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  • Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Mid-Season Trailer

    So there has been some big discussion on diverse Star Wars boards that continues the notion that only the movies can really ever be considered cannon. This, of course, is in direct contradiction to the new story strategies coming out… Continue reading

    Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Mid-Season Trailer
  • Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis 

    Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.… Continue reading

  • Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons

    In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money. Source: Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons   Continue reading

  • @tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia  coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump

    The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded by calling Smiley a “hater and racist.” Smiley… Continue reading

    @tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia  coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump
  • Mystery and Benevolence

    Masonic and Odd Fellows folks art about to go on display at the American Folk Art Museum. Enigmatic, evocative, and often simply strange, fraternal references are a rich part of contemporary American popular culture. But the seductive mystique of secret… Continue reading

  • Jane Bennet on Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter

    Jane Bennet discusses her broader phenomenology of the material world. Hosted by the New School.   Continue reading

    Jane Bennet on Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter
  • Synchromusicology, Chromotherapy, Synesthesia, and the Aural Current of Electric Audiomancy (Video)

    Delve into the hidden origins of Western music and the power of sympathetic geometry to heal and generate love. Cymatics, chronotropic laser scrying, and acoustic weaponry are just a few modern representations of this ancient understanding that sound generates geometric… Continue reading

    Synchromusicology, Chromotherapy, Synesthesia, and the Aural Current of Electric Audiomancy (Video)
  • Transcendence, two thinkerings

    Talking about overcoming our everyday hustle and bustle in the older mystical tradition A perspective that strips away a good deal of the mystical language… Continue reading

  • Pantisocracy 

    [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Robert] Southey believed that contemporary society and politics were responsible for cultures of servitude and oppression. Having abandoned these corrupting influences along with personal property for a fresh start in the wilderness, the Pantisocrats hoped that… Continue reading

    Pantisocracy 
  • The background of North Korea

    The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited. Imperial Japan’s official worldview was race-based, far-right ultranationalism, obsessed with racial purity… Continue reading