"Bilden av naturen som originalet och människans värld som en kopia finner inte något riktigt stöd i forskningen, inte i den kritiskt granskande forskningen." Bloggaren Eddy i ett inlägg kring Frans de Waals med fleras idéer om godhet
by Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk, Comment is Free, Saturday 27 April. He draws attention to the sponsors of the Pride parade: Verizon, AT&T, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Clear Channel, and concludes: "So apparently, the very high-minded ethical standards of Lisa L Williams and the SF Pride Board apply only to young and powerless Army Privates who engage in an act of conscience against the US war machine, but instantly disappear for large corporations and banks that hand over cash. What we really see here is how the largest and most corrupt corporations own not just the government but also the culture." "Equating illegal behavior with ignominious behavior is the defining mentality of an authoritarian - and is particularly notable coming from what was once viewed as a bastion of liberal dissent."
Vivek Chibber, author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital: "A typical maneuver of postcolonial theorists is to say something like this: Marxism relies on abstract, universalizing categories. But for these categories to have traction, reality should look exactly like the abstract descriptions of capital, of workers, of the state, etc. But, say the postcolonial theorists, reality is so much more diverse. Workers wear such colorful clothes; they say prayers while working; capitalists consult astrologers — this doesn’t look like anything what Marx describes in Capital. So it must mean that the categories of capital aren’t really applicable here." "I am endorsing the view that there are some common interests and needs that people have across cultures."
ISTANBUL SEMINARS, 16-22 MAY 2013 - What is a good and just society? - Can religion be a source of political legitimacy? - How a democratic legitimacy can be assured at the heart of the European integration process. - Turkey, the new soft power in the Muslim world? Among this year's speakers: Lisa Anderson , Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im , Zygmunt Bauman , Hauke Brunkhorst , Faisal Devji , Nader Hashemi , Giacomo Marramao , Achille Mbembe , Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania , Stathis Kalyvas
"As we survey this vast mass of popular fiction, hastily produced and voraciously devoured, we confess to a feeling of astonishment that no learned professor has written a book on the one serious omission in the Darwinian theory — the fact that what chiefly distinguishes man from the rest of creation is the faculty for telling stories. Many animals resort to deception from necessity, and act a lie to trap their dinner or to save their skins ; man alone tells stories for pleasure and profit. Great is the truth, and it shall prevail, cries the preacher ; but so conscious was the moralist of the weakness of the flesh that he had to lead up to his adage by telling one of the best stories in Hebrew literature. Man respects the truth, and generally stones the truth-teller ; but he loves and honours the maker of stories from the cradle to the tombstone. The thesis could easily be defended that man is a story-telling animal." -- A. Wyatt Tilby, "The Best-Seller Problem", The Edinburg Review: Or Critical Journal, Vol 236 No. 481 (July 1922) p 96.
Art. om boken ”Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović av Jenny Stiernstedt i DN 9.12.2011 "Medierna har mest bekräftat en schablon. Nu ser vi att det ändå fanns en berättelse därunder." (David Lagercrantz) Knappt en månad har ”Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović” funnits på marknaden och redan har boken överträffat alla förväntningar. Enligt förlaget har självbiografin sålt i 440.000 exemplar. David Lagercrantz tycks rörd över succén: – Det är vackert någonstans. En anledning till framgången tror jag är att det kommer folk till bokhandeln som aldrig varit där förut; boken går hem i alla målgrupper, från åttaåriga invandrarkillar till gamla damer. Man blir varm om hjärtat. Lagercrantz påpekar att boken inte bara sålt bra, den har också väckt debatten om segregering. Med Zlatanbiografin får läsaren berättelsen om en ovanlig klassresa – inifrån. – I amerikansk litteratur är det inte ovanligt med historier om invandrarsonen som slår sig fram och lämnar gettot. I Sverige har den resan inte skildrats på samma sätt förut. Det unika nu är att vi får Zlatans perspektiv, boken har inte något ovanifrånperspektiv.
"Everything is dying," a woman said as the town hall meeting was finally coming to a close. "How can you honestly tell us that our Gulf is resilient and will bounce back? Because not one of you up here has a hint as to what is going to happen to our Gulf.
NHL begins domestic violence and sexual assault training After a series of high-profile incidents across sports, the NHL has joined other professional leagues in mandating domestic violence, sexual assault and sexual harassment training for all of its players