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  • States Are Introducing Bills That Could Prevent Teachers From Advocating for Climate Change - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/news/state-bills-could-prevent-teachers-from-advocating-for-climate-change

    Several states have recently introduced bills that could interfere with the teaching of scientifically founded theories on climate change in public school science curricula.

    A bill in South Dakota would require each school board to adopt a code of ethics that prevents public school elementary and secondary school teachers from advocating “for any issue that is part of a political party platform at the national, state, or local level.” The Arizona legislature introduced a nearly identical bill.

    Virginia legislators proposed a bill with similar language, arguing that some teachers are abusing taxpayer dollars to “speak to captive audiences of students in an attempt to indoctrinate or influence students to adopt specific political and ideological positions on issues of social and political controversy ... under the guise of ’teaching for social justice’ and other sectarian doctrines.”

    In Maine, a comparable bill states that “the rules must require a teacher to provide students with materials supporting both sides of a controversial issue being addressed and to present both sides in a fair-minded, nonpartisan manner.”

    Science education groups are concerned that these bills, if enacted, would limit instruction on anthropogenic climate change, which is a key tenet of state and federal Democratic Party platforms. In the case of Maine, the bill could require teachers to discuss climate change as a disputed theory and present disproven theories for the global rise in temperatures as valid.

    Other states have introduced legislation that singles out the teaching of climate change directly. A bill in Montana takes a public stance on climate change that “reasonable amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere have no verifiable impacts on the environment; science shows human emissions do not change atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions enough to cause climate change; claims that carbon associated with human activities causes climate change are invalid; and nature, not human activity, causes climate change.” Any educational and informational materials on climate change would be required to include this information.

    Climate change has become an increasingly politicized topic under the Trump administration. The president has publicly denounced its existence, and some federal agencies have removed the phrase “climate change” from webpages and other documents. Yet as global temperatures continue to rise (2018 was the fourth hottest year on record), at least 97 percent of climate experts maintain that “[c]limate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.”

    #Education #Climat #Politique_scientifique #Folie

  • How Austerity Caused #Brexit - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/ideas/brexit-how-austerity-and-a-cowardly-ruling-class-brought-down-england

    Let’s recap. Cue the music! Dim the lights! Fire up the wobbly screen time-jump effects! The year is 2010 and Britain just had an election. Conservative leader David Cameron, a yogurt-faced old Etonian former public relations man, fails to win the general election but goes into coalition with the smaller Liberal Democrat Party and proceeds to institute a program of economic reforms that nobody voted for, reforms so brutal and devastating that the janky but serviceable state Britain used to have is all but destroyed.

    #austérité #politique

  • The Opioid Crisis Is Also a Crisis of Speech - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-opioid-crisis-is-also-a-crisis-of-speech

    Ca ressemble beaucoup à du travail de Public Relation pour contrer la prise de conscience de la crise des opioides. L’American Academy of Pain Medicine est la seule organisation citée... et elle ne semble pas blanc-bleu.

    In particular, chronic pain patients are silenced thanks to the War on Drugs—and, especially in the last few years, in the name of the opioid crisis. Opioid addiction is a serious problem in the United States; 42,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2016, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. has seen an increase of more than 500 percent in heroin-related deaths since 2002. The understandable desire to reduce America’s number of opioid addicts, though, has had catastrophic consequences for chronic pain patients. Walmart, for example, has limited opioid prescriptions so that patients have to get refills every week, rather than filling them a month at a time. Insurance companies have also placed limits on the amount of opioid medication they will cover. Some pharmacies won’t handle prescriptions over the phone, and sometimes aren’t even allowed to tell patients if the medicine is in stock.

    #Opioides

  • ’Flint Is the Urban Crisis of the Century’: A Conversation With Anna Clark - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/environment/flint-is-the-urban-crisis-of-the-century

    By now, Americans are generally familiar with the long-term disaster in Flint, Michigan, where lead in the drinking water highlights our nation’s failing infrastructure and the inadequacies of government’s current response to public-health crises. But to see Flint’s crisis fully, one must understand what Michigan resident and journalist Anna Clark calls “the American urban tragedy”—the history of segregation that has been built into the architecture of America’s cities for centuries. In her new book, The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, Clark digs deep into our nation’s industrial past to tell the story of Flint’s water alongside the story of our collective urban tragedy.

