In her article on Critical Link (previous post), Maria Rosaria BURI references Samuel P. Huntington’s book, Who Are We? The Challenges to American National Identity. The book seems to be an exploration of the changing geopolitical situation in which Huntington argues that “‘civilizations’ are replacing ideologies in international relations and politics” (Buri).
Buri recommends this book for community interpreters.
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Looks like a fascinating expose of “how right-wing groups pressure the media and spread misinformation to the public.” The Republican Noise Machine was written by a former right-wing publicist, David Brock, whose original confession was seen skeptically by some.
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This book, White on Black by Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego, looks intense.
It was reviewed in the NYTimes today: “In one of the book’s most affecting moments,
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Another coincedental timing thing? This editorial in the NYTimes today, Lebanon’s Lost Sovereignity and just last week I gave Raz the book, Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk.
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Sarbjeet and his pals watched this documentary, the Day after Trinity the other day, about the scientist who coordinated the development of the atomic bomb lobbying against its use. An ethical tragedy if there ever was one? Unlike Doc Ock (Spiderman II), Oppenheimer wasn’t able to undo what he had done.
In looking for info about the documentary on the web, I came across some of the information we’ve all heard about – how to make one. Damn creepy, especially with Bush and Co intent on making the world a more dangerous place where WMD are increasingly perceived as the bottom line means of economic/political leverage. 
The name of the documentary is “the day after trinity” – robert oppenheimer and the atomic bom
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Last night [the FP] and I watched the first in the Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World anthropology series, The Shock of the Other. She’s thinking of using it while she teaches mythology (not this episode, but perhaps others), and I found it useful in thinking about the mentoring project. [the FP] critiqued David Maybury-Lewis for being “a little too self-conscious” – I know that is a huge potential criticism of how I approach my work (taping, Deaf stuff, etc.). The challenge is how to self-reflection/self-awareness during production to enhance the quality of interactions, but let the interactions take center stage in the final product. The utlimate depiction of my role should be peripheral.
Henry (and others, no doubt) would critique the presentation – the music, certain discursive choices – but what drew me in was the attempt by Maybury-Lewis to situate himself as representing only one side of a dialectic relationship with an equal “Other” whose own being is as central to themselves as M-L’s is to himself. Also, the document their own ethical struggle with attempting the project and illustrate the risks involved. Although our mentoring project may not be as dramatic, I think the risks of embarking into unknown, somewhat frightening yet exhilarating territory are present.
ps – This book co-edited by M-L looks interesting: The Attraction of Opposites
Thought and Society in the Dualistic Mode.
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