Click Here to Read: In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist: Errol Morris’s film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful by
Benjamin Sutton on the HyperAllergic website on July 7, 2-17.
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents: Who Says He’s a Man? Who Says She’s a Woman? with Liliana Donzis
Friday, June 9, 2017 · 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Man or woman: Is this a subjective position? a biological determination? a gender choice? We will explore Lacan’s articulation of children’s sexuation and its relation to the social link. Continue reading Who Says He’s a Man? Who Says She’s a Woman? with Liliana Donzi at Après-Coup
Click Here to Read: Sydney Hook on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Sydney Hook on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website.
Click Here to Read: Sidney Hook, Political Philosopher, Is Dead at 86 By Richard Bernstein in The New York Times on July 14, 1989.
Click Here to Read: Chapter One of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist By Christopher Phelps in The New York Times. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Sydney Hook
For nineteen years leaders of the North American left have publicly defended the Chávez-Maduro regime in Venezuela. Many were at the forefront of the anti-war movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s, the civil rights movement, and other progressive movements. They include: Noam Chomsky, Jesse Jackson, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte, Mark Weisbrot, Jimmy Carter, Patrick Kennedy, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, and Danny Glover. Lately they’ve gone silent.
I am a left-leaning Democrat and I have admired many of these leaders over the decades. I am originally from San Francisco but lived in Caracas, Venezuela from 1999-2010 where I personally witnessed Hugo Chávez’s so-called “leftist” revolution. There was never anything leftist about Chávez’s authoritarian demagogic regime. It was, from the beginning, a strong man military regime riddled with corruption, lies, and violence. Continue reading Venezuela: Where Have All the Leftists Gone? Daniel Benveniste
Click Here to Read: An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children’s Books: Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children’s Books, 1917-1953 is an online interactive from Princeton University exploring children’s books in the Soviet Union by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on July 4, 2017.
Pages from The Song of the Dirigible (1931) by Nina Sakonskaia (courtesy Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University)
