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In cordial dialog with Jeffrey D. Sachs I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do,…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is the emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. His most recent book is Decolonizing the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice.
The easy answer to this question would be to say that we are in a time of transition. After all, all eras…
All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or extremism establishes a…
Not everything that apparently has no beginning or end is infinite. For example, a circle, which is a confined space-time. It is…
Trump is a legitimate son, not a bastard, of modern Europe. Just as Hitler was in his time. The mother who gave…
Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in…
Scales are conventions about proportionalities and the relationships between them. The idea of human scale is ancient and present in all cultures.…
Karl Jaspers once wrote that the general public made use of the results of science like primitive peoples made use of the…
Both personally and collectively, the certainties of the present always carry with them the germ of future uncertainties. But there are moments…
Trump’s victory is a desperate and historically understandable gesture by US society to halt the decline of the imperial prosperity it experienced…