AZLY RAHMAN

Between Cybernetics and Existentialism

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Pornographic politics

I posted this on my facebook page:

When will malaysia graduate from pornographic politics? So that her children can grow up to be a bit philosophical and not curse their elders for behaving like ageing political prostitutes? ~- ar

Posted by DR. AZLY RAHMAN at 12:03 PM 7 comments

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Amerika and I
And I bathe in you
Angry poetry
Arjuna II
by the sea, midnight
Dawn
Death
eleven-eleven-eleven-eleven
Epilogue
Epiphany of a mediated self
Eternal Flame
far and near
From a dream
Gangsta city now, Jay Bee?
Gently on my door she knocked
Go back to the cave
goodnight poetry
in her eyes
In my garden I asketh
In silence
Intellectual apostasy
Love-- not yet known
Malay is a fruitless language
Man in blue, Part 1
Mao of love
meditations: south china sea
Mother's Day
Nature in me
Neo-Maya Neo-Malaya
O' child of wonder
Ode to darkness
ode to folks of kuala lumpur city
On listening to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Only Love is the Absolute
Phaedrus II: The Last Judgement at Thamus
Pronouns, pathetically yours
Recitations II: Random verses
Rubaiyat of Wall Street
Scream of Consciousness
She died at heaven's gate
She has come again
Sin City, Jay Bee
Snow-covered bamboo leaves
Thanatos cometh, she may
That Light
The Balcony
The day Osama died
The shrine in me
The Wise Man of Semabok, Part 1
The Wise Man of Semabok, Part 2
The woman who burned her salmon
This world is too much for me
Those Javanese eyes
Times like this
To Pablo Neruda
Totem poles of the Unseen
Wasteland II (with apologies to TS Eliot)
We have become hyper-real
We shall meet again
Whirling and whirling
Wuthering Heights II

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PROFILE OF AZLY RAHMAN

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Writings

THESIS ON CYBERJAYA

Dissertation on Cyberjaya at Columbia University, New York, New York

ESSAYS ON THE MALAYSIAN REVOLUTION

Brave new Malaysian Identity Emerging?
Election debates- just do it!
Mandate of heaven this nation awaits
Should I cross over for those millions?
The Malaysian Revolution of 2008
What Next After the Revolution?
When tomorrow comes

ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Whose culture is superior?
A Plea for Malaysian Indians
Addressing the "Malaysian Indian question"
Remove the I.S.A -- our national security straightjacket
Joining hands as makers of history
"1511, 7/11, 9/11"
How we get indoctrinated
Mutilation of Chin Peng's book
Question all historical facts
Teach us history... differently!
The production of truth-force
Was May 13 naturally orchestrated?
Who is our real father of Independence?

ESSAYS ON THE MALAY SUBJECT

A Malay view of "Ketuanan Melayu"
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
After apology over the keris
An invitation to the Oxford Roundtable
Brand new Malay dilemma
Embrace kampong-ism, not feminism
Entering the Malay mind
From daulat to derhaka: A Malay Darwinist moment
Ideology, idiocy, independence
In search of a new Malay mind
Is the keris a symbol of violence?
Johor Malay congress on Ketuanan Melayu
Learning from Howard Zinn's historicizing
Machiavellis in Malaysian politics
Malay matrix awaits its messiah
Malay myth as colonizing strategy
Mandate of heaven this nation awaits
Memories of the colony
Nationalism and tribalism
Neo-feudalism of the cybernetic Malays
Our 'remptized' education system
Outside the matrix
Sawojaya -- a new Malay race
Slaying an immortal tiger
Stop fighting, help the Indians!
Stop glorifying the Mat Rempits!
Who is our real father of independence?

