September 2nd, 2021 marks the first anniversary of the death of Professor David Graeber — one of the most important anthropological thinkers of our time.
Graeber’s 2017 work “Bullshit jobs” got a lot of traction before the pandemic. Yet, many had to experience the pandemic to concede to its validity:
He titled his book “Bullshit jobs” because the productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard…
So, the West’s direct presence in Afghanistan has failed to modernize it.
Our failure to communicate a glocal flavor of capitalism and women’s equality can be paralleled with the Soviets’ failure to establish their version of communism and equality.
In the previous article, a NATO security contractor near Kabul for…
Imagine yourself feeling safer in the wheels or the sides of a plane about to take off!
Imagine the rivalry between you and your threat! The enormity of the crimes (to be) committed by both sides.
As the days went by -and my sentiment subsided- I realized that I had…
Reentry-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
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He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires…
Death-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
On the occasion of Jerry’s death, I was checking my archive to share a couple of artifacts with Jeanne and Scotty. A mail came from Medium on an authors challenge on the topics of Reentry…
Work-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires…
Space-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
She picked the remote of the Hi-End Naim Audio set to replay Nils Frahm’s “Says”; he could sense her unease
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He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you…
Part B: Thursday, August 5th, 2021, 21:34
He picked the Naim Audio remote to reduce the volume of “Brother Wind” and said to her:
- On the occasion of Jerry’s death, I was checking my archive to share a couple of artifacts with Jeanne and Scotty. A mail came from Medium on an authors challenge on the…
I will never forget my Afghan colleague and fraternal brother at Oxford, when we first met and asked him about the situation in Afghanistan:
“Dimitris, Afghan people do not resent invasions. We permit them, if not actively encourage them. I do not remember a time when we fought an invasion…
Wordpress comes with wp_get_nav_menu_items function that suffers from two major limitations:
- It is limited to depth 1 in determining the parent/child relationship
- It does not -directly- provide the information if a submenu item is a parent to another (sub) menu item
To overcome this shortcoming, the WP community has created…
