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Vaclav Havel and the Religious Attitude
posted in Politics | Apr 23, 2012
(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)Replying to my first post on the subject, friend of the blog Dara Lind suggested to me that Vaclav Havel’s political ideas were a good match for what I argued the modern left lacks. His essay “Politics and...
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Notes on Notes on Notes on Hype
posted in Politics | Apr 23, 2012
Rob Horning in The New Inquiry:Hype already presumes that no one completely buys into it; the passive dope who just responds to hype with naive enthusiasm is obviously a straw man, the creation of which is hypes chief achievement. Hype creates this s...
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Notes on Notes on Notes on Hype
posted in Politics | Apr 23, 2012
Rob Horning in The New Inquiry:Hype already presumes that no one completely buys into it; the passive dope who just responds to hype with naive enthusiasm is obviously a straw man, the creation of which is hypes chief achievement. Hype creates this s...
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The Religious Attitude
posted in Politics | Apr 22, 2012
The above clip comes from Adam Curtis’ four-part BBC documentary series, The Century of the Self, in which he tries to show how the modern West came to be ruled by (in his eyes) an ideology of radical individualism. Politics, he argues, is no longe...
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The Religious Attitude
posted in Politics | Apr 22, 2012
The above clip comes from Adam Curtis’ four-part BBC documentary series, The Century of the Self, in which he tries to show how the modern West came to be ruled by (in his eyes) an ideology of radical individualism. Politics, he argues, is no longe...
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Sayles to Receive LEAF Award Tomorrow
posted in Politics | Apr 21, 2012
This weekend, writer/filmmaker John Sayles is coming to Duke.
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Sayles to Receive LEAF Award Tomorrow
posted in Politics | Apr 21, 2012
This weekend, writer/filmmaker John Sayles is coming to Duke.
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Sayles to Receive LEAF Award Tomorrow
posted in Politics | Apr 21, 2012
This weekend, writer/filmmaker John Sayles is coming to Duke.
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Sayles to Receive LEAF Award Tomorrow
posted in Politics | Apr 21, 2012
This weekend, writer/filmmaker John Sayles is coming to Duke.
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Making Money off the Poor: Business Models in the Developing World
posted in Science | Apr 20, 2012
In the heart of rural India, local farmers plow their land with the help of oxen, abide by tradition, and follow a local sarpanch who arbitrates law and order. The villagers do not earn much selling their produce and are distanced from infrastructure...
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