ESSAYS ON STUDENT RADICALISM

COMPLETE TEXT: A Speech on Student Idealism, Washington DC 2008
Battle on, for change!
Campus Elections: What to fight for.
A speech to Muslim students in America
Students, question authority!
"Personacracy", or the limits of democracy and individulism
Reflect, reanalyse, reconstruct, revolt!
Let us not grow a hundred weed
Rejoice, our Hyde Parks are coming!
Learn from the kids of Perlis!
Create radical social futurists now!
Reconstructing our public universities
How we get indoctrinated
Vigilates against the abuse of power

ESSAYS ON EDUCATION for CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

A collapsing grand narrative
A royal speech for our restless youth
A sermon for my fellow Americans
Abandon adolescent politics
Are Malay linguistic nationalists betraying us?
BTN and the price of indoctrination
But what is teaching?
Celebrate our language differences
Create radical social futurists -- now!
Critical theory for our public universities
Culture reinvestigated
De-militarizing the Malaysian national service
Develop minds, scrap boot camps!
Economic basis of cultural conflicts?
Ethnic studies -- will it be color blind?
Evolving from bullshit to truth
From cow-headed to level-headed education
How do victims become victimisers?
Is single stream schooling good for Malaysia?
Language of imperialism
Leave our teachers alone
Let's desegregate our schools?
Meritocracy for whom?
Mind schooling race: Education reform in the Yellow states
Missing link in the Zahid report?
MRSM schools a successful failure?
Our 'rempitised' education system
Our beginnings
Reading the book of signs
Smart schools vs. sick schools
Teach us history, differently
The 23 billion Ringgit question
The future of education in a multicultural society
The lawyer's walk and our collective guilt
The West must cure itself
Unemployable graduates -- whose fault is it?
Vigilantes against abuse of power
What Permata Pintar can learn from Projek BAKA
Year of an intelligent parliament

ESSAYS ON MALAYSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

Academicians and the Akujanji
ASLI's gift to academicians
Create Harvards of the East
How low must higher education go?
Insulting the Malaysian academic
Job opening at Universiti Utara Sintok
Let me serve UUM
Letter to higher education minister -- 2005
Missing links in the Zahid Report
Multicultural view from the ivory tower
Petition to remove the Surat Akujanji
Reconstructing our public universities
Universiti Hadhari Kelantani next?
Universiti Malaya is not a McRendang university

ESSAYS ON IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS

Are we Abu Ghraib now?
Are we in Hutu-land?
Blue ocean distortion
Corruption in veins of body politics
Cultural logic of Najibo-nomics
Dances with dayaks
Demons and demolitions
Dream of a sincere merdeka
Embrace kampong-ism, not feminism
End of Mahathirism?
Evolving from Gertak to Gelak
Ideology, idiocy, independence
Ijok and the eclipse of reason
Joining hands as makers of history
Letter to a respectable party leader
Machiavellis in Malaysian politics
Malay matrix awaits its messiah
Malaysia's race relations act -- why now?
Malaysia: a collapsing grand narrative
Mandate of heaven this nation awaits
Mandela-isation of Anwar Ibrahim?
Merdeka! -- are we totally free?
Must charity begin in the gambling den?
Nationalism and tribalism
Neither half-bridge nor Oxbridge will our issue be
NEP -- New economic plutocracy?
Non-bumis no more?
Raising oil prices, creating our Rockefellars
Reflection on a sinking bahtera merdeka
Sedition ... or Sedation Act? -- extended version
Sharing our collective guilt
Should I cross over for those millions?
The Johor Malay Congress on ketuanan Melayu
The lawyer's walk and our colective guilt
Time for new bumiputeraism
Trishakti and Malaysian politics
Victory Speech!
Vote for virtues, not vultures
Was May 13 naturally orchestrated?
Who is our real father of independence?
With whom will the army stroll?

ESSAYS on ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES

Malaysia a scientific bolehland?
The rise of the tongkat ali society
Dances with dayaks
Malaysian malls and cultural imperialism
Come down to Earth!
Behind the color of change
The Yellow wave and the durian effect
Black metal and rock and roll explained
Is black metal a threat?
Rock and roll days!
Jawi raiders and the temple of hip hop
Learn democracy from jazz and rock
Mickey Mousing Malaysia
Old and modern ganja

