Archive for the ‘ Ideology ’ Category
I’m just back from Michael Hardt’s talk on Multitudes and the Metropolis. The basic hypothesis he was exploring is the following (hearken back to the analogies you did on your SATs): metropolis : multitude :: factory : industrial working class. This roughly translates to, “Just as the factory was the site of resistance by the [ READ MORE ]
Martha Nussbaum writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education about Hindu fundamentalism, intolerance, violence, and democracy in Gujarat. One of her conclusions relies on the Gujarati emphasis on rote learning of marketable skills, especially business and technology, and the uncritical stance of Hindu fundamentalism: “There you see what can easily wreck democracy: a combination of [ READ MORE ]