1. Shin Hyung Park 2. Rare African okapi seen in wild 3. I'm not sure if this is the right kind of material that is required to be posted. But I believe this article shows how human beings affect the environment/nature (so isn't it related to "human-environmental interaction"?) This article indicates that human activities such as civil wars threaten the existence of endangered creatures. The civil war in Congo seems to be a very complicated issue. According to globalsecurity.org, Congo consists of about 200 different ethnic groups speaking various languages. The war also involves actors from neighboring countries such as Rwanda and Uganda. Such complex ethnic and regional issues contributed to a war in this area and have caused environmental degradation as well. It is also interesting to see that there are people who are indifferent to hurt the environment but there are others who try to protect it at the same time. ------------------- Rare African okapi seen in wild
By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News
An African animal so secretive it was once believed to be a mythical unicorn has been caught on camera in the wild.
Camera traps set by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in the Democratic Republic of Congo have captured rare pictures of wild okapi.
The giraffe-like mammals, which have zebra-like stripes on their rear, are under threat from the bush meat trade.
The sightings in Virunga National Park prove the species is surviving in the jungle despite years of civil conflict.
Dr Noelle Kumpel, ZSL's bush meat and forests conservation programme manager, said: "To have captured photographs of such a charismatic creature is amazing.
"Okapi are very shy and rare animals - which is why conventional surveys only tend to record droppings and other signs of their presence."
Okapis, which have a black tongue designed for grasping and holding, along with distinctive stripes on their behind, are the closest living relative of the giraffe.
They were unknown to the western world until the early 20th Century, but are now known to inhabit three protected areas, of which Virunga National Park is one.
Their abundance in the park is unknown as access to the forests of DRC is limited by civil conflict and poor infrastructure, making survey work difficult.
Poaching
The last official sighting in the area was nearly 50 years ago. But a survey in 2006 by conservation group WWF found their tracks on the west bank of the Semliki River, in the park's northern sector.
The latest pictures were taken by traps set by ZSL in conjunction with the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN).
Thierry Lusenge, a member of ZSL's DRC survey team, added: "We have already identified three individuals, and further survey work will enable us to estimate population numbers and distribution in and around the Virunga Park, which is a critical first step in targeting conservation efforts."
In addition to the ongoing civil war, the species is under threat from poaching. Okapi meat, reportedly from the park, is now regularly on sale in the nearby town of Beni.
The ZSL survey team has warned that if hunting continues at this rate, okapi could become extinct in the park within a few years. --- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7609393.stm
1. Sukyung Kim 2. EU warns Russia against isolation 3. I'm so interested in the relationship between EU and Russia. I found that they have conflicts after the war. Also, I realized that there are a lot of regional situations for economic benefits. I think this is why each continent tries to make an united organization such as EU and so on. This article is an example for regional complicated problem in morden society. I want to know about this kind of things more.
----------------- EU warns Russia against isolation
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The European Union threatened Monday to postpone talks with Russia but stopped short of imposing sanctions following the conflict with Georgia.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the EU will have to re-examine its partnership with Russia if Moscow does not respect a cease-fire agreement.
"We are convinced that it is in Russia's own interests not to isolate itself from Europe," a meeting of EU leaders concluded.
Sarkozy, whose country holds the six-moth rotating EU presidency, says he will visit Moscow next week to see Russian leaders.
"We will be asking Russia to ensure the full and scrupulous respect of the (cease-fire) plan," he said. "The EU would welcome a real partnership with Russia that is in the interests of all, but it takes two to tango. You have to be two to have a partnership.
"Therefore this crisis means that we have to re-examine our relationship with Russia."
EU leaders met Monday in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss how to react to Russia's recognition of the breakaway Georgia regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
Georgian troops attacked pro-Russian separatists in South Ossetia on August 7, triggering the Russian response. Each side offered conflicting figures on how many people died in the fighting.