    From Flint’s genesis as a functionally segregated auto manufacturing center, to the “white flight” inspired by desegregation in the 1960s, to the near vacancy of the city after General Motors auto plant closures in the 1990s, Clark details Flint’s rise and fall, and how its story is embodied in the lead that turned up in the water in 2014. When Michigan brought in an emergency manager to oversee the disastrous switch from treated water piped in via Lake Huron, to poorly treated water pumped from the notorious Flint River (all through pipes that hadn’t been used for decades), corrosive waterborne material came to poison the city’s citizens. But it was the poorer communities and communities of color that were disproportionately affected, and it’s these same communities where justice has taken the longest to prevail.

    When we talk about cities, we are talking about people. For all the high-pitched coverage of Flint, sometimes the human stories—in all their range and contradictions and depth and beauty—have been lost in the noise. For decades this city has been made invisible and its voices dismissed. Nonetheless, the residents have continually shown up, worked together, shared knowledge, and advocated in every way they could imagine. They weren’t victims waiting to be rescued by someone else; they were agents of their own lives. I wanted not just to tell that story, but to show it.

    Flint has a lot to teach the nation about the value of community organizing. No one single person has all the answers, nor should he have all the power. This is why transparency laws, strong independent journalism, clear environmental regulations, robust public institutions, and empowered community engagement are meaningful checks against corruption.

    #Flint #Environnement #Eau_potable #Communs_urbains

  • USA Are Foreign-Influenced Social Media Campaigns Part of the New Political Playbook? - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/news/are-foreign-influenced-social-media-campaigns-part-of-the-new-political-playb

    On the first day of November of 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled contrite representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google about their companies’ roles in the Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential election. The senators spent nearly three hours chastising the social media platforms for their dereliction. In between the grandstanding, the senators expressed genuine concern about how foreign nations used these platforms, and whether media companies would be able to stop the next country from copying the Russian scheme. But even as lawmakers reflect on the Russian interference, new foreign influence campaigns are already underway.

    This time, rather than trying to choose a president, the campaigns sought to affect President Donald Trump and America’s reaction to the Qatar diplomatic crisis, which began on June 5th, when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and established an air, sea, and land blockade around the country.

  • Five Covert Techniques Used by Trump to Cut Government Oversight - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/news/how-trump-is-covertly-deregulating-the-country

    How the Trump administration skirts the obstacles that make it hard for federal agencies to deregulate industries.

    Here are five techniques being used by the Trump administration.

    The Data Dump

    An agency can’t regulate blind. Deprive a regulator of information, and it can’t do much.

    [...] exemple : ne plus collecter les données mettant en relation sexe et salaire

    The Enforcement Strike

    Sometimes, just doing less adds up to deregulation, in a form that’s difficult to identify and even harder to challenge in court.

    [...]exemple : La SEC poursuit moins de monde

    The Budget Squeeze

    The White House’s decision to impose a so-called “regulatory budget” on government agencies is one of its more innovative moves to shrink the footprint of the federal bureaucracy. Each agency’s allotment creates a sort of deregulatory cap-and-trade system designed to force the agency to make it cheaper for the private sector to comply with rules.

    [...] exemples : toutes les agences

    The Slowdown

    The rush toward the end of the Obama administration to finalize lingering rules left many of them to go into effect after January 20th, when Trump took office. That left open a possibility the White House has embraced: delay.

    [...] exemple : les régulations sur les mines

    The Expanding Exemptions

    Many agency rules include exceptions to their requirements—when or where the rule applies, to whom it applies. Interpreting exceptions expansively or using them more aggressively are ways to cut back on a rule’s practical effect without revising it or taking it off the books.

    [...] exemple : l’EPA

    Bref, comment mener une politique via des règles administratives sans passer par la loi et le débat public. Il serait intéressant de voir comment ce modèle se déploie un peu partout dans le monde.

