pedagogy of the oppressed

Linear Economy, Recycling Economy, and Circular Economy Source: Does anyone know who created this image?

Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

bring-your-own cutlery, made from recycled CDs

This is my new favorite flow chart!!

Derek Parfit, On What Matters (via philosophybits)

"Because money is convertible into all other things, it infects them with the same feature, turning them into commodities—objects that, as long as they meet certain criteria, are seen as identical. All that matters is how many or how much. Money, says Seaford, 'promotes a sense of homogeneity among things in general.' All things are equal, because they can be sold for money, which can in turn be used to buy any other thing. In the commodity world, things are equal to the money that can replace them. Their primary attribute is their 'value'—an abstraction. I feel a distancing, a letdown, in the phrase, 'You can always buy another one.' Can you see how this promotes an antimaterialism, a detachment from the physical world in which each person, place, and thing is special, unique? No wonder Greek philosophers of this era [when modern money originated] began elevating the abstract over the real, culminating in Plato's invention of a world of perfect forms more real than the world of the senses. No wonder to this day we treat the physical world so cavalierly. No wonder, after two thousand years' immersion in the mentality of money, we have become so used to the replaceability of all things that we behave as if we could, if we wrecked the planet, simply buy a new one."

When the poor fight back it’s called violence”

Audre Lorde, from A Litany for Survival

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (via philosophybits)

“When oppression becomes law, resistance becomes duty” Seen in Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, India

Paulo Freire  (via ohpretenders)

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via feministdeathparty)

Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly and Jessie face each other in a serious conversation. The caption reads, “Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”

Source: Made of Shade: Dr. bell hooks On Zimmerman Effect

Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed