Acta Apocrypha

From a honk honk meme with clown pepe and “revolt against the modern world”. It seems many scholars of comparative philosophy/religion veered towards a traditionalist stance. 

Mircea Eliade

Julius Evola: wrote Revolt Against the Modern World

René Guénon

Philosopher working on intercultural philosophy, philosophy of culture, of architecture and films, and metaphilosophy.

Especially interesting:

A corpus-based computational analysis of philosophical texts: comparing analytic and continental philosophy: stylistic analysis of continental and analytic philosophy, which supports the idea that philosophical thinking is independent of language;

 THE COOL KAWAII: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity: a study of aesthetic concepts between the cultural superpowers of US and Japan, the “cool” and the “kawaii”. Here’s a review.

Transcultural Architecture:The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism: a study of the relations between Western and non-Western style of architecture. Here is a review. 

I found two projects currently working on Antarctica from the angles of political philosophy and cultural studies:

Political Philosophy looks to Antarctica, University of Oslo;

Antarctic Cultures, University of Tasmania

Human-AI relations: https://aeon.co/amp/essays/the-robots-wont-take-over-because-they-couldnt-care-less

Movies:

Zardoz 

Books:

The Color Pie of Magic lends itself to interesting philosophical considerations. 

Here I will just provide some links to resources:

Article by DA Sabien on Medium;

Pie Fights, article by Mark Rosewater on conflicts between enemy colors and wedges 

Frenemies, article by Andrew Weisel on conflicts between allied colors

Identity Crises: article by Andrew Weisel on conflicts within one color. On a similar topic, the best and worst of each color.

Martin Rezny on the metaphysics of postmodern fantasy in Magic 

Humor: episode of South Park. 

Created by an English missionary in 1827: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics. It is used to write a variety of indigenous languages, among which Cree, Ojibwe, Inuktitut.

It is an abugida type of syllabary. 

Introductory links:

postcolonialism

subaltern studies

concept of subaltern, where Antonio Gramsci is one of the main theorists

Gayatri Spivak, brilliant cultural theorist and translator of Derrida

Zomia is a region is south east Asia that has managed to remain beyond governmental control, examined in this book on its anarchic history by James C. Scott.

Veve are magic sigils are used in voodoo magic, connected to religious rituals, representing Loa, divine intermediaries of synchretic origin.

“Papa Legba is a loa in Haitian Vodou, who serves as the intermediary between the loa and humanity. He stands at a spiritual crossroads and gives (or denies) permission to speak with the spirits of Guinee, and is believed to speak all human languages. In Haiti, he is the great elocutioner. Legba facilitates communication, speech, and understanding.”

System of glyphs found on Easter island. Yet undeciphered, it might constitute a case of isolated invention of writing. 

Future stories from the distant past. 

Is there a possible alternative to capitalism? Fisher suggests[IT] to politicize realms of discouse whose de-politicization advances capitalist goals: treating mental health has a result of socio-economic conditions, and not of individual brain chemistry; global pollution. The strategy is to challenge the apparent necessity of the system by envisioning new possibilities, showing the contingency of the present system (this resonates with Hecht’s critique of Haff’s concept of technosphere).    Mark Fisher, Zero books, 2009. 

Concerning digital monopolies, check Evgeny Morozov’s stuff. He published Silicon Valley: i signori del silicio (2016)[IT], and talks about data privatization.

Some political concepts and ideas on cooperativism and mutualism. Alternatives to individualistic capitalism?

Libertarian socialism: Chomsky is a famous supporter. The article offers an overview of many different currents, individualist, collectivist etc. All the ones below are found on this page.

Mutualism: based on labor theory of value.

Social anarchism:  emphasizes community and social equality as complementary to autonomy and personal freedom. 

Collectivist anarchism:  is a revolutionary anarchist doctrine that advocates the abolition of both the state and private ownership of the means of production as it instead envisions the means of production being owned collectively and controlled and managed by the producers themselves.

Communalism:  refers to a system that integrates communal ownership and federations of highly localized independent communities.

Cooperative:  an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.

Check also [IT]:

socialismo liberale (Carlo Rosselli), variante liberale del socialismo, opposta al

Xhosa, bantu (Niger-Congo) language spoken in southern Africa and native language of Nelson Mandela. Chosen to be the language of Wakanda in Marvel’s Black Panther. It is a tonal language and has three main clicks: dental, palatal and lateral.

Taa language, a Khoisan language, the language with the highest number of clicks.