David Hockney's iPhone Passion by Lawrence Weschler (NY Review of Books)
A reprieve from Arctic ice meltdown?
Jackson 2Bears: The Technological Unconscious, Animism and the Uncanny
Global warming impacts sooner & worse than expected ?
You shouldn't believe everything you read, yet according to a classic psychology study at first we can't help it
Arundati Roy on sham Democracy in India
Conference Proceedings: Fundamentalism and the Future
A Life Of Its Own: Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us? by Michael Specter (The New Yorker)
New direct-drive turbines to lower cost of offshore wind energy.
Tribute to J.C. by K. Curtis Lyle (from Electric Church)
John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz and the Evolution of "My Favorite Things" by Scott Anderson
The Holy Grail of the Unconscious : Jung's Red Book (N.Y. Times Magazine)
Advanced Solar Panels Coming to Market
Toward a Theory of Phantasmal Media: An Imaginative Cognition- and Computation-Based Approach to Digital Media D. Fox Harrell (C Theory)
The Irony of Time: Baghdad in early Islamic History - Gaston Wiet
Astronomers Plan Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves
Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions
The Alien Home by Pico Iyer
How to Create Quantum Superpositions of Living Things
Hindutva Undermines the Pristine Values of Hinduism
The Rise of the Rest by Fareed Zakaria
Crisis of the Mind by Paul Valery
Censorship as its own art form: 'Censoring an Iranian Love Story' by Shahriar Mandanipour (review LA Times)
Health Insurance, Pure Economy of Desire by The Critical Art Ensemble
Objectivity by Lorraine Datson & Peter Galison (Book Review by Norberto Serpente)
Integral Psychology – Theorizing its Disciplinary Boundaries
On Universalism: In Debate with Alain Badiou by Etienne Balibar
Capitalism a Love Story by Michael Moore
An Interview with Alain Badiou: “Universal Truths & the Question of Religion” by Adam S. Miller, Journal of Philosophy and Scripture

The Fundamentalism Project: A series from the University of Chicago Press Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Editors

15th August 2009: 137th Birth Anniversay of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
The Myth of the New India by Pankaj Mishra
AntiMatters New Issue Released
Les Paul 1915-2009
White Noise by Don Delillo - review by Jayne Ann Phillps (Ny Times)
Conference: Fundamentalism and the Future
Code Drifts: Tethered to Mobility, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
White Noise - a book review by William E. Connolly
Technology in a Global World by Andrew Feenberg
Cosmiccomics by Italo Calvino (review Ursula K Le Guin: The Guardian)
Slavoj Žižek - A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (8/9)
Mullahs and Heretics by Tariq Ali (LRB)
From Post to Neo and back: Habermas and Derrida by Raymond van de Wiel
Zizek: A Lacanian plea for Fundamentalism (part 6 or 9)
The Other of Derridean Deconstruction: Levinas, Phenomenology and the Question of Responsibility by Jack Reynolds

Jacques Lacan and the Other
“It’s development, stupid !” or: How to Modernize Modernization by Bruno Latour
The Violence of the Global by Jean Baudrillard
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Education in Contemporary Higher Education
Into the Inferno: Hollow Language and Hollow Democracies by Arundhati Roy
An Imaginative Geography - Chapter One of "The Myth of Shangri-La" by Peter Bishop
Cogito in the Matrix by Erik Davis
The Melodrama of Difference (Or, The Revenge of the Colonized) by Jean Baudrillard
A Critical History of Architecture in a Post-Colonial World: A View from Indian History By Swati Chattopadhyay
Born Again Ideology (religion, technology and terrorism) by Arthur Kroker
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250–1625 Reviewed by Daud Ali
Fundamentalism and the Future
Fascism and False Guru Sects (Kheper.net)
The Resonant Soul: Gaston Bachelard and the Magical Surface of Air by Robert Sardello
Gaston Bachelard: poet/philosopher of the imagination and epistemological rupture
Towards a Postcolonial Modernity: AsiaSource Interview with Partha Chatterjee
Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter (C Theory)
Waltz with Bashir
Phalange Party
Rushdie's Satanic Verses and Khomeini's Reaction By Eric Hutchinson
Twenty years on: how the fatwa on Salman Rushdie has gagged our society By Anthony Drew (The Observer)
Amos Elon (1926-2009) by Tony Judt (NYRB)

Esalen Conference on Fundamentalism: Jewish Fundamentalism
A Matter of Mind by J. Kepler
Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism book review by Ray Takeyh (NYRB) / interview with Abbas Amanat (U Tube)
Unending Desire: De Certeau's Mystics
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Sarod Virtuoso, Dies at 87
Heterologies of the Spiritual and the Everyday: The Quest of Michel de Certeau
June 16th, Happy Bloomsday!
Esalen Conference on Fundamentalism
Tariq Ali: the Duel (Pakistan on the Flight Path of America Power)
This guy won! (or so they say) L.A. Times
The road out of Kabul goes through Kashmir by Graham User (LRB)
Much ado about Ganesha: Paul Courtright, Wendy Doniger, and the Hindu Right (Rajiv Malhotra) by Amardeep Singh - (w/ Courtright review)
Further evidence of Ranade's and Pandey's involvement in legal action
The Monstrosity of Christ by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank (M.I.T)
•  Spiritual Authoritarianism (P2P)
Knowledge and Human Liberation - Excerpts from Ananta Kumar Giri Annotated by Debashish Banerji
Heidegger, Habermas and the Essence of Technology by Andrew Feenberg
Evidence of Sraddhalu Ranade’s involvement in legal action
Occidentalism by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit (NYRB) Orientalism Revisited: Edward Said’s unfinished critique (Boston Review)
The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures: Makarand Paranjape,Professor of English, JNU, New Delhi
• India and Europe by Wilhelm Halbfass
Cogito in the Matrix by Erik Davis
Progress and Violence, by Shiv Visvanathan
The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener by Stephen Pfohl (C Theory)
100 Years of Sri Aurobindo on Evolution: The Illusion of Human Progress and the Ideal of Human Unity (part 5 of 6)
Postsecular Interrogations: AsiaSource Interview with Talal Asad
A response to the organizers of AUM 2009
Neo-Liberalism as Doxa and India Discourse on Globalization by, Rohit Chopra [Full paper added by ron]
Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining
Response to Sraddhalu, Alok letter of May 10th on Heehs reintegration
A Proposal - Shifting From Words to Action by Savitra
Law Suits, Sraddhalu and the Fraternity of Conspiracy Theorists
Active Omissions: A Review of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Manoj - Annotated by Debashish
Congress Wins (The Guardian)
AntiMatters new issue alert
Prana, Kratu, Jazz II: Ali Ahmad Hoosain, Hasan Haider, Ahmad Abbas and Subhen Chatterjee at UC Irvine, May 10, 2009 by Debashish Banerji
David Hutchinson, Debashish Banerji and Rich Carlson Respond to Sraddhalu
SCIY Response to Sraddhalu

