Wisdom in SpaceAn intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley
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NYT > WorldEdgar Morin, 'Grandfather' of French Intellectuals, Dies at 104
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/world/europe/edgar-morin-dead.html
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley
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Critique Is Over, Morality Is Dead, and Surreal Utopias Are Where It’s At
An article by #LuceDeLire in #eflux journal.
Intellectuals used to publicly critique the powerful on moral grounds. Today, both critique and morality have become dysfunctional—for perfectly political and material reasons. I argue that, for political gains, we should now craft surreal utopias—hospitable, euphoric, lesbian.
#humanities #philosophy #intellectuals #socialmedia #queer #queerart #theory #queertheory
Headlines AfricaAfrica: 6 African Thinkers Who Help Us Understand the World - New Book: [The Conversation Africa] Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique and public engagement. From the Dreyfus Affair (a political scandal in 1894 in France that mobilised writers and thinkers to defend justice) to postcolonial… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TS9vC2 #AfricanThinkers #Intellectuals #SocialCritique #PostcolonialDebate #TruthSeeking
Jonathan EmmesediJohn Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“ #Working-class #intellectuals have vanished in recent years. Instead we have witnessed the rise of #millionaire—or #billionaire - intellectuals.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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earthling"There is little that the ordinary man of today learns about events or ideas except through the medium of this class."
"It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough to be told to us, and in what form and from what angle they are to be presented."
Hayek
#Ironic that a country created in large part by an assemblage of #Enlightenment #intellectuals has its #institutions and #publiclife so thoroughly degraded by an especially virulent expression of #anti-intellectualism.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley
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