ESSAYS on MEDIA and CULTURAL REVOLUTION

An independence day monologue
An ode to bloggers
Death of Malaysian media?
From Srivijaya to Cyberjaya
Megatrends over cybernating Malaya
Occupy dataran too?
Of Badangs and Blogoticians
Prisoners of Cyberjaya
Raja Petra: Bohemian Rhapsody
Read those banned books!
The Internet, unplugged
Turn off that TV!
Who does mak yong serve?
Why we need live telecasts of our parliamentary proceedings

ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHY and RELIGION

19 codes for the Code 19 cult
A lesson before cartooning
Anti-hadiths cult roaming cyberspace?
Beware the lingustic terrorists
Come, study this Islamic city
Dancing with desire
Demons and demolition
Discover personacracy
Don't imprison the apostates
Door to any house of worship open
Educate the suicide bombers!
Go back to the cave!
Hijrah in reverse
How to dialogue God
Is the IFC our own WMD?
Is the Pope parroting the American president?
Lina Joy and our sorrow
Mother Earth, Father Hell
Non-sequitir and the absurd media theatre
Numbers game not for religion
Praying for peace is not enough
The Asri problematique and the rise of denominational Islam?
The Islamic bomb
The Ramadhan of our Ramallah
Thoughts on hijrah in reverse
Transcultural musings on Christmas eve

ESSAYS ON MALAYSIA"S New Economic Policy and "NEO-BUMIPUTERAISM"

All Malaysians have special rights
Developing to doom
Dreaming of a republic of virtue
Malaysia- a scientific Bolehland
Malaysian malls and cultural imperialism
MSC -- The corridor of imperialism
Must we become a biotech nation?
New Agenda: No Malaysian left behind
New economic plutocracy
Our 'Thaksinized' economy
Raising oil prices, creating our Rockefellars
Slaying an immortal tiger: Malaysia's NEP
Time for "new bumiputeraism"

ESSAYS in TRANSLATION

On Book Banning, Malay
Akujanji, Mandarin
Yellow Wave, Indians, Mandarin
Nationalism and Tribalism, Korean

LONGER ESSAYS on MULTIDISCIPLINARY THEMES

Brief study of first political memory
Colonial Education: Comparing the French and American systems
Essay on personal cartography
From Srivijaya to Cyberjaya
New Bumiputeraism as a new pedagogy for Malaysian ethnic studies
On Charles Taylor's "language of personal resonance"
On Oliver Stone's Joy Luck Club
Postcolonial education: possible direction
Re-reading WS Rendra's Perjuangan Suku Naga/The Struggle of the Naga Tribe
Reflections on Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy
Some questions on culture: circa 2000
Southeast Asian Financial Crisis of 1997: A retrospective essay
Thesis on Cyberjaya: Part 1
Transculturalism of Total Quality Management

BOOK REVIEWS by Azly Rahman

On Ralph Tyler's Basic curriculum and instruction
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
Habits of the heart, Robert Bellah, et.al
The Malays: Their problems and future, Syed Husin Ali
Experience and education, John Dewey
Ethics of authenticity, Charles Taylor
Revolutionary Multiculturalism, Peter McLaren

