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Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far Right?
Julian Göpffarthopendemocracy.netThey lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
The deracination of literature
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The death of the public intellectual
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The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but it
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
“June Jordan was an architect,” or so declares the black feminist writer and blogger Alexis Pauline Gumbs.[1] This declaration involves some political risk on Gumbs’ part, as Jordan is more popularly known as a writer, playwright, and poet. Several rhetorical questions immediately come to mind when one considers the veracity of her claim. Questions... See more
cldavisii • Representing the “Architextural” Musings of June Jordan
