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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • Decolonisation, dependency and disengagement—the challenge of Ireland’s degrowth transition

    Originally published: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)  on July 24, 2024 by Seán Fearon (more by Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP))  |  (Posted Jul 30, 2024) Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, StrategyEurope, IrelandNewswireDegrowth A few weeks ago, Ireland’s burgeoning degrowth and postgrowth communities gathered to explore the urgent degrowth challenge and take account of the unique contributions from Irish artistry,…

  • Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question

    BY MARIA POPOVA “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God,” the trailblazing astronomer and leading Figuring figure Maria Mitchell wrote in the second half of the nineteenth century as she contemplated science, spirituality, and the human hunger for truth. Every great scientist in the century and a half since has…

  • What is love – a chemical reaction, a feeling, a choice?

    While the feelings that accompany love might be out of your control, how you love someone is very much in your control. Edith Gwendolyn Nally, The Conversation 42 minutes ago READ IN APP Love is confusing. People in the US Google the word “love” about 1.2 million times a month. Roughly a quarter of those searches…

  • The Historic Anachronism and Necessary Supersession of the State

    By István Mészáros (Posted Nov 25, 2018) Democracy, Marxism, RevolutionsGlobalMonthly Review Essays This previously unpublished essay is taken from volume 1 of Mészáros’s Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State, which remained incomplete at the time of his death in October 2017. —The Editors 1. The Descending Phase of Capitalism and the Historical Anachronism of the State The state, as…

  • Marxism and STS: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26

    By Helena Sheehan (Posted Dec 11, 2021) Ideology, Marxism, Media, MovementsEurope, GlobalMonthly Review Essaysco-published, Featured This article is a co-publication of MR Online and Science for the People. At the recent conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science, I came to the conclusion that the history of Marxism in relation to science and technology studies is…

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