Education

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Enlightenment, Adorno tells, according to Kant, is the elimination of dependency on others for understanding, or for anything really. It is the self-legislated progressive deployment of understanding, the systematization of knowledge, through coherence and the elimination of contradiction. This is ...

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. I sat down to type up this response right after three hours of worshipping Aphrodite at the hair salon and currently, my devil red nails are dancing over a keyboard, getting ready to write about the oppressions women face.  This ...

Last September, the Japanese minister of education wrote to Japan’s national universities instructing them to actively abolish humanities programs or transform them into initiatives that “better meet society’s needs.” This directive is part of a broader, global trend in higher education that has lead to serious funding reductions ...

This post is in relation to Gender and Domination. In the first chapter of her book titled “Gender,” Tina Chanter undertakes the task of exposing “the invisible whiteness of mainstream feminist theory.” To this end, she proceeds to explain how the feminist motto adopted back in the 70s, “the personal is ...

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Very few words have been used, and abused, as often as “freedom.” One of the central concerns for philosophers and political theorists of all times, this term has been given the most contrasting interpretations. “What is freedom? Is it freedom ...