WEB BOHEMIAN
(Monday, October 1, 2012)
(1)- THOSE EARLY FOUNDATIONS
-- Unelected, unaccountable, and for the most part unchecked, they channeled
billions of dollars into positioning the United States as a world power,
implementing goals of the power elite.
(2)- ABOUT LILLIAN HELLMAN -- By the time she died in 1984, the
“archetype of hypocrisy,” the “embodiment of ugliness,” and the public image of
“the quintessential liar,” analysis of her character was a puzzle.
(3)- THREATENED SPECIES – Here’s a list(compiled by the Zoological
Society of London)of the world's 100 most threatened species. It is made up of
100 animals, plants and fungi deemed first in line for extinction.
(4)-IS IT PSEUDO OR SCIENCE? -- For millennia, philosophers tried to
erect a boundary between domains of legitimate knowledge and those that are
anything but… How is this policed?
(5)- BUT WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES? – For the first time in history, a book can
be affordably published and made widely available without producing copies in
advance. Nowadays anyone can become a book publisher.
(6)-SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK -- This philosopher and psychoanalyst from
Slovenia surely counts as one of the world’s most visible advocates of
left-wing ideas. When Žižek first came to public attention…
(7)- ETHICAL WAR ROBOTS? – A Georgia Tech professor hypothesizes
lethal weapons systems that are ethically superior to human soldiers on the
battlefield. We’re talking about lethal autonomous robots.
(8)- THE LIFE AND AFTER LIFE OF EZRA POUND -- “An incredible ass.” Few dispute
Archibald MacLeish’s description of Ezra Pound. But was the poet guilty of
treason, or was he loony?...
(9)-FALSE
CONSCIOUSNESS – It may be
involved when a low-income person votes Republican out of mistrust for the
credentialed establishment; another occurs when the credentialed establishment
denies its own existence.
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