La Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra' →
With the cooperation of politicians and grassroots organizations, Bolivia is set to pass the Law of Mother Earth which will grant nature the same rights and protections as humans. The piece of legislation, called la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra, is intended to encourage a radical shift in conservation attitudes and actions, to enforce new control measures on industry, and to reduce...
December 2011
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WatchFilm rec: Black Whole
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“Social capital refers to connections among individuals […] A society of...”
– Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone