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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet

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by Wanda Waterman Volume 22 Issue 23 2014-06-06 Book: Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet Author: Amara Lakhous “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” – W.I. Thomas and D.S. Thomas (the “Thomas theorem”) “Working as a journalist, I’ve come to understand that the reality we confront has neither value nor weight. It’s the imaginary that governs our actions, or, rather, reactions.” – Amara Lakhous, Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet Amara Lakhous was born and very well educated in Algiers, Algeria. He moved to Rome at the age of 25. What makes his contributions … Continue reading Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet

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Hopefully Ever After

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by Wanda Waterman Volume 22 Issue 21 2014-05-23 Film: Her Director: Spike Jonze “Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” – Genesis 2:7, NIV “So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.” – Alan Watts Theodore Twombly, clutching a pole on the metro, asks his smartphone for a melancholy song. A drearily awful … Continue reading Hopefully Ever After

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The Cordelia Factor in Third Wave Feminist Punk Rock

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In Shakespeare’s King Lear the King asks his three daughters how much they love him. While his two other daughters wax rhapsodic about mountains, skies, and seas, his daughter Cordelia tells him that she loves him as meat loves salt. Continue reading The Cordelia Factor in Third Wave Feminist Punk Rock

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11 Writers Whose Works Inspired World Change

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by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 20 2014-05-16 “I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.” – Pedro Reyes It’s a balancing act. The socially aware artist runs the risk of sabotaging her art and even appearing annoyingly self-righteous. And after all, isn’t a little “art-for-art’s sake” necessary to the production of good art? Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the most popular books in the United States in the 19th century (second only to the Bible). The book sparked an unquenchable national passion to end slavery by humanizing … Continue reading 11 Writers Whose Works Inspired World Change

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The Way to Elsewhere Has Been Removed, But the Door Remains

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The Mindful Bard: You Are Here Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 19 2014-05-09 Film: You Are Here Director: Daniel Cockburn “Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.” – John Searle In a scene inspired by philosopher John Searle’s Chinese Room experiment, a slovenly prisoner in a blue jumpsuit is sitting on the floor of a brightly lit room when a piece of paper bearing Chinese writing slides under the door. He … Continue reading The Way to Elsewhere Has Been Removed, But the Door Remains