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Do the lyrics of this song reveal a dark side to the iconic rebel?
Read more >>>This poem is about the death of two chimps in suspicious circumstances, after the disbandment of the unit housing them at Ohio State University.
Read more >>>This article looks critically at the arguments of Susan Greenfield, who thinks we can learn nothing about human brains by exploiting the analogy with computers. Professor Greenfield was given the opportunity to comment on the article before publication, but said she had no time to read unsolicited material.
Read more >>>Some of the poetry published in my poetic pseudonym (Davina Titwillow) during the Somewhere Else Picnic on 5 May. These items were commissioned by members of the Goldsmiths public who rolled up and requested poetry on a theme of their choice.
Read more >>>There are many tests of intelligence available, but few if any which claim to test your virtue. This one has been written to bridge that awkward gap between psychology and religion.
Read more >>>From his current perspective as a PhD student at Goldsmiths College, Ahmed Masoud talks about his experiences as a child growing up in Gaza.
Read more >>>What is interdisciplinarity? Is it just another intellectual fashion, or is there more to it? How did the idea arise, and where is it going? Goldsmiths’ Warden, Professor Geoffrey Crossick, believes that it is one of the waves of the future, and that we can do something to make it happen now in Goldsmiths.
Read more >>>In a forthcoming article, a Palestinian speaks about his personal experiences of growing up amid the turmoil of revolt and retaliation in the Occupied Territories.
Read more >>>What is it about poetry that inspires, uplifts and civilises us? If you seek the answers to these questions, you will not find them here.
Read more >>>One of Britain’s most influential scientists, Susan Greenfield, seems to have demonstrated conclusively that it will never be possible to construct a robot that can truly simulate a human being. And yet some apparently sane people working on artificial intelligence believe otherwise. Are they just deluded, or is the issue perhaps not as clear cut as Greenfield makes it appear?
Read more >>>Is there a contradiction in America’s desire for democracy in the Middle East?
Read more >>>Why is witch-hunting so prevalent? What in human psychology makes people prone to periodic outbreaks of sadistic and self-righteous homicidal violence against real or imagined outsider groups? The best answer to date seems to have come from a novelist, and suggests that whether the victims are Jews, communists, kulaks, decadent Westerners or Islamic “fundamentalists” languishing in Guantanamo Bay, society will continue to demand scapegoats.
Read more >>>"Functionalist"…"Reductionist"…"Woolly-headed Marxist"… Debbie Custance of Goldsmiths’ Psychology Department wonders when social scientists will stop swapping insults and start exchanging ideas, and suggests a way forward.
What’s the difference between BP and the environmental radicals? Not as much as you might think, according to Andrew Barry, the director of CSISP (Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process) at Goldsmiths, who spoke to Rory Allen in the wake of the explosion at the Buncefield depot.
New knowledge, like a tributary running into a river system, is drawn into one or other of the existing areas of thought. Therefore, we view the world with a perspective shaped by time and chance. University departments institutionalise these rigidities of thought. Yet history shows that the big intellectual breakthroughs come from boundary-crossers, and from mixing the idea-genes from different disciplines. To do this requires a conscious effort, but it is worth it.
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