Simon Critchley: 'There's no justice without terror' - video

TEDxRamallah: Munir Fasheh-Occupation of Knowledge

The worst conquest is that of knowledge. It led to conquering diversity and pluralism in living by a modern superstition: the belief in a single universal path for knowing, learning, and progressing. Transforming ahaali (no synonym in English; the closest is 'people-in-community') into citizens has been instrumental in the conquest and disastrous to human communities. Whereas the basic relationship in the case of citizens is to a state and institutions, it is in the case of ahaali to one another, to a place, culture, and collective memory. Knowledge, learning, and religion of ahaali have been gradually replaced by institutional ones. Examples from Palestine and what happened in Cairo...

la memoire dure (memory resists)- Rossella Ragazzi

Ibrahim lived with his uncle in the woods in Mali, for a few days he attended Koran school. Alpha comes from Liberia, and during the war his family was dispersed. Nawel lived in Algeria where his large family was forced to have him adopted and taken to France. All these children attended the same preparation class for learning French in a compulsory school in Paris that is aimed at inserting them as soon as possible in normal primary school classes. For 9 months, the film director filmed these children, showing how they were received in France and the relationship established between teachers and pupils. The children learn not only the language but also the values of their host society.

marxism today: Phil Collins

marxism today

Phil Collins

Phil Collins’ work in film, video and photography often provides a platform for the overlooked or the disenfranchised. Shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, ‘marxism today’ is an ongoing project that began by following the fortunes of former teachers of Marxism-Leninism in Communist East Germany. Collins’ short film ‘marxism today (prologue)’ (2010) mixes contemporary interviews with the ex-teachers alongside archive material, to form the centrepiece of this exhibition, which also includes a new video in which a number of concepts central to Marxist economic analysis are introduced to a new generation of students. Relocating from the start of this school year to Manchester, where Engels wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’, Collins’ project prompts a wider reflection on the city’s formative place in the history of radical thinking. Initiating a series of interactions with nearby schools and the local public, it also enquires into the continuing relevance of Marxist ideas in the present day.

‘marxism today’ is co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Cornerhouse, Abandon Normal Devices, Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, Berlin Biennale and Shady Lane Productions.

SEEKING FORMER
TEACHERS OF
MARXISM

Did you teach Marxist-Leninist philosophy at school or university before 1989?

How did your life and career change as a result of perestroika?

Did you have to give up your profession forever?

Find a new subject to teach?

Or find a new career?

Documentary filmmaker Phil Collins is looking for people willing to share their story.

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Requiem for Detroit

radio 4: Analysis- thought experiments

Studies have shown that if the smell of fresh bread is in the air we are far more generous than otherwise. In the past few years, a fascinating range of experiments has begun to shed light on the moral choices humans make. Philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards asks whether the results can tell us not just how we tend to behave, but how we should behave.

publicity's dreams, john berger

from 2:49

Epistemology

Epistemology Is knowledge a subset of that which is both true and believed?

language and culture

language and culture

words (concepts) and their meanings

words (concepts) and their meanings:

sociology

anthropology

enthnology

hegemony

paradigm

esoteric(esotericism)

idiosyncratic

individual

socialization

intangible cultural heritage

intangible cultural heritage (wikipedia)According to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) – or living heritage – is the mainspring of our cultural diversity and its maintenance a guarantee for continuing creativity. It is defined as follows:
Intangible Cultural Heritage means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. For the purposes of this Convention, consideration will be given solely to such intangible cultural heritage as is compatible with existing international human rights instruments, as well as with the requirements of mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals, and of sustainable development.
This Convention - like the World Heritage Convention - developed a listing system (Representative list and Endangered list). The Intergovernmental Committee is currently working on criteria and procedures, and first inscriptions will be made in 2008 or 2009.

claude levi-strauss (structuralism)

claude levi-strauss(wikipedia)

toilet and ideology

('semiotic triangle that correlates exactly with levi-strauss'*' )

underlying ideologies

that ditsiguish cultures, (countries etc.)

children of men (slavoj zizek)

focus of film in the background-crucial- to look at thing(issue)(eg. social opression) directly you dont see it.

tension between fore & background. protagonist/plot microcosm for issue.

'fate of the indivual hero becomes a prism in which you see the background more clearly'

theme of infertility describes also spirtitual or social infertility?

*society without history (despair)

works of art deprived of meaning (decontextualised?)

england (britain)-relies on its substance of tradition,meanings (no constitution)- loss of history (context?)

boat-rootless, solution-renewal-cut roots

killing us softly 3, Jean Kilbourne

killing us softly 3, Jean Kilbourne

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less Barry schwartz

(04:30) choice of identity, not inherited, change at will

'everyday when you wake up in the morning you have to choose what kind of person you want to be'

things to watch(to watch list):

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less Barry schwartz

Killing Us Softly 3 Advertising's Image of Women


Lectures on Great Social Thinkers - Alan Macfarlane 2001 (search on youtube(start with lecture 1)(9 parts))