    #Dérégulation #Politique #Administration

  • What Makes a Poem Really Pop? - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/news/i-still-cant-make-it-through-ode-on-a-grecian-urn

    New research reports a key factor is its ability to induce internal imagery. A poet’s proficiency at using words to conjure images was the strongest predictor of a work’s aesthetic appeal.

    “People disagree on what they like, of course,” said lead author Amy Belfi, a psychologist at Missouri University of Science and Technology. “[But] it seems there are certain factors that consistently influence how much a poem will be enjoyed.”

    The research, published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, was conducted at New York University. The 400 participants, who were recruited online, read a series of either sonnets or haikus. The poems varied in style and subject matter, and were a mix of classic and contemporary works.

    After reading each poem, participants rated it on four dimensions: the vividness of its imagery; the degree to which they found it stimulating or relaxing; how positive or negative they considered its content; and, finally, “How enjoyable or aesthetically appealing did you find this poem?” Each judgment was rendered using a zero-to-100 scale.

    #Poésie #Lecture #Humanités_numériques

  • Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Marijuana Are All Getting Stronger in the U.S. - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/economics/your-drugs-are-getting-stronger

    Over the past few years, dealers have cut the heroin they sell in many parts of America with fentanyl, an opioid chemical that’s much more potent—and dangerous—than heroin. That’s led to a spike in overdoses and deaths. But opioids aren’t the only drugs to have become much stronger in recent years. In a new report, the Drug Enforcement Administration finds that methamphetamine and marijuana in America have also increased in strength.

    The more powerful drugs are a sign of an ever-more-competitive recreational drug marketplace, driven by the rising popularity of potent opioids, RAND Corporation drug-policy researcher Rosalie Pacula told the Los Angeles Times. Punchier drugs likely also mean these products are widely available to Americans, putting traffickers under pressure to have stronger offerings, the DEA suggests in its report. If methamphetamine goes the way of opioids, that could mean more overdoses in the future, but the available data makes it hard to know yet if that’s happening.

    #Opioides #Drogues #Marché

  • Can Underground Psychedelic Therapy Ever Go Mainstream ? - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/social-justice/can-underground-psychedelic-therapy-ever-go-mainstream

    Hallucinogenic therapy, a longstanding underground therapeutic movement, is now reaching research institutions like Johns Hopkins. Studies explore the ability of psychedelics to amplify access to thoughts and feelings. Research results are promising enough that the Food and Drug Administration recently designated MDMA-assisted psychotherapy a “breakthrough therapy” for post-traumatic stress disorder, which essentially fast-tracks the last phase of clinical trials before medicalization.

    “You can get to content that usually would have heightened defenses,” Holly says of psychedelic therapy. “It’s assisted therapy. It’s really all it is.” A 2016 study in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration found that, for successful psychotherapy outcomes, “the most important common factor was the therapeutic alliance,” meaning the relationship between the patient and therapist.

    #Psychédéliques #Usage_médical #Santé_mentale #Santé_publique

  • Three Generations of Opioid Addiction - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/social-justice/three-generations-of-opioid-addiction

    Le lien entre l’héroine/fentanyl de la rue et les médicaments anti-douleur au travers de l’histoire d’une famille dans une ville en perdition.

    “If I flip back into my junkie brain, ’Oh man, someone just died from pink bags, that’s got to be great shit!’” he says, speculating that this latest overdose came from heroin laced with the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl. Different batches of heroin are often sold in distinctively colored or marked bags, and when addicts know a certain batch is powerful, they seek it out.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently declared drug overdoses to be the leading cause of death for people under 50. And places like Jamestown—small towns across the American heartland and the Rust Belt—are those hardest hit.

    Chanda Lynn says she was prescribed Vicodin for back pain while she was pregnant with her son. She thought the prescription was irresponsible but, already struggling with addiction, she found herself unable to stop using painkillers. “Every day I’d lay in bed and I’d pray over my stomach, please protect him from withdrawal, please protect him from addiction,” she says.

