(Presumably) Leaked Slavoj Zizek Speech for "Conference on Zizek's Philosophy and Thought" in Nanjing University
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(Presumably) Leaked Slavoj Zizek Speech for "Conference on Zizek's...
Link to leaked docx file: https://file.buta.moe/zizeknanjingconference1.docx ## HEAVEN IN DISORDER Slavoj Zizek An allegedly old Chinese curse...
There is a need to invent new forms of communication between researchers and activists, which means a new division of labour between them. One of the missions which sociologists can fulfil perhaps getter than anyone is the fight against saturation by the media. We all hear ready-made phrases all day long. You can’t turn on the radio without hearing about the ‘global village’, ‘globalization, and so on. These are innocent-sounding words, but through them come a whole philosophy and a whole worldview which engender fatalism and submission. We can block this forced feeding by criticizing the words, by helping non-professionals to equip themselves with specific weapons of resistance, so as to combat the effects of authority and the grip of television, which plays an absolutely crucial role. It is no longer possible nowadays to conduct social struggles without having a specific programme for fighting with and against television … In that battle, the fight against the media intellectuals is important. Personally, those people do not cause me sleepless nights, and I never think about them when I write, but they have an extremely important role from a political standpoint, and it would be desirable for a proportion of the researchers to agree to devote some of their time and energy, in their activist mode, to countering their effects.
- Bourdieu 1996
- Bourdieu 1996
Methods and Methodology
https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/november-2021/methods-and-methodology/introduction-to-novembers-theme/
https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/november-2021/methods-and-methodology/introduction-to-novembers-theme/
thesociologicalreview.org
Introduction to November’s Theme: Methods and Methodology
Sociological methods and methodology are the focus of The Sociological Review’s November 2021 issue, highlighting creative new approaches to academic research.
https://spectrejournal.com/what-was-chinese-trotskyism/
What Was Chinese Trotskyism? – Spectre Journal
What Was Chinese Trotskyism? – Spectre Journal
Spectre Journal
What Was Chinese Trotskyism? – Spectre Journal
Taking Wang Fanxi's analysis of Chinese Trotskyism as his point of departure, Promise Li argues that recovering dissident Marxisms is essential for the contemporary project of challenging bureaucratic cooptation of working-class struggles.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-concerning-variant-b11529
New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
Your Local Epidemiologist
New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan). I hate to ruin the holiday, but… We have a new variant. I’ve not seen this much anxiety ridden chatter among scientists about a COVID19 variant before.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPloUxLWfB8
Who can still afford to live in the city? | DW Documentary
Who can still afford to live in the city? | DW Documentary
https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20211105-hong-kong-3d-rendering-pillar-of-shame-tiananmen
Hong Kong activists create digital rendering of the ‘Pillar of Shame’ to save it from authorities
Hong Kong activists create digital rendering of the ‘Pillar of Shame’ to save it from authorities
The Observers - France 24
Hong Kong activists create digital rendering of the ‘Pillar of Shame’ to save it from authorities
For the past 24 years, the Pillar of Shame has stood in the entryway of Hong Kong University as a memorial to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. However, that’s about to change as the univ…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075765/
Kim, S., & Lee, Y. (2018). Why do women want to be beautiful? A qualitative study proposing a new “human beauty values” concept. PloS one, 13(8), e0201347.
Kim, S., & Lee, Y. (2018). Why do women want to be beautiful? A qualitative study proposing a new “human beauty values” concept. PloS one, 13(8), e0201347.
https://www.pnas.org/content/119/5/e2117413119
Wardle, S. G., Paranjape, S., Taubert, J., & Baker, C. I. (2022). Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5).
Wardle, S. G., Paranjape, S., Taubert, J., & Baker, C. I. (2022). Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5).
PNAS
Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory
faces in objects, a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. Alth...
faces in objects, a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. Alth...
https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/xinjiang-year-zero
Xinjiang Year Zero
Xinjiang Year Zero
press.anu.edu.au
Xinjiang Year Zero
<p>Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to…