This is my first effort at blogging. So it's like a journey. Mainly what I intend to write about relates to my academic work - my PhD on world-systems analysis, my teaching in history, other research and related reading, my scholar-activism. Cognosceti while recognise the blog title, a paraphrase of Marx's eleventh thesis on Feuerbach. I can still recall reading that for the first time, back in - 1978? - and going "Wow! That's it! This solves all undergraduate philosophical conundrums at a stroke!" Obviously it doesn't in any logical sense, but it spoke the unadorned emotional intuituve truth to me, and that has stayed with me ever since.
Much of what I write is going to derive from what I am reading, so I anticipate this blog supplementing my research, sort of like a notebook / journal, in which I develop ideas and arguements. Hopefully, other people will be interested enough to throw in their ideas too. While I haven't blogged before, I have sort of studied the phenomena. It seems to me that this is the ideal platform to implement the concept of intellectual craftsmanship as enunciated by C Wright Mills in the appendix to his 1962 book The Sociological Imagination. So that is the kind of template I have in mind. We shall see how it develops.
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