    The county is also trying to prevent opioid addiction early, with educational programs about opioids starting in kindergarten in local schools. And the county provides safe disposal sites and free lockboxes for prescription medicine, to try to keep it from filtering onto the streets.

    While Chanda Lynn is glad to see health-care institutions and public agencies taking action, she believes the real change must come from someplace much deeper: the way our society looks at users. Addicts are often doomed to relapse when they return to a society where they face stigma and lack of opportunity, she says.

    “When you come back, the communities aren’t willing or ready to accept you. There are no jobs and you have felonies so you can’t get a house or a car,” she says. “So you go back to the addict community that accepts you.”

    #Opioid_crisis #pharmacie #santé_publique

  • EPA Takes First Step to Repeal Clean Water Rule - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/environment/epa-takes-first-step-to-repeal-clean-water-rule

    The Environmental Protection Agency took the first formal step on Tuesday to repeal the Clean Water Rule, which the Trump administration hopes to replace with a more industry-friendly version.

    “We are taking significant action to return power to the states and provide regulatory certainty to our nation’s farmers and businesses,” EPA head Scott Pruitt said in a statement.

    The Obama-era regulation, which was based on a review of more than 1,200 peer-reviewed scientific studies and the input of hundreds of stakeholders, was meant to protect our nation’s waterways from pollution, and determine which water bodies were subject to federal oversight. A 2015 survey found that 80 percent of Americans, including 94 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of Republicans, supported the rule.

    “Once again, the Trump Administration has agreed to do the bidding of the worst polluters in our country, and once again it’s putting the health of American families and communities at risk,” Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement.

    #Environnement #Eau #USA

  • The Hoax That Backfired : How an Attempt to Discredit Gender Studies Will Only Strengthen It - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/education/the-hoax-that-backfired-how-an-attempt-to-discredit-gender-studies-will-only-

    Heureusement que les belles foutaises se retournent parfois contre leurs auteurs... mais trop significatif de l’air du temps, anti-science d’une part et anti-femmes de l’autre.

    The most recent stunt to roil the academic waters took about 3,000 words and focused on the penis. The authors, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay—a philosopher and a mathematician—co-authored a purposefully bogus paper ("The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct") in which they promoted the proposition that “The penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct.”

    The piece, as intended, is complete nonsense. Parodying postmodern jargon, the authors explain how "penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ, but instead as an enacted social construct.

    The spoof was accepted by a peer-reviewed journal called Cogent Social Sciences. Needless to say, the authors’ revelation of their hoax rankled critics supportive of gender studies. More than any other point, the critics argued that the open-access journal that accepted the article was a pay-to-publish junk job, and therefore not an accurate reflection of the discipline itself.

    This is the rhetoric of humiliation. According to Neel Burton, writing in Psychology Today: “To humiliate someone is to assert power over him by denying and destroying his status claims. To this day, humiliation remains a common form of punishment, abuse, and oppression.” Humiliation, furthermore, can also serve to “enforce a particular social order.” It follows that, in light of these motives, “humiliating someone, even a criminal, is rarely, if ever, a proportionate or justified response.” It is, most critically, a fundamentally different beast than embarrassment.

    In the most recent scholarly effort to define humiliation precisely, the authors conclude: “humiliation is defined by feeling powerless, small, and inferior in a situation in which one is brought down and in which an audience is present – which may contribute to these diminutive feelings – leading the person to appraise the situation as unfair and resulting in a mix of emotions, most notably disappointment, anger, and shame.”

    This, I would suggest, is what Boghossian and Lindsay were attempting to achieve when they submitted their bogus article for publication. They wanted to do something completely different than discredit the entire field of gender studies. They wanted to humiliate all those who are in it. Which is to say, they were being bullies.

    #gender_studies #open_access #air_du_temps

  • How Facebook Sees the World - Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/news/how-facebook-sees-the-world

    “Fake news” became the media’s favorite electoral boogeyman during the presidential election, and with good reason: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University found that Facebook and Twitter indeed precipitated an unprecedented level of misinformation, creating what the Columbia Journalism Review called a “media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world.” Research confirms that the wave of anti-establishment fake news that came crashing down on social media users in the months leading up to the election is very real.

