This is the third installment of the Fruitless Bookclub, a show-within-a-show, featuring Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer, where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Next month: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll

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Find more of Josiah’s work here: https://linktr.ee/josiahwsutton

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Other references

• "Reconsidering a Classic: Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,'" Vanderbilt University on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiuFRiOW28.
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Slavery in Brazil, edited by Robert Edgar Conrad, quote from Section 2.9. "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger": A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847). We got the quote from a smarter person than us on an r/AskHistorians thread, which is here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ztoexl/comment/j39waqr/.
• "One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains," Richard Hornbeck and Trevon Logan, Becker Friedman Institute, https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/one-giant-leap-emancipation-and-aggregate-economic-gains. This is the UChicago article about how slavery is, in fact, unprofitable--the worst thing in the world to UChicago.
• "Oh Dearism," directed by Adam Curtis. I (Josiah) kept referencing the "oh dear" sentiment from this six-minute Curtis documentary but forgot to actually bring it up, so it's right here for the citation perverts reading these notes: https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism.

Music

Yesterday – bloom.

In My Dreams – bloom.

 Key topics:

✔️ ICYMI news, 3/5 - 3/10.
✔️I feel like Corpo America is gonna look at people filming themselves working and say, "If you want that level of surveillance, c'mon back to the office and we'll happily give that to you." 😣
✔️Crypto, bank runs, and collapses. Implosions in less than 48 hours. SMH.
✔️Low interest rates + hyped stock + M&As followed by a deflating Big Tech bubble. Where have we seen this before . . . sounds like the late 90s/early 00s.
✔️Do you understand bank bail-ins?


Links:

https://tinyurl.com/mrpu2nxt

https://tinyurl.com/3c5w97fy

https://tinyurl.com/mvs3kcf3

https://tinyurl.com/5n7x3arr

https://tinyurl.com/4z9s3z8f

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1632043244040192003

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-one-size-fits-plan-150000623.html

https://tinyurl.com/ycy592cy

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-boss-sundar-pichai-says-125653701.html

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On this episode of The Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky discuss OpenAI & Chat GPT with mathematician and academic, Daniele Struppa.

Dr. Struppa is the author of more than 200 refereed publications, and he is the editor of several volumes. He has edited or co-authored more than ten books, including Bicomplex Holomorphic Functions (2015), Regular Functions of a Quaternionic Variable (2013), Noncommutative Functional Calculus: Theory and Applications of Slice Hyperholomorphic Functions (2011), Analysis of Dirac Systems and Computational Algebra (2004), Fundamentals of Algebraic Microlocal Analysis (1999), and The Fundamental Principle for Systems of Convolution Equations (1983).

While serving as chancellor, Dr. Struppa continued his scholarly research focusing on Fourier analysis and its applications to a variety of problems including the algebraic analysis of systems of differential equations, signal processing and pattern recognition. Some of his recent work applies these ideas and methods to problems ranging from denoising to bio-contaminant protection to proteomics of cancerous cells.

The California Dream:
From Chapman's Center of Demographics & Policy, Joel Kotkin & Marshall Toplansky co-author the brand new report on restoring The California Dream.

If you haven't downloaded the report, see it here: 
https://joelkotkin.com/report-restoring-the-california-dream/

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Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

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The Center for Demographics and Policy focuses on research and analysis of global, national, and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time. It involves Chapman students in demographic research under the supervision of the Center’s senior staff.

Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

In a recent video, Russell Brand jokes about robots escorting you back to your dead-end job. And it certainly made me wonder: is the future filled with dead-end jobs? Is that what we all have to look forward to? And what constitutes a dead-end job in modern times?

Links:

https://rumble.com/v28jtxi-here-we-go.html

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dead-end-job

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/signs-of-dead-end-job

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/01/uk-benefit-changes-have-pushed-people-into-dead-end-low-paid-jobs-says-ifs

https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/you-will-own-nothing-including-books-8b69fd0b827e

https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/new-research-the-surprisingly-high-value-of-on-the-job-experience


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On January 25th, Russell Brand published the video YOU WILL OBEY. As I've said before - in my mind, living situation feudalism + workplace feudalism = feudalism.  It's being trapped, full stop.

