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Vor 22 Stunden · e. Avram Noam Chomsky [a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [b] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
Vor 5 Tagen · Renowned public intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky talks with Frank Barat, coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, about the Middle East, particularly potential military intervention in Syria, peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the role of US power in the region.
Vor 4 Tagen · Dependency Theory (DT) is an almost forgotten (or deliberately buried) theory, but it is due for a very big comeback. DT emerged in the 1960’s out of Central and South America as part of a larger group of political theories, such as Historical Structural Theory and Neo Marxist (ooh, I said the M word) Theory, among others.
Vor einem Tag · I prefer the “Kirkpatrick doctrine” conceived broadly and applied vigorously to domestic politics. Kirkpatrick, we should note, was a member of the Democrat Party between 1948 and 1985. But supporters of McGovern and Carter, whom she called the “blame America first” crowd, embarrassed her. In 1985, she evolved and became a Republican.
Vor einem Tag · These defeats gave pause to a hubristic sense of invincibility. As the military apparatus in South Africa began to fail in the late 1980s, the South African government drifted increasingly towards suspending civil liberties for its white citizens in order to wage war without constitutional constraints. Between 1985 and 1989, South Africa was under a permanent State of Emergency as the ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Often said to be Rebels without causes, they allow the wild part of their audience’s nature —the impulse to feeling and expression — to see itself expressed or reflected openly somewhere, even if it is at dark clubs at odd times 11. Everybody knows on a vague gut level and nobody on an explicit level what rock stars are flailing against, and in the end The Grasping often wins. The ...
Vor einem Tag · COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Source: 1 LANGUAGE: INTRODUCTION TO LANGAUGE AND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Society could not function without language. Language functions as airborne synapses; it contributes to inter-human coordination, thus allowing us to be smarter, more creative, and mor flexible. Just like the brain is smarter and more flexible than a ...
