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Correction to: Does Facebook Violate Its Users’ Basic Human Rights?NanoEthics 16 (13): 1-1. 2022.
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Digital Barbarism: The New Colonization of the MindCritical Arts 35 (5-6): 252-260. 2021.
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Hanh’s Concept of Being Peace: The Order of InterbeingInternational Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society 5 (1): 1-8. 2015.After being nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize, the “gentle and fearless” Vietnamese Buddhism monk Thich Nhat Hanh established a worldwide movement called the Order of Interbeing, which deals with major human conflicts with ancient Buddhist teachings. By drawing from original Buddhist texts, Hanh has created an authentic type of religious activism based on mindfulness of our connectedness that has real potential for peace, because of its twin focus on resolution and p…Read more
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Reclaiming Religion: Why Empire Cannot Be SustainedInternational Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies 14 (1): 41-47. 2015.
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Bi-polar development: A theoretical discursive commentary on land titling and cultural destruction in KenyaCogent Social Sciences 5 (1): 1674054. 2019.Development economist Hernando de Soto Polar has effectively advocated for property rights in the Third World, as his ideas have influenced the policies of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and United Nations Development Programme. He envisions land titling as a means of lifting the poor out of poverty. I argue that his classical liberal interpretations of property and the good life are dangerously naive. One can see the dangers of de Soto’s imperialist and one-dimensional vision after…Read more
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Souled out of rights? – predicaments in protecting the human spirit in the age of neuromarketingLife Sciences, Society and Policy 15 (6): 1-11. 2019.Modern neurotechnologies are rapidly infringing on conventional notions of human dignity and they are challenging what it means to be human. This article is a survey analysis of the future of the digital age, reflecting primarily on the effects of neurotechnology that violate universal human rights to dignity, self-determination, and privacy. In particular, this article focuses on neuromarketing to critically assess potentially negative social ramifications of under-regulated neurotechnological …Read more
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Does Facebook Violate Its Users’ Basic Human Rights?NanoEthics 13 (2): 139-145. 2019.Society has reached a new rupture in the digital age. Traditional technologies of biopower designed around coercion no longer dominate. Psychopower has manifested, and its implementation has changed the way one understands biopolitics. This discussion note references Byung-Chul Han’s interpretation of modern psychopolitics to investigate whether basic human rights violations are committed by Facebook, Inc.’s product against its users at a psychopolitical level. This analysis finds that Facebook …Read more
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Political Theory |
Human Rights, Misc |
The Concept of Human Rights |
Ethics and Society, Misc |