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  • 10 things we learned about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ from the novelization

    Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn’t just delight audiences and smash box-office records. It raised many, many questions. Some ofthose questions won’t be answered until Episode VIII in 2017, but The Force Awakens’s novelization, published on Dec. 18 by Random House,… Continue reading

  • The rise in stock of philosophy graduates | World news | The Guardian

    “A degree in philosophy? What are you going to do with that then?”Philosophy students will tell you they’ve been asked this question more times than they care to remember.”The response people seem to want is a cheery shrug and a… Continue reading

  • Lectures on Gramsci

    Originally posted on Bob Jessop: This module introduces the work of Antonio Gramsci and its relevance to the arts, humanities and social sciences. It deals with the life and work of Gramsci, outlines the principal influences on his intellectual and… Continue reading

    Lectures on Gramsci

  • The “Well-Off” Worker and the Global Capitalist Rewards System

    I would disagree with this article a little bit. The diverse means of compensation given the “well-off” worker–paid sick leave, paid vacation, healthcare, pension plan, etc–are not really privileges. But maybe we should think of them as privileges because quasi-job-security has a… Continue reading

    The “Well-Off” Worker and the Global Capitalist Rewards System

  • ‘A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking,’ by Adam Briggle – The New York Times

    Adam Briggle–my friend, colleague, and PhD director–gets a nice review of his latest book from the New York Times. Really glad to see this. Many reviews closer to Texas and to PetroDollars totally mischaracterized this important book. In his investigation of… Continue reading

  • Ms. Holly Woodlawn R.I.P.

    It is with great sadness that I must report the death of Ms. Holly Woodlawn, actress and Warhol girl. Requiat in pacem, miss thing. Continue reading

    Ms. Holly Woodlawn R.I.P.

  • thing think thank 2

    Another holiday season begins and another year draws slowly to a close. Nations often set aside an end-of-year reflection to encourage their people to look back on whence they came in order to better glimpse where they are going. Thanksgiving… Continue reading

    thing think thank 2

  • Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz

    Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond… Continue reading

  • Refusal and Re-Fusing

      When the anarchocynic sets aside wildness in favor of propriety, (s)he becomes a tool of conservation rather than a mode of entropy. Anarchocynicism refuses disciplinary constancy which separates actor from action. Anarchocynicism re-fuses the alienated individual within World-Being.   Continue reading

  • Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—  Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters—with a sound but half… Continue reading