    Facebook’s old existential crisis appears over: By necessity, it is a publisher rather than simply a technology company—and it needs editors.

    But this poses an interesting question: How does Facebook see the world? The company says its mission is to “give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” But it’s far from a neutral platform. In addition to individual products like its much-maligned “Trending News” module, which has vacillated from left-leaning editorial node to hoax whisperer, the platform’s fundamental design subtly shapes our behavior and, in turn, the structure of the digital social relations that reflect and augment our real-life ones, from the media we share to the “filter bubbles” we build for ourselves.

    The full corpus of the Guardian’s “Facebook Files” offers a fascinating look at how a technology company long in denial of its editorial responsibilities is suddenly grappling with its new role as the largest de facto censor of information on the planet, one that reportedly deals with more than 6.5 million reports regarding allegedly fake accounts each week. “Facebook cannot keep control of its content,” one company employee told the Guardian. “It has grown too big, too quickly.”

    This, in some ways, may mark the beginning of the end of Facebook as a somewhat unfiltered reflection of our “real” social and political worlds—and, in turn, our best and worst impulses. Facebook has become “the most powerful mobilizing force in politics, fast replacing television as the most consequential entertainment medium,” as Farhad Manjoo wrote for the New York Times Magazine in April. “But over the course of 2016, Facebook’s gargantuan influence became its biggest liability.” Now all-powerful, Facebook has adopted the unilateral policing power of a state—a power that may one day control flow of information at the behest of government

    #Facebook #médias_sociaux #censure #fake_news

  • Contingent No More

    Academia is in the midst of an acute, unsustainable crisis. For those working in the higher-education industry, and increasingly for those outside of it, it has become impossible to ignore.

    New generations of faculty and students crushed by unprecedented levels of debt; the increased precariousness of the academic labor force; the systematic devaluation of academic labor itself; the corporate-style structuring of higher education—something, somehow is going to give.

    In spite of the cold facts—that “contingent faculty” make up more than 70 percent of the academic labor force, that the gap between doctorates awarded and jobs available is wider than ever, that the overwhelming majority of academic workers live in a state of economic insecurity—we remain individually hypnotized by the poisonous conviction that hard work is all we need, that the “best” people in the best programs produce the best work, etc.

    The neoliberalization of higher education is every academic’s problem. This is the reality in which we are all participating, even those of us at “top” programs, even those of us who have reached the promised land of tenure. Not surprisingly, many at the top are mostly fine with it. But their eager complicity makes it all the more incumbent on the rest of us to recognize how deeply the current system skews all relevant outcomes—from the accrual of professional prestige to basic salary-and-benefit protections—in the favor of the already privileged.

    https://thebaffler.com/the-poverty-of-theory/contingent-no-more

    #université #crise #académie #néolibéralisme #néo-libéralisme #précarité #précarisation #travail #mythe #méritocratie #hiérarchie

    Avec une belle et longue #bibliographie :

    Resources for Resistance (an introductory bibliography) :

    Craig Lambert, Harvard Magazine, “The ‘Wild West’ of Academic Publishing”

    The Conversation, Articles on Academic Journal Debate

    Hugh Gusterson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No“

    Michael White, Pacific Standard, “How to Change the Centuries-Old Model of Academic Publishing”

    Jonathan Gray, The Guardian, “It’s Time to Stand Up to Greedy Academic Publishers”

    Jane C. Hu, The Atlantic, “Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free”

    Modern Languages Association, “The Future of Scholarly Publishing” (2002 Report)

    American Council of Learned Societies, “Crises and Opportunities: The Futures of Scholarly Publishing” (2003 Report)

    Christover J. Broadhurst and Georgianna L. Martin (Eds.), “Radical Academia”? Understanding the Climate for Campus Activists

    The Sociological Imagination, Radical Education Projects

    Robin D.G. Kelley, Boston Review, “Black Study, Black Struggle”

