Material culture of psychoanalysis.

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Стенка на стенку. Русский лубок конца XVIII века

Gun­tis Šmid­chens, The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution

The Power of Song shows how the peo­ple of Esto­nia, Latvia, and Lithua­nia con­fronted a mil­i­tary super­power and achieved inde­pen­dence in the Baltic “singing rev­o­lu­tion.” When attacked by Soviet sol­diers in pub­lic dis­plays of vio­lent force, singing Balts main­tained faith in non­vi­o­lent polit­i­cal action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are trans­lated and inter­preted in poetic, cul­tural, and his­tor­i­cal context.

Shpongle - Around The World In A Tea Daze [Ott Remix]

The Brain and the Mind

A scientist and non-believer, de Waal isn't saying here that religion is required for human morality, only that the two have been entwined throughout human history. Since I have wearied of the Richard Dawkins school of religion-bashing, in which belief is equated with dim-wittedness, I can only applaud de Waal's approach, as when he writes, "The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms ... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma."

- Frans de Waal's Bottom-Up Morality: We're Not Good Because Of God

Stjuarts Hols (Stuart Hall) par koloniālismu un identitāti, ko, manuprāt, zināmā mērā var attiecināt arī uz LV vēsturi un identitātes jautājumiem tās kontekstā:

"If you understand your history and if you don't have some originary conception of your own culture as really always the same, as been throbbing away there since the tribal past, went underground during colonialism, is now coming back just as it was. If you don't have that conception of history, you see the degree to which who you are now and what your society is, it has been made and remade, and has been remade again by forces which are essentially global. Which are outside of you in some fundamental way."

Skatīties interviju: Stuart Hall - Cosmopolitanism