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Playlist: 06.30.08
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Postcoloniality and Globalization:Media and the Internet
Mark Poster in a recent article (Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24:4, 379 - 393) asks the question "is the epoch of postcolonial studies over"? His conclusion is that postcolonial mode of theory is in the decline and moreover with globalization and dissemination of Internet we can encounter a “planetary culture” that “might yield an ( Read more... ) -
Playlists...new CDs
Some new stuff that I have been playing on my radio show.
1. Pink Martini: Very eclectic new release -- Hey Eugene!
2. Haale Gafori: Iranian-American rock singer.
3. Etnar Finatawa: Nomdas with electric guitars.
4. The Details.
5. New Release by Brad Mehldau Trio.
6. Argentine Diva Liliana Barrios, tribute to Anibal Troilo.
7. Lionel Loueke: -
Notes on Al-Ghazālī and Descartes
Comparing Ghazzali and Descartes: Convergence or Divergence?
Carl Olson (2003) in his introduction to Zen and the art of postmodernism calls comparative philosophy “a promiscuous activity” (19) as the scholars involving comparing ideas need to try out different things, go around the block few times: “The comparative thinker must remain ( Read more... ) -
Helping Burma...
1. http://www.foundationburma.org or by check or money order to Foundation for the People of Burma, 225 Bush Street Suite 590, San Francisco, CA 94104. For questions please call (415) 217-7015 ( Read more... ) -
THROMBOSIS IN THE VEINS OF PETROLEUM
Taha Muhammad Ali is one of the leading poets from Palestine. Born in 1931 in Galilee village of Saffuriya, he fled to Lebanon, after his village was destroyed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. A year later he slipped back across the border with his family and settled in Nazareth, where he has lived ever since. This poem is from a recent ( Read more... )
