Tag archive for ‘sociology’
Personal Identity in the Information Age: dot.person & dot.community
The following is a translation of a paper I wrote for my Techno-Utopia & Cyberculture course from 2 semesters ago. Enjoy:
The issue of Personal Identity is a complex subject, which raises many difficult questions. What is a Person? That which thinks the thoughts I have? Is it identical to my body? Is it my [...]
Happy People Have No Stories
Tags: politics, holocaust, zionism, israel, palestine, israeli-arab conflict, sociology, wwii
Tuesday this week we mark the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. This is the only official day marked by Israeli law dedicated to Holocaust memorial.
Of course, Yad Vashem operate all year round, but anyway, this is the official day.
Those of you who don’t [...]
Shakespeare in the bush
Shakespeare in the bush
by Laura Bohannan
(from Natural History, Aug/Sept. 1966)
Just before I left Oxford for the Tiv in West Africa, conversation turned to the season at Stratford. “You Americans,” said a friend, “often have difficulty with Shakespeare. He was, after all, a very English poet, and one can easily misinterpret the universal by misunderstanding the [...]