Posts made in January, 2015

The Power of No Images

Posted by on Jan 27, 2015 in Blog | 1 comment

The punk versus the monk In the wake of the recent horrific attacks on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in France, there has been a vigorous debate waging in my online circles and in much of the media. While all unequivocally condemn the violence with which this attack was carried out, there are those who pose the matter entirely as one of free speech and the rights of cartoonists to lampoon whom they please, while others (many of them Muslim, or members of other religions) say that the cartoons are indeed offensive, and show an arrogance born of colonialism in general and an insensitivity to...

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