CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • We need to understand that disaster is slow

    Defining a disaster as an “event” has a history extending to the 1960s, when federal funds were spent to model the social impact of a nuclear attack. To do this, Civil Defense officials commissioned studies of proxies of an attack,… Continue reading

  • This Changes Everything | Vanity Fair

    Hollywood’s most powerful women appear in the Geena Davis-produced documentary This Changes Everything, which draws a direct line between the president and the industry’s sea change. — Read on www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/this-changes-everything-toronto-film-festival-documentary-weinstein-trump-me-too “Hours after This Changes Everything concluded to a standing ovation,… Continue reading

  • Toxic masculinity endures on

    Serving up bloody violence as a $10 pay-per-view on YouTube and charging as much as $200 for floor seats in the arena, this was an affirmation of the enduring bankability of toxic masculinity. In executing their contrived feud, the two… Continue reading

  • Militarized policing not so popular

    Study also finds that images of cops in military gear diminish support for increasing funding to police agencies. — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/22/militarized-policing-doesnt-reduce-crime-and-disproportionately-hits-black-communities/ The high militarization treatment also caused support for police funding in the United States to fall by roughly… Continue reading

  • Variation in the hominid rhizome

    New report out on a hybrid hominin from 90000 years ago whose mother was Neanderthal and whose father was Denisovan. apple.news/AgSsUivGbS5yWPq54mnX_-Q Continue reading

  • The neuroscience of nostalgia | Al Jazeera America

    The term “nostalgia” was coined in the late 17th century by a Swiss physician named Johannes Hofer. He used the roots of two Greek words, “nostos” and “algos” — meaning “suffering” and “origins” — to describe what he thought was… Continue reading

  • What is Philosophy?

    As always, most excellent thinkering from a most excellent person. I recommend engaging this to get some touchstones for the importance of beginnings. As Meister Eckhart encourages us all, “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” For me,… Continue reading

    What is Philosophy?

  • Greek Natural Philosophy

    The first edition of the text on Presocratic philosophy which I co-authored with J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren is now available for adoption from Cognella. Greek Natural Philosophy presents the primary sources on the Presocratics in a straightforward… Continue reading

  • Max Liboiron at #AnthropocenePHL

    The opening keynote at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia was Prof. Max Liboiron: How We Do Science on Permanent Plastic Pollution. Max Liboiron is a feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist. As an Assistant Professor in Geography… Continue reading

  • Socrates in the Anthropocene

    I want to thank Scott Knowles for encouraging me to leave my little town of Denton, Texas, and come up here for the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia at Drexel University. A word of warning as I follow up my colleagues on the roving… Continue reading

    Socrates in the Anthropocene

  • Forget Coates vs. West — We All Have a Duty to Confront the Full Reach of U.S. Empire

    Even when our work is primarily focused nationally or hyperlocally, as it is for most organizers and writers, there is still a pressing need for an internationalist conception of power to inform our analysis. This is not a contradiction. In… Continue reading

  • Abnormal Responses: Coaxing Animal Being into a Clearing

    There is a great responsibility in being those who not only name things but gather the world. Surely a part of that responsibility rests in letting things simply be themselves and not be turned toward some human end. It means… Continue reading

    Abnormal Responses: Coaxing Animal Being into a Clearing

  • One study from Ball State University estimates that 87% of the manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2010 were attributed to automation and improved efficiency

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  • Pursuance Project

    The pursuance system is the world’s first comprehensive framework for process democracy. That is, it allows individuals with no prior relationship to self-organize into robust, agile entities governed via a “proceduralism of agreement.” These entities, called pursuances, in turn engage… Continue reading

  • The Feeling is Mutual: Interview with scott crow – RABBLE LIT

    …one thing is to recognize that there can be conflict. Anarchy doesn’t mean that everything will be conflict-free… If someone else’s desires and needs don’t impede on my own… in communal terms, if they’re not trying to extract resources, time,… Continue reading

  • What Ph.D. graduates have in common with industrial Rust Belt workers (essay)

    A PhD in classics mulls over the future of graduate studies and the need for alt-academics. Truth: The need to discover new outlets for those who continue onward in graduate studies has become most real. I myself plan to do… Continue reading

  • New Speculative Fiction Anthology Explodes the Mainstream Trans Narrative

    A new collection of stories from trans authors who go well outside the status quo box in exploring how trans signifies more than assimilation to the main stream. Rather than make a meaningful difference in the lives and acceptance of… Continue reading

  • Plants–the slowest of animals

    I’m in a Philosophy of Animals class this semester. One of my last courses before I begin the dissertation process. Already by the second meeting, we got in a bit of debate about how we distinguish animals as more morally… Continue reading