Within a few months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, every major label either unilaterally removed their entire catalogue from Russia or closed operations entirely, implicitly or explicitly condemning Putin’s actions while donating to Ukraine. No such measures have been taken against Israel, or in support of Palestine, after decades of illegal occupation and 23 months into Israel’s accelerated genocide.… Read More No Music For Genocide
Akbar ने संत दादू-दयाल से 40 दिन क्या बातचीत की थी. Dadu Dayal ने Akbar से मिलने से क्यों मना किया? An insightful discussion with Purushottam Agrawal on his recent book (So Says Jan Gopal), the Bhakti Movement, Akbar, history, and modern-day politics. Aditya Sangwan in conversation with Professor Purushottam Agrawal An excerpt from So… Read More Akbar ने संत दादू-दयाल से 40 दिन क्या बातचीत की थी ? Aditya Sangwan in conversation with Professor Purushottam Agrawal
The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies. Laura Snapes Massive Attack have become the latest act – and first major-label one – to pull their catalogue from Spotify in protest at founder Daniel Ek investing €600m (£520m) in the military AI company… Read More Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military
“The anger is huge, and so is the determination – my message to Mr Lecornu today is this: it’s the streets that must decide the budget,” said Sophie Binet, head of the leftwing CGT union Angelique Chrisafis in Paris CGT union members during a demonstration in Marseille. Sophie Binet, the head of the union, said: ‘It’s… Read More Strike action across France as hundreds of thousands join protests
NB: The reviewer (and Lilla) are too quick in their assessments of Leo Strauss. True he had right-wing followers (incidentally, card-holding Nazi’s such as Heidegger and Carl Schmitt have left-wing acolytes to this day). But Strauss took Heidegger seriously, and that is why he is the most effective and far-reaching critic of historicism, the core… Read More The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016)
First posted October 27, 2011 ‘The essay is a marvellous account of the hundreds of ways in which the Ramayana has been told, complete with examples of this narrative diversity. I can’t imagine that the vice-chancellor, a member of that urbane cohort, the Class of ’75, wanted the essay removed because he agreed with the Akhil Bharatiya… Read More Mukul Kesavan: Delhi University and the purging of Ramanujan
The origin of May Day is to be found in the Woodland Epoch of History. First posted April 30, 2020 Once upon a time, long before Weinberger bombed north Africans, before the Bank of Boston laundered money, or Reagan honored the Nazi war dead, the earth was blanketed by a broad mantle of forests. As… Read More Peter Linebaugh: The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day
One of the strangest things about an American university education is that it bundles a whole lot of different things together. If you want to take a course in high-level mathematics or listen to the lectures of an accomplished historian of Ming China, you must also buy membership in one of the country’s most lavish gyms;… Read More Unbundle the (American) University
An untidy history of AI across four books Reviewed Here by Trevor Quirk Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI: Ray Kurzweil Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit: Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric… Read More Perplexity
Perhaps what was behind it all is only that individual human beings did not kill other individual human beings for human reasons, but that an organized attempt was made to eradicate the concept of the human being. Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers on the Nazi death camps, December 17, 1946 (Correspondence, p 68) Gaza is… Read More Gaza and the Death of Conscience
After the truth-shower 