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Because acknowledging that humanitarian aid is only possible when it coincides with the interests of the “powers that be” does not have to mean giving way to political forces.

Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience

Instead, Professor Kahneman favored an alternative that he termed “adversarial collaboration.” When people who disagree work together to test a hypothesis, they are involved in a common endeavor. They are trying not to win, but to figure out what’s true. They might even become friends.

Cass R. Sunstein • Opinion | The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries

resistance reveals preference and affinity, and fear and suspicion, political sympathy and personal antipathy, and the way these might come or go together. This is resistance as conflicted engagement

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Finally, oppositions help to shape ideas by providing contrast. Albert Rothenberg suggests that the construction of oppositions is the most reliable way of generating new ideas (Rothenberg 1971; 1996; 2015).

Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

Should I Stop Speaking to My Trump-Supporting Friends?

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It should be recognized that a defining feature of a synergistic society is that participation in it is voluntary. If people do not choose to engage in a given cooperative activity, the implication is that they do not perceive that activity to be helpful, either for themselves or for others. Efforts to promote social cooperation within a synergisti

Nathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect

Bishop does claim that relational art can have strong political power, and can produce democratic relations, but for her this happens when it cultivates situations that are not socially benign and consensual, like those Bourriaud tends to focus on and potentially to celebrate. For Bishop, democracy is enacted through art practices that cultivate so

Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)

Reconciling Opposites Jul 02

Reconciling opposites in various aspects of life, such as freedom-order, individual-society, and rationality-sentiment, is explored through various perspectives and philosophical ideas.

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tacitly acknowledge the bankruptcy of their own anti-government, anti-regulation rhetoric. If, on the other hand, they fought a rearguard action, if they generated controversy and threw sand in the gears, they at least had a chance to energize their base and slow me and the Democrats down at a time when the country was sure to be impatient.