Keith "Maggie" Brown

January 9, 2013

Originally posted on hovercraftdoggy: ‘al fared palace’ by Mohammed Assiri /// Nabataean city, Saudi Arabia Rock hewn Qasr al-Farid tomb at Nabataean city. On an arid plain in northern Saudi Arabia, the forlorn figure of Qasr al-Farid, “the Lonely Castle,”… Continue reading

January 9, 2013

Nate Silver Clarifies Controversial Gay Identity Remarks In New Reddit AMA Interview

Besides the point that this is how his friends describe him, the notion that ethnicity=morality does not compute for me. Can you unpack that?Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Continue reading

January 8, 2013

Standardized Tests Not Justin Bieber are Destroying our Culture

I do not have kids of my own. But I pay school taxes like anybody else who owns propert or rents an apartment. [Yes, Matilda… if you rent an apartment, a portion of your rent obviously goes to school taxes].… Continue reading

January 8, 2013

Originally posted on Duct Tape and Bubblegum: Photo Courtesy of VLCC India As a continuing reader of Duct Tape & Bubblegum, you’ll become an expert on Meatbagism, but for now, we’d like to reintroduce the subject as it is the… Continue reading

January 8, 2013

Mixing Quotes Like DJ Anarchocynic: Einstein, Gandhi, MLK & Thoreau

Philosophizing can be stupidly long winded. I know from personal experience: I can blather with the best of them (just watch some of my earliest podcasts). Here, I begin collecting some of my favorite short but sweet quotes so you,… Continue reading

January 8, 2013

Originally posted on The Funambulist: Panopticon plan by Jeremy Bentham (1791) In the last ‘episode’, I was evoking the will of Michel Foucault to be considered as a cartographer. In a text written for the journal Critique (dec 1975), Gilles… Continue reading

January 8, 2013

Originally posted on The Funambulist: The Trial by Orson Welles (adapted from Franz Kafka’s novel) 1962 The structuralist descriptions established by Michel Foucault about discipline are thought to be well known, especially by architects for who the book has been… Continue reading

January 8, 2013

I fucking hate capitalism. (Amid conversation as we were walking back from a paper sale at PSU, the comrade I was walking with commented that as we passed them a couple guys had stopped to thoroughly check me out. “It’s… Continue reading

January 7, 2013

Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama’s pick for US treasury secretary | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

I already signed an online petition. You should as well: Nominate Paul Krugman. …for the post of treasury secretary, to replace the outgoing Tim Geithner, Obama could afford to make another bold choice: Paul Krugman. Krugman would be tough to… Continue reading

January 7, 2013

Secret and Lies of the Bailout | Politics News | Rolling Stone

It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen… Continue reading

January 7, 2013

No Local – Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change The World, Greg Sharzer – Zero Books Blog

Thanks to my good brother Joseph Carr for passing this book review along. …This is not a book about the successes and challenges of a particular community garden or biodiesel scheme. That research is important, but it’s already been done:… Continue reading

January 6, 2013

The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

…By not raising taxes on the wealthy or using the central bank to monetize spending on anything except bailing out the banks and subsidizing the financial sector, the government follows a pro-creditor policy. Tax favoritism for the wealthy deepens the… Continue reading

January 6, 2013

How reading flip-flops from digital to physical | Books | The Observer

Robin Sloan, author of Fish, the acclaimed iPhone essay featured here a few months ago, used the term “flip-flop” to define an increasingly common process by which a work of art moves between different formats, and specifically between the physical… Continue reading

January 6, 2013

January 6, 2013

Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: We think of our mind and body as separate entities that are often at war with each other. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that the body is a treasure. This audio clip is an excerpt from… Continue reading

January 6, 2013

Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion, reviewed. – Slate Magazine

In her memoir Searching for Zion, Emily Raboteau travels to several continents and countries—including Israel, Jamaica, and Ghana—seeking her own personal Promised Land. While Raboteau, whose mother is white and father is black, may not have been looking to trace… Continue reading

January 5, 2013

What is and What is not: Parmenides, Negation, and the Limits of Thought | noir realism

From Parmenides to Spinoza and Hegel and beyond the monism of the identification of Mind and Being, or Cognition and its Object has fought itself out in the struggles of philosophical speculation. Are the wars over? No. Can there ever… Continue reading

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

Nate Silver Clarifies Controversial Gay Identity Remarks In New Reddit AMA Interview

Standardized Tests Not Justin Bieber are Destroying our Culture

Mixing Quotes Like DJ Anarchocynic: Einstein, Gandhi, MLK & Thoreau

Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama’s pick for US treasury secretary | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Secret and Lies of the Bailout | Politics News | Rolling Stone

How reading flip-flops from digital to physical | Books | The Observer

Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion, reviewed. – Slate Magazine

What is and What is not: Parmenides, Negation, and the Limits of Thought | noir realism