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Questions 3/3 In this light, perhaps our haste to answer a question is misplaced. We should allow questions to linger, to breathe, to grow.
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When you have the slightest doubt about a quotation, assuming it fake is the safe option. --- Just think about how opportune it is to construct fake quotes, how easily they spread, and compare it with the relatively hard accessibility of great works.
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@DearS_o_n Great trilogy. Mentally, I'd translate them into: * Is it the best approximation of truth to my knowledge? * Have I thought thrice whether it adds something? * How to ensure trust and openness in dialogue? It may slow down conversation, but that's okay.
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A list that keeps getting longer: greenwashing, pinkwashing, rainbow washing, purplewashing, sportswashing, redwashing, humanewashing, straightwashing, hetwashing, brainwashing
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Our spheres of influence are much larger than our personal spaces.
As voters and consumers we must make our actions count: From the policies we champion, to the food we eat, to the transport we choose, to the companies we support. We can all make environmentally friendly choices that will add up to the change we need. #WorldEnvironmentDay
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The ultimate goal of the left is to preserve the right, or put more eloquently: The Shirky Principle – “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”
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222 years - a good period to declare a work of art as significant. According to Marcel Duchamp, the lifetime of a painting is ~50 years on average. I wonder whether it is similar for music.
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15 years. In Belgium, we would call it a flashlight relationships, but certainly twitter has been a constant throughout this period. Thank you for being around. Let's make the best use we can of this great platform. #MyTwitterAnniversary
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"... politics is always in need of more science." ~ John List More science in politics please, but not more politics in science 😎.
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... and it takes decades for the state to relinquish the increased powers that were so casually granted in the time of crisis.
Back to Randolph Bourne… the key shift from pandemic to war is that the government loses control to a violent reality where the state once again becomes the main actor. As a pacifist, anarchist and seeing the EU militarising, I am not sleeping easy. Europe is dangerously adrift.
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@abitofpitch Besides Karl Kraus and Walter Benjamin, Richard Freeman changed my perspective on translation as an act of (re)creation. See for example this paper
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@abitofpitch Granted - there is something caustic in Kraus' wit which somewhat diminishes his work. I can appreciate Jonathan Franzen's balanced take on him in The Kraus Project.
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Energy costs are rising, they are already 10% of world GDP and energy bills have major redistribution effects. All good reasons to pay more attention to the ethical dimension of energy policy. ----- Defining and conceptualising energy policy failure: The…
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Artisinal copper mining in Congo: do you see the story of hope with many challenges? #copper #mining #fairtrade
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@BookChat_ Yep. I'd add: 📚 a single reader cannot read the same book twice ©️ one cannot write the same book twice (see Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote) ☸️ if a book is written but not read, does it exist?
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