I Played a Commercial and I Didn’t Like It

Almost nobody likes commercials. Since technologies such as VCRs, DVRs and TiVo are now available, many people prerecord TV shows and skip through the commercials. So marketers and advertisers are trying to come up with commercials that we are willing to watch, or that we cannot get around watching (for example, because they are part [...]

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Nourishing Praxis: Environmental Ethics and Activism

This is a guest post from OpenContinuity. OpenContinuity is an environmental ethics theorist and activist who works on questions about the self and the self’s relation to the environment. “Social action without theory is blind, but theory without social action is empty.” -Michael Zimmerman “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is [...]

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