Russia has also not fully withdrawn its troops from Georgia after sending its troops across the border for what it called peacekeeping operations and what Georgia called an invasion. What do you think about the crisis?
Russia on Monday accused "foreign navy ships" of delivering weapons to Georgia as the European Union met to discuss possible sanctions against Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said the West would be making a mistake of "historic scope" if it continued to support Georgia. Lavrov called for an arms embargo on Georgia until its President Mikhail Saakashvili was out of power.
"If the United States and its allies ultimately opt for the Saakashvili regime, which has not taken any lessons from the recent events regarding South Ossetia ... they will make a mistake of an historic scope," the news agency Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying.
He said Russia would continue taking measures against the Saakashvili administration "to ensure that this regime will never commit evil again."
Meanwhile, Andrey Nesterenko, Lavrov's spokesman, said an aid delivery had included a shipment of arms which could be used against South Ossetia.
"This is why we suggested that it might be good to consider the possibility of imposing embargo on arms shipment to Georgia so that the stability we all talk about could have [an] even more serious foundation and so that Georgia does not become a barrel with gunpowder that can explode this entire region at any point," Nesterenko said.
He did not name a specific country in his allegation. However, U.S. ships carried aid to the republic -- an ally -- after last month's conflict between Georgia and Russia.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said that member nations were preparing to send hundreds of civilian monitors to Georgia to verify whether Russian forces were complying with a cease-fire agreement, The Associated Press reported.
He said the observers would be deployed initially across areas controlled by Georgian forces.
"We would like to have the ... mission deployed soon," Solana said, adding he hoped EU nations approve the plan in the coming weeks.
Russia has remained defiant despite a wave of diplomatic pressure from the West, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rejecting criticism of the country's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
Meanwhile, a human rights group said Georgia had admitted dropping cluster bombs in its military offensive to assert control over South Ossetia, The Associated Press reported.
Human Rights Watch said it had received an official letter from Georgia's Defense Ministry that acknowledged use of the M85 cluster munition near the Roki tunnel that connects South Ossetia with Russia.
3. I'm not sure even that spelling is correct or not. But I've always interested in "Eurocentrism". Last semester I learned it from History class in Ewha. And from that time, I've got some prejudice about European. But when I lived in Uk for just 10months, I've found so many European friends who like Koreans. Even my european friends think Asian people are more mature in our own mind. So I was impressed because I never thouht like that. So my opinion is.. Even though It's true that European society's had Eurocentric mind, It's been changed a lot because of nowadays' Asian potential. So I want to learn more about europeans' opinion about "Eurocentricism" ----------------------------
Dussel — “Beyond Eurocentricism” Jump to Comments Ads by Google Globalization Research Online books, journals for academic research, plus bibliography tools. www.Questia.com/GlobalizationLinz 2009 All information about the European Capital of Culture 2009 www.linz09.at
Dussel begins “Beyond Eurocentricism” by distinguishing between two constructed paradigms of modernity. Eurocentricism is the belief that modernity is exclusively a European phenomenon that originated from within Europe, began with the Renaissance, and spread over chronological time to the periphery of the modern world. World is divided between ancient, medival, and modern (beg. with Renaissance). No one more than Hegel perpetuated this myth—“for Hegel, the Spirit of Europe is the absolute Truth that determines or realizes itself through itself without owing anything to anyone” (3). In this paradigm, Europe is independent system. What Europe does has universal significance—psuedo-scientific narrative of evolutionary history (barbarism to rational civilization). European enlightenment represents universality. It is a knowledge system that is intrinsic to Europe.
The Planetary paradigm conceives of modernity as the “culture of the center of the ‘world system,’ of the first world-system, through the incorporation of Amerindia, and as a result of the management of this ‘centrality.’” (4). Modernity, in other words, is the center of the world system; Europe, beginning with Spain, as center, but not exclusive and automonous—a notion of superiority that is the effect of “discovery, conquest, colonization, and integration (subsumption) of Amerindia” (5). Capitalism, invention, technological progress are also effects of displacement of other countries, cultures, etc. Center is dependent on periphery….
