Keith “Maggie” Brown
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New TV AntiHeroes as archetypes of the American nightmare
This seems right to me. The dark heroes or antiheroes of TV–and I would go back to The Sopranos for the beginning of this–represent the fundamental fear of the “middle class” losing everything in one fell swoop. Life becomes about… Continue reading
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Caring less
Andrew Taggart at QUARTZ… Once we’ve gotten the knack for embracing the idea that certain things in life are wondrous because they’re not focused on getting through, onto, or ahead of something, we can turn our attention to ourselves, inquiring… Continue reading
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INTRO TO PHIL, fall 2017
I will be saving my white boards here for my students. From time to time, I will record by lectures. But I won’t be doing this everyday like I did in my summer Existentialism course. Questions raised in morning class… Continue reading
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On Love, Transparency, and Truth: Universities and Their Leaders Are Not the Center of Moral Clarity, But They Are Accountable – drcone.com
My good brother Christopher Cone… As Wellmon suggests, the typical ends of the university are not final ends: “to create and care for knowledge and to pass that knowledge on by teaching” is not the ultimate goal. The Apostle Paul… Continue reading
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School Zones: A Meditation
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I’m dead. Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian No good… Continue reading
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Prof. Shabazz on Spatializing Blackness thru Architectures of Incarceration
Explores how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago’s South Side. Through an examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, Shabazz demonstrates how… Continue reading
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How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists
The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity… Continue reading
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Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy
The authoritarian drama unfolding across the United States has many registers and includes state violence against immigrants, right-wing populist violence against mosques and synagogues, and attacks on Muslims, Black people and others who do not fit into the vile script… Continue reading
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…if not for the anarchists and antifascists
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking about the terror in Charlottesville. The white supremacist violence there began Friday night as hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKKmembers and other white nationalists… Continue reading
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I’m Not Your Exception
Originally posted on Holding Patterns and High Tea: CN: discussion of microaggressions, gendered expectations, transphobia, transmisogyny There is a thing cis people often do when trans people come out to them. They say something like, “I just love you for… Continue reading
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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal… Continue reading
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Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Eberhard Faust, climate risk researcher at Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, and disaster historian Scott Knowles talk about the instruments and scale-problems involved in calculating and transferring the costs of climate-change-related… Continue reading
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Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt
Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier… Continue reading
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Infrared Photography Captures the Neon World of Colorblind Islanders – Creators
On a small island in the Pacific called Pingelap, a high percentage of the population sees the world in only black and white. A startling number of island’s inhabitants suffer from achromatopsia, or total color-blindness with an increased sensitivity to… Continue reading
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Mindfulness colouring sheets
Great series of coloring pictures for mindful detachment. Take a look and choose your favorite. Source: Mindfulness colouring sheets Continue reading
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The solitude of the inner citadel: the epoché of suffering | Preludes and Refrains
…the situation of philosophy today is one in which we can no longer pretend that we are innocent of reproducing the same violence that the philosopher has suffered at the hands of the sophist and the misologist. Since Kant, philosophy’s… Continue reading
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