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The Obscure Experience
In philosophizing we may not terminate a disease of thought. It must run its natural course, and slow cure is all important.” ­– Ludwig Wittgenstein Implicitly we are asking in these discussions about the COVID-19 pandemic [1]   is there a norm for man? Earlier it was philosophy that had the task of constituting the systems under which the limits and also the…
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Statement of Rationale and Demands of the Movement of Greek Workers, of and in Arts and Culture by Support Art Workers
Naked Punch Collective stands in solidarity with the Support Art Workers movement that started in the first weekend of May 2020 in Athens, Greece.  Below, we present the statement drafted by the movement and specifically its Assembly Group for ORGANISATION – COORDINATION – INITIATIVE. RATIONALE: Following the humbling widespread dispersal of our message #SupportArtWorkers…
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Biopolitical Conflicts in the Fractures of Development
The neo-developmentalism’s biopolitics in Brazil In general lines, we can say that capitalism is a way of producing and organizing the production, extracting wealth and generating value. The way it happens is not the same everywhere capitalism is present. There is an international division of labor and, mainly after the globalization, the task of production…
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The Postnormal Perfect Storm 1
THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM - IN THREE PARTS  PART 1: THE NATURE OF THE CRISIS  When Ziauddin Sardar published his landmark paper Welcome to Postnormal Times (PNT) ten years ago, he proposed a new theoretical approach for developing a better understanding of how change itself was changing in the present. Over the years, there have…
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We Will Not Be Silenced
Colonialism made us feel backward. It was always Europe that was advanced and enlightened, and it was always the East that was backward and wretched. Rather than honestly say that they had come to plunder, the colonial rulers said that they had come to school the East – it needed to be civilized. Every European…
Philosophy
Working Class Ballet: Fragments on Football
Let me try and explain why football is so important to me, and why it becomes more rather than less important to me as I get older. My family is from Liverpool in the northwest of England and my father used to train at Liverpool Football Club’s training ground in the early 1950s until an…
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NOTE FROM A DOOMED CIVILIZATION
NOTE FROM A DOOMED CIVILIZATION The Americans have broken all             Treaties, refused to be part of the World Court They are their own Carte Blanche to massacre and destroy,  Beyond   All judgment...        vampire face insect eyes Smirk  of the Blood Sucker ===  Inside Capital Inside a White house  A conversation of murderers Armed with nervous breakdowns    the…
Poetry
BIRDS ARE NOT THE ONLY MUSIC
BIRDS ARE NOT THE ONLY MUSIC  A name, if not heavy, still of a certain heft, but less jagged than affection: a suitable anchor for this good earth. Its freight & pestilence  (with promise’s promises intermixed): Josephine, Blondena, Ola-Bell, Herbert, Rufus. Borne in indefinite directions, all. ... Rangi McNeil is a native of Laurinburg, North…