After explaining what these paradigms are, Dussel examines the premises of these arguments. Dussel begins by explaining how world before 15th century was divided into interregional systems with their own systems. Dussel identifys the Ottoman-Muslim empire as the third stage of interregional system, which had Baghdad as its center (5). The switch in world-system centers from Middle East to Europe occurred in 1492 with the conquest of Amerindia. Spain, Portugal, or China had the technology and power to become the new center, but Spain succeeded. China and Poland did not succeed not because they were inferior to Europe but China looked to India in west as center and Poland looked toward India in the east as center. So did Spain, but as they tried to establish navigational routes for trade to India, they bumped into Amerindia, which instigated global hegemony. According to Dussel, Columbus had no idea where he was. Amerigo Vespucci, in 1503, had the brains to incorporate Amerindia into the Asian-Afro-Medieterranean world system (10). Power dynamics changed and colonization begins. The impetus for modernity (new world system) was the cultural, scientific, religious, technological, political, ecological, and economic horizon, which created space for a world-system of mercantile, industrial, and transnational capitalism and competition to be world superpower (10). In essence, according to Dussel, the “fundamental structure of the first modernity” is Amerindia because it, especially with the use of free labor derived from forced labor and coerced cash-crop labor, gave Europe the definitive comparative advantage over Muslim, Indian, and Chinese Worlds (12). And as a result, was “the birth of the world-system, the ‘peripheral social formations’” (12). Modernity is effect of contact with other parts of world rather than being superior because of inherent qualities and the ability to manage the world system.
Dussel’s thesis is this: “modernity was the fruit of the ‘management’ of the centrality of the first world-system” (13). What are the implications? Well, Dussel says that two kinds of modernity erupted. One form, derived from ancient interregional system of Mediterranean, Muslim, and Christian, is a Hispanic, humanist, Renaissance where Spain ‘manages’ centrality as domination through hegemony of culture, language, religion,military occupation, economic and political administrative power, ecological transformation, etc. A second modernity, occurring in Holland, occurred on a mental, spiritual, abstract level—humanity over nature, new understanding of self and of community, and new economic attitude–capitalism. Eurocentric consciousness was born !!! Culture was born! Thus, while modernity began in 1492, the first paradigm of modernity—Eurocentricism—originated in first half of 17th century. At the heart of Eurocentricism is simplification of complexity of life through rationalism (15). As an effect came the rise of Capitalism, liberalism, and dualism, which totalized itself and allowed Europe to become independent! This procedure of simplification through rationalizations has no self-regulatory system! Critics, such as Marx, Nietzsched, Freud, Foucault, Levinas, etc. started and critiquing system from within. But there is no escape. “No debate between rationalists and postmoderns overcomes the Eurocentric horizon.”
Dussel says modernity began at end of 15th century and went into crisis at end of 20th! He writes, “if we situate ourselves…within the planetary horizon, [from the notion of Europe as center] we can distinguish at least two positions in the face of the formulated problematic” (18). 1st—are those defenders of reason (Habermas and Apel) who see Europe as center and orignin of modernity. Also are postmodernists (Nietzsche and Heidegger) who don’t see that their thought systems and admiration of art, media, etc, derives in rationalization and make no effort to contribute valid alternatives from peripheal nations (18). 2nd*** recognizes the rational management of the world-system and is determined to liberated negated periphery. Ethics of liberation is “transmodern” (19).
Chomsky identifies three limits of world-system that has been in place for over 500 years: ecological destruction, destruction of humanity, “impossibility of the subsumption of the populations, economies, nations, and cultures that it has been attacking since its origin and has excluded from its horizon and cornered into poverty” (21). Dussel ends with this quote: “the globalizing world-system reaches a limit with the exteriority of the alterity of the Other, a locus of “resistance” from whose affirmation the process of the negation of negation of liberation begins” (21). Let’s think about our own rhetorical narrative. Rhetoric = democracy, enlightenment, rationality.
1. Park so jung 2. Confrontation over German mosque .
3. I'm not sure(like the other students)this is right that is required.I post this article because religions is one of good point to understand world regions.
--------------------------- Confrontation over German mosque
Muslim demonstrators in favour of the mosque Stone-throwing protesters have disrupted the opening of a right-wing conference against the building of a giant mosque in Cologne, Germany.
The demonstrators blocked two leaders of the Pro-Cologne movement from entering the conference venue, pursuing them as they sought refuge on a boat.
The "anti-Islamification" event has drawn speakers from across Europe. Its main event is a march on Saturday.
But opponents are predicting a massive counter-demonstration.
German nationalist leaders had hoped to give a press conference at a building in Cologne, but were barracked by a crowd of dozens, and turned away by a city official on orders from the mayor.
They sought refuge on a boat on the Rhine river, which demonstrators then pelted with stones and paintballs. Police arrested several of them, the Associated Press reported.
The Pro-Cologne group said it was trying to build a "European, patriotic, populist right-wing movement", and said it expected politicians from Belgium, Austrian and Italy to attend its conference.
Cologne's mayor called on citizens to give the event "the cold shoulder"
The centrepiece is a rally on Saturday against the building of a large, domed mosque, with two 55m (177ft) minarets, in the city's heavily immigrant Ehrenfeld district.
Construction has been approved by the city council and is due to begin by the end of the year.
Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma called on the city's inhabitants to give the right-wingers "the cold shoulder".
Gabriele Hermani, a spokeswoman for the interior ministry condemned the conference saying: "We believe that such an event organised by populists and extremists in Cologne is damaging to the good co-operation between the city and its Muslim citizens."
A very down to earth* kind of guy. I'm an environmental sociologist interested in establishing material and organizational sustainability worldwide. I'm always looking for interesting materials/technologies, inspiring ideas, or institutional examples of sustainability to inspire others to recognize their choices now. To be fatalistic about an unsustainable world is a sign of a captive mind, given all our options.
*(If "earth" is defined in a planetary sense, concerning comparative historical knowledge and interest in the past 10,000 years or so anywhere...) See both blogs.
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1. Shin Hyung Park
2. Rare African okapi seen in wild
3. I'm not sure if this is the right kind of material that is required to be posted. But I believe this article shows how human beings affect the environment/nature (so isn't it related to "human-environmental interaction"?)
This article indicates that human activities such as civil wars threaten the existence of endangered creatures.
The civil war in Congo seems to be a very complicated issue. According to globalsecurity.org, Congo consists of about 200 different ethnic groups speaking various languages. The war also involves actors from neighboring countries such as Rwanda and Uganda. Such complex ethnic and regional issues contributed to a war in this area and have caused environmental degradation as well.
It is also interesting to see that there are people who are indifferent to hurt the environment but there are others who try to protect it at the same time.
-------------------
Rare African okapi seen in wild
By James Morgan
Science reporter, BBC News
An African animal so secretive it was once believed to be a mythical unicorn has been caught on camera in the wild.
Camera traps set by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in the Democratic Republic of Congo have captured rare pictures of wild okapi.
The giraffe-like mammals, which have zebra-like stripes on their rear, are under threat from the bush meat trade.
The sightings in Virunga National Park prove the species is surviving in the jungle despite years of civil conflict.
Dr Noelle Kumpel, ZSL's bush meat and forests conservation programme manager, said: "To have captured photographs of such a charismatic creature is amazing.
"Okapi are very shy and rare animals - which is why conventional surveys only tend to record droppings and other signs of their presence."
Okapis, which have a black tongue designed for grasping and holding, along with distinctive stripes on their behind, are the closest living relative of the giraffe.
They were unknown to the western world until the early 20th Century, but are now known to inhabit three protected areas, of which Virunga National Park is one.
