Category / Capitalism / France / Paris / Philosophy / Politics / Struggle
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To Create is to Resist!!! To Resist is to Create!
I believe that. Resistance may not achieve its current goals but creates movements. Creative activity gets the word out and gives sustenance. Here's a fine example of political street art on rue de Belleville below Pyrénées in Paris 20e. The tweezers holding an eyeball refer to the woman in the painting, Fiorina Jacob Lignier, a… -
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“One is not born, but becomes, Yellow Vest”
Zigzag. Out with the old, in with the new. We're not quite sure where we're going. But we know what we want to leave: 'flexible' workplaces where people don't matter; universities more like biological processes than forums for deliberation and debate; institutions that thrive by making others precarious, isolated, displaced and hungry. Without knowing the shape… -
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Not by Might, Not by Power
There are two traditions regarding Hanukkah, an older light tradition about the increase of light in the dark time of the winter (Avodah Zarah 8b) and one a military tradition about the Maccabees’ victory over tyranny, the victory of the many over the few. I like that Jewish tradition preserves both–one about…
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What’s Going on in this Country? Or, Plato at the Sleep Inn
I just returned from a lovely philosophy conference held at Pennsylvania State University. I read a paper in which I argued that, for Plato, even ugly or plain things become beautiful when they are with certain other things that together make a beautiful whole. The conference was in the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference…
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