December 25, 2009
Click to Play Jesus & the Money Changers: Rioting Against the Economic Crisis As recorded in the Gospel of Mark 11:15-18, Jesus initiates a rebellion within the temple at Jerusalem in response to the corrupt and exploitative practices he witnessed there. A few days later he would be crucified. This riotous act of protest by [...]
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December 23, 2009
review by Layla AbdelRahim, 23 December ’09 Avatar is rich in historical allusions and James Cameron deftly weaves into the fabric of the film the core of the relations between humans and their world. Namely, the film is primarily about the two clashing world-views at the core of the relationship between the civilised and the [...]
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December 20, 2009
Abstract: The current civilized and globalized model of parenting stems from the model of civilization and its methods of domestication. As Pavlov, the famous Russian animal “psychologist” observed, if you deny dogs access to food, you can train them to do anything you like by promising to give them a little bit. Of course, Pavlov [...]
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December 13, 2009
The current civilized and globalized model of parenting stems from the model of civilization and its methods of domestication. As Pavlov, the famous Russian animal “psychologist” observed, if you deny dogs access to food, you can train them to do anything you like by promising to give them a little bit. Of course, Pavlov was [...]
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filmed at JesusRadicals Conference, Memphis, Tennessee on 15 Aug ’09 The current civilized and globalized model of parenting stems from the model of civilization and its methods of domestication. As Pavlov, the famous Russian animal ?psychologist? observed, if you deny dogs access to food, you can train them to do anything you like by promising [...]
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December 8, 2009
John Zerzan is an anarchist and philosopher whose critique of civilization and call for a non-domesticated form of life has been described as ?primitivist.? Zerzan has analyzed agricultural and industrial society in detail and has drawn on anthropological research on prehistoric and other ?primitive? societies in describing egalitarian and non-alienated ways of communal life. Zerzan [...]
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December 7, 2009
John Zerzan is an anarchist and philosopher whose critique of civilization and call for a non-domesticated form of life has been described as “primitivist”. Zerzan has analyzed agricultural and industrial society in detail and has drawn on anthropological research on prehistoric and other “primitive” societies in describing egalitarian and non-alienated ways of communal life. Zerzan [...]
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October 26, 2009
Abstract: Anthropologists, such as Jack Goody, or thinkers like John Zerzan or Walter Ong, have traced the development of written language to the beginnings of agricultural civilisation, which, in order to succeed in its premise of killing competition and of using the world and its inhabitants (plants, animals and humans) as resources and belongings, demanded [...]
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Abstract for a paper presented at the Masking and Unmasking interdisciplinary conference, Duke University, 12th September 2008: Architecture, or the modification of one’s environment to construct shelter, dwelling or home, is contingent on the philosophical position that ultimately reveals and/or conceals the knowledge that generates cultural dispositions. In this paper, I present three literary examples [...]
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July 25, 2008
My poem was inspired by Elena Korniakova and Vesta Korniakova’s art. Elena found that the Native American legends on the birth of the world where a woman lands from the sky on a timeless turtle echoed the Ukrainian pagan myths about the birth, Mother Earth (BOGINYA-BEREGINYA), a magic tree, and seeds of life. When I [...]
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