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Article Links: January-October 2009

Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Thu 01 Jan 2009 11:00 PM PST  

• David Hockney's iPhone Passion by Lawrence Weschler (NY Review of Books)


• A reprieve from Arctic ice meltdown?
• Jackson 2Bears: The Technological Unconscious, Animism and the Uncanny
• Global warming impacts sooner & worse than expected ?
• You shouldn't believe everything you read, yet according to a classic psychology study at first we can't help it
• Arundati Roy on sham Democracy in India
• Conference Proceedings: Fundamentalism and the Future
• A Life Of Its Own: Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us? by Michael Specter (The New Yorker)
• New direct-drive turbines to lower cost of offshore wind energy.
• Tribute to J.C. by K. Curtis Lyle (from Electric Church)
• John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz and the Evolution of "My Favorite Things" by Scott Anderson
• The Holy Grail of the Unconscious : Jung's Red Book (N.Y. Times Magazine)
• Advanced Solar Panels Coming to Market
• Toward a Theory of Phantasmal Media: An Imaginative Cognition- and Computation-Based Approach to Digital Media D. Fox Harrell (C Theory)
• The Irony of Time: Baghdad in early Islamic History - Gaston Wiet
• Astronomers Plan Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves
• Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions
• The Alien Home by Pico Iyer
• How to Create Quantum Superpositions of Living Things
• Hindutva Undermines the Pristine Values of Hinduism
• The Rise of the Rest by Fareed Zakaria
• Crisis of the Mind by Paul Valery
• Censorship as its own art form: 'Censoring an Iranian Love Story' by Shahriar Mandanipour (review LA Times)
• Health Insurance, Pure Economy of Desire by The Critical Art Ensemble
• Objectivity by Lorraine Datson & Peter Galison (Book Review by Norberto Serpente)
• Integral Psychology – Theorizing its Disciplinary Boundaries
• On Universalism: In Debate with Alain Badiou by Etienne Balibar
• Capitalism a Love Story by Michael Moore
• An Interview with Alain Badiou: “Universal Truths & the Question of Religion” by Adam S. Miller, Journal of Philosophy and Scripture

• The Fundamentalism Project: A series from the University of Chicago Press Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Editors

• 15th August 2009: 137th Birth Anniversay of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
• The Myth of the New India by Pankaj Mishra
• AntiMatters New Issue Released
• Les Paul 1915-2009
• White Noise by Don Delillo - review by Jayne Ann Phillps (Ny Times)
• Conference: Fundamentalism and the Future
• Code Drifts: Tethered to Mobility, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
• White Noise - a book review by William E. Connolly
• Technology in a Global World by Andrew Feenberg
• Cosmiccomics by Italo Calvino (review Ursula K Le Guin: The Guardian)
• Slavoj Žižek - A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (8/9)
• Mullahs and Heretics by Tariq Ali (LRB)
• From Post to Neo and back: Habermas and Derrida by Raymond van de Wiel
• Zizek: A Lacanian plea for Fundamentalism (part 6 or 9)
• The Other of Derridean Deconstruction: Levinas, Phenomenology and the Question of Responsibility by Jack Reynolds

• Jacques Lacan and the Other
• “It’s development, stupid !” or: How to Modernize Modernization by Bruno Latour
• The Violence of the Global by Jean Baudrillard
• Sri Aurobindo's Integral Education in Contemporary Higher Education
• Into the Inferno: Hollow Language and Hollow Democracies by Arundhati Roy
• An Imaginative Geography - Chapter One of "The Myth of Shangri-La" by Peter Bishop
• Cogito in the Matrix by Erik Davis
• The Melodrama of Difference (Or, The Revenge of the Colonized) by Jean Baudrillard
• A Critical History of Architecture in a Post-Colonial World: A View from Indian History By Swati Chattopadhyay
• Born Again Ideology (religion, technology and terrorism) by Arthur Kroker
• Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250–1625 Reviewed by Daud Ali
• Fundamentalism and the Future
• Fascism and False Guru Sects (Kheper.net)
• The Resonant Soul: Gaston Bachelard and the Magical Surface of Air by Robert Sardello
• Gaston Bachelard: poet/philosopher of the imagination and epistemological rupture
• Towards a Postcolonial Modernity: AsiaSource Interview with Partha Chatterjee
• Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter (C Theory)
• Waltz with Bashir
• Phalange Party
• Rushdie's Satanic Verses and Khomeini's Reaction By Eric Hutchinson
• Twenty years on: how the fatwa on Salman Rushdie has gagged our society By Anthony Drew (The Observer)
• Amos Elon (1926-2009) by Tony Judt (NYRB)

