Thursday, December 28, 2023

Majoritarianism goes against constitutional imagination

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I went through your list. Good stuff. But  may I recommend Stanislaw Lem and the Strugatsky brothers? These are a bit slow burning but ultimately much more rewarding than 99.9% of the stuff out there. East Europe elevated Sci fi to literature. A very different evolution.

https://twitter.com/KunalLal84/status/1738881727987327052?t=RiQZ0Trfh8WgcwJewerFHQ&s=19

May I recommend The Dawn of Everything (book) by Wengrow and Graeber and also Meditations on Molloch by Scott Alexander (blog post) for looking at this question in a deep and nuanced way.

https://twitter.com/KunalLal84/status/1740029417911673041?t=U97-xYj_lgSmU4Ss3DGWhA&s=19

I love the phrase "human nature" because whenever someone uses it I can just disregard everything else they say. It's a fantasy like the Tooth Fairy or the Browns's Super Bowl chances but for the most annoying people on earth.

https://twitter.com/DemonicAlias/status/1739718964840706420?t=i4lFQNcOqX2YMYD61m1pmg&s=19

Hi Nate I'm an anthropologist and this is extremely incorrect!

Humans evolved to be interdependent because we are a social species. Capitalism is a system of infinite growth in a finite environment, the only "natural" comparison that comes close to that is cancer

https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1739807518136656170?t=hHxWAdW_6op8sXRtVcnn5Q&s=19

Been thinking more about this and can’t help but wonder that more people need to read this Marshall Sahlins essay. Both Joe and Nate are making a deeply ideological point despite portraying it to be logically self-evident. 

Sahlin’s essay is an important critique of that ideological understanding of history. The point is not to romanticize pre-modern societies as some rustic utopias but to question our premises of progress and development. 

uvm.edu/~jdericks/EE/S

https://twitter.com/fictitious_cap/status/1739879154349379937?t=sF31Sa2J6uPsXrzzqhlBHQ&s=19

Amod Lele

Dec 17

In everyday communities and institutions – families, universities, businesses, clubs – we cannot help but engage in politics, in the sense of influencing or making collective decisions. I think political philosophy does better when it turns its attention to those communities and institutions smaller than the state, where most of our political actions take place: political philosophy should be a philosophy not just of the state but of office politics, of academic politics.

In that regard, I've noticed an interesting commonality between two works whose authors likely wouldn't see themselves as having anything in common: Graeber and Wengrow's anarchist anthropology The Dawn of Everything, and the standards set out by the Project Management Institute. Graeber and Wengrow look at a wide range of anthropological and archaeological sources on how humans organize their societies; the Project Management Institute examines how an individual (a project manager) can get a group of people to succeed at a collective institutional goal.

[PDF] Without it, all virtues are an act.

E Zorn
Different countries in the world have different political systems of governance. Many may profess to adhere to the same or similar ideologies, such as capitalism, socialism, or democracy, but the nature of the State as a governing agency may …

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L Yacuta - 2023
In this dissertation I explore the factors driving of intrastate violence on an institutional and individual level. The first two papers are based off the same theoretical backing – that when intra-regime components do not support one …

Sacred Time and Religious Violence: Evidence from Hindu-Muslim Riots in India

F Allie - Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023
How and when can religious times become focal points for communal violence? In the context of Hindu-Muslim riots in India, I argue that incompatible ritual holidays where one religion’s rituals are at odds with another (eg, sacrificing cows or …

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… The mind-body connection, including practices like yoga and tai chi, fosters holistic well-being. It emphasizes the role of mindfulness and … In our constantly changing world, stress has become an integral aspect of our daily lives. However, as …

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MA Boaz, G Gnanaraj - Journal of Research Administration, 2023
Stress is considered as an integral part of modern life. It is the psychological or physiological reaction that occurs when an individual perceives an imbalance between the level of demand placed upon him and his capability for meeting that …

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A Abbas, M Khan - Pakistan Journal of Law, Analysis and Wisdom, 2023
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R MISTRY - DIALOGICS OF MARGINALITY IN THE WORKS OF …
… Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance set in post-independence India, for instance, demonstrates how the rise of Hindutva marginalized the Muslims and made it clear to the Parsis that they were an ethnic minority in Hindu India. Further caste …

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Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture: Introduction to the Play Field Theory

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The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge. Its nature and functional utility are unclear. These linked yet contradictory issues have created the intrigue that has fed philosophical thought for more than two hundred years. During …

[PDF] Role of Indian English Literature in Nation Building in Pre-Independent Era: With Special Reference to Raja Rammohun Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Sir Aurobindo

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This paper is an attempt to study the role of Indian English Literature in nation building during preindependent era with special reference to Raja Rammohun Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Sir Aurobindo. Literature portrays human life in all …

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S Sahoo, S Mohanty, PK Swain - Review of Development and Change, 2023
Historians and sociologists stride on unchartered terrain when it comes to studying social movements, especially those termed ‘historyless’, the marginal communities. This paper deals with India’s most unique socioreligious movement called Mahima …

Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia: Understanding and Evaluating Urban Sustainable Trends in China and Japan

X Zou - 2024
This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development. Urban sustainability is …

Designing kindergartens in context of sustainable urban development: Foreign experience

I Potapchuk - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023
… The building changes its identity and itself becomes a landscape - a metaphor of the urban jungle, where plants and wild animals become a natural and integral part of the architecture of the object. The project is an illustrative example of the skill of …

[PDF] Connect between Artificial Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence at workplace

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… on mental health and focus need to given on training such as Yoga, Meditation, social outdoor activities which helps employees to bulid stronger … When employees become an integral part of the organization they develop a sense of …

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N Bertuzzi - 2023
‘If you are reading this book, you’ve probably heard about the concept of “prefigurative politics” before and are looking forward to knowing more about it; or maybe this is the first time that you’re reading about it. Either way, you are in the right place’ …

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