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But I'm on your *side*.....or, why clever people can't be racist.
Meditations on the awkward questions of cultural tourism and cultural patronage, and how the concepts of racism, and subsequently of whatever other "-ism", including sexism and homophobia interact with self-perceptions and self-presentations. Key questions that recur are "can acts be separated from people", and "what is it to be a 'good person' in these terms, and is it a defence or a prevention, a regimen or an essential characteristic", but the focus is pretty loose.
:: STARTED BY Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
:: 164 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:32 27.07.06
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Request for information please.
:: STARTED BY Dark side of the Moonfrog1
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:40 26.07.06
Therapeutic and alternative communities
the Atlantis Commune- thoughts?
:: STARTED BY foolish fat finger
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:12 20.07.06
Women and men are not the same. shock horror. the tale that can't be told...
the paper that science rejects...
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:40 20.07.06
Concept interrogation: "A Clash of Cultures"
A thread where we look at a phrase or concept and analyse it
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:48 19.07.06
A thread about ‘recovery’
Is it necessary to know everything about the past? Can one live with unanswered questions? And fear, too, of discovery; of what one might find hidden.
:: STARTED BY Twice
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:57 18.07.06
Why isn't sexuality a paraphilia?
If you can't get off without a specific object, act or body part you have a paraphilia. If you can't get off without a partner of a specific gender you have a sexuality. Why is there a distinction?
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:49 16.07.06
Colored -> Black -> African-American -> Person of Color
Does the language used when discussing race matter, and what do the changes mean?
:: STARTED BY PatrickMM
:: 81 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:43 16.07.06
Freedom in Relationships?
You're in a happy, stable relationship with someone. But how free are you? Do you care?
:: STARTED BY Tezcatlipoca
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:12 16.07.06
Motherhood - can you be too old?
Patricia Rashbrook receives IVF treatment at 63 to become Britain's oldest mother.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:47 10.07.06
She works hard for the money
... so hard for it, honey. The experience of the (?) new working class; what's it like to be a worker these days; how have changes in forms of work registered experientially? And where can we go to look for answers to these questions?
:: STARTED BY Jackie Susann
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:02 07.07.06
A national language?
Tripped off by Mr Vento, should nations have an official language?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:12 06.07.06
Fancy an Open Lecture?
A new site with listings for free (or cheap) academic lectures open to the public.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:49 06.07.06
An atheist manifesto
text of a manifesto by sam harris, a stanford philosophy graduate and writer who published 'end of faith' to acclaim last year.
thoughts? comments?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 40 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:28 05.07.06
Contrapower in the Classroom: Harassment of Women in Power
There's been a lot of research done on harassment of students by professors. However, I'm looking to research and discuss when student conduct towards a female professor results in harassment.
:: STARTED BY RetroChrome
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:23 04.07.06
Questioning the validity of indoctrinated beliefs
Is it actually possible to permanently overcome beliefs with which one was indoctrinated as a child? This is a question I've been struggling with a bit lately, particularly with the thread on atheism giving me another opportunity to assess the worldview that I was indoctrinated with as a child - namely atheism.
:: STARTED BY Mirror
:: 30 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:22 04.07.06
White Guilt and War: Why Shelby Steele thinks the West is losing
Stanford University research fellow Shelby Steele has a controversial theory on why America's huge military power is ineffective in Iraq and elsewhere: 'White Guilt' is holding them back.
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:18 29.06.06
"The Body Sovereign"
Devising a possible legal standard for state authority over bodies.
:: STARTED BY Persephone
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:55 28.06.06
Aristotle's Poetics
In this thread, we discuss anything related to Aristotle's Poetics. How does it fit into the rest of his philosophy? Why did he write it? What are the major questions concerning Poetics? Anything else.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:45 28.06.06
Are There Any Transvestites in The Audience?
Are you a transvestite? Do clothes maketh the man or woman? What are the commonalities between transvesticism and cross-dressing, and where do the differences lie? And finally... WHY is a transvestite?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 58 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:19 15.06.06
Independence
Breakaway states and freedom fighters, National Assemblies and civil war, the devolution of power from centralised government and the issues around political independence.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:50 14.06.06
The Moral Case For Abortion
I'm throwing this up without due care and attention I admit, but I'm wondering if there's a moral case to justify abortion, beyond the wellbeing and wishes of the mother?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 97 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:38 11.06.06
Life-life: Sovereignty.
Agamben, Foucault (a dash of Schmitt and an invitation to Deleuze). Or a question on: many biopowers?
:: STARTED BY multitude.tv
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:54 04.06.06
Porn Free: Attitudes to Pornography
Pornography, and more specifically softcore het boy pornography - what is it? How does it work? Would you like to see a beautiful bisexual model reveal all, and if so why?
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 99 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:29 02.06.06
A woman, soldier, dies in Afghanistan...
...and the media goes a little nuts over it. Is she a woman soldier or a soldier who happens to be a woman? And why does the extensive coverage irritate me?
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:28 25.05.06
Aspiration Sets and You
Marketing to identity groups. How identity can be used to manipulate.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:08 07.05.06
The Role of the Museum
How do you see the function of the museum in modern society?
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:16 05.05.06
Caste Politics in India
Correlations between Western society, aka. UK, Australia and USA and Indian society with special attention placed on the 'illegal' caste system. Every human society has 'levels' of importance and status so is this something that will continue forever in every human society, unspoken yet adhered to?
:: STARTED BY Slate
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:59 24.04.06
The Politics of Birthing.
Is the power to birth a baby being removed from mother to medical professionals in the developed world?
:: STARTED BY Nobody's girl
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:42 18.04.06
Race, hegemony and diversity
Does an acknowledgment of racial differences promote racial stereotypes? Does not acknowledging race serve to promote hegemony rather than diversity?
:: STARTED BY girakittie
:: 53 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:57 18.04.06
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