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  • Class, Race, & Economic Discipline

    As always, a nice find by my good brother Carl Sachs. Very interesting. Notwithstanding slavery, segregation and today’s covert racism, the Southern system has always been based on economics, not race.  Its rulers have always seen the comparative advantage of… Continue reading

  • Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate… Continue reading

    Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity
  • Racial Excuses Already

    Election night is not even over and Bill O’Reilly already sets the stage for the resentment parade. At first I was going to go through and take it on point by point. But it literally began to make me feel… Continue reading

  • London at night | sethsnap

    Just discovered Seth Johnson’s photography after he liked one of my reposts. Really great stuff over there at sethsnap. I recommend you take a few minutes to surf around his pages. Well worth the time. For instance, London at night… Continue reading

  • Zen Teacher Anita Feng

    A very cool studio interview by Buddhist Art News. I visited the raku studio of artist and zen teacher Anita Feng in late August at the height of Indian summer. The trees had not yet caught fire, but the air… Continue reading

  • Poll Quants & the Book of Life

    I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World… Continue reading

    Poll Quants & the Book of Life
  • Drinking alone with the Moon…

    Drinking Alone with the Moon From a pot of wine among the flowers I drank alone.There was no one with me — Till raising my cup, I ask the bright moon To bring me my shadow and make us three.… Continue reading

  • The Antidote to Ayn Rand < Truthout.org

    The last word of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem is “EGO.” Grasping the significance of this forbidden word is a kind of divine revelation for the novel’s protagonist, signaling his emancipation from the benighted, collectivist society into which he was… Continue reading

  • Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

    Really bad ass unofficial video for Kanye West’s “Who will survive in a America…” Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine | Design Graphic & Photography Inspirations. Continue reading

    Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine
  • Textimony 20121104

    In decisive existence, reason embraces emotion & passion, undoing fear’s grip so that desire may touch our great possibility in this Beautiful Order: Freedom. Continue reading