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Best of Turkish media. Yeni Şafak daily in Noam Chomsky interview fabricates parts and also uses Google Translate for translation:)

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via @cigdemmater Chomsky accuses Turkish daily of fabricating parts of interview Accusing Yeni Şafak, Chomsky published the original version to back up his claims Turkish daily admits to making up parts of Chomsky interview, releases alleged text Turkish daily Yeni Şafak released a statement Aug. 31 following controversy surrounding reporter Burcu Bulut?s interview with Noam … Read more

“The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers… Chomsky vs. Zizek… A literati roundup

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The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) Since 2009, the organization VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts has sought to bring balance to the representation of female authors in the literary world. As revealed by the 2010controversy begun by author Jodi Picoult over the gushing treatment Jonathan Franzen?sFreedom received … Read more

A literati roundup: Noam Chomsky to Postmoderns: Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms?…

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Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms? To the delight and satisfaction of hundreds of our readers, we recently featured an interview in which Noam Chomsky slams postmodernist intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan as ?charlatans? and posers. The turn against postmodernism has been long in coming, a backlash the political … Read more