Submitted by Matthew on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 16:02
Submitted by Matthew on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 22:53
Submitted by Matthew on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 22:45
Initially when the Occupy Wall Street protests launched on September 17, 2011 I must admit that was not paying attention to the media. I recall hearing about the initial announcement for the protests, posted on July, 26 1022 by Adbusters.org, entitled "Is America Ripe for A Tahrir Moment" as I had been following the events of the Arab Spring. At the time of the initial protests I more or less followed the dominant story of mass media regarding Occupy Wall Street. The ecochaber of political commentary repeated the mantra of the protestor's general incoherence and confusion over their 'demands'. However, contrary to mass media line, the editors at Adbusters clearly proposed a reason and even a singular demand of the action:
It was our one simple demand that Barack Obama must ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence that corporate money has over our representatives in Washington. Our one simple demand is: STOP THE MONIED CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY!
Submitted by Matthew on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 17:40
Professor Simon Critchley recently began to edit an "opinion" column on the New York Times entitled "The Stone", with the inaugural essay, "What is a Philosopher?", check it out for yourself, "The Stone" will be added to the Blogroll on this site, and I imagine that I will have further posts regarding this venture.
The return to this question, "what is a philosopher" today, in the most established News Paper in the United States warrants attention. For today, philosophy is again under assault, it has become a "threat". If the recent proceedings at the University of Middlesex (perhaps the strongest philosophical institute in Critchley's native UK) are any indication, philosophy is under attack from it's presumptive heir, the University.
