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November 29th, 2007
Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal
A while ago, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated that when someone says Eurocentrism “every self-respecting postmodern leftist intellectual has as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture: to reach for a gun, hurling accusations of proto-fascist Eurocentrist cultural imperialism.” However, he asked himself, “is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the […]
November 1st, 2007
Bono contra China
During one pleasant summer night Leo Ching, Ralph Litzinger and I where chatting about the quite interesting issue of Vanity Fair, published in July of 2007 and edited by Bono.
The issue received quite a bit of attention.
The conversation moved from Bono’s “crusade” to Bill and Melinda Gates in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation’s […]