This is Part 1 of a larger conversation which examines the decade of the 1980s and various issues form commodification of intellectual work, the role of culture in changing the future, the dilemma(s) of post-modernity, nuclear weaponry, and whether Russia is European? Born in Poland, eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has been writing since 1960 […]
In one of the many incongruities of human society, the field of public health, which strives to give people longer, healthier lives, periodically declares war… and often ends up shooting itself in the foot. Wars against various diseases: leprosy, tuberculosis, heart disease, AIDS, and the biggest of them all – Cancer. Stepping into […]
“Look for yourself, the soft day Atlantic waves washing in to the pearly flat hard sand. . . .” – Jack Kerouac from his introduction to Robert Frank’s The Americans. Up and down In her essay on Iceland, poet Eileen Myles implied that the rhythms of the land and seascapes of that strange […]