Against "The Myth of Independence": For a More Convivial and Interdependent Society
Some of the most divisive notions in the Western world and the Global North: individualism and independence. Are they a myth?
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Some of the most divisive notions in the Western world and the Global North: individualism and independence. Are they a myth?
Manimekalai, the ancient Buddhist poem written in Tamil says “Even the gods are ignorant of the things that people can do”. There are two interpretations of
The Iraqi capital was a centre of a translation movement drawing on scientific and philosophical works from as far away as Greece and India
THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, modern and contemporary art in the West sought either to cheat history or to travesty it. To cheat history is to outrun it in gestures aimed at utopian schemes (as envisioned by Suprematism or the artists of De Stijl) or dystopian destruction (as in Futurism or some variants of Dada). Among modernist avant-gardes, history offered a necessary dialectical framework for its own supersession—this is why the rhetoric of revolution remains so appealing and ubiquitous in accounts of modern art. Paradoxically, this legacy has been codified or canonized (and certainl...
Children of deaf adults often interpret for their parents.