Some Readings
New (as of 13th June)
- Humanities teach students to think. Where would we without them?
- The Numanities Project (Addressing the Crisis of Humanities)
- It's Time for Academics to Take Back Control of Research Journals?
- What a New University in Africa is Doing to Decolonise Social Sciences
- Seven Reasons Why We an Independent Digital Humanities
- It Will Take Critical, Thorough Scrunity to Truly Decolonise Knowledge
- How Finland Created One of the Best Educational Systems in the World (By Doing the Opposite of U.S.)
- The Frankfurt School Argued that Reason is Dangerous, Mass Culture Deadening, and the Enlightenment a Disaster. Were They Right?
- What Religious Beliefs Reveal About Post-Truth Politics
- Whats Wrong With Today's Society Captured in 10+ Brutally Honest Illustrations
- India Might Become an Educationally Failed Nation
- The Problem with Liberal Opposition to Islamophobia
- Retired Bureaucrats Warm of 'Growing Authoritarianism, Majoritarianism' in India
- We should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots
- Why Trump Phenomenon Signals an Oligarchy on the Brink of a Civilization-Threatening Collapse
- "Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.” Why We Need to Stop Trying to Fix People
- Awakening from the Illusion of Separateness
- Unexpected Benefits of Minimalism
- Ph.D. Student Pioneers Storytelling Strategies for Science Communication
- Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, and the Sciences
New (as of 15th of May)
- The latest issue of CSSAAME (published by Duke University) has an interesting set of papers relevant to our deliberation. (This set is part of the Global Humanities Project undertaken by Sheldon Pollock and a few of his colleagues at Columbia University.) See: http://cssaame.dukejournals. org/content/current
- All work and no play? The New ‘Uni’ Experience : Academics and Students on Campus Life in the Era of ‘Knowledge Corporations’. Please see https://www.ft.com/content/9e4c16a6-3567-11e7-99bd-13beb0903fa3 (secure; you need to subscribe Financial Times)
- Civil Society Needs to Innovate to Combat Shrinking Space in Southeast Asia. See http://asiacentre.co.th/other/civil-society-needs-to-innovate-to-combat-shrinking-space-in-southeast-asia/
- Our Institutions Need Help (By Shiv Viswanathan/Participant). See http://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/op-ed/060317/our-institutions-need-help.html
- The meaning of life in a world without work. See https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book?CMP=fb_gu
- Interview: ‘We’re Living in a World Where Utility Has Replaced Empathy’. See https://thewire.in/133022/ramin-jahanbegloo-interview-civilisation/ (Secure, subscribe)
- A Zen master explains why “positive thinking” is terrible advice. See http://thepowerofideas.ideapod.com/zen-master-explains-positive-thinking-terrible-advice/
- What is “Normal”? This Physician’s Brilliant Answer Will Make You Stop and Think. See http://theunboundedspirit.com/myth-of-normal/
- Conscious consumerism is a lie. Here’s a better way to help save the world. See https://qz.com/920561/conscious-consumerism-is-a-lie-heres-a-better-way-to-help-save-the-world/?utm_source=kwfb&kwp_0=360496&kwp_4=1356787&kwp_1=599692
- Two Contemporary Political Commentators On The Value Of Abandoning Hope. See https://feralculture.blog/2017/05/05/two-contemporary-political-commentators-on-the-value-of-abandoning-hope/
- We need fewer exams and more wilderness in education. See https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/dec/17/we-need-fewer-exams-and-more-wilderness-in-education
- What a new university in Africa is doing to decolonise social sciences. See http://theconversation.com/what-a-new-university-in-africa-is-doing-to-decolonise-social-sciences-77181
- The Politics of No Politics (by Surajit Mukhopadhyay/Participant). See http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/NewsDetail/index/4/9319/The-Politics-of-No-Politics
- A French Philosopher Considers the Kids. See https://newrepublic.com/article/142695/french-philosopher-considers-kids
- The Traditional Lecture Is Dead. I Would Know—I’m a Professor. See https://www.wired.com/2017/05/the-mechanical-universe/
- 'Bhalo Chele': No Need For an University, A Placement Agency Will Do (by Surajit Mukhopadhyay/Participant). See http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/NewsDetail/index/1/10445/Bhalo-Chele-No-Need-For-an-University-A-Placement-Agency-Will-Do
Earlier Collection
- The Charter of Transdisciplinarity
- Why We Need the Humanities More Than Ever
- Dismantling Neo-Liberal Education: A Lesson from Zapitistas
- Whatever Happened to Public Intellectuals?
- Our Demoralised Mind
- Finland Scraps Subjects In Schools And Replaces With ‘Topics’ In Drastic Education Reforms
- Earth Day and the Phantoms of a Pathological Culture
- Public Scholars Initiative
- Young Academics’ Research ‘Elegant But Not Interesting’
- How Teaching Philosophy Could Help Combat Extremism
- Reimagining the Humanities Ph.D. and Reaching New Publics
- The End of Capitalism Has Begun
- Greed and Stupidity Will End Humanity Earlier Than Expected
- Humans Are a Plague on Earth
- Towards Transdisciplinary Methodologies
- Why Literature is the Answer to Fundamentalism
- Academics Can Change the World - If They Stop Talking Only To Their Peers
- Are Liberals On the Wrong Side of History?
- Ethics is the Answer
- Should This Be The Shape of the Social Sciences In The 21st Century?
- Homo Sapiens As We know Them Will Disappear in a Century or So
- How Can We Tackle the Thorny Problem of Fraudulent Research?
- The Rise of the Useless Class
- The Dangerous Academic is An Extinct Species
- What is Lost in a Nation That's Reading Less Literature
- Capitalism Breeds Reckless Consumption and Starves Public Sphere
- Sustainability is Destroying the Earth
- The Secret of Good Humanities Teaching
- Young Indians are Homophobic, Misogynist, and Orthodox
- Why Ayn Rand Was Wrong About Altruism, Selfishness, Evolution and Human Nature
- Why Facts Dont Change Our Minds
- How Academia Uses Poverty, Oppression, And Pain For Intellectual Masturbation
- Journalism as Genocide
- Alarmism or Atavism
- Neoliberalism is Creating Loneliness
- Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
- The Philosopher as Public Intellectual
- We Need a New Understanding of Civilisation
