From China’s Weiwei to the Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda al-Mahdi, people are again busy using their naked bodies as a way to challenge authority and demand rights. Even in today’s much more sexualized world, public nudity continues to be a powerful form of protest. When nearly 100 supporters of dissident Chinese artist Ai…
The Sex Addiction Epidemic It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth. Yet Americans are being diagnosed as sex addicts in record numbers. Inside an epidemic. Valerie realized that sex was wrecking her life right around the time her second marriage disintegrated. At 30, and employed as a human-resources administrator…
Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is molding your taste in art. “The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are how we make sense of the…
Facebook is squaring with Google in a race for control not only of the social network market, but of the Internet as a whole. Regardless of who “wins,” there’s a danger for users, who bit by bit are losing control of both their digitial profiles – and digital freedom. Do you…
9-11 and the United States’ Empire of Language and Ideas
ARABICA – A Daily Shot Of What the Arab World is Saying/Hearing/Sharing A R A B I C A ??????? By Kristen Gillespie BLOOD *As the Syrian uprising gets more serious, the logo for the facebook group “Syrian Revolution against Bashar al-Assad 2011” is becoming proportionately bloody. The…
Million Man March Needs Internet Connections
Our fixations on our smartphones are changing social norms, work routines and maybe even how our brains functions STORY HIGHLIGHTS Smartphones are becoming an important part of life and culture Some smartphone owners say they could not possibly be without the devices One man uses a Bible app to read scripture to a church congregation…