The attitude appears to be: sit down, shut up, and just do what you're told. Go back in the office, sit in the cube farm, and hush. Are you paying attention to the things that will truly matter in your life or are you goofing off with silly nonsense? Wakey-wakey. 👀 Stay alert.

Links I discuss in this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml5lwBBPAqk

https://rumble.com/v264p0c-mainstream-or-misinformation-whats-the-difference-061-stay-free-with-russel.html

https://nrf.com/blog/charles-schwab-chief-investment-strategist-talks-rolling-recession

Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/ 

Key topics:

✔️ ICYMI news, 10/23 - 10/28.
✔️ The Dollar Tree is the $1.25 tree with some items now $3, $5 & $7. Even the discount stores are not very discount anymore.
✔️More and more neighborhoods showing economic distress. I drove by a neighborhood that was built around 2006 or 2007 during the 125% loans + no money down fiasco, and some of the houses are falling apart.
✔️ Lots of articles going up against remote work - will they be fired first, remote work is disappearing, out of sight out of mind, etc. It's not a buried thesis. They want you back.


Links I mention:

https://medium.com/@sara_causey/how-can-this-be-surprising-d85892ed9228

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-whats-really-hurting-the-economy-100027920.html

https://www.barrons.com/articles/jobs-hiring-layoffs-cuts-labor-market-robert-half-earnings-51666373299

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/24/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-outpaces-income.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-time-greedy-home-flippers-110000999.html

https://tinyurl.com/3a6nthvr

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/juul-reportedly-discussing-bailout-5021881/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/the-lasting-effects-of-remote-work-6039074/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKibtKuSe8

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6988501096616861696/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/remote-work-ads-are-disappearing-5020553/

https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/08/23/i-told-you-so-%f0%9f%8e%b6/

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-10-26/remote-workers-may-be-the-first-let-go-in-recession-related-layoffs

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcVdTNR9r6iqa81-V35NQ8JGMFACeDD7T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXxmRvxLoE&t=1239s

https://tinyurl.com/ytdzesp4

https://tinyurl.com/59hnmuzb

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Siren courtesy of Pixabay. 

On September 28th, I bucked the social media trend and told you that GM walking back its RTO mandate was temporary. It didn't represent a total capitulation on RTO in favor of WFH. Instead, IMO, it was a temporary stop-gap for people to either warm up to coming back or leave. And now we're here: "GM employees will be back in the office next year. Not all of them are happy." Told ya so!

Key topics:

✔️ More predictions from me: 3 days in the office will eventually transition to 5 days in the office. I do not believe hybrid work is being set up as a permanent model for most companies. Many people who work that way don't even like it and I just don't see it being a permanent thing.
✔️ Workplace feudalism as well as just *gestures broadly* feudalism in general is becoming too obvious to ignore. Is it really about "in person collaboration" or is it about compliance and obedience?
✔️ Be wary of people on social media who want to give you hot air and hopium. They might be lulling you into a happy coma that won't end particularly well.


Links I discuss in this episode:

https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/09/28/imagine-that/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2022/10/22/gm-employees-will-be-back-in-the-office-next-year-not-all-are-happy/69581964007/?gnt-cfr=1

https://survivingtomorrow.org/not-content-to-destroy-affordable-housing-investors-are-now-buying-trailer-parks-and-jacking-rents-f1e9b5d2a60b

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11368300


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In a time when everybody was literally kung fu fighting, one group holds a special place in culture just on sheer badassness. I'm talking the katana wielding, armor wearing, philosopher warriors known commonly as Samurai. From the birth of Samurai culture to the influences still felt in our modern world, we've got you covered. 

