Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, What Just Happened?! is a welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has become stranger than fiction.
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance―from Petrarch to Machiavelli―that reveals the all-important role of character in shaping society, both in citizens and in their leaders.
Any young people here? If so I realize the economy looks bad, but the economy is in a sort of golden age. High housing costs? Blame the capitalists. High health care? Blame the decades of Republicans. I hate #Biden for allowing 14,000 Gazans to be slaughtered, but he is the most anti-capitalist president in DECADES. Those tictok assholes who say nobody's talking about this, it's because journalists aren't as stupid as these people are. Fixing things takes time. Don't blame Biden
The Origin of the Political: Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?
In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil.
Esposito examines the foundational relation between war and the political.
For those unfamiliar with it, Lemmy is basically a federated version of Reddit, distributed across multiple servers like Mastodon. (For anyone who wants to delve further, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and aussie.zone are three popular Lemmy instances.)
From Mastodon, you can follow any Lemmy group by following its handle, exactly the same way that you would follow a Mastodon account. Any new posts to that group will then begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.
Even better, if you start a thread on Mastodon, you can also post it to a relevant Lemmy group just by including its handle in your post. (Please note this only seems to work with the first post of a thread.)
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and social order - and to prop up the status quo. Sound System is the story of one musician's journey to discover what makes music so powerful.
Graeber, David; Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
I have already finished reading this long and powerful book. Now I have to meditate on the ideas it brings...
"Over the course of these chapters we have instead talked about basic forms of social liberty which one might actually put into practice: (1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings; (2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and (3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones."
"The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a growing teaching and learning
resource. Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology
for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed
by leading academics."
Seeing Hillary Clinton all over television telling lies to justify genocide in Gaza is further evidence that those of us who refused to vote for either Trump or Clinton in 2016 were absolutely right. #politics
Raw Story:
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet.
📗 The book “Portuguese Colonialism and Islam. Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction”, authored by Mário Machaqueiro, will be presented by Susana Trovão (CRIA) and Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC) on the 15th of November.
Today's image of the day shows Joe Sullivan (seated) and Tom Burke (standing) using PLATO terminals to record Hennepin County election returns at the Minneapolis Business & Technical Center, as local CBS TV affiliate WCCO films the action, 1982.
So, the Speaker of the House of the United States of America has an app installed on is phone to "scan for porn use". An app that is granted access to scan EVERYTHING he does on his phone.
While Trump was being questioned about a 2021 financial statement, Trump claimed to have been too busy focusing on “China, Russia and keeping our country safe.
The state’s attorney reminded him that he was not president in 2021.
Majority of sitting MLAs in 5 poll-bound states are crorepatis, many face criminal cases, shows data
In all the five states analysed, those aged 50 and above comprise the majority of the MLAs. No state has done too well when it comes to female representation.
For everyone thinking of rejecting Biden for his policy on Gaza and the Middle East, might I remind you that Trump tried to pass a whole-ass MUSLIM BAN.