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Cast your ballot for the world's top 100 public intellectuals
In our latest issue, FP has teamed up once again with Britain's Prospect magazine to compile a list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals. Our first effort in 2005 inspired quite the debate. Since then, dozens of new intellectuals have been added to the list: economists, clerics, neuroscientists, and environmentalists, to name just a few -- all of them influential in shaping the ideas of our time.
Acting up
When "stand-up philosopher" Slavoj Zizek calls for "repeating Lenin" or praises Robespierre's defence of terror, some observers might be tempted to ask whether his entire intellectual oeuvre is not just some kind of act. No, says John Clark. "It's not just a pose; it's a position."
found at Hans' blog.
Lonely Travel's Nasty Surprise
This is some very bad news for travel publisher Lonely Planet. One of the firm's travel writers admits in a new book that he never even went to some of the countries he reviewed, that he made up most of what he wrote and that he plagiarized the rest. It's an absolute shocker to the company who has rushed to review and edit all of the books he worked on. He also dealt drugs on the side to offset his low salary and accepted free travel, in contravention of company rules.Is the Renaissance scholar dead? Adrian Monk and AC Grayling debate.
Global museums in the twenty-first century
The fact that a Guggenheim museum is being planned for Vilnius is indicative of the conviction that "de-provincialization" can only be achieved by taking part in global projects. Meanwhile, the cultural demands of the local population go unheeded. Vilnius is not Bilbao!a return to orality
I've been making my way through Robert Bringhurst's The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology, which came out a couple years ago in Canada, but which is now getting an American release from Counterpoint. Bringhurst is probably best known to the readers of this site as the author of The Elements of Typographic Style, though he's well-known as a poet and translator of Native American languages in Canada. This book is a collection of essays looking broadly at oral, written, and visual language and culture through an ecological lens, a viewpoint not dissimilar to the gatherings of wood s lot, the work of his fellow Canadian Mark Woods.