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by John O’Neill, author of New York Times Number One best seller Unfit for Command and (with Sarah Caton Wynne) The Fisherman’s Tomb, an Amazon Number Three best seller. This show focuses on Ukraine and the history of Russia, bioweapons, and China.

John graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and, after decorated service in Vietnam, finished as the top graduate of The University of Texas School of Law. Following a clerkship with Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the United States Supreme Court, John tried successfully several hundred cases and arbitrations, including representation for the People’s Republic of China in their first U.S. litigation. He declined any further representation of the PRC after the massacre at Tiananmen Square and the death/disappearance of many innocent Chinese people. John has repeatedly been selected into Best Lawyers® and appeared in several hundred television and radio shows on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Fox Business, and MSNBC. He has appeared on the Laura Ingraham, Joe Scarborough and Allen Colmes, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Chris Matthews shows. John is a kidney donor, survivor of four separate types of cancer and proud father, husband and grandfather.

BRAND NEW:
From Chapman's Center of Demographics & Policy, Joel Kotkin & Marshall Toplansky co-author the brand new report on restoring The California Dream.

If you haven't downloaded the report, see it here:
https://joelkotkin.com/report-restoring-the-california-dream/

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Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research th

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The Center for Demographics and Policy focuses on research and analysis of global, national, and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time. It involves Chapman students in demographic research under the supervision of the Center’s senior staff.

Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

For additional information, please contact Mahnaz Asghari, Associate Director for the Center for Demographics and Policy, at (714) 744-7635 or asghari@chapman.edu.

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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

Dr. Jonathan Paprocki is a specialist in topological quantum compiling and an Urbit engineer interested in swarm intelligence, Internet of Things, and anarcho-communist governance structures.

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Anthony Arroyo runs The Combine, a startup incubator for startups building on Urbit. We discuss how Urbit governance really works, debunking the many myths, i.e. the meme that Urbit has a "feudal" or even "fascist" governance structure. We also discuss how Urbit competes with Ethereum, what kinds of businesses are starting to appear on Urbit, and many other interesting topics.

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SPECIAL INVITE BELOW

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by American entrepreneur, Rony Abovitz, and Charlie Fink, AR/VR consultant and professor of Chapman University. This show discusses the metaverse and what the future holds in a digital world.

Rony Abovitz  is an American entrepreneur. Abovitz founded MAKO Surgical Corp., a company manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance platforms, in 2004 and recently acquired by Stryker for $1.65 billion. Abovitz is the founder of the Mixed reality/Augmented Reality (MR/AR) company Magic Leap and served as its CEO from its founding in 2010.

Charlie Fink is a Forbes Columnist, and the Author of Remote Collaboration & Virtual Conferences (2020), Convergence (2019) and Charlie Fink's Metaverse (2017). In the early 90s, Fink ran VR pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Previously, he was a VP at Disney, SVP at AOL, and President of AG & Blue Mountain. He teaches XR at Chapman University in Orange, CA.

SPECIAL INVITE:
A message from Joel:

This Friday, January 21st, at 11am, Marshall Toplansky and I will be unveiling our latest policy research report,"Restoring The California Dream".

This will be the FIRST TIME we will be publicly discussing this report. It's free to join and will be held on zoom.

The brand new report lays out the challenges faced by middle and working-class Californians.

The presentation of the report will be followed by an all-star panel led by Jeff Ball, new CEO of the Orange County Business Council.

The event is sponsored by the Argyros School of Business, the Orange County Business Council, and the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County.

Make sure to register now here for free: https://chapman.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wPCdtqSJQBK1GvkQVXavfg

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The Center for Demographics and Policy focuses on research and analysis of global, national, and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time. It involves Chapman students in demographic research under the supervision of the Center’s senior staff.

Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

For additional information, please contact Mahnaz Asghari, Associate Director for the Center for Demographics and Policy, at (714) 744-7635 or asghari@chapman.edu.

