The Peace School, inspired by humanistic psychology and education, has created a new space for children and youth to learn and grow. We believe that education must be built on respect, freedom, creativity, and the nurturing of each child’s inner potential. We warmly invite all specialists, researchers, and enthusiasts to join this movement and contribute to the promotion of peace culture and humanistic education. The post The Peace School’s Call for Promoting Humanistic Education appeared...| Global Campaign for Peace Education
I will be debating Andrew Wilson, live on stage, in Nashville, Tennessee, this November 16. Yes, that Andrew Wilson. I expect it will be a dumpster fire like it was with Sargon, and as experienced by Dillahunty last year with Wilson. But I’ll stick around. Because I only do this for real money now, as […] The post The Carrier-Wilson Debate in Nashville: Christianity Or Secular Humanism, Which Is Best for Society? appeared first on Richard Carrier Blogs.| Richard Carrier Blogs
Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…| Sounding Out!
Recently I spent some time at a liberal arts college, doing close reading out loud with a group of the profs. It was lovely; stimulating, collegial, civilised. A little pocket of air outside history. But I was aware of being an interloper, of feeling inimical to them. But why? After all, I’m an obsessive reader – and they do little else. I’m uninterested in most kinds of worldly success – and, e.g., none of the six professors present had ever heard of YCombinator. We both love learnin...| argmin gravitas
. Voice and sound theorist Zeynep Bulut’s Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (Goldsmiths Press, 2025) is a remarkable work that reconfigures the ways we define “voice.” The text is organized in…| Sounding Out!
Celebrated photographer Sebastião Salgado has died after more than 50 years of committed documentary work; here BJP draws on past interviews to give an insight into his approach| 1854 Photography
i begin with an acknowledgement of the myriad of organizers, scholars, artists, and teachers that have shaped and continue to shape the way that i think and write. Édouard Glissant, Christina Sharpe, Lucille Clifton, Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Sylvia Wynter, Katherine McKittrick, Dionne Brand, June Jordan, and Audre Lorde. it is through their profound reflections […]| Sounding Out!
.. “So I have heard The Hum… The rest of what I’m about to tell you is beyond reasoning, and understanding.” Here, in a Reddit post, Michael A. Sweeney prefaces their story of their first encounter with “the hum,” an unexplained phenomenon heard by only a small percentage of listeners around the world. The hum […]| Sounding Out!
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. –Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five On an almost visceral level, we may likewise remark that states of “latency” involve downward movement, as in the case of something falling by the wayside and lying unnoticed until its presence is felt. — Hans Gumbrecht, After 1945: Latency as Origin of […]| Sounding Out!
When the COVID-19 global pandemic began, news reports and studies throughout the world began citing a lot of sound-based statistics: drastic reductions in noise pollution in urban centres, AI recordings of cellphone coughs, shifting soundscapes at home with new routines and work settings, and sonic sensitivities cultivated in quarantine and isolation. At the same time, […]| Sounding Out!
Ritual and ceremony are inseparable from human life. Even when we're not trying, we find ourselves creating and participating in an endless string of them.| Nathan B. Weller
In the Humanist Movement there are two types of secular clergy who serve their local communities. The first, which I covered in my previous post, is a Humanist Chaplain. The second, is a Humanist Celebrant.| Nathan B. Weller
The concept of secular clergy is admittedly a bit confusing at first. However, it makes perfect sense in the context of diversity and representation. The nonreligious are just as likely to need the kind of advice and support chaplains offer as anyone else. After all, we're human.| Nathan B. Weller
In the United States finding and joining a local humanist community can be difficult. Not because they're unwelcoming or exclusive, but because so few of them exist.| Nathan B. Weller
It's a common misunderstanding, but humanism is not a religion and identifying as a humanist is not a profession of faith. In a lot of ways, it's kind of the opposite.| Nathan B. Weller
If you're a fan of science, liberal arts, democracy, and human rights you may also like humanism.| Nathan B. Weller
“A focus on listening [with technology] shifts the idea of freedom of speech from having a platform of expression to having the possibility of communication” (K. Lacey) One of the biggest social me…| Sounding Out!
“Diego Rivera, Water, Origin of Life, 1951” © Joaquín Martínez 2012 Flickr under CC BY 2.0 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.[1] At the time it was wr…| Critical Posthumanism Network
The humanist Erasmus was the original inspiration for the Anabaptists. That is the surprising thesis of Abraham Friesen (no relation to me) in his book “Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Comm…| J. Glenn Friesen
How much should a photographer’s style define the documentation of their subjects? Inspired by religious painting, theater, and film, Lúa Ribeira’s first photobook depicts people in the margins…| c4 journal
