Latest Posts
-
The duty of being friends
M-W-F @ 1:00pm, lecture for 8/31/2016. The relationship of philosophizing (caring as skillfulness of mind) to freedom (the duty-to-be-friends) by way of mindful lineage. Continue reading
-
Whatification
First Monday evening class for Fall 2016, Intro to Philosophy. I am treating the afternoon class and the evening class as two very distinct iterations of the same material. For the evening class, like the earlier one, I started with… Continue reading
-
Getting under way
First class for my 1:00pm iteration of Introduction to Philosophy on M – W – F. Continue reading
-
Star Wars Rebels Season Three Trailer (Official) – YouTube
Get your first look at the new season of Star Wars Rebels, featuring the return of characters both new and familiar from both sides of the rebellion. Continue reading
-
It’s Not Cool to Hate the ‘Star Wars’ Prequels Anymore | Inverse
I am super happy to see this. A struggle for me over the last 20 years has been to get folks to see the Star Wars prequels as films in their own right that contribute visually and allegorically to mythography established… Continue reading
-
The Turing Toaster Test
Originally posted on Adam Briggle: Father of a Gender Non-Conforming Kid Lovingly Responds to Hate Mail *The following is part of what may or may not become a quasi-regular series of posts. They are my (mostly light-hearted) replies to actual… Continue reading
-
How American Politics Became So Ineffective – The Atlantic
This article at the Atlantic is much, much more in-depth thoughtful piece than what I’ve covered with a few quick gestures over the last couple of weeks on FB and here at my blog. The more intrinsic hazard with middlemen… Continue reading
-
The brave new world of robots and lost jobs
Automation is more of a threat to job security than trade deals or immigration. The political debate needs to engage the taboo topic of guaranteeing economic security to families — through a universal basic income, or a greatly expanded earned-income… Continue reading
-
Rethinking the land bridge theory
Archeologists put forward new theory on how humankind got to the Americas. http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4173.html Continue reading
-
AirSpace: on the way to being everywhere and nowhere
In his 1992 book Non-Places, Marc Augé, the French anthropologist, wrote that with the emergence of such identity-less space, “people are always, and never, at home.” If we can be equally at home everywhere, as Roam and Airbnb suggest, doesn’t… Continue reading
CALL ME MAGGIE 
You must be logged in to post a comment.