Chomsky Updates

This account is dedicated to anyone interested in Professor Chomsky's recent and upcoming talks, books, interviews and articles.

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The #Zoom event "Art and Social Activism" organized by @VictoriaBerende adressed the meaning of the Occupy Movement, #activism, the #climate, #financial and #democracy crises. #NoamChomsky 🧵

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"The task of anyone who wants to uphold intellectual and moral values is not to speak what they regard as truth to anybody - the powerful or the powerless - but rather to speak with the powerless and to try to learn the truth."
Noam Chomsky #NoamChomsky

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"Of course it does. That’s not a criticism of the concept of human nature. It’s simply a fact about the world." 2/2 #NoamChomsky

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"To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power." 1/
#NoamChomsky

[Chris Wright @ChrisCWright1]

Good example of how Chomsky was on a different intellectual level than Said. Chomsky saw through these people right away. He was never tempted by poststructuralism, idealism/culturalism (the Frankfurt School), postmodernism, etc.

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"...state planners usually understand violence, even if they can’t understand anything else."

- Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power #NoamChomsky

[Pitasanna Shanmugathas @pitasanna]

@ChrisCWright1 I recently published this full-length interview I did with Noam Chomsky. Might be of interest to you: https://t.co/Wo4SxU0aUb

[Chris Wright @ChrisCWright1]

I miss when I could go on YouTube and maybe see a new interview or talk by Chomsky. We took that guy for granted. I honestly think he was the greatest moral and intellectual voice in history. He was the culmination of it all. And he’s gone. Just when we need him more than ever!

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He argues that failing to apply the same standards to ourselves that we apply to others is hypocrisy and a failure to reach the most basic level of morality.

https://t.co/VxqCJNzzhT

#NoamChomsky 2/2

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Noam Chomsky defines the minimum of moral integrity as the "principle of universality": if an action is wrong for others to do, it is wrong for us to do. 1/

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
https://t.co/3uEsb5pmXP

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Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy

"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims," Valéria Chomsky writes.

#NoamChomsky

https://t.co/55pCRhvuwT

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

7 December 1928. Philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He’s been called “the father of modern linguistics” and is a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.

[Nathan Francis @NathanFrancis__]

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

✒ American linguist, philosopher and political activist #NoamChomsky is 97 today.

His 1971 TV debate with Foucault : ▶️https://t.co/elSZj9BbdM

[GreenRedPodcast @PodcastGreenRed]

Happy birthday to #NoamChomsky, born #tdih in 1928. Academic, philosopher, dissident & public intellectual. An influential voice on the American left, he’s challenged power & capitalism for decades.

Listen to our Noam Chomsky playlist: https://t.co/PISnEQJeCe

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

In celebration of #NoamChomsky's birthday, we’re sharing a series of interviews between that explore skepticism and inquiry, the design and evolution of language, anarchism, mysterianism and free will, and the relationship between mind and matter. https://t.co/aCOTICAdoO #Chomsky

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

a fanatical Zionist asks Chomsky if he believes Iran having a nuclear program is an existential threat. Chomsky replies: No, the existential threats to the region and humanity are Israel and the US

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Chomsky and Me
A MEMOIR
By @bevstohl1

“This is a beautiful, tender and profound book about one of the most important thinkers of our time, by one of the people who know him best. A masterpiece of observation and memoir.”
— Johann Hari
https://t.co/pW6mVHZtJF
#books #NoamChomsky

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"But if children['s] ... normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand." #NoamChomsky #education 4/4

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"Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth." #NoamChomsky 1/

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"Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds." #NoamChomsky 3/