    Simon Batterbury, The Winnower, “Who Are the Radical Academics Today?“

    Gwendolyn Beetham, Feministing, “The Academic Feminist: Summer at the Archives with Chicana Por Mi Raza (An Interview with Maria Cotera)”

    The SIGJ2 Writing Collective, Antipode, “What Can We Do? The Challenge of Being New Academics in Neoliberal Universities”

    Culum Canally, Antipode, “Timidity and the ‘Radical’ Academic Mind: A Response to the SIGJ2 Writing Collective”

    Yasmin Nair, Current Affairs, “The Dangerous Academic Is an Extinct Species“

    Cary Nelson, American Association of University Professors, “A Faculty Agenda for Hard Times”

    Jennifer Ruth, Remaking the University, “When Tenure-Track Faculty Take On the Problem of Adjunctification“

    Thomas Duke, The Undercurrent, “The Cause of the Adjunct Crisis: How a Research Focus is Destroying Higher Education”

    Debra Leigh Scott, Adjunct Nation, “How American Universities Have Destroyed Scholarship in the U.S.“

    Mary Elizabeth Luka, Alison Harvey, Mél Hogan, Tamara Shepherd, Andrea Zeffiro, Studies in Social Justice, “Scholarship as Cultural Production in the Neoliberal University: Working Within and Against ‘Deliverables’”

    Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Becky Mansfield, Jenna Loyd, Jennifer Hyndman, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Ranu Basu, Risa Whitson, Roberta Hawkins, Trina Hamilton, Winifred Curran, ACME, “For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University”

    Sarah Banet-Weiser, Alexandra Juhasz, International Journal of Communications, “Feminist Labor in Media Studies/Communication”

    Heather Fraser and Nik Taylor, Neoliberalization, Universities, and the Public Intellectual

    Kevin Birmingham, The Chronicle of Higher Education, “‘The Great Shame of Our Profession’”

    Mac Bousquet, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation

    Shannon Ikebe and Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, “Union Democracy, Student Labor, and the Fight for Public Education”

    Anonymous, Inside Higher Ed, “Treadmill to Oblivion”

    Lucia Lorenzi, thoughts on mediocrity

    Miya Tokumitsu, Jacobin, “In the Name of Love”

    Sarah Kendzior, Vitae, “The Adjunct Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem”

    Hamilton Nolan, Gawker, “The Horrifying Reality of the Academic Job Market”

    Denise Cummins, PBS, “Why the Backlash against Adjuncts Is an Indictment of the Tenure System”

    Christopher Newfield, American Association of University Professors, “Avoiding the Coming Higher Ed Wars”

    Henry A. Giroux, Truthout, “Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education”

    Charles R. Hale (Ed.), Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship

    Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Social Text, “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses”

    Ji-Young Um, #alt-academy, “On Being a Failed Professor: Lessons from the Margins and the Undercommons”

    Undercommoning Collective, ROAR, “Undercommoning within, against, and beyond the University-as-Such”

    Zach Schwartz-Weinstein, Is This What Democracy Looks Like?, “Not Your Academy: Occupation and the Future of Student Struggles“

    Trish Kahle and Michael Billeaux, Jacobin, “Resisting the Corporate University”

    Levi Gahman, ROAR, “Dismantling Neoliberal Education: A Lesson from the Zapatistas“

    #résistance

  • Those Timeless Tunes of the 1940s, ’60s, and ’80s – Pacific Standard
    https://psmag.com/those-timeless-tunes-of-the-1940s-60s-and-80s-72358a991aaa

    When was the “golden age” of pop music? Opinions vary widely, in part because the tunes that made up the soundtrack of our adolescence tend to exert a primal pull.

    But new research finds that, after setting this bias aside, younger Americans generally prefer songs that topped the charts during three decades: the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s.

    “Music of these decades produced the strongest emotional responses, and the most frequent and specific personal memories,” Cornell University psychologist Carol Lynne Krumhansl writes in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

    (bon, il y a des bêtises dans l’article sur la chronologie des inventions de support musicaux...)

    #musique