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Karl Marx on Free Time – Time for the Full Development of the Individual
To justify the upcoming three-week blogcation, I turned to Karl Marx: “The saving of labour time [is] equal to an increase of free time, i.e. time for the full development of the individual, which in turn reacts back upon the productive … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl Marx, labor, leisure, personal well being, public sociology, social movements, welfare
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Keep the keyhole clean — my wishes to you in Franz Kafka’s penetrating words
These days, as the new academic year begins, please allow me to wish you – drawing on Franz Kafka’s penetrating and subtle words – to keep the keyhole clean, to perceive on your intellectual journey more than one can see and then … Continue reading
The audacity of science
These days, as the new academic year begins, please allow me to wish you not to be deterred from inadequacy in your intellectual (or professional) journey; let inadequacy, accompanied by audacity, lead you to self-realization. Oleg Komlik. “Science is inadequate, … Continue reading
Thomas Piketty: “Take a serious interest in money… Those who have a lot of it never fail to defend their interests.”
These are Thomas Piketty’s last words in his groundshaking Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Our community – the Economic Sociology and Political Economy global academic community – proudly fulfills their meaning: “All social scientists, all journalists and commentators, all activists in … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, democracy, media, money, public sociology, Thomas Piketty, wealth
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How to defeat Neoliberalism? Name and shame its carriers. Together we did it– and we succeeded!
Neoliberalism is a political project, sophisticatedly exploiting the fictitious “free markets” ideas professed by mainstream economists, aimed at reshaping the functions of the state and its institutions, in order to change the distribution of capital and wealth in a society. In the years … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, higher education, neoliberalism, public sociology
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Public engagement is a moral obligation of social scientists
Pierre Bourdieu, a preeminent social scientist and influential public intellectual: “Those who have the good fortune to be able to devote their lives to the study of the social world cannot stand aside, neutral and indifferent, from the struggles in which … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, neoliberalism, Pierre Bourdieu, public sociology, social sciences
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“People are living books. The real library of life is community.” Thank you all!
While 2014 is coming to an end and 2015 is knocking on our doors, I want to thank every one of you for being here and for making this community what it really is. Thank you for joining, for every … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, knowledge, Political economy, public sociology, social sciences
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The original email that started Occupy Wall Street
On September 17, 2011 thousands of women and men gathered in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. It was a day when Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) movement was publicly born, gradually receiving global attention and spawning the … Continue reading
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Tagged capital, capitalism, crisis, democracy, inequality, neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, public sociology, social movements, United States
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Theodor Adorno on philosophy, academia, and market
Theodor W. Adorno: “Out of piety, laziness, and calculation, philosophy continues to muddle through in an ever narrower academic framework, and even there, it is increasingly being replaced with organized tautology. Whoever entrusts themselves to credentialed profundity, fall victim just as … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Frankfurt school, marketization, public sociology, social sciences
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Zygmunt Bauman: “Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.”
Zygmunt Bauman: “…Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.” in: Beilharz, Peter. 2001. The Bauman Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. (p. 335)
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