Literati roundup: “Pierre Bourdieu’s Photographs of Wartime Algeria….”Doctoral Education and the Knowledge Economy..

  Pierre Bourdieu’s Photographs of Wartime Algeria Open Culture by Colin Marshall If you know the work of Pierre Bourdieu, you probably know it as sociology, or perhaps philosophy. Whatever you call the discipline he worked in, the man remained thoroughgoingly concerned with the dynamics of power in every context. Doctoral Education and the Knowledge Economy: European and U.S. … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Yeni Devlet

  Yeni Devlet            Ağustos seçimi Tayyip Erdoğan için Yeni Türkiye’nin Yeni Devleti’nin temelinin atılacağı bir ön başkanlık seçimi. Amiral gemisiSabah ve etrafı başbakanın devlet başkanlığından bahsederken olmuş bitmiş gibi yazıyor artık. 2013 başlarında Yalçın Akdoğan da parlamenter sistemden di’li geçmiş zamanda bahsederdi. Hafızasız bir topluluk olduğumuzdan, gayet organize bir iş olan başkanlık mühendisliğinin olgunlaşmasını ve içeriğini … Read more

Indian government is after Arundhati Roy

Novelist Arundhati Roy could be charged with sedition from FP Passport by Joshua Keating The Indian Home Ministry has given Delhi police the go-ahead to arrest bestselling novelist andactivist Arundhati Roy on charges of sedition. The charges relate to a recent event at which Roy appeared with Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelan. Roy … Read more

Dylan and philosophy: special section from Philosophy & Social Criticism

check out the latest issue. Philosophy and the Habits of Critical Thinking by Reflection Cafe Interview with John Searle (California Univ.-Berkeley) … Is it hard to do philosophy? It’s murder, absolutely. I compare it … if you really want to know how to do it, you get up in the morning, there’s a large brick … Read more