To understand the history of a place you have to go back to the start. For the Gaza Strip that start is the naqbah. Nothing that happened subsequently – from the 1950s to the 2020s – can be understood without it.
Said is an inspiration for all those who produce knowledge for the betterment of society. His work is still relevant. Most people still do not understand Muslims, Islam, or Palestine. They also do not understand the power-knowledge web.
Life and legal career Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani was born on 16 September 1930 in Bombay and passed away at his home in Mumbai on 29 August 2024, at the age of 93. He obtained his law degree from Government…
Unless something changes, staffers who quit over safety will simply be replaced, AI models will help build better AI models, and each generation will grow harder to monitor and control.
Revolution is necessary for caste annihilation because caste is woven into the economic, state, social, and cultural fabric of society at every level. Caste annihilation is, in turn, necessary for revolution because genuine working-class unity cannot be forged while the working class itself remains fragmented along caste lines.
Today’s postmodernist geniuses are bad copies of bad copies.
Education should indeed be responsive to the needs of society. But this is not the same as regarding yourself as a service station for neocapitalism. In fact, you would tackle society’s needs a great deal more effectively were you to challenge this whole alienated model of
learning.
Climate change discussions usually focus on what is happening above the water: rising temperatures, heatwaves, melting glaciers, sea-level rise. But roughly a quarter to a third of all the carbon dioxide humanity emits never reaches the atmosphere or remains there. It dissolves into the ocean. For decades, this has slowed the pace of global warming considerably — without the ocean acting as a vast carbon sink, temperatures would already be higher than they are.
In today’s world, when capitalism, flawless global technological surveillance, years of war and continuous genocide, violent finance capital, and the use of the state machinery are exploiting the working class, peasants, and labouring people in ever newer ways—at such a difficult time it is imperative to reread Marx’s political writings anew.
One of the great strengths of Persepolis is that it depicts multiple layers of experience simultaneously. Political repression coexists with humour. Social constraints never overshadow individual strategies. Tradition does not preclude the desire for modernity. Conformism exists, but so does dissent.