Articles by Nicolas Mendoza
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Not So Fast: Cosmopolitics and the Higgs Boson
Nicolas Mendoza – Al Jazeera,
30 Jul 2012
Will media reports on the Higgs boson announcement influence the way “modern people” treat all other people? Latour explains how the West built its claim of higher ground over the rest by constructing the idea of a single, neutral, “nature”: “Religion had to become a mere culture so that nature could become a true religion – what brings everyone into assent”. This is precisely what is problematic about the language constructed around the Large Hadron Collider: it is crafted to make unthinkable dissent about the making of the universe.
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Nicolas Mendoza, Radical Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2011
What has become manifest since late November 2010, with the release of what is now known as ‘The US Embassy Cables’, is that the narrative implicit in the WikiLeaks logo, that of a world disjunct, not only fits the WikiLeaks saga but describes a greater struggle of global power, held diffusely by transnational corporations and enforced by governments around the world.
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