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What does it mean to write “This is not Muhammad” across a bluntly literal and blasphemous picture of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad? This video on aesthetics follows a similar trajectory to the essay written by Michel Foucault “This is not a Pipe” about a painting by painter Rene Magritte
Citations:
Foucault, Michel. This Is Not a Pipe. Translated by James A. Harkness, University of California Press, 2008. Buy here!
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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Patriarchy of the Wage and the Disciplining of Women.
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
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When it comes to language, how does it relate to reality? Signs, sense, reference, definite descriptions or denoting phrases, definite & indefinite articles. How do we understand the sense & reference of fictional objects? What objects do their names refer to, and what type of reality do they have? How is it possible to refer to something that doesn’t exist? What kind of sense could a definite description like “the present emperor of CHINA” have since there is no denotation for “the present emperor of CHINA?” Are statements about non-existent entities true or false? How does our sense of the way language relates to reality change when we speak of the unreal? So, is sense superfluous as Russell says? Or, can sense be rescued beyond the shackles of the nominatum? This video will explore all of these concepts and is itself a sign referring to the famous Frege/Russell debate about Sense & Reference.
Works Cited:
Frege, Gottlob. “On Sense and Nominatum (1892).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 190–202. Buy here:!
Russell, Bertrand. “On Denoting (1905).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 203–211. Buy here:!
Russell, Bertrand. “Descriptions (1919).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 212–218. Buy here:!
Strawson, P.F. “On Referring (1950).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 219–234. Buy here:!
Farmer, Philip Jose. Riders of the Purple Wage. Buy here!
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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Price Revolution, and the Pauperization & Criminalization of the Working Class
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, the Rise of Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
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Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Vintage Books, 2011. Buy here!
De Beauvoir, Simone. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup, HarperPerennial, 2005. Buy here!
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Open Road Integrated Media, 2018. Buy here!
Bray, Mark. Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook. Melville House Publishing, 2017. Buy here!
Easwaran, Eknath, translator. The Bhagavad Gita. Nilgiri Press, 2007. Buy here!
Eknath, Easwaran, translator. The Dhammapada. Nilgiri Press, 2019. Buy here!
Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. Translated by Justin O’Brien, Vintage International, 2018. Buy here!
Camus, Albert. Resistance, Rebelion and Death. Translated by Justin O’Brien, Vintage International, 1995. Buy here!
Camus, Albert. Lyrical and Critical Essays. Edited by Philip Thody. Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, Vintage Books, 1970. Buy here!
Camus, Albert. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt. Vintage Books, 2008. Buy here!
Copleston, Frederick. A History of Philosophy. I-III, Image Books, 1985. Buy here!
Chomsky, Aviva. “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration. Beacon Press, 2007. Buy here!
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Freedom Evolves. Penguin, 2004. Buy here!
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting. MIT Press . A Bradford Book, 2015. Buy here!
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Company, 2007. Buy here!
Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Buy here!
Diouf, Sylviane A. Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. New York University Press, 2016. Buy here!
Freud, Sigmund. The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. Translated by A. A. Brill, Modern Library, 1995. Buy here!
Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and the Id. Edited by James Strachey. Translated by Joan Riviere, W.W. Norton, 1962. Buy here!
Shrage, Laurie, editor. “You’ve Changed”: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity. Oxford University Press, 2009. Buy here!
Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. Routledge, 2009. Buy here!
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Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Vintage Books, 2004. Buy here!
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005. Buy here!
Federici, Silvia. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. PM Press, 2012. Buy here!
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press, 2008. Buy here!
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 2021. Buy here!
González Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Penguin Books, 2011. Buy here!
Hume, David. Selected Essays (Oxford World’s Classics). Edited by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar, Oxford University Press, 1998. Buy here!
Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Barnes & Noble, 2005. Buy here!
Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve, 2009. Buy here!
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men. Basic Books, 1992. Buy here!
Harvey, David. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2015. Buy here!
Lyotard Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. Buy here!
Pojman, Louis P., and Michael C. Rea, editors. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations. Edited by Dermot Moran. Translated by J N Findlay, Volume I, Routledge, 2001. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations. Edited by Dermot Moran. Translated by John N. Findlay, Volume II, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2001. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology. Translated by Fred Kersten, vol. 1, Kluwer, 1998. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution. Vol. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1982. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Translated by John B. Brough, Kluwer Academic Publ, 2011. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2013. Buy here!
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