Sublime

the local manager and the central administrator invested time in classifying the role of a third person, the actual worker, with a net value-added of zero for all of their efforts, which was actually nearly a net negative. How should a large organization classify its people? Or maybe the right question to ask is: should a large organization classif

Plato said those who tell the stories rule society and he was right.

It’s consistently noted as the dawning of our era of live disasters and simulcast wars: O. J. Simpson fleeing in the white Bronco, the towers collapsing, etc., although there had of course been other televised traumas before.

politics

a movie like Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee, that tackles America’s racial tensions, these productions offer a perspective on the world that is informed by the way a community sees the world. The creations of producers, like Glover and Lee, act as a vessel of cultural information that is discussed and negotiated by the community to decide whether

As psychoanalysts got to work adjusting returning GIs and newly re-domesticated housewives to the bewildering modern age, many postwar neo-Freudians, including the humanist psychologists, took a more critical approach. Suddenly acutely wary of mass society, they were less interested in adjusting individuals to potentially sick social norms than in

Hence, classes are not without their own internal social, political, sectoral and other divisions, and the situated-classexperiences of various historical protagonists—the urban poor, politicians, middle-class gentrifiers, beat cops, union bureaucrats, assembly-line workers, activists, real estate developers, combat veterans, etc.—are foregrounded

This book is about the social body in which we are the unwitting cells. It is about the hidden ways in which that social group manipulates our psychology, and even our biology. It is about how a social organism scrambles for survival and works for mastery over other organisms of its kind. It is about how we, without the slightest sense of what the