In his unpublished manuscript “Art in the World of Media” (approx. 1960), Gianni Vattimo asserts that aesthetic experience is an experience of truth because it does not put us in front of a...

Presents the most wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the influence of modernist art and literature on Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian…

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Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.

Israel has previously strongly denied that its actions in Gaza constitute genocide, citing its right to defend itself.

Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Think of Others   As you prepare your breakfast, think of others   (do not forget the pigeon's food).   As you conduct your wars, think of o...

Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza has prompted international condemnation, but many of those critics will face their own reckoning, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Some academics believe ancient Irish warriors used psychoactive substances — magic mushrooms, liberty cap, and fly agaric — presaging the adoption of psychedelic drugs in modern medicine