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  • Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden

    Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden These ascendent generations may have a Facebook account for the web and to use Messenger, but they seem to be disinterested in a network where everyone hangs out, where… Continue reading

    Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden
  • Saturday not Studying

    Last assignment due in a class that I have enjoyed. Yet I am that bad student who does not want to put much work in the assignment. I would prefer talking with the teacher one on one about things rather… Continue reading

    Saturday not Studying
  • Demostrophe

    I am playing at neologisms. That must mean I am reading Heidegger. Today’s entry in the Brown Book of Jargon… DEMOSTROPHE: the turning of the people as a group, the turning in the flow of power. I am coining this… Continue reading

    Demostrophe
  • What is the Easiest Practice?

    Originally posted on How To Practice Zen: What could be easier than just letting go? If we had nothing to hold on to, nothing to reach for, nothing to drop, what would that be like? What about dropping opinions about politics? Sports?… Continue reading

    What is the Easiest Practice?
  • Boon of Dandelions 7

    Anything done to excess opens the door to more excesses. The spiral downward–slow or fast–can only be arrested with real moderation born of bold honesty. Any Existenz who lies to himself with the con game of “I am NOT an… Continue reading

    Boon of Dandelions 7
  • Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden: Court upholds New York town’s fracking ban.

    New piece at Slate by my friend & colleague  Adam Briggle. For a while, it looked like we were scraping the bottom of Earth’s barrel of fossil fuels. Then along came hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, and now some… Continue reading

  • Keeping the Humanities Vibrant

    My good colleague Robert Frodeman and his friend Chris Buczinsky take a crack at rethinking how to keep the humanities something that resonates to 21st Century students. In “Howl,” a blistering poetical rant and perhaps the most important poem of… Continue reading

    Keeping the Humanities Vibrant
  • Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?

    You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that  in its current form, the… Continue reading

    Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?
  • A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions There is only one core issue for all of psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin? For most of its history, psychology… Continue reading

    A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman
  • Precautionary – Proactionary

    My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores… Continue reading

    Precautionary – Proactionary