Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by Joan Roelofs:
“How Effective are International Human Rights Treaties?”
Bonus links: “Military-Industrial Complex Introduction” and “America’s Permanent-War Complex”
Link to an article by Sarah Bruch & Joe Soss:
Bonus links: “Red Diaper Babies” and Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Richard Shaull Quote (“There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes ‘the practice of freedom,’ the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”) and Deschooling Society and The Struggle for the Meaning of Society As Such and “Elite Universities Are Turning Our Kids Into Corporate Stooges”
Link to an article by James Pinnock:
Link to an article by Miya Tokumitsu:
Bonus links: Friedrich Engels‘ personal motto was “take it easy,” and On Boredom
Bonus quote: “No more doing evil, it’s vacation time.” Film Socialisme
Link to an interview of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Adan Jodorowsky, and Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky conducted by Julia Yepes:
“The Eternal Search of the Jodorowskys”
Bonus links: “Endless Poetry: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Freedom of Losing Money, and Making Movies at 88″ and “A Beginner’s Guide to Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Magus of Cinema”
Link to an article by Johann Hari:
“Depressed? Anxious? Blame Neoliberalism.”
I very much question why this writer singles out neoliberalism, specifically, rather than capitalism, generally. There is nothing in the article to suggest that only neoliberalism — but no other forms of liberalism or capitalism — is problematic. While he has established that eliminating neoliberalism is necessary, he has failed to establish that doing so is sufficient.
Bonus link: “Lacan Between Cultural Studies And Cognitivism”
Link to an article by Torkil Lauesen & Gabriel Kuhn:
“Radical Theory and Academia: A Thorny Relationship”
Bonus links: The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men and “The Professor’s Literature of Protest” and “The Forms of Capital” and Crowds and Party and “Lacan Between Cultural Studies And Cognitivism” and “Cracks in the Wall of Capitalism: The Zapatistas and the Struggle to Decolonize Science”
Link to an article by Rebecca Burns:
“INVESTIGATION: The Troubled History of the Fund Tapped for Rahm’s Controversial Cop Academy”
Bonus links: “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and “Why Are Police the Priority in Rahm’s Chicago?” and “Corporate Welfare Fails to Deliver the Jobs: The Sad Case of Start-Up NY” and The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation
Link to an article by Riley Quinn:
