Mum does the washing
By Joshua Idehen. Very, very clever. Here.
We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.
A video from the New York Times highlighting three Yale professors who look back to see ahead. All three are moving to the University of Toronto. Available here.
25 years in the making
The infamous “I am Canadian” ad made national pride cool. Now, the “We are Canadian” redo highlights how nationalism can be inspired by resistance to foreign actions.
How Tyranny Begins
Video from the New York Times – mandatory viewing. Here.
Break the Bad News Bubble
Angus Hervey, economist, journalist and founding editor of Fix The News, is trying his best to promote positive stories that we rarely hear about. On his website he write, “The news really [...]
Excellent review of phenomenology, structuralism and Jordan Peterson
I just came across the Philosophy Tube by Abigail Thorn that includes a wealth of resources. The one about Peterson is here. I particularly like her line that “ideologies are like [...]
Racist people are not “total monsters.” Here’s what they are. | Chloé Valdary
Chloé Valdary, and their concept of the Theory of Enchantment, is an interesting way to challenge our view of racism. A short video explaining the idea is here.
Photographs offer a colonialist window to the past
A thought-provoking video on how images, libraries, etc, present and reinforce a/the colonialist view. Available here.
Changeling (on Vimeo)
This is a thought-provoking piece on AI and consciousness. There are a number of the places where the AI responses made me question what it means to be human, and the what role sociology might [...]