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Michel Foucault

Get Smart! Cultivate Interdependence!

Michael Roth | Posted 01.15.2013 | College
Read More: Community, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Theodor Adorno, Critical Theory, Pragmatism, College News
Michael Roth

The goal of inquiry isn't Truth with a capital "T;" it is more inquiry. The goal of liberal learning is more learning. We hold onto our "plasticity" by holding onto our ability to be affected by others -- to learn from experience in context.

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Uncommon Sense: Self-Driving Cars and Books That Write Themselves

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.26.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Quantum Physics, Bertrand Russell, Plato, Aristotle, Self-Driving Cars. Ebooks, Michel Foucault, Buddhism, Zen Koan, Firesign Theatre, Video, Comedy News
Michael Sigman

A webzine recently asked me to write 100 words on the question, "If you had to choose between blindness and deafness, which sense would you keep?" I gave them one word: "common."

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To US Representative Steve King: Multiculturalism Encompasses Everyone

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 11.06.2012 | Politics
Read More: Horace Kallen, Michel Foucault, Anita Woolfolk, Antonio Gramsci, Erik Erikson, Melting Pot, Birther Movement, Joel Spring, Multiculturalism, Gunter Myrdal, Representative Steve King, Iowa, Politics News
Warren J. Blumenfeld

The diversity in the U.S. poses great challenges and opportunities. I would advise Mr. King that the way we meet these challenges will determine whether we remain on the abyss of our history or whether we achieve our promise of becoming a shining beacon to the world.

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How A Seasoned Contemporary Artist Handles Herself

Posted 04.11.2012 | Arts
Read More: Deleuze, Andy Warhol, Elaine Sturtevant, Moderna Museet, Michel Foucault, Cybernetics, Sturtevant, Female Artists, Jasper Johns, Slidepollajax, Repetition, Video, Arts News

Elaine Sturtevant made her controversial artistic debut in 1965 when she showed an exhibition of replicates of Andy Warhol's silkscreen floral prints ...

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Chomsky: Moral Justice Trumps "Legal" Justice and America's Narrow Political Spectrum

Naima Ramos-Chapman | Posted 11.06.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature Book Review, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature, Chomsky American Culture, Chomsky-Foucault Debate, Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature Review, Moral Justice, Civil Disobedience Chomsky, Postbourgie, Black Voices News
Naima Ramos-Chapman

Here's my half-baked attempt at giving you some sweet takeaways from The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature.

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Santa, Deconstructed

Derek Nystrom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Santa Claus, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Irony, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Politics News
Derek Nystrom

I've recently realized that Santa Claus actually enacts, in miniature, the various stages of our gradual recognition of and acquiescence to contemporary forms of power and authority. No, seriously, he does. Here's how.

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Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Michel Foucault, Art, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Musee D'Orsay, Museums, Seraut, Paul Gauguin, Painting, San Francisco-California, Arts News
Mat Gleason

No matter how great these "Post-Impressionist Masterpieces" are, they are crammed in a basement overfilled with way too many sleepwalking European tourists.

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Caster Semenya: When Gender Is Not Sex

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Herculine Barbin, Sports, Sex Identity, Michel Foucault, Intersex, Hermaphrodite, Cultural Evolution, Kaate Bornstein, Feminine, Caster Semenya, Masculine, Culture, Gender, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth Debold

It seems pretty likely that Semenya is no longer going to be allowed to compete as a female in the sport that she loves and has trained so hard for.

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Eat Your Way To Enlightenment

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Michel Foucault, Mindfulness, Mindful Eating, Meditation, Food, Eating, Buddhism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Jay Michaelson

Having taught it for many years, I find eating meditation -- yes, eating meditation -- to be one of the simplest, most profound, mindfulness practices. Here are some tips to start your own journey.

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Admiring Continents

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: India, Michel Foucault, South Pacific, Morocco, New Delhi, Mumbai, Travel, Film, Mothers, Paris, Papua New Guinea, Jacques Derrida, Calcutta, North Africa, Quentin Crisp, Sagittarius, Marrakesh, Traveling, Africa, Moms, Europe, Style News
Pablo Ganguli

I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.

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