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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | We won’t deny our consciences

We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility for what their own governments do – we must first of all oppose the injustice that is done in our own name. Thus we call on all Americans to resist the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral and illegitimate. We choose to make common cause with the people of the world.

This is interesting! I find it heartning to see this document, a rally cry! It has been hard to say that the US state is a rogue without it seeming anti-American or extreme, so good to see a bunch of decent Americans come out and say it forcefully. I am sure many have said it and there may have been other declarations – but this one seems like it will have persuasion. Where can others sign up?

How did I hear about it? blogdex

Halfway between the poem and the paramecium

The dream is halfway between the poem and the paramecium. Like the paramecium, it is a product of nature, created not by man’s will. But like the poem, it is a product of art, dependent upon man’s imagination.

-James Hillman

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
– James Hillman

Educational Blogging

policies: seminar in the novel, 2002
From the site:

Weblogging Each student maintains a Weblog, or “blog”, for their work in this class. These must be updated weekly, by each Wednesday by midnight. Each blog consists of two parts:

  1. A reflection on the reading for that week, at least one paragraph in length
  2. An annotation hyperlink to a relevant Web resource.

You may use Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/), or produce your own site in your own Webspace.

Wired has a story that makes this sound like something very new. Bryan has been going on for a while! Students make a good job of it too!

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Edgar Morin

In his latest work, Une politique de civilisation*, Edgar Morin develops the views on the state of the world which he had already outlined in Terre-Patrie, and proposes a reform of politics and our way of thinking, to take us beyond the multi-faceted, global crisis we are currently experiencing.

A new holistic theory of action for our time? I have seen it put that way…