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Is Islam a Western Religion?
Sources/Recomended Reading:
Ahmed, Shahab (2017). "What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic". Princeton University Press.
Bulliet, Richard (2004) "The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization". Columbia University Press.
Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (2017). "Powers of One: The Mathematicalization of the Occult Sciences in the High Persianate Tradition". Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5, no. 1: 127-99.
Ragep, F. Jamil (2004). "Copernicus and His Islamic Predecessors: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science". Osiris 16 n.s.: 49-71.
Is The World Actually Ending?
Climate change is just the next phase of colonialism, another type of genocide
Americans Are Being Watched (and its getting worse)
WESTERN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI TERRORISM IS DISTURBING
A Marxist Analysis of Shrek
0:00 - do you know the muffin man? 1:16 - brief introduction to marxism 1:47 - class distinctions in shrek 2:55 - shrek 5:51 - donkey 7:52 - lord farquaad 8:23 - the political economy 10:00 - lord farquaad as political agent 12:39 - shrek as revolutionary 14:40 - shrek vs lord farquaad 16:24 - fiona and postmodernism 17:47 - dragon 18:23 - how revolutionary was the revolution? 19:53 - yes, i know the muffin man
What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades
A deep dive into the history of concerts over the last 70 years and how corporate greed turned one of the most populist forms of entertainment into a luxury good.
How Big Tech Steals Our Lives
Introduction - 0:00 Mapping Data Colonialism - 1:30 Data Colonialism's Civilising Mission - 10:26 Decolonising Data - 15:23
the coquettification of catholicism
0:00 - intro 3:01 - the pope's fashion 9:25 - aesthetics of the church 14:25 - heavenly bodies exhibit 18:35 - catholicism goes alternative 29:16 - is this okay?
Why The Two-State Solution Never Worked
McKinsey: The Group Secretly Running Every Company (And Government?)