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The brutalist takeover: the war on learning

May 25, 2025May 26, 2025 sanjay perera

In a world of increasing dysfunctionality we are regularly confronted by those who use the pretext of championing a cause to intimidate and attack others. Theirs is an attempt to distract from actual justice and fairness through violent protest, demonstrations, riots, and nihilism. Continue reading The brutalist takeover: the war on learning

Noam Chomsky: The history and hypocrisy of the war on terror

December 8, 2015 sanjay perera

Noam Chomsky is an activist and an emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Continue reading Noam Chomsky: The history and hypocrisy of the war on terror

Terrorizing school children in the American police state

November 10, 2015December 9, 2015 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux
Americans live in an age in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither under the weight of neoliberal capitalism and post-racial racism. Continue reading Terrorizing school children in the American police state

ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism: Resisting mainstream workstations of fear

October 7, 2014November 29, 2014 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux The use of new digital technologies and social media by ISIS has drawn a great deal of attention by the dominant media not only because the extremists have used them as a form of visual terrorism … Continue reading ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism: Resisting mainstream workstations of fear

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