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social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
What if the People Governed? Lessons from Chile, Paris and California
youtube.com... See moreIn my final year, I decided to take on the biggest issue of all for Yale’s men: the 268-year-old parietal rules that forbade women staying overnight in a dorm room. I was dating a woman at a local college, so for me, it was as much a personal as a community issue.
The conventional approach would have been to set up a meeting with a university admini
Our job in higher ed isn’t to identify a top 1 percent of people who are freakishly remarkable or who have rich parents, and turn them into a super class of billionaires. It’s to give the bottom 90 a chance to be in the top 10.
—Scott Galloway
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.