Society
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Apropos STEM: Stalin and Soviet mathematics
“The teaching of mathematics in our schools is a suicidal scandal. How does it go in…
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Manchester vs Athens
Mathematics is the combination of two traditions, the deductive greek science whose Idealtypus was geometry, and…
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Renaissance: Perspective and birth of mathematical Infinity
The birth of modern world in the Middle Age out of perspective in painting (Greeks did…
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Arretratezza e folklore (Gramsci)
From “Quaderni del carcere”, by Antonio Gramsci Einaudi 2001, vol. II, pp. 1375-1395 (here). In the…
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The problem of power
Upon reading Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion; Civilization and its discontents Amos Vogel, Film…
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Guernica vs. “Gone with the wind”
In the wonderful interview below (now in “Fractured Times“, Ch. 20: ‘The Avant-Garde fails’) Eric Hobsbawm argues…
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