Refusal is shorthand for saying, “We’ve seen this before and we don’t want it; and not only don’t we want it but we reject the very basis of the thinking and politics…
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The Dawn of Everything
History is full of people with ideas
August 11, 2022
According to Graeber and Wengrow, European elites did not embrace naturalism and empiricism in their accounts of human history to shed religious epistemologies and institutions. Rather, Graeber and Wengrow argue that the…
August 11, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Play astronauts and actual refugees
August 4, 2022
What does humankind’s ancient history have to do with our current existential predicaments? With millions of new refugees seeking to escape aerial attacks targeting civilians while billionaires playing at being astronauts seek…
August 4, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Searching for better questions (while building a better world)
July 28, 2022
In Graeber and Wengrow’s book, as in my teaching practices, the questions are difficult not because they need to prove how smart the person posing them is. In radical pedagogy and scholarship,…
July 28, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
In the Garden
July 21, 2022
Does Adam and Eve’s disobedience indelibly inscribe this freedom, and freedom as such, into our habits of thought—for what disobedience could be more foundational than disobeying God?
July 21, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
The dawn of everything good?
July 14, 2022
The authors’ message is a hopeful one: that humans aren’t predetermined by our ecological conditions or by teleological or evolutionary sequences where one thing follows inexorably from the last, but rather that…
July 14, 2022
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