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92% complete! Bastian Greshake Tzovaras has read 23 of 25 books.
This book covers our interpretations of programming as it relates to social ecology, a philosophical theory that suggests many forms …
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our …
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our …
I loved hearing about all these customs and how people are fighting to keep them alive, especially those embedded into a larger community culture context. It's a very easy-reading book and quite moving.
At times the individual stories just feel too neatly wrapped, which I understand from a storytelling perspective, but some cynical parts of me can't feel and wonder how much embellishing there's going on to put such nice a bow on some of the stories.
Zelda es, junto con Mario, la gran creación del legendario Shigeru Miyamoto. Si Mario es la diversión pura, Zelda es …
To leave home is ultimately to end one story and start another, and while we may journey back to where we came from, it's never quite the same because we're no longer the same. Anyone who has ever dared or been forced to immigrate is the sum of two disparate chapters: who they once were and who they're becoming.
— Custodians of Wonder by Eliot Stein (11%)
Dear, this hits close to home (wherever that is)
By the turn of the 20th century, the French controlled most of the Mali Empire's former territory. The colonies of French West Africa gained independence by 1960, but France's exploitation of naturala resources and its imperialist monetary policies still cripple the region. Really, the only good thing to come from French rule is that anywhere you go in Mali and Guinea today, you're never too far from a fresh baguette.
— Custodians of Wonder by Eliot Stein (6%)
Big ooof
In other words, while stakeholder capitalism might seem like a friendlier, more sustainable alternative to the share holder mania of the golden age of neoliberalism, it represents the latest attempt by the private sector to safeguard its own interests, not any kind of sign of progress or victory for the public. The stakeholder model is an expression of the business sector's awareness that their own fortunes depend on finding a way to blunt the mounting economic and political upheavals that they themselves have unleashed
— Selling Social Justice by Jennifer C. Pan (11%)
The winners of the current regime big business, wealthy philanthropists, and affluent professionals, among others-have advocated antiracism in total earnestness because the type of reorganization of society that such an ideology entails ultimately poses very little threat to their power or status. Contemporary capitalism, to put it another way, can happily accommodate and even endorse antiracism while also necessitating the continued exploitation of the vast majority of people on earth.
— Selling Social Justice by Jennifer C. Pan (4%)
