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Uss: The simpsons for IOPS!
Forum Post, April, 08 2012
Jonathan Uss
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The Simpsons for IOPS! This is a great funny outreach video. I knew someday Lisa would lead the revolution!
Albert: 1,000 IOPS Members - What Next
Blog Post, April, 06 2012
Michael Albert
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What can IOPS members do now?
Pedroso: Teaching for surfs or kings
Forum Post, April, 04 2012
Daniel Pedroso
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Standardized testing helps “dumb down” the population by focusing on certain types of thinking according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Standardized testing is cheap, inaccurate, and reduces thinking to three domains, knowledge, comprehe...
Albert: For a New Left International
Znet Article, April, 02 2012
Michael Albert
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Our movements need to be participatory and classless from the start. They need to be examples to people of the kind of society we are trying to win
Evans: what gets me...
Forum Post, April, 02 2012
Mark Evans
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My reading is similar to Justin’s. I think there is something there and I think it is on the right track. Same when I read Wallerstein. But it is, without doubt, unnecessarily complex. Two possible explanation t...
Albert: What's Next for Occupy?
Znet Article, March, 30 2012
Michael Albert
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There is no single correct path for Occupy. Oakland is not New York. Madrid is not Athens. What makes local sense differs from place to place and from time to time
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Translation attempt
Forum Post, March, 28 2012
Michael Albert
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We agree... and... > Do you think movements are the big losers, by missing out on the connection to academics, or the academics are the losers, because they are irrelevant? I think the latter, but that could be sour grapes. I think if all we ...
Podur: Re: Re: Translation attempt
Forum Post, March, 28 2012
Justin Podur
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Yes, I was actually surprised as I was translating to find out that he actually is very similar politically to... well... us. I tried to read him generously, but I am pretty confident that I am summarizing him accurately and not reading our own p...
Albert: Re: Translation attempt
Forum Post, March, 28 2012
Michael Albert
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> Because some of my friends write this way, I'm going to try to translate it, the way I end up doing when I talk to them. Thank you. > The author is against eurocentrism: the idea that the European heritage is the only or best intelle...
Podur: Translation attempt
Forum Post, March, 28 2012
Justin Podur
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Hi Mike, Because some of my friends write this way, I'm going to try to translate it, the way I end up doing when I talk to them. The author is against eurocentrism: the idea that the European heritage is the only or best intellectual tradit...
Albert: Imagine an Organization and Build It
Znet Article, March, 27 2012
Michael Albert
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Why can't the time for forming a new organization be now?
Albert: Announcing/Reporting IOPS
Blog Post, March, 26 2012
Michael Albert
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Announcing IOPS web system to see and join!
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Relevant post modern text
Forum Post, March, 26 2012
Michael Albert
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I am not sure why you are sending me these excerpts. I have already said, I don't find them helpful, or even interesting, albeit they are in places a bit poetic, I guess. It seems like a non sequitur from the original essay and it's questions, ...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Relevant post modern text
Forum Post, March, 26 2012
Michael Albert
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I am not sure why you are sending me these excerpts. I have already said, I don't find them helpful, or even interesting, albeit they are in places a bit poetic, I guess. It seems like a non sequitur from the original essay and it's questions, ...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Relevant post modern text
Forum Post, March, 25 2012
Michael Albert
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What can I say - if changing the world depends on movement participants reading merleau ponty - we are doomed. If there is something in merleau ponty, and not elsewhere, that is very important, fine, very good, but then abram or someone else needs...
Albert: Re: Re: Relevant post modern text
Forum Post, March, 25 2012
Michael Albert
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Frist, I am not sure a person inside the schools of thought I was addressing, say the author of the piece I posted, would even recognize this as closely related, much less part and parcel. Sceond, I agree it is not nearly as obscure as the piece ...
Albert: Re: Relevant post modern text
Forum Post, March, 24 2012
Michael Albert
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I am not even sure the piece I inserted above is part of the post modern school - which is, however, certainly full of horrible texts. See some of my and others essays on that topic - mine are on znet.... This was suggested to me as an example of...
Albert: Re: Particulars?
Forum Post, March, 23 2012
Michael Albert
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I believe I said if it was in plain language, we would find simple truths dolled up, meaningless material, and some errors. But it isn't in plain language...and so i asked for some to explain it. Until that is done, I simply can't understand it....
Gottlieb: Particulars?
Forum Post, March, 23 2012
Michael Gottlieb
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Michael, where in this essay do you find 'falsehoods'?
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style
Forum Post, March, 22 2012
Stephen Roblin
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"And the social sciences (so called soft sciences) are very much linked to the power systems." For this reason, I've wondered if a filter approach could be applied to the social sciences in order to achieve a better understand of th...
