26 September 2010 | Draft
No Bull Prize Nominations
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This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society
in contrast to the Nobel Prize and the Ig Nobel Prize
No Bull Prize for Agriculture
- Monsanto Company, notably for avoiding any need for insemination in the production of Terminator seeds
No Bull Prize for Anarchism
- Noël Godin, for his activist opposition to pomposity and authoritarianism in all their forms, as instigator of the Internationale des Anarchos-Pâtissiers
No Bull Prize for Business
- Naomi Klein, for telling it as it is, and most notably for No Logo: no space, no choice, no jobs (2000), Fences and Windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate (2002), and The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism (2007)
No Bull Prize for Care
No Bull Prize for Chemistry
- Union Carbide, for its uncompromising policy with regard to the Bhopal disaster
No Bull Prize for Crisis Anticipation
- Jared M. Diamond, notably for Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed (2005)
- Thomas Homer-Dixon, notably for The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization (2006)
- Karen Cerullo, notably for Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst (2006)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, notably for The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable (2007)
No Bull Prize for Development
- Dambisa Moyo, notably for Dead Aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa (2009) and for How the West Was Lost: fifty years of economic folly - and the stark choices that lie ahead (2011)
No Bull Prize for Economics
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Hazel Henderson, for telling it as it is
- Herman Daly
No Bull Prize for Education
- Paulo Freire, notably for Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970)
- Ivan Illich, notably for Deschooling Society (1971)
No Bull Prize for Environment
- Greenpeace
- Earth First
- James Lovelock, notably for The Vanishing Face of Gaia: a final warning -- enjoy it while you can (2009)
No Bull Prize for Euthanasia
No Bull Prize for Finance
- George Soros, most notably for The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means (2008) and The Age of Fallibility: consequences of the war on terror (2006)
- Jacques Attali, for telling it like it is, but notably for La crise, et après ? (2008)
- Bernard Lietaer, most notably for The Future of Money: beyond greed and scarcity (2001) and Of Human Wealth (2007)
No Bull Prize for Food
- International Vegetarian Union, notably for its promotion of a no-bull diet
- No-Bull Food News, for supporting a healthy food system, from family farms and ranches to dinner tables
No Bull Prize for Genetic Engineering
- Texas A&M University, for the first successful cloning of a calf from an adult bull.
No Bull Prize for Governance
- Tony Blair, for rendering invisible the bull justifying the invasion of Iraq
No Bull Prize for Health Care
No Bull Prize for Humour
- Jon Stewart
- Jamie Uys, notably for The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
- Peter Ustinov
No Bull Prize for Information
- WikiLeaks, for courageous release of documents otherwise withheld from the public
- Inter-Press Service
No Bull Prize for Intelligence
- Julian Assange, as founder of WikiLeaks
- Edward Snowden, for making appant the scope of global intelligence gathering
- Robert David Steele, notably for redirecting intelligence from spies and lies to open source truth.
No Bull Prize for Journalism
- John Pilger, for telling it as it is
- Robert Fisk, for telling it as it is
No Bull Prize for Literature
- Jacques Derrida, for the deconstruction of text communication
- Alan Sokal, for the deconstruction of deconstructionism through Transgressing the Boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity (1996)
No Bull Prize for Marketing
- International Advertising Association, for its systematic denial of bull.
No Bull Prize for Mathematics
- Grigori Perelman, for his avoidance of conventional rewards and recognition in the advancement of knowledge
No Bull Prize for Mechanized Agriculture
- ??? for ensuring the systematic replacement of any bull by machinery
No Bull Prize for Medicine
- Big Pharma, for its diligent, uncompromising attitude towards the dangers of complementary therapies undermining its profitability
No Bull Prize for Morality
- Joseph Ratzinger, for avoiding emission of any papal bull regarding systemic sexual abuse by clergy
No Bull Prize for Music
- Angélique Kidjo, for her activism in Africa
- Susan Boyle, for singing her song in the face of all the odds
No Bull Peace Prize
- Johan Galtung, for telling it as it is
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
No Bull Prize for Philosophy
- Paul Feyerabend, notably for Against Method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge (1975) and for Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being (1999)
- Nicholas Rescher, notably for The Strife of Systems: an essay on the grounds and implications of philosophical diversity (1988) and for Pluralism: against the demand for consensus (1993).
No Bull Prize for Physics
No Bull Prize for Planning
- Donald N. Michael, notably for his "requirement to embrace error", articulated in On Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn (1973) and for The Unprepared Society (1968)
No Bull Prize for Politics
- Noam Chomsky, for telling it as it is, and notably for Manufacturing Consent: the political economy of the mass media (1988), Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (2003), Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006), Making the Future: the unipolar imperial moment (2010)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, for telling it as it is, and notably for A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: toward a history of the vanishing present (1999) and The Post-Colonial Critic (1990).
No Bull Prize for Psychotherapy
- James Hillman, notably for We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy -- And the World's Getting Worse (1993)
No Bull Prize for Public Relations
- International Public Relations Association, for the professional transmogrification of bull into news management, image management and spin
No Bull Prize for Questions
No Bull Prize for Reason
- Carlo Strenger, notably for Critique of Global Unreason individuality and meaning in the Global Era (2010)
- Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to postmodernism, 2004
- Isaiah Berlin, The Counter-Enlightenment, in Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973)
- Charles Handy, notably for The Age of Unreason (1989)
- Kurt Gödel, for his two incompleteness theorems
No Bull Prize for Religion
- Jiddu Krishnamurti, notably for rejection of leadership of Order of the Star in the East
- Richard Dawkins, for rendering transparent the bull obscuring subtler insight through The God Delusion (2006)
- Judaism, for taking the lead in supplanting a long tradition of bull worship
No Bull Prize for Resource Assessment
- Worldwatch Institute, for its annual production of the The State of the World report
- DieOff, for disseminating unpopular information regarding peak oil and other resource constraints
No Bull Prize for Security
- Xe Services (Blackwater Worldwide), for faithful execution of contractual obligations
- NATO / ISAF, for extreme discernment with regard to Afghan weddings, funerals and suspect turban wearing
No Bull Prize for Sex Work
- International Union of Sex Workers, for taking the bull by the horns
No Bull Prize for Social Activism
No Bull Prize for Social Responsibility
- Al Qaida, for accepting responsibility for every terrifying threat faced by civilization
- Global Compact, for encouraging businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation
No Bull Prize for Spirituality
- Zen Buddhism, for its careful cultivation, through a Ten Bull discipline, of total bull-elimination and transcendence
No Bull Prize for Sport
- Eddie the Eagle, for taking the spirit of competition to new heights
- International Movement against Bullfights, for the elimination of bulls from cruel sports
No Bull Prize for Technology
- Ashok Khosla, for deployment of concrete innovations inspired by the motto: Our Name is Mud
- One Laptop per Child
- Practical Action
No Bull Prize for Thinking
- Edward de Bono, notably for New Thinking for the New Millennium (1999), Think! Before It's Too Late (2009) and Po: Beyond Yes and No (1973)
No Bull Prize for Truth Elucidation
- Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, for assiduously training security personnel to overcome resistance to truthful declarations regarding the threat of terrorism
No Bull Prize for Weapons Research
- The Pentagon, for dedication to development of means of destroying all bulls everywhere
This nomination process is dedicated to John E Fobes (1919-2005), former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and co-founder, with Art Buchwald, of the Association for the Promotion of Humour in International Affairs (APHIA). Their initiative was the inspiration for Humour and Play-Fullness: essential integrative processes in governance, religion and transdisciplinarity (2005). The process is consistent with the recommendations of Liberating Provocations: use of negative and paradoxical strategies (2005) and Transformation of Global Governance through Bullfighting (2009). It is appropriate to note that the No Bull Prize is reported to have been one of the synonyms of the Journal of Irreproducible Results. The organization Improbable Research publishes a magazine entitled the Annals of Improbable Research, and administers the Ig Nobel Prizes -- focusing on research that makes people laugh and then think.
