To Skate—Perchance to Soar
Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.
Damian Platt
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A collection of 5 posts
Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.
It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do.
The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.
Social media became instrumental in the toppling of dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen and, in 2010, it was Mark Zuckerberg’s turn to be awarded Time’s Person of the Year.
Why? For one, there is very little political and ideological diversity in the social sciences.