Category Archives: social sciences

A formula…for baby formula

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Mike

Originally posted on the blog “Society of the Seasons.” I’m sure this will come across as ungrateful and that’s certainly not my intent. I mean, I am very thankful that I left baby Dimitri’s three-month visit to the pediatrician with … Continue reading →

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Our Mandela, not theirs

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Mike

It’s really incredible to see American right-wingers hail Nelson Mandela as a visionary and a champion of freedom while they’ve been doing their damnedest to smear and destroy everything and everyone who they consider to be remotely left-leaning, especially over … Continue reading →

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On essence, memory and media

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Mike

Updated February 2020 with the postscript below. “So much still to give, so many joys of life to taste, all cut short by some cell gone wrong. Life is so very unfair.” — Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton beau de Marot … Continue reading →

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On Bakunin, Marx and the lumpenproletariat: part one

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Mike

In his recent article, “A Master Class in Occupation,” author Chris Hedges  effectively renews a century and a half of controversy between two giants in political economy, Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx, discussing their respective influences on the Occupy Wall … Continue reading →

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