An Emotional Jon Stewart Drops the Comedy to Talk Charleston: ‘We Still Won’t Do Jackshit’

Autor: Volker Davids
Datum: 19. Juni 2015
Schlagwörter: Charleston, Jon Stewart
Kategorien: Politik

Jon Stewart apologized to his audience tonight for not having any jokes for them, as he just dropped the comedy to get serious about Charleston. He said, “I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness.” “By acknowledging it,” Stewart pointed out, “by staring into that and seeing it for what it is, we still won’t … Read More

Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan by Joey L

Autor: Volker Davids
Datum: 13. Juni 2015
Schlagwörter: Guerrilla Fighters, Joey L, Joseph Anthony Lawrence, Kurdistan
Kategorien: Gesellschaft

Joseph Anthony Lawrence, Fotograph aus New York, war im Frühjahr „embedded“ mit kurdischen Kämpfern in Syrien und im Irak unterwegs, um ein beeindruckendes Video zu machen und eine ebenso bewegende Potrait-Serie zu fotographieren. „Lesezeichen“: 00:00 – Intro, Joey departs NYC 01:31 – Preparation in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan 02:15 – PKK Guerrillas in Makhmour 05:41 – … Read More

Michel Foucault – The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part 1 of 7

Autor: Volker Davids
Datum: 6. Juni 2015
Schlagwörter: culture, individual, Michel Foucault, philosphy
Kategorien: Wissenschaft

This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture’s conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligable distortions in the tape.