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The Cancer of Corruption: A Philosophical and Ethical Perspective
Get PDFThis chapter will address the philosophical and ethical perspective that corruption, in its many forms, is embedded in most societies' fabrics as well as justified and rationalised. The chapter will examine corruption and its negative influence on societies by allowing for ethical pluralisms, i.e., Aristoteles and Confucian thought. We will attempt to discuss this from a global ethics overview that tries to avoid imposing a Greek and western lens and that should conjoin shared norms while simultaneously preserving the irreducible differences between cultures and peoples.
We have three main objectives for this chapter. Firstly, we will explore the argument that in any culture, corruption in its many forms, may it be guanxi, bribes, political favours, bribes , are covered by the traditional understanding of some types of ethical/philosophical judgment. Secondly, we critically analyse how corruption may have positive effects under some circumstances. Thirdly, we attempt to help the reader better comprehend the diversity in legislation and approaches by governments and the inherent conflicts for both multinationals and companies that are internationalising. Thus, we discuss the impact of globalisation on corporate governance and the current anti-corruption measures many nations are trying to both implement and superimpose globally through their home-based multinationals
untitled review of Revolutionary Letters, Diana Di Prima (191pp, £13.99, Silver Press)
Get PDFuntitled review of Revolutionary Letters, Diana Di Prima (191pp, £13.99, Silver Press
Sacred Geometry
Get PDFA book review of The Perfect Golden Circle, Benjamin Myers (241pp, £16.99, Bloomsbury
Boundaries and Borders
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Impossible Worlds
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Get PDFMultispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices is a speculative endeavor asking how we may represent, relay, and read worlds differently by seeing other species as protagonists in their own rights. What other stories are to be invented and told from within those many-tongued chatters of multispecies collectives? Could such stories teach us how to become human otherwise?
Often, the human is defined as the sole creature who holds language, and consequently is capable of articulating, representing, and reflecting upon the world. And yet, the world is made and remade by ongoing and many-tongued conversations between various organisms reverberating with sound, movement, gestures, hormones, and electrical signals. Everywhere, life is making itself known, heard, and understood in a wide variety of media and modalities. Some of these registers are available to our human senses, while some are not.
Facing a not-so-distant future catastrophe, which in many ways and for many of us is already here, it is becoming painstakingly clear that our imaginaries are in dire need of corrections and replacements. How do we cultivate and share other kinds of stories and visions of the world that may hold promises of modest, yet radical hope? If we keep reproducing the same kind of languages, the same kinds of scientific gatekeeping, the same kinds of stories about “our” place in nature, we remain numb in the face of collapse.
Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices offers steps toward a (self)critical multispecies philosophy which interrogates and qualifies the broad and seemingly neutral concept of humanity utilized in and around conversations grounded within Western science and academia. Artists, activists, writers, and scientists give a myriad of different interpretations of how to tell our worlds using different media – and possibly gives hints as to how to change it, too
Spontaneous Beings, 02.02.2022
Get PDF'Spontaneous Beings' imagines Mary Edmonia Wildfire Lewis in a future perfect on the coast of Cornwall. Pondering her life and poisons, tasting the deep medicinal secrets Yemaya brings to the surface.
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Mary Edmonia Wildfire Lewis (July 1844 - September 1907) Edmonia Lewis was an American sculptor of Afro Caribbean and Native American (Mississauga Ojibwa)) descent. Her work is known for incorporating themes relating to black and indigenous peoples of the Americas into Neoclassical-style sculpture. In recent historical accounts referring to her biography, historians often mention that Wildfire “was “telling white lies” “exaggerating” her heritage and upbringing with her mother’s tribe after being orphaned at 9. She was also accused of poisoning 2 white students when attending university, she was acquitted of the charges but received a grievous racially motivated beating at the same university. Moving to Rome in 1865, she became distinctive figure in Roman society. In 1901 she moved to London, settling first at 4a Earls Court Road, then moving to 154 Blythe Road in Brook Green, a terraced four-storey townhouse near Olympia. That is the time some daydreamers see her visiting Cornwall to receive messages through the seaweed.
2. Yemaya - Yemonja, also spelled Yemoja or Yemaja, is a Yoruban deity celebrated as the giver of life and as the metaphysical mother of all Orisha (deities) within the Yoruba spiritual pantheon. All of life comes from her deep nourishing waters. Yemonja’s name is derived from the Yoruba words Yeye or Iya (“mother”), omo (“child/children”), and eja (“fish”) and thus literally means “Mother whose children are the fish”. The number 7 belongs to her, representing the seven seas; her devotees wear seven silver bracelets, the colours blue and white, pearls, silver, conch shells, and doves. Offerings for her include molasses, coconut cakes, white flowers, and watermelon. She helps in matters of self-love, fertility, emotional wounds, trauma, and healing. Like the sea she can me calm, swaying and flowing but also can be tempestuous. If you disrespect her terrain, or hurt one of her children, her anger will rise. Wielding a broad blade, she’s known to “bathe in the blood of her enemies,” or manifest in the form of a tidal wave. Eventually, the practitioners, priests, and priestesses of Santería slowly syncretized the Goddess of the Sea – Yemaya – with the image of Mother Mary. Radiantly rising from the sea, her dark skin shines under the moon