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Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[5][6] cognitive scientist, historian, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.[7] Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics"[8][9][10] and a major figure of analytic philosophy.[5] His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology.[11][12]
Ideologically identifying with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism, Chomsky is known for his critiques of U.S. foreign policy[13] and contemporary capitalism,[14] and he has been described as a prominent cultural figure.[15] His media criticism has included Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), co-written with Edward S. Herman, an analysis articulating the propaganda model theory for examining the media.

In 2010, Chomsky received the Erich Fromm Prize in Stuttgart, Germany.
activism  language  people  philosophy  politics  anarchy 
13 days ago by mwfogleman
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
do with all this access? Among other things, it has mounted numerous clandestine theater productions and film festivals. On a typical festival evening, they screen at least two films that they feel share a nonobvious yet provocative connection. They don’t explain the connection, leaving it up to the audience to try to discover it. One summer, the group mounted a film festival devoted to the theme of “urban deserts”—the forgotten and underutilized spaces in a city. They naturally decided the ideal venue for such a festival would be in just such an abandoned site. They chose a room beneath the Palais de Chaillot they’d long known of and enjoyed unlimited access to. The building was then home to Paris’ famous Cinémathèque Française, making it doubly appropriate. They set up a bar, a dining room, a series of salons, and a small screening room that accommodated 20 viewers, and they held festivals there every summer for years. “Every neighborhood cinema should look like that,” Kunstmann says.
activism  art  france  hacking 
17 days ago by mwfogleman
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education | GOOD
This is where neo-education steps in—not necessarily as a substitute for a university degree, at least not at this point, but as a necessary filler for the many gaps in today’s higher education, an essential exercise in flexing our inherent human curiosity about the world before it atrophies into the narrow scope of skill and vision that the original liberal arts model aimed to eradicate in the first place. In an age driven by the cross-pollination of ideas, viewpoints, and disciplines, it is only through such indiscriminate curiosity and exploration that we can truly liberalize our collective future.
education  web2.0  academia  thought  ted  technology  ideas  university  activism  internet  society  liberalarts  liberal  teaching  culture  blog  socialmedia  web  autodidactism  autodidactism2010 
november 2009 by mwfogleman
SourceWatch - SourceWatch
Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists, government agencies, activists and nongovernmental organizations. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor.
politics  reference  culture  tools  business  blog  web2.0  news  wiki  activism  research  economics  media  government  journalism  propaganda  watchdog  sourcewatch  progressive  democracy  information  blogs  policy  resources  analysis  alternative  search  database  pr 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
zinelibrary.info | revolution in the streets!
Welcome to ZineLibrary.info. Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site ( zines with file sizes bigger than 7mb can be uploaded to http://indymedia.org and linked here). Feel free to comment and contribute.
politics  activism  libraries  zines  zine  activist  pdf  art  reference  library  alternative  online  culture  anarchist  diy  writing  academic  media  anarchism  literature  illustration  anarchy  reading 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
G20: Did police containment cause more trouble than it prevented? | World news | guardian.co.uk
The upshot of the ruling and the police's application of their "kettle" formula is that people thinking about embarking on demonstrations in the future may have to decide whether they want to be effectively locked up for eight hours without food or water and, when leaving, to be photographed and identified.
news  g20  protest  security  activism  2009  crime  censorship  police  uk  humanrights  london  illegal 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Defining Anarchy
Government failure is not anarchy. Anarchy is a society that functions without government control, a free society. Society can continue to function somewhat with limited government control, but that doesn’t mean government control is required to have a society. When government control obviously hinders the efforts of society to function efficiently, it is time to remove those controls. A society can function better with no government controls. New Orleans should be a case study educating Americans and the world of this simple fact.
politics  liberty  essays  history  literature  activism  theory  anarchism  anarchy 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
The Gaza Bombshell: Politics
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
politics  news  history  government  article  usa  america  law  bush  war  activism  articles  religion  corruption  military  us  policy  fascism  israel  middleeast  peace  palestine  humanrights  gaza  hamas  conflict  fatah  mideast  vanityfair  dahlan 
january 2009 by mwfogleman
Free Radicals | Ask Metafilter
"Whatever we learned, we learned from making a complete commitment... The search for some kind of moral stance... the search for justice and some kind of economic equity... trying to leave a smaller footprint on the planet... exploring alternative spiritual and medical practices... they were all valid searches and they've all been completely integrated into the culture today. They're so integrated that you don't even notice them. No, we didn't end imperialism. We didn't end capitalism. We didn't do a lot of things we wanted to do. But there's no place you can go today where you can't find organic food, where you can't find yoga lessons or a chiropractor or you can't find some kind of spiritual alternative or some kind of acupuncture or alternative medicine. We did that, our generation. I'm proud of that. I wish we'd been omniscient. You know, I wish we hadn't made any mistakes or been able to do everything we wanted to do...
activism  anarchism  askmefi  change  politics 
may 2008 by mwfogleman
TED | Talks | Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open t
activism  community  TED  school  education  writing 
march 2008 by mwfogleman
Sprword - Spread the Word
Many documentaries to watch, for free, in their entireties.
documentary  culture  activism  politics  news  media  video 
november 2007 by mwfogleman
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