Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, June 22, 2018
Capitalism cannot progress without destroying human relationships. This destruction becomes clearer during crises which threaten the structure of capitalism as a system. Claudio Chipana It is during periods of crisis that the irrationality of the system – reflected in alienation and de-humanization – explodes, affecting every fibre of society, […]
Epic science fiction from China, on a scale spanning light years, combines narrative dexterity with a reactionary world view. Sean Sheehan Cixin Liu’s intellectual appropriation of the science fiction genre is seriously impressive and manifested in a brain-tickling trilogy of novels: “The three-body problem”, “The dark forest” and […]
“She” is a nineteenth-century novel by H. Rider Haggard, later made into a movie, starring Ursula Andress in the title role. Steve Latham It is the story of a group of European explorers, who discover a lost African tribe, ruled over by a white queen. It is, of […]
The idea that identity is not a fixed instance or an unchangeable essence, would not appear to deserve more serious discussion. _ Claudio Chipiana* In the time of the revolution in communication, the ever shrinking world and the possibility of establishing simultaneous contact between people at the four corners of […]
Many years ago the anthropologist Mary Douglas observed that even the absolute truths of mathematics were relative because of being culturally located. Nigel Pocock The truths of mathematics may be absolute, but they have no value unless this is imparted to them by a culture. From a very different […]
