A Quick Word on How Social Media is Rewiring the Democratic Ganglion
All major political epochs have their corresponding media epochs: the reformation and the printing press, the nation state and the broadsheet newspaper, nationalism and the pamphlet. We now find ourselves at such an epoch, somewhere between the global village and the filter bubble.
Bare Breasts, but no Bunga Bunga
A performance protest against Berlusconi by "sextremist" group FEMEN shows how art world is using exhibition space to demonstrate its concern the future of Italy.
“To Art Its Freedom”: Right-Wing Arts Policy in the New Austria
Art can be a challenge to power, or be power’s instrument. Sometimes it can even end up being both. This last is what happened recently in Austria, where a new, right-wing government has adopted the motto of an art movement that formed in Vienna in 1897, precisely in opposition to conservative leadership.
Lorde’s Crusade
It sounds comical, but the spat between Lorde and "America's Rabbi" is a perfect encapsulation of a serious problem in contemporary political discourse
The Woman Question in Plato’s Republic
Mary Townsend, the author of The Woman Question in Plato’s Republic, discusses philosopher-queens, Socrates' radical solution to the question of women's place in society.
Performing a Seduction: Performance Art Houston’s “Political Seducer’s Diary”
Inspired by Kierkegaard’s “The Seducer’s Diary,” @PerformanceArtHouston asks how the question “what is beautiful” might determine “what is just” and ultimately affect politics.
The Grand Trumpeter
He came to the United States of America at a time quite different than that of the Catholic Crisis which Dostoevsky had observed in Spain. The prevailing perversion of many Americans was, making use of their democracy as a godly tool, purporting to protect their way of life they viewed as threatened by forces both from without and within by demonizing and pre-judging those forces. The forces being Bad Hombres who immigrate illegally to the country bringing with them crime and drug addiction (not to mention infidels from Muslim nations that want to kill all Americans), and loose laws by tolerant administrations that allowed for morally degenerate groups like homosexuals, transsexuals, and others to claim better or near equal footing in business and government relations.
John Dewey and Art
By: Alaina Hammond John Dewey (1859-1952) was perhaps the leading educational philosopher of the early twentieth century, and viewed humanity
Harvey Weinstein and the Aims and Structure of Hollywood
Howl of the Day: Oct 13, 2017 Political scientist Corey Robin has an interesting take on the current Harvey Weinstein
Penelope’s Choice
By: Michael Grenke The Odyssey’s Penelope is a Thinker, a person who is effective in facing her world and its