The philosopher R. G Collingwood took magic seriously as something that was inappropriately judged in scientific terms. It was best judged...

Position Reserved , at various times, has been an outlet for exploring a variety of cultural and political issues of interest to me as wel...

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There is an honest question to be asked whether shamanism, as it is presented to us in the West as ideology or world view, actually exists ...

In a somewhat breathless report in the Financial Times on February 14th , Moshe Vardi, computer science professor at Rice University in Tex...

One of the persistent delusions of humanity (taken as the default, though not the inevitable, position of most people who think that they ar...

1. There is an underlying reality whose true nature we cannot know. 2. We construct our world through more or less effective manipulation of...

Situationist thought might seem like a mere historical foot-note from Cold War history but it is worth some reconsideration now that we ha...

There have been at least two great intellectual failures in the last hundred years - the first is Marxism-Leninism and the second has be...