Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Perspectivism, a term which Nietzsche invested with philosophical meaning, is about the way we always see things from a certain point of view. Forces of various kinds work to organize the selective patterns by which we see what we see. Sean Sheehan It depends on not seeing whatever […]
During the Pinochet dictatorship, only two national feature films were released in Chile but over the last decade of this century some two dozen new films were premiered every year. Sean Sheehan Chilean cinema is now pulled between local identities and mainstream global aesthetics: a time of adaptation […]
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that currently heads the coalition Assembly in Northern Ireland was formed by Ian Paisley, a Protestant evangelical minister. Sean Sheehan Although he honed a brand of hate speech directed at Catholics (‘they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin’) and the papacy (‘I […]
Any super league of British artists would have to invite William Blake to join but from his grave would come a firm rejection. Averse to hierarchies, he was put on trial in 1804 for making seditious remarks about the monarchy. Sean Sheehan He was acquitted but the jury […]
Titles matter. The first English translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s seminal “La pensée sauvage” appeared in 1966 as “The Savage Mind” and, until now, this is how the book has been known for English speakers. Sean Sheehan But pensée is usually rendered as “thought” and while sauvage can be […]
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