CALL ME MAGGIE

May 12, 2023

The fast fascist creep

It amazes me that 80 years on from the end of World War II, I still must share with my students to show them quotes like this. Look! It is happening around them and they do NOT pay attention… The… Continue reading

May 11, 2023

More pollution for less pollution?

Rocks unearthed here [in Indonesia] contain traces of nickel, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries. Extracting it, refining it and readying it for export is a gargantuan task. More than $1 billion has been sunk into the processing facility,… Continue reading

May 10, 2023

Ready… set… leap!

Obviously, folks make leaps all the time: they leap for real joy, they leap to invalid conclusions, they leap into bad deals, etc. So a distinction must be drawn between springing-forth from the solid ground of critical experience (the dance… Continue reading

May 6, 2023

Climbing Mountains

I was missing my brother quite fiercely today. I am not really sure why… I kept thinking about how we shared a love for Star Wars and SciFi Fantasy. Or how my eclectic taste in music is so much due… Continue reading

April 30, 2023

Reading my life as a “useless passion”

Problem posing from my experience increases my existential literacy in the direction of liberatory praxis. Continue reading

April 28, 2023

Philosophical Faith

Philosophical Faith, according to Karl Jaspers, provides each person a way of understanding the world and their place in it. Unlike religious belief, there is no need for a special revelation from a prophetic figure nor any required dogma to… Continue reading