Mois : janvier 2016

Uplpaded by Deutsches Haus:

• Slavoj Žižek: Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? 194.00 min, Oct 30, 2015 … a Hegelian View of the Present Age. Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek, Global Distinguished Professor of German at NYU … Introduced by Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at NYU …;
• Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian Wound, 121.21 min, Sept 26, 2014;
• German Idealism and Psychoanalysis, with Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic, Mladen Dolar – Part 1, 10.26 min, May 7, 2012 … followed by parts 2 to 5 in autoplay;

Continuer la lecture de « Slavoj Žižek on Hegel and us today »

Published on ZNet (first on Other Worlds), by Mphatheleini Makaulele, Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, Jan 9, 2016.

… Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth.

The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest.   Continuer la lecture de « African Women Organize To Reclaim Agriculture Against Corporate Takeover »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Matthias Bartsch and Anna Clauß, Jan 5, 2016.

Absurd, unfounded reports about asylum seekers are circulating on German social media. They are part of a targeted misinformation campaign by right-wing extremists designed to instill fear and stoke anti-migrant sentiment. But where do the stories come from?   Continuer la lecture de « The Case of the Murdered Goats, exploring Germany's Far-Right Rumor Mill »

• [UPDATE: Union fees in jeopardy (in Plain English), on SCOTUSblog, by Amy Howe, Jan 11, 2016
• Evening round-up: Today’s argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, on SCOTUSblog, by Molly Runkle on Jan 11, 2016].

… Supreme Court Case – Published on Common Dreams, by Sarah Lazare, Jan 8, 2016 (the Case could result in the enforcement of ‘Right to Work’ laws on all public sector labor unions in the United States).

Workers across the United States are bracing for a major Supreme Court case, set for argument on Monday, that could strike a devastating blow to public sector unions nationwide.   Continuer la lecture de « Under-the-Radar Supreme Court Case Poses Profound Threat to Unions Nationwide »

Published on People’s World, by John Bachtell, Jan 8, 2016.

The hateful and reactionary ideas spewing from the mouths of the Republican Party candidates confront us with the clear and present danger we would face next November were any one of them to be elected president … // Continuer la lecture de « USA: Republican victory in 2016 would strengthen new patrimonial oligarchy »