Kepler's response to Sraddhalu

A Pleasing Secret History: Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide (Village Voice)

Sri Aurobindo: Man or Messiah by Carter Phipps (EnlightenNext executive editor comments on Heehs affair)

G.K. Chesterton on Fanaticism by James V. Schall (Gilbert Magazine)

The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Kellner (Salon.com)

Economic Recovery? No Thank You

Creationism and/or Religious Fundamentalism vs. Evolution and/or Science

John Templeton Foundation: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin

Goodbye To All That: Nature and the Future Body in Sri Aurobindo

The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm:
A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin


We're all getting sick of being bullied by bad values

Dialectical Nature: Reflections in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Levins and Lewontin’s The Dialectical Biologist by Brett Clark and Richard York (Monthly Review)

equanimity? Miles davis et John Coltrane - So what.

Devolution: Why Intelligent Design isn't by H. Allen Orr (The New Yorker)

'The God Delusion' by Richard Darwkins, a review by H. Allen Orr (NYRB)

Is Capitalism a Disease? The Crisis in U.S. Public Health by Richard Levins

Fundamentalism in Integral Yoga - New Website Announcement

In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson

At 200, Darwin Evolves Beyond Evolution by Brandon Keim (Wired Magazine)

Accelerated Evolution: They dont make Homo Sapiens Like They Used To: Kathleen AcAuliffe (Discover Magazine)

Evolving Evolution by Rosenfield & Zeff (evo-devo, hox genes, etc)

Lewontin's Living Legacy: Thinking About Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Val Dusek)

Pleasures of Pluralism by Stephen Jay Gould

Cybernetics Is An Antihumanism: Advanced Tech and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition: Metnexus (Global Spiral)

Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman (preface)

Present Bodies: Gene, Organism, Environment: Richard Lewinton lecture (U Tube)

The Future Body: Tissue engineering (Toward an Aurobindonian Bio-ethics?)

From Biopower to Biopolitics by M.Lazzarato

The Mother's Agenda Original Tape Recordings

100 Years of Sri Aurobindo on Evolution (complete text with links)

100 Years of Sri Aurobindo on Evolution: The Illusion of Human Progress and the Ideal of Human Unity (part 5 of 6)

Discussing The Divine Comedy with Dante

100 Years of Sri Aurobindo on Evolution: Why Sri Aurobindo would not believe in Intelligent Design (part 1 of 6)

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: the aggrieved victim

The Soul of a City: The Crystal Cathedral as Organizing Metaphor for (post)Modern Architecture at the Bauhaus

Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers N. Katherine Hayles

AntiMatters Vol 3 No 1 (2009) Released

Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies - I

The BioArt of Eduardo Kac

Proust was a Neuroscientist: N.Y. Times Review

A Chronology of Modern Indian Art and Thematic Considerations By Debashish Banerji

Beyond Postmodernism?: Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory by John Armitage (C Theory)

The Evolution of Discourse and The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

The evolution of discourse: Rhizomes (A Thousand Plateaus)

James Joyce and the pre-history of Cyberspace by Donald Theall (Hypermedia Joyce Studies)

The Future Body: Disappearances

Savitra: Reflections of an Evolutionary Activist: The Shadow of Fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga

Biophilosophy for the 21st Century by Eugene Thacker (C Theory)

My Back Pages

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton

Creative Myth-making

A Cultural Misunderstanding

Against the grain and With the Grain: A Short Review of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by J. Kepler

Yoga, religion, and fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga Community by Lynda Lester

Savitra speaks out on The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

The Genesis of a Controversy

The Strange Case of Dr. M and Mr. S

Review of Lives of Sri Aurobindo: Religious Studies Review

Peter Heehs called to appear in Court

An examination of the criticism against The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Larry Seidlitz

Representing Swami Vivekananda: Some Issues and Debates By Makarand Paranjape

Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyer

Corrections to textual excerpts of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs

Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue - ABDULLAHI A. AN-NA'IM

The Mother: "No one with an atom of intelligence would fall into such a hole!"

The Mother's war for the Truth against all conceptions of the truth

The Greyscale Between Religion and Spirituality by Rick Lipschutz

Explanation of my Stand wrt The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

Orissa court stays release of book on Sri Aurobindo (Tainidan news)

Auroville Today Interview with Peter Heehs

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - an Introduction by Diane Christine

Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber

An experience by the Mother: the basis and foundation of all materialism

A fundamental error with altogether disastrous consequences

“A journey from the human to the perfect” – François Gautier’s review of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo