Art and Ecology Now
Herbert Read – critic, poet, anarchist, and cofounder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts – famously saw the artist as (in German) ein Ruttler, an upsetter […]
Book Review
Book Introduction- Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Author Ramachandra Guha‘s Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 is the second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed Gandhi Before India, the definitive portrait […]
Book Review: Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
One of the most important components of both education and activism is contextualization. As Paulo Freire argued, learning must be rooted in the context in […]
Book Review: A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism – Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat. By Eric Holt-Giménez “Industrial agriculture has destroyed up to 75 percent […]
Disciplined Minds
In his hard-hitting book Disciplined Minds, Jeff Schmidt questions our education system which seems to be single mindedly focusing on providing a docile, disciplined workforce to […]
We are Gaia
In the entire universe, the presence of life and a planet that supports life is so rare that we are literally living on an incredibly […]
Happiness & The Art of Being
Can one define happiness? Can it be measured? Is it an individual’s inherent disposition? Are feelings of well-being linked to our earnings or situation in […]