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  • Three Articles, One Post, One BEING

    Like many classes these days, my graduate courses have an online discussion component that encourages students to respond to the week’s readings in a central location so they can come to class already interacting on the topic. My Indian Religion… Continue reading

  • A dancing star in a constellation of lies

    Am I decent man? Perhaps. I would use this opportunity to speak about myself with some pleasure (Dostoevsky 7). But I am not sure it is such a pleasure. Does decency really only allow me to speak about myself? Certainly,… Continue reading

    A dancing star in a constellation of lies

  • Sun – Line – Cave, Part 1

    A dear colleague has invited me to discuss a few of the metaphors at the heart of Plato’s Republic. So I’ll be live streaming from his class Friday, 26 Feb 2016 @ 1pm… if you are not busy at work… Continue reading

    Sun – Line – Cave, Part 1

  • Mind Walk 17 Feb 2016

    N. and I go wandering around Denton thinking about Carlos Castaneda and letting the thoughts wander with us. Continue reading

  • Global climate change, local hard choices

    “Development” multiplies desires and transforms them into needs. But we are the ones who are under-developed – spiritually shallow, debilitated by needs, distracted by things. I wonder about climate change and children. How and when to tell them the bad… Continue reading

    Global climate change, local hard choices

  • Evaluating broader impacts

    Part of my research assistantship this semester had me helping to complete the organization of a workshop in Washington, DC – Feb 10 & 11, 2016. I had been involved with this project since the grant was originally received 18… Continue reading

    Evaluating broader impacts

  • Surrealism: I am all yours

    A new video from a local Denton talent, Julian Patrick Quinn. Continue reading

    Surrealism: I am all yours

  • Line – circle – motion 

    My pedagogy: I do not claim to know things that will make you more intelligent, more wealthy, or more satisfied. I do claim to have experiences in reading, working, and traveling that I enjoy passing along in exchange for your… Continue reading

    Line – circle – motion 

  • eating oats

    Well… I need to write something. Odd that I do not care to write but can be spurred by watching the beginning of a film—Mr. Holmes—after eating a bowl of steel cut Irish oats… suddenly this desire to “record something.”… Continue reading

    eating oats

  • Is the age of globalization also a new era for protests?

    A spate of studies and meta-analysis in recent years depict how large-scale citizen mobilisations have been intensifying for more than a decade, reaching a new peak in the past five years. According to the conclusion of an extensive study examining the complexities of… Continue reading

    Is the age of globalization also a new era for protests?