Not one Arab country shares in the appeal. Not one. But everybody, including Arab countries, expect Western donors to keep UNRWA afloat and resume donations.
It's like German universities of the 1930s. Again. But the uneducated children on US campuses won't know. They rather wallow in terrorist propaganda and act as bullhorn of the Gaza-ISIS.
Whoever said that seems to lack a decent understanding of Western history of ideas and culture. And conflates a few aspects after the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment (both Enlightenments, that is) with the whole of 3000 years of "the West" and "Westernity".
I hope things will work out well for you. Do you have any idea already what you're gonna do next? Or are you planning (semi-) retirement and grandkids-sitting?
Yep. I intend to write a personal letter to him once the book has arrived. The diligence, perseverance, and dedication is unparalleled to anything I have ever witnessed in my life. Incredible. A true role model.
Thank you. I'm very happy that this long-winding enterprise comes finally to a good conclusion. The publisher has put 20 years of effort and hard work into it, with strokes of fate in his family and himself suffering a stroke.... We had a few email-conversations over the years when he was exhausted and down and seemingly in need of a pat on his shoulders....
I read a bit around on SPT. It's not my field of knowledge. Likewise, infrastructure as "materialised practice" sounds odd to me. So, no, sorry, I cannot help.
Not sure I understand what you mean by "Social Practice theory", nor if you're looking for examples of socially pressured changes in #infrastructure or rather general deliberation and theorizing about that. Could you elaborate a bit so I can see if I can give some suggestions?
I like the KC and the Sunshine Band's 1970s version. The brass section is superb.
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simsa03« [...] Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory points out that the elite gatekeepers of yesterday’s mass media were often castigated for “manufacturing consent” among a “phantom” public by leaving too many voices out. What may be worse is that the structural fragmentation of today’s digital media ecosystem is manufacturing a level of dissensus detrimental to the possibility of arriving at consensually agreed truths necessary to hold any society together.»
Which is why social media of the type of the #fediverse contribute to the problem rather than help solving it.
In a few days nu.federati.net will shut down. That is a sad moment. I can't even remember how long it has been an active instance but it must at least been 10 years? Anyway, thank you @lnxw48a1 for making this instance be around for so long, and for the conversations that benefited a lot in quality, tone, and manners from its presence. This has been a wonderful instance and all praise to its maintainer, @lnxw48a1 -- with nu.federati.net you made the fediverse a decent place.
Yes, please! I mean, the book already sits on the shelf, right beside Amitav Ghosh's "The Great Derangement" and Amy Leach's "Things That Are". I'll get to them, one day or another. :-)
(Right now I'm reading Halldór Laxness, Hans Belting, George Scialabba, Mark Galeotti...)