Erasmus von Rotterdam – Mit Humor gegen Fundamentalismus
In "Das Lob der Narrheit" macht sich der niederländische Philosoph und Theologe Erasmus von Rotterdam (1464-1536) lustig über den Zeitgeist. Hilft Humor als Waffe gegen Intoleranz? Von Michael Reitz (SWR 2016) Manuskript und mehr zur Sendung
„Für mich ist das Arbeiten mit Sounds eine persönliche Art der Meditation“ – Interview mit „Phasenmensch“ Wolfram Bange anlässlich der Ausstellung „Lost Places“ in Bochum
Verlassene Orte und Räume gibt es in Zeiten der Pandemie öfters zu erleben. Das eigenwillige Gefühl dabei mag ein ähnliches sein, wenn „lost places“ als Räume, die der gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung entzogen sind, besucht und Teil von künstlerischer Auseinandersetzung...
working-class solidarity may be a hard sell for most health-care workers
But over time, as I moved through medical school and became a practicing health worker, I’ve come to see the Professional as a figure of social control, a departure from the conventional usage of lowercase “professional,” which sees a professional as just someone with...
In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats
in History, Poetry | September 9th, 2020 1 Comment Advertisement Here in Korea, where I live, cat owners aren't called cat owners: they're called goyangi jibsa, literally "cat butlers." Clearly the idea that felines have flipped the domestic-animal script, not serving...
What is a plural person?
People with multiple personalities have been documented in culture and society for a long time. There's a decent overview in a reasonably recent Stuff You Should Know podcast. However, read on.Multiple Personality Disorder, now renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder,...
Was gibt dem Leben Sinn? Erfahrungen nach Corona
Audio herunterladen (26 MB | MP3) Der Corona-Lockdown machte bewusst, wie wichtig der Kontakt zu anderen Menschen ist. Auf sich selbst zurückgeworfen, stellte sich nicht selten die Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Was darunter zu verstehen ist? Der Philosoph und...
William Blake’s Paintings Come to Life in Two Animations
The poet and painter William Blake toiled in obscurity, for the most part, and died in poverty.Twenty some years after his death, his rebellious spirit gained traction with the Pre-Raphaelites.By the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Blake was ripe to be venerated as...
J. Robert Oppenheimer Explains How He Recited a Line from Bhagavad Gita–“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”–Upon Witnessing the First Nuclear Explosion
in History, Physics, Religion | September 4th, 2020 Leave a Comment Advertisement No matter how little we know of the Hindu religion, a line from one of its holy scriptures lives within us all: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." This is one facet of the...
Google Introduces 6-Month Career Certificates, Threatening to Disrupt Higher Education with “the Equivalent of a Four-Year Degree”
I used to make a point of asking every college-applying teenager I encountered why they wanted to go to college in the first place. Few had a ready answer; most, after a deer-in-the-headlights moment, said they wanted to be able to get a job — and in a tone implying...
I Write the Songs
http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/I-Write-the-Songs.mp3Full-text audio version of this essay. On August 7, Donald Trump issued an executive order that would ban TikTok in the U.S., effective September 15, if its Chinese parent did not sell it to an...