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Mid-Century Masterpieces: BBC TVC, empty corridors, abandoned newsrooms, still-working editing suites

sideways14 wrote 2 days ago: The magnificent TV Centre Foyer with mosaic and costume racks awaiting pick-up.It has provided a wel … more →

Tags: Architecture, Art, Design and typography, film, Photography and Olympus Pen, Style/Fashion/Interiors, BBC TV centre, Bruce Forsyth, Dr Who, Newsroom

Interview with Ryan Haecker on Right Hegelianism and Christian Theology1 comment

El Mono Liso wrote 1 month ago: Originally published at my personal blog. Ryan Haecker is a scholar on the Christian theology of Ger … more →

Tags: interviews

Interview with Tom O'Brien: One Marxism, MMT, and the Eurozone Crisis. 4 comments

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: Tom O’Brien is the host of the From Alpha to Omega.  This interview was completed just before … more →

Tags: interviews, News, Podcasts, Left turn, Ideology, Marxism, occupy wall street, Ecology, Five Star Movement

Ideology and the Individual In Cinema, II

stalinwasarobot wrote 2 months ago: By David A. First, before I begin, the following is not intended to make a conclusion on whether or … more →

Tags: Left turn, Marxism, Socialism, media, History, Ideology, Economics, Art, Polemics

Interview with Pham Binh on Leninism and its discontents 1 comment

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: Pham Binh has been a revolutionary socialist since he was 16. He’s from from Rochester, NY, an … more →

Tags: interviews, Left turn, Marxism, Ideology

Interview with Brian Hioe on Japanese Marxism1 comment

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: Brian Hioe is a member of the  Platypus Affiliated Society  and an undergraduate at New York Univers … more →

Tags: interviews, Education, Marxism, Ideology, platypus 2

Interview with Daniel Spaulding on Communization, Occupy, and the spectre of aesthetics. 8 comments

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: Daniel Spaulding is a graduate student in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. He … more →

Tags: Art, Ideology, interviews

Why the Left Needs to Be Agnostic about Religion: Part I3 comments

gavrilo2 wrote 2 months ago: In an essay recently re-blogged here, the author lays out a case for why he believes a rapprochement … more →

Tags: Religion, Science, Socialism, Religion, Tactics

Interview with McKenzie Wark on the outer limits of Marxism and Information Theory 5 comments

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: McKenzie Wark is originally from Newcastle, Australia, but moved to New York City in 2000. He is Pro … more →

Tags: Ideology, interviews, Marxism, Science, Skepticism, Socialism, technology, Climate, information theory

Is there a Pessimism of the Strong? 1 comment

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: Nietzsche wrote, in his more youthful work The Birth of Tragedy, the following question: , “Is pessi … more →

Psychoanalysis, Psycho-dialectics, or Psycho-synthesis? Or, Why Hegel is not Freud is not Lacan4 comments

paratelos wrote 2 months ago: Cain Pinto My courage fails me, therefore, at the thought of rising up as a prophet before my fellow … more →

Tags: anti-dialectics, conservatism, Education, endorsements and reviews, humanism, Ideology, logic, Polemics, Psychoanalysis

Thoughts on an empty chair

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: Andrew Kliman in a rather opaque essay on Raya Dunayevskaya’s thought has quite a few paragrap … more →

Tags: Religion

The weasel in the fine print: Henwood illustrates Obamacare's (un?)intended consequences2 comments

El Mono Liso wrote 2 months ago: For the past four years in regards to Healthcare and education, I have heard a few of my liberal fri … more →

Tags: News, Left turn, Ideology, Government, Business

Psychoanalysis and Environmentalism, Part II.i

paratelos wrote 3 months ago: Cain Pinto The biocentrist[1] and the Bright Green Environmentalist[2] are siblings. They compete to … more →

Tags: endorsements and reviews, humanism, Environmentalism, Skepticism, technology, ethics, Religion, Personal Life, History

Psychoanalysis and Environmentalism, Part II2 comments

paratelos wrote 3 months ago: Cain Pinto The Fruit of the Earth: Of Personal and Impersonal Ecological Conservationism as Forms of … more →

Tags: anti-dialectics, conservatism, Environmentalism, ethics, History, humanism, Ideology, logic, Personal Life

"The Color of Black Power is Green" and The Failures of Identity Politics.

Arya Moghadam wrote 3 months ago: There is a terrific documentary that was released two years ago called “The Black Power Mixtap … more →

Tags: Marxism, Ideology

Review- Paul Ricoeur. "Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation" (1971)

paratelos wrote 3 months ago: Cain Pinto Ricoeur’s reading of Freud is a rare and sympathetic attempt to grapple philosophically w … more →

Tags: Science, endorsements and reviews, Skepticism, Reviews, ethics, Religion, Ideology, Art, anti-dialectics

Interview with David Poulter on the New Atheism, Atheism Plus, and the Skeptical Movement3 comments

El Mono Liso wrote 3 months ago: C. Derick Varn: You and I have both followed the careers and patterns of a few of the predominant me … more →

Tags: interviews, Science, Skepticism, Left turn, logic

Psychoanalysis and Environmentalism, Part I

paratelos wrote 3 months ago: Cain Pinto The quest to protect nature from wanton abuse, degradation and irreversible ecological cr … more →

Tags: Science, humanism, Environmentalism, Skepticism, technology, ethics, Religion, History, Ideology


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