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Bundle Theory
Bundle theory and past lives...
:: STARTED BY mtheory
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:16 19.12.05
Critical Theorists suckered by science hoax
The Social Text hoax: scientist Alan D. Sokal spoofs the liberal arts academy.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:04 18.12.05
Transphobia vs. Cisgenderism
This thread is to define terms relating to prejudice against trans people and failure of social systems to accomodate trans people. Other welcome topics include examples of same, counterexamples, discussion of whether or not there is a problem, and if there is, potential solutions.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:55 16.12.05
Is Bush the figurehead for Christianity?
When we refer to Christianity, what associations does it bring up and which of these are we justified in taking as a mental shorthand for the bundle of concepts involved in the religion? Do you think of Bush as a figurehead for modern Christianity? And is it always facile to make generalisations of this sort?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:30 16.12.05
Trans people and queer people: Working together and working apart
Ways to build coalitions; categorization; the T in LGBT; commonalities and differences; gender identity vs. sexual orientation.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:57 16.12.05
Class, socio-economics, education, liberalism and identity politics.
Taking an article by Walter Benn Michaels as starting point: Is education a neo-liberal scam? And is a respect for the "Other", really a avoidance of the key issues of inequality? Or is Michaels just an old marxist winbag whose own emphasis on class would ignore just as much - racism, sexism and homophobia - as he accuses others of ignoring?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:44 16.12.05
Technologies that represent --- WASTE
Often people ask what is the current defining technology of the present, a few years ago it was 'information technology', 'the information society' -- however isn't it important to recognize that the fundamental consequence of postmodern society is 'waste' - not the products you consume with such desire but the package it comes in ?
:: STARTED BY sdv (non-human)
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:34 12.12.05
Homo superior?
A discussion of views of human superiority/inferiority/equality with regards to other lifeforms.
:: STARTED BY Evil Scientist
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:29 04.12.05
The legacy of Karl Marx...
What is your sense of the legacy of Marx? Is his philosphy redeemable? Has it been demonstrably disproven? Is he really the Greatest Philosopher? Is he a philosopher at all?
:: STARTED BY Tom Coates
:: 165 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:00 29.11.05
Why We Disagree
The anatomy of difference.
:: STARTED BY Smoothly
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:58 29.11.05
"My beautiful bonsai planet"
Looking at the sociological implications of Google Earth. How could an incredibly detailed 3D Globe affect people's attitudes to ecology or nationalism? How does Google Earth relate to the spectacle, psychogeography .etc
:: STARTED BY Broomvondle
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:34 23.11.05
Deleuze & Guattari
Where should I start with them in the way of books? Are they in the same area as Baudrillard and Derrida? One of them, both, or none?
:: STARTED BY ---
:: 71 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:58 20.11.05
A testing question
Animals, alzheimers, logic.
:: STARTED BY Tryphena Absent
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:41 16.11.05
Saint Anselm, one of the creators of the ontological argument
Discussing ontological arguments, for and against.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 38 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:39 03.11.05
Australian Aboriginality as Race
What does it mean to "be" Aboriginal in Australia? What theories of Australian Aboriginality exist which can account for the complicated position of someone from a culture/race which has been subjected to attempted genocide? What relationships between culture and 'race' are posited in Aboriginality? And what challenges does Aboriginal experience pose to other theories of cultural/racial transmission?
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:30 27.10.05
Knowledge and Social Memes...
... or what we used to call 'Ideology'. A thread to talk about to what extent particular knowledges, and/or practices of knowledge-production, are separable from ideologies, social memes or grand narratives. Science, Intelligent Design, Creationism, conservative Christianity, and suchlike, will probably come into it somewhere (hello search function).
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:26 27.10.05
Intelligent Design, Creationism, And Rightwing Social Memes
How the teaching of non-evolution could affect society.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 127 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:37 26.10.05
Preteens and the sexualizing of our children
A place to discuss a recent(IMHO) phenomenon of children as sexual beings in Western culture.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:44 26.10.05
Al Qaida is less interested in violence than ethics...
Al Qaida is less interested in violence than ethics...
:: STARTED BY sdv (non-human)
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:24 22.10.05
I'm confused
Questions about the forms anti-Semitism takes in different cultures, and specifically about links between educational systems and anti-Semitism.
:: STARTED BY Elbereth
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:11 21.10.05
Political Science?
Why in the world did someone throw these two terms together?
:: STARTED BY Rage
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:29 20.10.05
The Role of the Church in Modern Society
The role of organised religion in contemporary Western culture. In the face of the rise of secularism and individual worship, should organised religion fight back or fade away?
keywords church, state, society, theocracy
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 70 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:06 19.10.05
Debt of Gratitude. But for what, exactly?
Should your parents receive your gratitude for giving you your life, regardless of what you yourself have made of it?
:: STARTED BY Tezcatlipoca
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:49 18.10.05
Religious Syncretism
Or: How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her.
:: STARTED BY babazuf
:: 45 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:15 18.10.05
Where to begin with Martin Heidegger?
Does the fact that he happily wrote "National Socialism and European Being" eclipse "Being and Time?"
:: STARTED BY Foust is SO authentic
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:25 11.10.05
[sub]URBAN Densification: Orlando, FL
articulating urban/suburban issues facing many cities in the US, including/specifically Orlando, FL
Think "Charter for New Urbanism" but with a different positioning.
:: STARTED BY AP
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:07 05.10.05
Are we being fossilised right now?
in the future, everyone will hear you scream. if we saved all of barbelith and put it in a biscuit and an alien form the future ate us, what would we taste like?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:45 02.10.05
Dissertation on Corporate branding
Help me with my 3rd year dissertation by discussing
"what the difference is between corporate identity and corporate branding."
:: STARTED BY Lord Switch
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:17 02.10.05
Is Psychiatry Dying?
The future of the mental health profession. How will it change, what do you think about those changes?
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:19 27.09.05
The Spiritual Void
What is it? Can such a thing as a spriritual void exist? What could go in to fill it if it did?
:: STARTED BY Mirror
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:49 27.09.05
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