Fear and... something - Austin Kleon
Fear and boredom? Fear and lethargy?| Austin Kleon
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many eighteenth-century European writers also claimed, made it courteous, that is, 'civil.' 'The terrestrial paradise,' said Voltaire, 'is Paris.'"| Free Association
Islamophobia is one of the ideological currents that significantly undergirds our current world order . . . and Zohran Mamdani’s election disrupts the flow of that ideological current. The post Zohran Mamdani and Strategic Islamophobia appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception. The post Bibles Belong to All of Us: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Interviews Hannah Strømmen appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Peter Brown’s Wild Robot series transcends the anti-humanist moralism of much contemporary children’s literature and presents a much-needed vision of a habitable future.| Damage
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Discover how rivers that shaped European cities helped build Vienna, Cologne, Paris, and Rome into powerful centers.| World Rivers
Notes on Civilization 7| Chris Short
Author: Alexander Dugin Translator: Jafe Arnold Chapter 1 of Noomakhia – The Yellow Dragon: The Civilizations of the Far East (Moscow: Academic Project, 2018) *** China is recognized to be an independent and unique civilization by virtually everyone, and therefore there is no need to prove this. Rather, we are faced with attempting to reveal the structure […]| Eurasianist Internet Archive
Author: Alexander Dugin Translators: Jafe Arnold and John Stachelski Chapter 7 of Mysteries of Eurasia (Moscow: Arktogeia, 1991) / Chapter 6/Part 6/Book I of Foundations of Geopolitics (Moscow, Arktogeia, 2000). *** Geopolitics as an “Intermediary” Science Geopolitical concepts have long been the most important factor in modern politics. These concepts are based on general principles which allow one to […]| Eurasianist Internet Archive
Human rights: we all have some, although many of us apparently want ever-more of them. Although they’re written into constitutions, they seem to be changing all the time. Activists demand new rights, human rights tribunals and courts discover or invent new ones almost out of thin air, and politicians are quick to take credit for granting or defending them. But where do human rights actually come from? And what are they based on? Patrick Keeney provides a timely reminder of Christianity’s ...| C2C Journal
In the following months some of us will offer an eight week seminar exclusively dedicated to a close and analytical reading of the enigmatic work La persuasione e la rettorica (1910) by Italian thi…| Infrapolitical Reflections
Türkiye’s Gobekli Tepe has long been considered the world’s oldest settlement, an extraordinary outlier. Here,… The post Boncuklu Tarla: The Town Older than Gobekli Tepe appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
Having finished Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia, which we were talking about recently, I found an early response from Jay Spencer Green in the now defunct Irish Left Review (visible through th…| Death is a Whale
We all hold to faith or hope in things that are no longer working for us. We continue to believe in systems that are not just broken but irredeemable. And our belief in those system and our hope in…| Another End of the World is Possible
Michael Dowd invited us, at the end of the world, to love the world.| Another End of the World is Possible
I must again beat on this point, I’m ready to explode like Mt. St. Helens, some Russia bish let her toddler run around restaurant shrieking randomly, sounds still reverberating through my nerves hours later…meanwhile she look through backpack as if it was her private bathroom. Oh you’re anti-natalist! You oppose WHITE WOMIN having children going in public…no I oppose decivilization and poeple shitting in middle of road. The real anti-natalism is promotion of this matriarchy. Don’t y...| Tanner Hauser
If the only way to stop climate change is to burn more fossil fuels in the short run, then we're already doomed.| Collapse Musings
Preliminary returns research into the longest-lived institutions in the world.| Long Now
