CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Originally posted on Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon: Friday Much of what I write here, whether commenting on current affairs to delving into the depths of prehistory, could be classed under the general rubric of philosophy of history. One… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on Libber leeber: Understanding, Hans-Georg Gadamer teaches, is an event. It is an experience (Erfahrung) that we undergo: like the way a player experiences a moment in the game; or an audience member experiences the climax of a… Continue reading

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  • Veggies in the House

    Thanks to Dušan B. for showing me this video. Amazing what you can do with vegetables. Related articles Lev Manovich – Hybrid Media (carolineearlyconvergentmedia.wordpress.com) Heems Turns ‘Blade’ Opening Into Music Video (Mixed Media) (popmatters.com) A dj’s mid-career crisis and need… Continue reading

    Veggies in the House

  • Textimony 20130223

    The Encompassing flows always with ease and already in due time. How can you detain This by clinging to unconstant things or thinking fleeting concepts? Related articles Textimon 20130216 (keithwaynebrown.com) Cultivating Non-Intellection (keithwaynebrown.com) Seeking What the Wise Seek (keithwaynebrown.com) Impermanence (earthmama02.wordpress.com) Wabi-sabi… Continue reading

    Textimony 20130223

  • Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Short documentary about Paulo Freire. Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility Directed and Produced by Dr. Shirley Steinberg,… See on www.youtube.com Related articles Jeopardized and Jeopardizing (keithwaynebrown.com) Paulo Freire (sourcewatch.org) Leading… Continue reading

    Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

  • Originally posted on Teacher as Transformer: As I rested today, I missed the opportunity to be out there exploring. T. S. Eliot eloquently spoke of this. I seek for and find when I explore the cyclical journey we call life.… Continue reading

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  • Hans Memling in Brugge

    ..[T]he Memling Museum [is] housed in the former Hospital of Saint John. The hospital functioned from the 13th century onwards, and much of the museum’s collection is devoted to illustrating its history. Sixteenth century surgery tools used at the hospital… Continue reading

    Hans Memling in Brugge

  • The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

    A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out… Continue reading

    The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

  • Cultivating Non-Intellection

    Q: If I follow this Way, and refrain from intellectual prooesscs and conceptual thinking, shall I be cenain of attaining the goal? A: Such non-intellection ts following the Way! Why this talk of attaining and not attaining? The matter is thus–by thinking of something… Continue reading

  • Seeking what the Wise Seek

    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among… Continue reading

  • Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Our children need sound thinking skills to reverse our mindless path of death and destruction. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: At last, a return to something approaching the way people have always learned well: reading,… Continue reading

    Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom

  • You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On

    A blessed Friday to all throughout the world.. Now, get up and shake that ass! Related articles Vault: Gladys Knight at 1983 Plumfest (newsnet5.com) Soul Train: Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (soulbrotherspeaks.com) Video:… Continue reading

    You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On

  • Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A podcast lecture by Abel Gunter from the international conference ‘Nietzsche on Mind and Nature’, held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. See… Continue reading

    Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature

  • Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich

    A most joyous thing to read for an old anarchocynic like myself… But ‘know thyself” works dialectically in an extraordinary way to make such sundering readings redundant: “for Thales, knowledge of the heavens and self-investigation could proceed directly parallel to… Continue reading

    Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich

  • Honest Acknowledgment

    The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading

    Honest Acknowledgment

  • Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions CSID’s own Robert Frodeman is slated to keynote an upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. This summit marks the first of its kind for its focus on institutional infrastructure, prima… See on cas-csid.cas.unt.edu Continue reading

    Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk

  • University Presidents—Speak Out! | The Nation

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Where are their voices on the major issues of the day? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Yeah. Not going to happen. Though it really does need to happen. See on www.thenation.com Continue reading

    University Presidents—Speak Out! | The Nation

  • Meditational Painting | Writing Finger

    A really nice elucidation of painting as meditation. As the author states, he is “writing about painting as meditation, not meditation before painting…” I very much recommend a couple of reads. No human culture lacks adornment.  It can be as simple… Continue reading