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Anarchism (and an interesting web site about it)
Useful contexts to think within, when channelling your frustration about injustice, feeling powerless, trapped in a 9-to-5, in a system that denies you much freedom blah blah blah
:: STARTED BY Hysteric douchegasm
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:04 11.03.04
Elite Institutions
Are elite institutions in and of themselves a bad idea?
:: STARTED BY passer
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:13 10.03.04
The complete and utter breakdown of society
Panic in Year Zero! How will you cope?
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:16 09.03.04
Rights
What are they, where do we get them from, what can we do with them?
:: STARTED BY Smoothly
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:44 03.03.04
Empire
Tell me about this book, if you would.
:: STARTED BY YNH
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:36 02.03.04
Modern German Intellectual Thought
No summary available
:: STARTED BY smh2001
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:48 29.02.04
The Creation of a World Culture and the Democratization of Artistic Expression
Warning: No one is really that qualified to talk about this, especially me.
:: STARTED BY kaonashi
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:52 28.02.04
Me Tarzan, You Jane: When Identities Attack
An attempt to think about the psychic or imaginary dimension of identity politics without repeating the public/private divide, and to model a kind of left-wing politics that can deal with antagonism.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:35 24.02.04
How to Shift a Paradigm
When was the last time you experienced a noticeable adjustment of your beliefs/values? How did this happen? (How) Can this be induced in others?
:: STARTED BY wembley can change in 28 days
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:55 22.02.04
Philosophy of fan fiction - Question for Deva...
file under: fan fiction, slash, authorship, queering the author, appropriation, literature, subverting copyright and trademark.
:: STARTED BY
:: 235 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:00 21.02.04
The West, the Arab world and shame/guilt culture
How do the West and the Arab world interact with the ideas of shame and guilt cultures. More broadly, are these terms still relevant? and what is their relationship to "reason" or "the rational"?
:: STARTED BY West Baltimore Hausing Project
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:53 18.02.04
When a Red Indian is not a Red Indian and other un-PC terminology.
What are the acceptable terms for referring to 'Red Indians' when I mean native Americans from the 1800's who wore feathers in their hair? Why, if I can say 'black' and 'white' without offending anyone, can I not say Red Indian?
:: STARTED BY Olulabelle
:: 140 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:34 18.02.04
Popular culture and the 11 year cycle
a dissicusion of the evolution of different cultures, hippies, punk, madchester, britpop, the big movements where music, art, fasion, drugs, etc are all joined together, why do they happen, why isn't there one now, and what will be be the next one, and when will it happen?
:: STARTED BY the rake at the gates
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:09 18.02.04
On teaching horrors and lies
Is there anything one shouldn't teach? Both dangerously appealing topics, and shocking or appalling ones.
:: STARTED BY Ex
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:57 16.02.04
Paul Virilio
Discussion of the work of Paul Virilio. Keywords: nutter, technology, speed, politics, space, time, light, horizon.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:20 14.02.04
"Having an ego", "self-centredness", "self-importance", and other wonderful gifts...
The development of the word 'ego' over time. Are words like 'egocentric' and 'self-centred' used by society to cut us off from our true selves? Is viewing things subjectively instead of in society's terms 'a deadly sin'?
:: STARTED BY 40%
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:56 08.02.04
Male androgyny and, uh... 'polarity'.
Are bisexual-identifying men more likely to be attracted to (and simulate) androgyny than their homo/hetero counterparts? Why the long hair?
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:54 25.01.04
The Problem with Adbusters
What's the deal with Adbusters? Fashion over content, surprising Starbucks experiences, etc.
:: STARTED BY Querelle
:: 79 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:43 16.01.04
Reichian (or Bioelectric) therapy
Worth investigating?
:: STARTED BY --
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:46 16.01.04
Fanfiction and/as violence
Fanfiction and protocols of reading: how is interpretation of a text policed, and how does violence play out in different types of reading or response to a text?
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 28 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:26 15.01.04
Transgenderism and Fascist Imagery
Nazis and Gothy boy-dykes loving them. What's the deal?
:: STARTED BY The Tower Always Falls
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:35 08.01.04
On the Varieties of Anarchy
A discussion of various systems of anarchy. How to have a society without government.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:16 08.01.04
Patterns in age, politics, and gender
Are anarchists mostly 15 year old females and 21 year old males? Are republicans mostly in their 50's?
:: STARTED BY Rage is back! Attack!
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:59 04.01.04
The Purpose of Government
What should the role of government be? What are its primary and secondary roles?
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:48 19.12.03
Thinly veiled - the ethics of allobiography
What are the ethics of using real life incidents and characters in creative projects? (And can I use what you just said in my novel? Please?)
:: STARTED BY Ex
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:38 17.12.03
Fuck!
Why does language offend us so?
:: STARTED BY The Undertoad
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:17 08.12.03
Rape vs Rejection
Examining a perspective where rape is preferable to rejection.
:: STARTED BY cusm
:: 38 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:35 02.12.03
Practical, political parenting - birth and rearing
Children - why and how should one create and rear them?
:: STARTED BY West Baltimore Hausing Project
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:22 28.11.03
What is this competition?
The Economist and Shell International Limited, green-socialist sympathisers since 1846
:: STARTED BY unheimlich manoeuvre
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:44 27.11.03
On Self-Deprecation
Or "Why Can't Snee Draw?", and "How Can We Hate Ourselves SO MUCH?"
:: STARTED BY Mister Snee
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:30 21.11.03
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