Posted on 05/10/2016 9:42:31 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
I am so sorry I am only finding out about this now, a day late. I would have flown across the country to attend. Imagine the acrobatics Ghassan Hage had to perform in order to make this even remotely plausible, even with the audience so eager to be fooled that he undoubtedly had. On the other hand, if the dim-bulb Islamophobia-fearmonger Haroon Moghul (thats right, Dwayne) could sell Time Magazine on the idea that Islamophobia is responsible for Americas crumbling infrastructure, academic audiences these days may be even stupider than I thought.
Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?, MIT Global Studies and Languages, May 9, 2016 (thanks to Faisal Saeed AlMutar):
The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents: Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne
Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages Mon. May 9 5:00 pm 2-105
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as generalised domestication.
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism? (2016) that engages with the contemporary refugee crisis in Europe and beyond.
The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Global Studies and Laguages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, MIT Anthropology
Is MIT sucking up too much air?
They went AA. Their first female president was a real political hack, actively eschewing reality and science for politics.
Well, the word “islamophobia” is accelerating my urge to punch a liberal every time I hear it.
I keep thinking back to that petition that was circulated on a SanFran university regarding the banning of dihydrogen monoxide as dangerous to life.
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This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as generalised domestication.
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That must be close to the all-time record for the amount of egg-headed idiocy packed into one paragraph.
Sure why not.
Well yeah, sure, but strawberry ice cream is actually the answer to everything, so that doesn’t really count.
That's what I'm talkin' about....
"Is MIT accelerating Idiocy?"
The answer to which would be:
What if it is true? Should we take that chance?"
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