COLUMNS

ILLUMINATIONS
A Republic of virtue

RANDOM NOTES

Looking backwards: A Malaysian dialogue
Focus on Trengganu: Our own Rockefellars
Focus on Trengganu: Free laptops -- yes!
Trengganu inscription: Text of Batu Bersurat
The Palestinian solution, Part 1
Focus on Trengganu: Help those Malaysian Indians
What drove this American kid to school?
Destruction of the Dayaks
Focus on Trengganu: Band of bloggers
Zionism, again
Help the Palestinians: Create global enclaves
Focus on Trengganu: Will Kuala Trengganu be declared an Islamic city too?
The first American Mat Rempit
The price of glorifying Mat Rempits
Mat Rempit violence again
Focus on Trengganu: Blues for Trengganu
Focus onTrengganu: It's youth today
Focus on Trengganu: Saving a stone
Focus on Trengganu: What is this yellow wave?
Focus on Trengganu: I remember Batu Burok
Why war is profitable?
Will Gaza invasion trigger World War V?
An anarchist's confession-- or a tribute to a Russian mystic
TAKE FIVE: Malaysian parliamentary session on the Biro Tata Negara
A powerful lobby group in America
Obama on Israel and Iran
Noam Chomsky on the US-Israeli Alliance
History of the Palestine-Israel conflict
Life in Palestine
There goes our favourite team Arsenal!
The new killing fields
Please verify... are these companies supporting Zionism?
How much is your country supporting Zionism?
Globalization and global happiness
Will your child be addicted to war?
Global media imperialists-- the big five
Should we celebrate New Year?-- Or be in a cave instead?
On the last prophet
On the Malaysian and Indonesian prophet claim
On the Ahmadiah movement
The other side of Gaza
How the mind is colonized, Part 1
Philosophy of Zionism
WHEN WILL THESE END-- A LAWLESS WORLD
Blasphemous blogs-- religious dialogue needed
American Muslims speak
Please remove this bolg!
Archbishop Cantebury on sharia law
Old Jakarta-- behind serenity lies structural violence
2009-International dispute over a song?
Technology-- liberator?
Peace on earth?
Jesus and Mary in Islam/The Koran
Islamic state experimentation in Malaya: Semerah Padi
Mao's revolution: China
Death of nature... long live the Penans
A world of guns ... not enough roses
despair, mania, obsession, irrationalism, and suicide in a Malay movie
Fatwa on "pengkid"/"tomboy"
Globalized Malays: Capetown, South Africa
Malay cultural history: rebels with a cause, data #1
Will Malaysia's poor benefit from medical tourism?
Oath of Hippocrates... or of the Hipocrites?
Take five: Mongolian throat music
Of universities and one-dimensionality
A good speech on AUKU/UUCA, and Indonesia view of Malaysian students, ...
The prophet's last khutbah/sermon
Death metal music and the early death of the Malay mental gift
Cool -- Tamil rappers doing the Ulek Mayam
Will Trengganu turn yellow too?
Privatizing heart institutes?: Don't become a sicko nation
The origin of Ketuanan Melayu
Crush Britain and the United States -- a Nippon-Indonesian project of 1945
Shoes for you, Mr. President!
Discovered --- common cure for casino capitalism
Will Singapore merge with Malaysia?
What is Zionism?
Cool -- Chinese Death metal music in Beijing
Mekka, late 19th. century: Orientalism notes #2
Among the Malay pirates: Orientalism notes #1
Birth certificate of Israel: The Balfour Declaration
Malaysia's technological fantasy: Smart schools
Historical documents: Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh Decision
American colonialism: democracy for the world
Lee Kuan Yew: The American interview
French colonialism: Algeria and Vietnam
Best World Cup Final ever!
When drunken Wall Street vomits
UUCA: Approved organizations students can join
Malaysia's University and University Colleges Act o f 1971 (AUKU)
Are we condemned to be free?
Cultural logic of arab capitalism
Postmodern arabism again, architecturally
American discarding their AKUJANJI (Oath of Loyalty)
Television and mass indoctrination
A proposal for Malaysian schools: on the language of instruction
Japanese invasion of Malaya
Student activism in America alive and well -- lesson for Malaysians
Why political activism is good for students: On Malaysia's UUCA resolution, Part 1
Two Malays fighting over a future ideological legacy
Past the postmodern architecture...
Landslides and logging
Science in China
China's greatest admiral
Results out! -- International Maths and Science
Bike protesters elsewhere...
Will Obama's America change this?
Should we abandon our "mother tongue.?", Part 5
Should we abandon our "mother tongue."?, Part 4
Should we abandon our "mother tongue."?, Part 3
Should we abandon our "mother tongue."?, Part 2
Should we abandon our "mother tongue"?. Part 1
The fall of Singapore
A message of peace in the court of a Christian king
Bollywood, escapism, and mental colonization
Stop glorifying those Mat Rempits
Go for Mat Rempits, not Mat JERITs
Hollywood, Hijrah, and the Hajj
Cat Stevens: teacher, peacemaker
Again, developing to doom
Great dialogue from the Bhagavad Gita
How to fix Malaysian education, Part 2
How to fix Malaysian education, Part 1
What is the Koran?
My thoughts on teaching and learning
Malay translation of Azly Rahman's article
Islamic bomb?
Kashmir, song
Origin of feudalism
Malaysia: Ketuanan Melayu
Malaysia: Vernacular schools
Malaysia: Race-politics
Malaysia: The ISA, Part 1
Mumbai

