This article is a discussion of two Greek loanwords found in the Rabbinic text Song of
Songs Rabbah. It shows that these words are best identified and explained through a
comparison with a Stoic theory of fire, described and refuted by Philo of Alexandria.
That these words, both hapax legomena in Rabbinic literature, are used in the…[Read more]

This article briefly explores the contemporary heterogeneous song-texts of Taskir Ali (popularly known as Baul Taskir) from Sunamgonj, in the district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Bauls are nomadic communities in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, and they express their profound spiritual philosophy and thoughts through their songs and performance.…[Read more]

This book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.

Pico-Pico Boy series (predecessor to Hi Score Girl)

The study of time has always had to deal with the fact that it has no easy disciplinary home. Each discipline may have its own take–with the sociology, anthropology and philosophy of time all being well-established. But what has often characterised an interest in time is the relentless pull to inter- and multidisciplin-ary ways of working. Much h…[Read more]

In this provocation, I investigate the notion of long term thinking, as a notion of ‘sustaining time’, which identifies failures in dominant conceptions of time and proposes an alternative that is thought to be better suited for responding to current environmental crises. Drawing on close analyses of two examples, I argue for a deeper und…[Read more]