zarni

My blogs

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	researcher
Location	London
Introduction	I have been "blogging" since the early 1990s, long before the term was coined. I was part of the earliest wave of activists who pioneered the use of InfoTechnologies for social justice. A Mandalay native, I am an educator by training and an activist by choice. I believe in collective action, the here and now and ultimately the Buddhist "nothing/emptiness/foundationlessness" of life.
Interests	My interests range from the sordid affairs of Burma to global social and environmental injustices, from the here-and-now to other worldly issues, from the history and politics of ideas to doing nothing.
Favorite Books	I draw intellectual and ideological inspiration from both the works and lives of "public intellectuals, " who have embodied social conscience (of their time) {for instance, the late Aung San (of Burma), John Dewey, Frantz Fanon, Robert Fisk, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Edward Said, and Raymond Williams.}