ESSAY TOPICS

culture and consciousness (39)
education (54)
Extended essay (2)
From "A Republic of Virtue" (111)
Globalizing Islam (1)
Historical documents (5)
ideology and politics (45)
international affairs (7)
Literature Review (1)
Malay Studies: Historical documents (12)
Malaysian Elections (39)
media and cybernetics (16)
Memoir (4)
nation and economics (18)
Obama (7)
Orientalism research (1)
philosophy and religion (32)
TAKE FIVE (26)
The Quran: A Study (1)
world cultures: music (1)

AUDIO AND VIDEO LIBRARY

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From National Geographic
From National Public Radio
From Poptech

THEORISTS

Albert Camus
Albert Memmi
Antonio Gramsci
Arundhati Roy
bell hooks
Clifford Geertz
Cornel West
Daniel Bell
Edward Said
Ernesto Che Guevara
Franz Fanon
Franz Kafka
Frederic Jameson
Hannah Arendt
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Herbert Marcuse
Ibnu Arabi
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Ellul
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jurgen Habermas
Karl Wittfogel
Kwame Nkrumah
Louis Althusser
Major Philosophers
Martin Buber
Michel de Certeu
Michel Foucault
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakunin
Noam Chomsky
Ortega y Gasset
Paulo Freire
Pierre Bourdieu
Slavo Zizek
Theodore Adorno

RESEARCH RESOURCES

American Psychological Association
Asian Studies
Child soldiers
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Human Relations Area File
Library of Congress, Washington. D.C
Literary Theorists
Midddle East Studies
Noble Prize
On Western Civilization
Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. @ Stanford
Political Theory Resources
Project Gutenberg
Rhodes House, Oxford
Stanford Study of Language and Information
Thinkers @ Institute for Advanced Studies
World Poverty

Globalization and Human Consequences

Amnesty International
Commanding Heights
Corporate Watch
Electronic Frontier
Foreign Policy Journal
Globalization -- Encyclopedia Entry
Greenpeace
International Peace Research, Oslo
Iraq Body Count
New American Century Project
The World Bank
Third World Network
Understanding Globalization

READING ROOM

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Columbia Journalism Review
Comparative Education Review
Foreign Affairs
Harvard Educational Review
Monthly Review
Mother Jones
MULTINATIONAL MONITOR
Sacred Texts
Utne Reader
World Press

Matters of Freedom

Academic Freedom and Human Rights
Academic Freedom Statement
Free speech ruling #1: Derbyshire vs. Times
Free speech ruling #2: New York Times vs. Sullivan
Free speech ruling #3: Baggett vs. Bullitt
Scholars at risk, NYU New York City

TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS

Edward Said
Frank Moretti
Gerald Sussman
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Herve Varenne
Howard Gruber
Maxine Greene
Richard McGinn
Robbie McClintock

About Azly Rahman

DR. AZLY RAHMAN: Doctorate in International Education Development, dissertation on Cybernetics and Social Change -- "Hegemony and Utopianism in a Southeast Asian State -- (Columbia University, New York), Masters in International Education, specialization in Peace Studies, essay on Hegemony and Spaces of Knowledge and Power (Columbia University, New York City), Masters in Communication (Columbia University, New York City), Masters in Education, specializing in Curriculum and Instruction (Ohio University), Masters in International Affairs, specializing in Politics of Southeast Asia (Ohio University), Bachelors of Science in Education, specializing in English Literature, Teaching and Education (Ohio University). Certificates in Multicultural Education, Teaching and Learning in Technology, Social Studies, Educational Leadership/Supervisor/Principalship. Member: Kappa Delta Phi International Honor Society in Education Columbia University Chapter, International Understanding Honor Society Ohio University Chapter, Member of Spring 2007 Oxford Round Table on Diversity in Society. More than 300 published analyses on Malaysia. Taught more than 40 courses in a variety of fields.

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