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The Hidden Injuries of Class
July 11, 2024 16:16 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBBy Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A common quest for understanding
July 09, 2024 23:49 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBExcerpts from collected essays from the meeting of 21 researchers at the Papal residence to explore topics of common interest concerning Time, the creation of the universe, and God.
Politics, Art, and the Aesthetic
June 05, 2024 22:59 - 13 minutes - 6.48 MBAn interesting short article that uses Futurism, Abstract Expressionism, Neoclassicism as examples of aesthetic acorns that contain metaphysics of political movements, and in doing so are able to draw people who align with such politics.
History of the Word: A Language History of the World
April 07, 2024 02:10 - 24 minutes - 11.8 MBNicholas Ostler
Mute Compulsion: A Marxist theory on the Economic Power of Capital
March 18, 2024 02:47 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBSøren Mau, 2023
Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
March 14, 2024 12:42 - 10 minutes - 5.27 MBA Common quest for understanding. 1988
The Social Construction of Reality
March 09, 2024 17:38 - 36 minutes - 34.2 MBJohn R. Searle, 2010. This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, ...
Wild Grass: 3 Tales of Change in Modern China
February 13, 2024 01:58 - 28 minutes - 13.7 MBIan Johnson, 2004
Boris Groys, Comrades of Time
February 06, 2024 14:12 - 19 minutes - 9.44 MBFamed art critic Boris Groys’s thoughts on time and the contemporary
What is Contemporary Art?
February 04, 2024 16:11 - 30 minutes - 14.7 MBE-Flux Joyrnal’s assembled these and writings by critics and curators
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends
February 03, 2024 00:06 - 11 minutes - 5.61 MBBy Tao Tao Liu
All the Real Indians died off
November 22, 2023 21:11 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBAll the Real Indians died off and 20 other myths about Native Americans, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, 2016
The Invisible Collection and other short stories by Stefan Zweig
November 17, 2023 22:31 - 1 hour - 56 MB1925
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
November 16, 2023 02:55 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBJillian Schwedler, Fifth edition, 2020
Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess
November 15, 2023 19:39 - 8 minutes - 4.02 MBBataille focuses on the visceral, the erotic, the relation of society to the primeval. 1985
Why Arabs Lose Wars
October 30, 2023 01:11 - 51 minutes - 24.6 MBWhy Arabs Lose Wars by Norvell B. De Atkine Middle East Quarterly December 1999
Empty and Full
October 18, 2023 12:17 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThe Language of Chinese Painting, by François Cheng, 1994
Reading Reddit threads aloud
October 02, 2023 22:10 - 6 minutes - 6.02 MBComments on threads that amuse me
A Time to keep Silence
September 15, 2023 22:40 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBTravel writing by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with an introduction by Karen Armstrong. 1957
Arab History
September 11, 2023 18:15 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAssorted articles on middle eastern politics
Arab Fractures
August 31, 2023 23:59 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBCitizens, States, and Social Contracts: Essays by Perry Cammack, Michele Dunne, Amr Hamzawy, Marc Lynch, Marwan Muasher, Yezid Sayigh, Maha Yahya