• Esalen Conference on Fundamentalism: Jewish Fundamentalism
• A Matter of Mind by J. Kepler
• Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism book review by Ray Takeyh (NYRB) / interview with Abbas Amanat (U Tube)
• Unending Desire: De Certeau's Mystics
• Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Sarod Virtuoso, Dies at 87
• Heterologies of the Spiritual and the Everyday: The Quest of Michel de Certeau
• June 16th, Happy Bloomsday!
• Esalen Conference on Fundamentalism
• Tariq Ali: the Duel (Pakistan on the Flight Path of America Power)
• This guy won! (or so they say) L.A. Times
• The road out of Kabul goes through Kashmir by Graham User (LRB)
• Much ado about Ganesha: Paul Courtright, Wendy Doniger, and the Hindu Right (Rajiv Malhotra) by Amardeep Singh - (w/ Courtright review)
• Further evidence of Ranade's and Pandey's involvement in legal action
• The Monstrosity of Christ by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank (M.I.T)
•  Spiritual Authoritarianism (P2P)
• Knowledge and Human Liberation - Excerpts from Ananta Kumar Giri Annotated by Debashish Banerji
• Heidegger, Habermas and the Essence of Technology by Andrew Feenberg
• Evidence of Sraddhalu Ranade’s involvement in legal action
• Occidentalism by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit (NYRB) • Orientalism Revisited: Edward Said’s unfinished critique (Boston Review)
• The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures: Makarand Paranjape,Professor of English, JNU, New Delhi
• • India and Europe by Wilhelm Halbfass
• Cogito in the Matrix by Erik Davis
• Progress and Violence, by Shiv Visvanathan
• The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener by Stephen Pfohl (C Theory)
• 100 Years of Sri Aurobindo on Evolution: The Illusion of Human Progress and the Ideal of Human Unity (part 5 of 6)
• Postsecular Interrogations: AsiaSource Interview with Talal Asad
• A response to the organizers of AUM 2009
• Neo-Liberalism as Doxa and India Discourse on Globalization by, Rohit Chopra [Full paper added by ron]
• Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining
• Response to Sraddhalu, Alok letter of May 10th on Heehs reintegration
• A Proposal - Shifting From Words to Action by Savitra
• Law Suits, Sraddhalu and the Fraternity of Conspiracy Theorists
• Active Omissions: A Review of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Manoj - Annotated by Debashish
• Congress Wins (The Guardian)
• AntiMatters new issue alert
• Prana, Kratu, Jazz II: Ali Ahmad Hoosain, Hasan Haider, Ahmad Abbas and Subhen Chatterjee at UC Irvine, May 10, 2009 by Debashish Banerji
• David Hutchinson, Debashish Banerji and Rich Carlson Respond to Sraddhalu
• SCIY Response to Sraddhalu

• Kepler's response to Sraddhalu

• A Pleasing Secret History: Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide (Village Voice)

• Sri Aurobindo: Man or Messiah by Carter Phipps (EnlightenNext executive editor comments on Heehs affair)

• G.K. Chesterton on Fanaticism by James V. Schall (Gilbert Magazine)

• The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Kellner (Salon.com)

• Economic Recovery? No Thank You

• Creationism and/or Religious Fundamentalism vs. Evolution and/or Science

• John Templeton Foundation: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin

• Goodbye To All That: Nature and the Future Body in Sri Aurobindo

• The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm:
A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin


• We're all getting sick of being bullied by bad values

• Dialectical Nature: Reflections in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Levins and Lewontin’s The Dialectical Biologist by Brett Clark and Richard York (Monthly Review)

• equanimity? Miles davis et John Coltrane - So what.

• Devolution: Why Intelligent Design isn't by H. Allen Orr (The New Yorker)

• 'The God Delusion' by Richard Darwkins, a review by H. Allen Orr (NYRB)

• Is Capitalism a Disease? The Crisis in U.S. Public Health by Richard Levins

• Fundamentalism in Integral Yoga - New Website Announcement

• In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson

• At 200, Darwin Evolves Beyond Evolution by Brandon Keim (Wired Magazine)

• Accelerated Evolution: They dont make Homo Sapiens Like They Used To: Kathleen AcAuliffe (Discover Magazine)

• Evolving Evolution by Rosenfield & Zeff (evo-devo, hox genes, etc)

• Lewontin's Living Legacy: Thinking About Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Val Dusek)

• Pleasures of Pluralism by Stephen Jay Gould

• Cybernetics Is An Antihumanism: Advanced Tech and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition: Metnexus (Global Spiral)

• Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman (preface)

• Present Bodies: Gene, Organism, Environment: Richard Lewinton lecture (U Tube)

• The Future Body: Tissue engineering (Toward an Aurobindonian Bio-ethics?)