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  • #blacklivesmatter Socio-economic conditions across the US

    According to Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Director of the Economic Department at the NAACP Financial Freedom Center, “It’s one thing to end segregation, but it’s another thing to talk about billions of dollars of investment.” When the United States invested in… Continue reading

  • The Radical Solution is Absolution

    We are exhausted by capitalism. The problem: how do I make a living without others taking advantage of me or without me taking advantage of others? This is a serious question and one that must be wrestled with at every… Continue reading

    The Radical Solution is Absolution

  • #Fracketeering: Solutions for the Society of Control

    My colleague Adam Briggle has been very active intellectually and politically with local bans on fracking in my hometown of Denton. In a dialog we had recently, I mentioned to him that fracking bans–and the ban on bans–could be read differently… Continue reading

    #Fracketeering: Solutions for the Society of Control

  • Fracking and environmental (in)justice in a Texas city

    Ecological Economics publishes a peer reviewed econo,if and environmental justice study of shale gas development in my hometown of Denton, Texas. The article is co-authored by my  colleagues Matthew Fry, Jordan Kincaid and Adam Briggle. You can access the full text for… Continue reading

  • The Tribe Official TRAILER (2015)

    Ukrainian director Grigoriy Fesenko’s “The Tribe”–about a deaf teenager struggling to fit into the boarding school system–happens in sign language with no subtitles. Looks brilliant. Continue reading

  • Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods

    Austin Hill Shaw examines the nature of creativity, cosmology and psychedelic communion. Shaw practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, “taking refuge in the Buddhist path” since 2002. Rather than seeing the use of psychedelic substances as antithetical to a Buddhist… Continue reading

    Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods

  • From “Remediation” to “No Excuses”: The Indignity of Deficit Thinking | the becoming radical

    While apologists for Southern heritage remain unable or unwilling to confront the blatant racism of the Confederacy, many today remain nearly universal in our inability or unwillingness to recognize and then confront racism, classism, and sexism in the form of deficit… Continue reading

  • International Peace Scholarship for Emmanuela Opoku

    Emmanuela Opoku, my wonderful colleague and fellow in @UNT_Philosophy‘s PhD program, has been awarded a $5,000 International Peace Scholarship from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Opoku, a native of Ghana, came to North Texas in the 2014 fall semester to further her… Continue reading

  • Further down into the microcosm

    Emilie Ringe stands next to the new Titan Themis gives researchers the ability to create three-dimensional structural reconstructions and carry out electric field mapping of subnanoscale materials. © Fair use for educational purposes Rice University, renowned for nanoscale science, has… Continue reading

  • Project Vox

    Project Vox concerns the next major scholarly development: the acknowledgement that a number of early modern women have been unjustly ignored in our narratives. From Lady Masham, Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway in England to Émilie Du Châtelet in France,… Continue reading