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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

This week, Lauren B. tells us about the horrors and injustices experienced by the peasants in medieval England. By fleshing out the effects of the plague and the oppressive measures that colonial rulers forced upon the surfs, Lauren lays the groundwork for the story of the Peasant Revolt of 1381. Tune in next week to hear the rest!

Lauren B is an incredibly talented subsistence maker who creates masks and other socially and environmentally ethical products out of secondhand materials. She wrote our prior episode titled "Resisting Fast Fashion," in which she explains the social and environmental horrors of the fashion and fabric industries.  Check out her masks here!

Sources:

Boring Tony Robinson BBC Documentary

Terry Jones Medieval Lives 1 of 8 The Peasant

https://www.historyonthenet.com/medieval-life-feudalism-feudal-system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt

https://www.worldhistory.org/Peasants'_Revolt/

https://johnball1381.org/

https://www.1381.online/

Law & Order in Medieval England 

Piers Plowman Great Uprising 

http://www.1381.online/people_and_places/

https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/12062

When the Weather Went All Medieval 

The History of Plague

History Collection

https://explorethearchive.com/peasants-revolt

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This episode examines what daily life was like for ordinary people in Early Modern Europe, highlighting some core differences with our own era such as the sense of geographic isolation and legal privileges of the nobility.

For more information on History Off the Page, check out our website www.historyoffthepage.com! Or you can support the show via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/historyoffthepage?fan_landing=true.

While we tend to think of absolutism as just a really strong king, this episode shows how the concept of the centralized state was developed in response to the 17th century crisis of order.  In particular, we look at French King Louis XIV and his magnificent palace of Versailles, showing how Louis turned his life into a performance in order to gain power over his nobles.

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On this episode of Feudal Future,  hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by geopolitical analyst, Brandon J. Weichert author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, to discuss a real life version of Star Wars.

Brandon J. Weichert is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report: World News Done Right. He is also a contributor to The American Spectator and contributing editor at American Greatness . Recently, Brandon has become a contributor to Real Clear Public Affairs and his national security writings have appeared at Real Clear Politics, Real Clear World, Real Clear Defense, and Real Clear Policy. He also travels the country briefing elements of the Department of Defense and various private groups on national security and emerging technology issues. A recovering Congressional staffer, Brandon holds an M.A. in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. and is an Associate Member of New College at Oxford University. Brandon lives by Herman Kahn's mantra that, "I'm against fashionable thinking." Therefore, his entire life's work has been predicated on challenging conventional wisdom and assumptions on a variety of matters, notably in national security. He lives with his wife and daughters in Southwest Florida and can be reached via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.

Purchase Brandon's new book here: https://amzn.to/3wrHl3O

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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

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The Center for Demographics and Policy focuses on research and analysis of global, national, and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time. It involves Chapman students in demographic research under the supervision of the Center’s senior staff.

Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

For additional information, please contact Mahnaz Asghari, Associate Director for the Center for Demographics and Policy, at (714) 744-7635 or asghari@chapman.edu.

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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

Many things in modern life make us fearful. The Fear Inoculant series  will explore ways to be less fearful and live a more authentic life. In this, the first of three episodes, we cover a host of philosophical concepts aimed at demystifying reality in order to lay the groundwork for examining social movements in the next episode. We start with exploring how certain Events can seem to change the past and present, Reality itself and a couple ways to quantify it, how Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek can never seem to agree, Dialectics and the limits of reason, Metaphysics and how to separate yourself from the universe, Freedom and how to measure it, Existentialism and other curses from the gods, Sociology and how to build a society, how school brainwashes you, plus Economics, The State, Violence, Alienation, Structural Ideology, Neurotypicality, Revolution, and somehow even more! 