Their abundance in the park is unknown as access to the forests of DRC is limited by civil conflict and poor infrastructure, making survey work difficult.
Poaching
The last official sighting in the area was nearly 50 years ago. But a survey in 2006 by conservation group WWF found their tracks on the west bank of the Semliki River, in the park's northern sector.
The latest pictures were taken by traps set by ZSL in conjunction with the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN).
Thierry Lusenge, a member of ZSL's DRC survey team, added: "We have already identified three individuals, and further survey work will enable us to estimate population numbers and distribution in and around the Virunga Park, which is a critical first step in targeting conservation efforts."
In addition to the ongoing civil war, the species is under threat from poaching. Okapi meat, reportedly from the park, is now regularly on sale in the nearby town of Beni.
The ZSL survey team has warned that if hunting continues at this rate, okapi could become extinct in the park within a few years.
---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7609393.stm
1. Sukyung Kim
2. EU warns Russia against isolation
3. I'm so interested in the relationship between EU and Russia. I found that they have conflicts after the war. Also, I realized that there are a lot of regional situations for economic benefits. I think this is why each continent tries to make an united organization such as EU and so on. This article is an example for regional complicated problem in morden society. I want to know about this kind of things more.
-----------------
EU warns Russia against isolation
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The European Union threatened Monday to postpone talks with Russia but stopped short of imposing sanctions following the conflict with Georgia.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the EU will have to re-examine its partnership with Russia if Moscow does not respect a cease-fire agreement.
"We are convinced that it is in Russia's own interests not to isolate itself from Europe," a meeting of EU leaders concluded.
Sarkozy, whose country holds the six-moth rotating EU presidency, says he will visit Moscow next week to see Russian leaders.
"We will be asking Russia to ensure the full and scrupulous respect of the (cease-fire) plan," he said. "The EU would welcome a real partnership with Russia that is in the interests of all, but it takes two to tango. You have to be two to have a partnership.
"Therefore this crisis means that we have to re-examine our relationship with Russia."
EU leaders met Monday in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss how to react to Russia's recognition of the breakaway Georgia regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
Georgian troops attacked pro-Russian separatists in South Ossetia on August 7, triggering the Russian response. Each side offered conflicting figures on how many people died in the fighting.
Russia has also not fully withdrawn its troops from Georgia after sending its troops across the border for what it called peacekeeping operations and what Georgia called an invasion. What do you think about the crisis?
Russia on Monday accused "foreign navy ships" of delivering weapons to Georgia as the European Union met to discuss possible sanctions against Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said the West would be making a mistake of "historic scope" if it continued to support Georgia.
Lavrov called for an arms embargo on Georgia until its President Mikhail Saakashvili was out of power.
"If the United States and its allies ultimately opt for the Saakashvili regime, which has not taken any lessons from the recent events regarding South Ossetia ... they will make a mistake of an historic scope," the news agency Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying.
He said Russia would continue taking measures against the Saakashvili administration "to ensure that this regime will never commit evil again."
Meanwhile, Andrey Nesterenko, Lavrov's spokesman, said an aid delivery had included a shipment of arms which could be used against South Ossetia.
"This is why we suggested that it might be good to consider the possibility of imposing embargo on arms shipment to Georgia so that the stability we all talk about could have [an] even more serious foundation and so that Georgia does not become a barrel with gunpowder that can explode this entire region at any point," Nesterenko said.
He did not name a specific country in his allegation. However, U.S. ships carried aid to the republic -- an ally -- after last month's conflict between Georgia and Russia.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said that member nations were preparing to send hundreds of civilian monitors to Georgia to verify whether Russian forces were complying with a cease-fire agreement, The Associated Press reported.
He said the observers would be deployed initially across areas controlled by Georgian forces.
"We would like to have the ... mission deployed soon," Solana said, adding he hoped EU nations approve the plan in the coming weeks.
Russia has remained defiant despite a wave of diplomatic pressure from the West, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rejecting criticism of the country's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
Meanwhile, a human rights group said Georgia had admitted dropping cluster bombs in its military offensive to assert control over South Ossetia, The Associated Press reported.
