January 2011
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...
– Roald Dahl (via the-exchange)
December 2010
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The story of anthropology and colonialism is part of a larger narrative which...
– Talal Asad
S a b i d u r í a:
(via double-machine)
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The ‘unconscious’ is never anything other than the forgetting of history which...
– Pierre Bourdieu, Structures, Habitus, and Practices (via double-machine)
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It is no coincidence that many of the greatest philosophers have also been...
– The Abstemiast:
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Scandalous as it may sound to the ears of Republicans schooled in Reaganomics, one critical measure of the health of a modern democracy is its ability to legitimately extract taxes from its own elites. The most dysfunctional societies in the developing world are those whose elites succeed either in legally exempting themselves from taxation, or in taking advantage of lax...
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“Bookstart is one of the most imaginative and generous schemes ever...
– Writers furious at plan to axe free books scheme for children | Books | The Observer
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John F Kennedy: “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open...
– Wikileaks and the Moral Dualism of the U.S. State Department « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
Having provoked a situation where whistle-blowing becomes the public’s only...
– Wikileaks and the Moral Dualism of the U.S. State Department « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
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The logic of climate change and its skeptics. →
buzzlightyearsu:
mohandaskgandhi:
This is brilliantly executed.
Amazing.
Reblogged so I can finish reading later.
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What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...
– Julian Assange on SNL (via kateoplis)
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wayneandwax.com » Berkman Talk w/ Reax →
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“Money, pardon the expression, is like manure, it’s no good unless it’s spread...
– http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/12/guest-post-extreme-inequality-helped-cause-both-the-great-depression-and-the-current-economic-crisis.html
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Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for. Again...
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But despite years of excruciating physical suffering, he remained defiant till...
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/18/evel-knievel-son-kelly
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American Leftist →
“If Extradited to Sweden, Assange Will Be Turned Over to the US”
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Student protests may be banned altogether if... →
This is a stupid idea. Will make this worse. No wonder the police and government only describe the protests in violent terms and fail to discuss the actual issues behind the protests
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