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Table of contents: 

Intro: 4:06.729, Corrections: 4:46.498, The Setup: 10:09.070, Events: 12:13.001, Critical Theory Summary: 19:35.657, Materialism: 21:00.876, Idealism: 24:06.432, Chomsky vs Zizek: 28:00.512, Dialectics: 31:06.255, Dialectical Materialism: 36:49.128, Ontological Case Study: 42:55.002, Events Continued: 46:25.000, The Particular and the Universal: 48:36.065, Freedom: 54:04.679, Morality: 1:00:34.962, Existentialism: 1:03:40.028, Sociology: 1:16:07.278, Socialism: 1:20:41.226, The "C" Word: 1:24:02.290, Commodification: 1:27:41.976, Some Folks You Might Meet: 1:31:41.562, The State: 1:39:32.853, Violence: 1:48:32.395, Ideology: 1:52:19.431, The State Continued: 1:56:12.565, Alienation: 1:59:09.955, Structural Ideology: 2:01:53.580, Anti-Oedipus: 2:04:16.992, Neurotypicality: 2:06:19.322, Revolution: 2:09:35.000, Class: 2:13:33.919, Proto-Synthesis: 2:16:40.012, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: 2:19:46.433, The Wrap Up: 2:24:56.266, Surprise: 2:26:08.991

Works Cited: 

Egalitarian Societies: https://www.solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/the-original-egalitarian-societies-what-human-history-tells-us-about-human-nature/

Reexamining Zizek and Chomsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne3uZSQmXzc

Yale's Social Theory Course: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foundations-of-modern-social-theory-audio/id430657557 

Spinoza and Knowledge: http://www.geocities.ws/bignum/spinoza.html 

Critical Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/ 

Historical Materialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

Sartre on Freedom: https://www.e-ir.info/2013/01/23/jean-paul-sartre-existential-freedom-and-the-political/ 

Radical Freedom: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/existentialism-is-a-humanism/themes/radical-freedom-choice-and-responsibility

Chomsky on Human Nature: https://chomsky.info/199808__-2/ 

Comparing Rousseau and Mill on Liberty: https://www.ukessays.com/essays/philosophy/comparing-rousseau-and-mill-on-liberty-philosophy-essay.php

Positive and Negative Liberty: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/

Forms of Feudalism: https://turbulentpriests.group.shef.ac.uk/the-forms-of-feudalism/#_ftnref2

Power and Authority:  https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/14-1-power-and-authority/

Hegel's Excess: http://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/download/30/38/

Negation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negation/

Zizek on 'Absolute Knowing': https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/zizek-on-hegels-absolute-knowing-2/

Hegel's Dialectics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

On this episode of Feudal Future,  hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Dr. Roxanne Greitz Miller, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Interim Dean of the Attallah College of Educational Studies.

A member of Chapman's faculty since 2005, Dr. Miller holds the rank of tenured full professor with a joint appointment to Schmid College of Science and Technology. In addition to her teaching at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, Dr. Miller has served as principal or co-principal investigator on state and federal research grants representing more than $3.5 million in funding and has published numerous refereed articles, book chapters, and comprehensive historical abstracts. Her research centers on teacher professional development, the home-to-school connection, and STEM education. She serves as the immediate past chair of the Small Colleges Special Interest Group of the Professional and Organizational Developers (POD) Network and served as both the Division K Teacher Education Program Co-Chair for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) from 2013-2016 and the contributing editor to NSTA’s Science Scope journal from 2005-2009.


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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Bheki Mahlobo, Research Assistant at the Centre For Risk Analysis and Hugo Kruger, structural engineer and specialist in African economics.

Bheki is a Research Assistant at the Centre For Risk Analysis (CRA). In this role, he is primarily involved in writing chapters for the Socio-Economic Survey of South Africa, an annual publication that provides information and data on major trends in various social and economic fields.


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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.

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The Center for Demographics and Policy focuses on research and analysis of global, national, and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time. It involves Chapman students in demographic research under the supervision of the Center’s senior staff.

Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

For additional information, please contact Mahnaz Asghari, Associate Director for the Center for Demographics and Policy, at (714) 744-7635 or asghari@chapman.edu.

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This show is presented by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, which focuses on research and analysis of global, national and regional demographic trends and explores policies that might produce favorable demographic results over time.