(The review of the book can be found here) But the questions that I have come to ask of myself, and which I would like to pose to the reader as well, are: Do my political visions ever run up against the responsibility that I incur for the destruction of life forms so that "unenlightened"... Continue Reading →
Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation / Sarah Knopp
The hierarchical relations of work and production are mirrored in the relations we see in schools. The hierarchies between administrators and teachers, teachers and students, students and other students correspond to boss-worker relationships and indeed prepare students to play those roles. Students produce work for external rewards (grades) in much the same way that workers... Continue Reading →
Black Skin, White Masks / Frantz Fanon
When I switch on my radio and hear that black men are being lynched in America, I say that they have lied to us: Hitler isn’t dead. When I switch on my radio and hear that Jews are being insulted, persecuted, and massacred, I say that they have lied to us: Hitler isn’t dead. And... Continue Reading →
Knowledge and Power: Science in World History / William E. Burns
The book was both concise and informative at the same time. If you want to know how science was transferred from a culture to culture; or from a continent to continent I recommend this book. It also talks about the influence of science in power which is very interesting as it touches on topics such... Continue Reading →
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire / Wendy Brown
"Tolerance is invoked in liberal democratic societies when a hegemonic norm can not colonize or incorporate its Other with ease, when that norm maintains or regroups its strength through a new technique of marginalization and regulation rather than through incorporation and direct relations of subordination."