Javier Sicilia’s Open Letter to Mexico’s Politicians and Criminals

Javier Sicilia’s Open Letter to Mexico’s Politicians and Criminals After the Murder of the Poet and Journalist’s Son, a Call to the Nation’s Citizenry to Come Out into the Streets on Wednesday   By Javier Sicilia Translated from Proceso by Narco News (originally published in Narco News) April 4, 2011 The brutal assassination of my son, Juan… [Read more…]

UfSO First Conference: On Violence 9-10-12

University for Strategic Optimism First Conference: http://universityforstrategicoptimism.wordpress.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Gcl8nGRXyuM

Vice magazine interview with Simon Critchley

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n6/htdocs/living-breathing-philosopher-912.php   Simon Critchley is one of the most influential philosophers living today. That’s right, philosophers still exist! Critchley has written books on literature, poetry, death, humor, and the history of philosophy, and he is renowned for his groundbreaking ethical reading of the deconstructionist movement (that’s an important thing, even if you have no idea… [Read more…]

Faiz Ahmad Faiz Reciting Aaj Bazar Mein

    The tearful eye, the noisy spirit is not enough, my friends, the accusation of love is not enough,  my friends, let’s go today to the bazaar in chains’ let’s go with hands waving, intoxicated, dancing, let’s go with dust on our heads, blood on our sleeves, let’s  go to the city where our love lives, everyone is watching - -the city’s rulers, - its people, -the unhappy… [Read more…]

Georges Brassens – Les Passantes

Bertolt Brecht – On the Critical Attitude

On the Critical Attitude The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms And states can be demolished by it. Canalising a river Grafting a fruit tree Educating… [Read more…]