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  • 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?

  • The Junkie Deva at 102

    Here is to the author who gave Gilles Deleuze the nomenclature for the Society of Control; the man who became for me the DEVA of the Cut-Up, the Process by which I sublimated my melancholy in the  mid-90s. Happy birthday Mr. Burroughs. How do you write a… Continue reading

    The Junkie Deva at 102

  • Millennial diversity of interest and opinion

    It’s theoretically possible to… support an overall tax cut that raises taxes on the rich too. But it’s worth questioning the value of trying to force these answers into a coherent political framework [as the poll talked about here does]… Continue reading

  • Millennials, Struggle, and Bernie 

      Corey Robin does an excellent response to a piece by Alexandra Schwartz at the New Yorker concerning the hope millennials find in Bernie Sanders. I want to thank my buddy-friend-guy Chris for talking over these things with me last… Continue reading