?I want to know you?re there, but I want to be alone,? she sings. If only for a minute or two, I want to see what it feels like to be without you. I want to know the touch of my own skin Against the sun, against the wind. I walked out in a field, […]
Month: July 2014
The contemporary world in a mythological paradox.
Probably the single most important paper in Philosophy today in terms of the content of the conception it expresses. “The contemporary world is caught in a mythological paradox. On the one hand, the dominant (Western) milieu is one that continuously recycles its themes of individual expression, free choice, infinite possibility and so on. On the […]
Why is Prof. Aijaz Ahmad so Shame-faced? – Part II
One of the main reasons for anarchism gaining hegemony in these movements should be traced back to the 1950s and the 1960s, when imperialist intervention by the social imperialist Soviet Union in the Eastern Europe led to the disillusionment with Socialism itself. So Lyotard postulated that all metanarratives, that is to say, all progressive projects […]