Marc | November 27, 2009
Max Forte has just produced another posting on the historical relation of Anthropology and Science entitled The Social Production of Science and Anthropology as Knowledge for Domination. Don’t let the title put you off, it is well worth reading and, having studied the period under question myself, I can also say that it is, in [...]
Marc | November 26, 2009
I really don’t like rap at all, but one of my ex-students just sent me a link to an incredibly powerful rap video (hat tip to Lindsay Aranoff). The video speaks for itself. Do not watch it if you have a weak stomach.
Marc | November 26, 2009
CBC just ran a report that noted that Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the German Inspector General (roughly Chief of Staff) has asked to be “relieved of duties” after the Bild published still photographs of the September 4th airstrike against two tanker trucks captured by the Taliban (see also AFP, Earth Times, Die Zeit). Not only has [...]
Marc | November 13, 2009
One of the things that is often forgotten these days is why people fight – not nations, not governments; people. All to often, especially during long conflicts with not actual “fighting” in a homeland, we forget and dismiss the conflicts and blame those who go to do the fighting as being “war mongers” and “myrmidons” [...]
Marc | November 3, 2009
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has just released a briefing on anti-terrorist cartoons in the Saudi Arabian press. As with all humour, it has a cutting edge to it. My favorites, and I’ll admit I have a warped sense of humour, really capture how what Richard Dawkins calls Mind Viruses operate.
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