Human Rights Watch said it had received an official letter from Georgia's Defense Ministry that acknowledged use of the M85 cluster munition near the Roki tunnel that connects South Ossetia with Russia.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/01/russia.georgia.summit.sanctions/index.html
1. Hyunjoo Lee
2. Eurocentricism in my point
3. I'm not sure even that spelling is correct or not. But I've always interested in "Eurocentrism". Last semester I learned it from History class in Ewha. And from that time, I've got some prejudice about European. But when I lived in Uk for just 10months, I've found so many European friends who like Koreans. Even my european friends think Asian people are more mature in our own mind. So I was impressed because I never thouht like that. So my opinion is.. Even though It's true that European society's had Eurocentric mind, It's been changed a lot because of nowadays' Asian potential. So I want to learn more about europeans' opinion about "Eurocentricism"
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Dussel begins “Beyond Eurocentricism” by distinguishing between two constructed paradigms of modernity. Eurocentricism is the belief that modernity is exclusively a European phenomenon that originated from within Europe, began with the Renaissance, and spread over chronological time to the periphery of the modern world. World is divided between ancient, medival, and modern (beg. with Renaissance). No one more than Hegel perpetuated this myth—“for Hegel, the Spirit of Europe is the absolute Truth that determines or realizes itself through itself without owing anything to anyone” (3). In this paradigm, Europe is independent system. What Europe does has universal significance—psuedo-scientific narrative of evolutionary history (barbarism to rational civilization). European enlightenment represents universality. It is a knowledge system that is intrinsic to Europe.
The Planetary paradigm conceives of modernity as the “culture of the center of the ‘world system,’ of the first world-system, through the incorporation of Amerindia, and as a result of the management of this ‘centrality.’” (4). Modernity, in other words, is the center of the world system; Europe, beginning with Spain, as center, but not exclusive and automonous—a notion of superiority that is the effect of “discovery, conquest, colonization, and integration (subsumption) of Amerindia” (5). Capitalism, invention, technological progress are also effects of displacement of other countries, cultures, etc. Center is dependent on periphery….
After explaining what these paradigms are, Dussel examines the premises of these arguments. Dussel begins by explaining how world before 15th century was divided into interregional systems with their own systems. Dussel identifys the Ottoman-Muslim empire as the third stage of interregional system, which had Baghdad as its center (5). The switch in world-system centers from Middle East to Europe occurred in 1492 with the conquest of Amerindia. Spain, Portugal, or China had the technology and power to become the new center, but Spain succeeded. China and Poland did not succeed not because they were inferior to Europe but China looked to India in west as center and Poland looked toward India in the east as center. So did Spain, but as they tried to establish navigational routes for trade to India, they bumped into Amerindia, which instigated global hegemony. According to Dussel, Columbus had no idea where he was. Amerigo Vespucci, in 1503, had the brains to incorporate Amerindia into the Asian-Afro-Medieterranean world system (10). Power dynamics changed and colonization begins. The impetus for modernity (new world system) was the cultural, scientific, religious, technological, political, ecological, and economic horizon, which created space for a world-system of mercantile, industrial, and transnational capitalism and competition to be world superpower (10). In essence, according to Dussel, the “fundamental structure of the first modernity” is Amerindia because it, especially with the use of free labor derived from forced labor and coerced cash-crop labor, gave Europe the definitive comparative advantage over Muslim, Indian, and Chinese Worlds (12). And as a result, was “the birth of the world-system, the ‘peripheral social formations’” (12). Modernity is effect of contact with other parts of world rather than being superior because of inherent qualities and the ability to manage the world system.
