These days, readers are unwilling to unilaterally assign blame to one character in a Manichean view of human nature. Even in children’s literature, with perhaps a slightly higher tolerance for ‘black and white’ morality,the opponent webis more complex than ever. Even if a story contains a ...
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher,born in Berlin in 1892. He was wide-ranging in his interests; his work waltzed from translations of verses by the French poet Charles Baudelaire to the essayThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (In a nutshell? Originals good;...
ISIS just like Zionism (at least if we take seriously their media production, in itself a matter of debate) does imagine that a land is promised to them, or should belong to “the Muslims” at large, irrespective of creed, culture, local tradition, etc. ISIS does project the notion that...
"i just love this reminder of even if your light feels dark that does not mean that you do not have light. Having light, having a spark within you is as fundamentally true to your being as having breath in your lungs," says the therapist of Tool's "Pneuma." "I think that the gift...
We now live in BizarroWorld, a Kafkaesque nightmare of death and woe, both here and around this beleaguered little planet. Nevadans feel caught between the proverbial devil and deep blue sea. Wiser heads know that shutdown or bankruptcy are not the only options. Managing the pandemic "is not...
Exporting Israel’s settler-colonial security narrative to the West through children’s literature couldn’t have been easier, and more hypocritical. Israeli media noted that, “The stories don’t contain real descriptions of fighting or death, and don’t contain deep background about the events ...
Exporting Israel’s settler-colonial security narrative to the West through children’s literature couldn’t have been easier, and more hypocritical. Israeli media noted that, “The stories don’t contain real descriptions of fighting or death, and don’t contain deep background about the events ...