Dussel’s thesis is this: “modernity was the fruit of the ‘management’ of the centrality of the first world-system” (13). What are the implications? Well, Dussel says that two kinds of modernity erupted. One form, derived from ancient interregional system of Mediterranean, Muslim, and Christian, is a Hispanic, humanist, Renaissance where Spain ‘manages’ centrality as domination through hegemony of culture, language, religion,military occupation, economic and political administrative power, ecological transformation, etc. A second modernity, occurring in Holland, occurred on a mental, spiritual, abstract level—humanity over nature, new understanding of self and of community, and new economic attitude–capitalism. Eurocentric consciousness was born !!! Culture was born! Thus, while modernity began in 1492, the first paradigm of modernity—Eurocentricism—originated in first half of 17th century. At the heart of Eurocentricism is simplification of complexity of life through rationalism (15). As an effect came the rise of Capitalism, liberalism, and dualism, which totalized itself and allowed Europe to become independent! This procedure of simplification through rationalizations has no self-regulatory system! Critics, such as Marx, Nietzsched, Freud, Foucault, Levinas, etc. started and critiquing system from within. But there is no escape. “No debate between rationalists and postmoderns overcomes the Eurocentric horizon.”
Dussel says modernity began at end of 15th century and went into crisis at end of 20th! He writes, “if we situate ourselves…within the planetary horizon, [from the notion of Europe as center] we can distinguish at least two positions in the face of the formulated problematic” (18). 1st—are those defenders of reason (Habermas and Apel) who see Europe as center and orignin of modernity. Also are postmodernists (Nietzsche and Heidegger) who don’t see that their thought systems and admiration of art, media, etc, derives in rationalization and make no effort to contribute valid alternatives from peripheal nations (18). 2nd*** recognizes the rational management of the world-system and is determined to liberated negated periphery. Ethics of liberation is “transmodern” (19).
Chomsky identifies three limits of world-system that has been in place for over 500 years: ecological destruction, destruction of humanity, “impossibility of the subsumption of the populations, economies, nations, and cultures that it has been attacking since its origin and has excluded from its horizon and cornered into poverty” (21). Dussel ends with this quote: “the globalizing world-system reaches a limit with the exteriority of the alterity of the Other, a locus of “resistance” from whose affirmation the process of the negation of negation of liberation begins” (21).
Let’s think about our own rhetorical narrative. Rhetoric = democracy, enlightenment, rationality.
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http://thoughtjam.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/dussel-beyond-eurocentricism/
1. Park so jung
2. Confrontation over German mosque .
3. I'm not sure(like the other students)this is right that is required.I post this article because religions is one of good point to understand world regions.
---------------------------
Confrontation over German mosque
Muslim demonstrators in favour of the mosque
Stone-throwing protesters have disrupted the opening of a right-wing conference against the building of a giant mosque in Cologne, Germany.
The demonstrators blocked two leaders of the Pro-Cologne movement from entering the conference venue, pursuing them as they sought refuge on a boat.
The "anti-Islamification" event has drawn speakers from across Europe. Its main event is a march on Saturday.
But opponents are predicting a massive counter-demonstration.
German nationalist leaders had hoped to give a press conference at a building in Cologne, but were barracked by a crowd of dozens, and turned away by a city official on orders from the mayor.
They sought refuge on a boat on the Rhine river, which demonstrators then pelted with stones and paintballs. Police arrested several of them, the Associated Press reported.
The Pro-Cologne group said it was trying to build a "European, patriotic, populist right-wing movement", and said it expected politicians from Belgium, Austrian and Italy to attend its conference.
Cologne's mayor called on citizens to give the event "the cold shoulder"
The centrepiece is a rally on Saturday against the building of a large, domed mosque, with two 55m (177ft) minarets, in the city's heavily immigrant Ehrenfeld district.
Construction has been approved by the city council and is due to begin by the end of the year.
Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma called on the city's inhabitants to give the right-wingers "the cold shoulder".
Gabriele Hermani, a spokeswoman for the interior ministry condemned the conference saying: "We believe that such an event organised by populists and extremists in Cologne is damaging to the good co-operation between the city and its Muslim citizens."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7625906.stm
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