Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Mystery and Benevolence
Masonic and Odd Fellows folks art about to go on display at the American Folk Art Museum. Enigmatic, evocative, and often simply strange, fraternal references are a rich part of contemporary American popular culture. But the seductive mystique of secret… Continue reading
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Jane Bennet on Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter
Jane Bennet discusses her broader phenomenology of the material world. Hosted by the New School. Continue reading
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Synchromusicology, Chromotherapy, Synesthesia, and the Aural Current of Electric Audiomancy (Video)
Delve into the hidden origins of Western music and the power of sympathetic geometry to heal and generate love. Cymatics, chronotropic laser scrying, and acoustic weaponry are just a few modern representations of this ancient understanding that sound generates geometric… Continue reading
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Pantisocracy
[Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Robert] Southey believed that contemporary society and politics were responsible for cultures of servitude and oppression. Having abandoned these corrupting influences along with personal property for a fresh start in the wilderness, the Pantisocrats hoped that… Continue reading
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The background of North Korea
The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited. Imperial Japan’s official worldview was race-based, far-right ultranationalism, obsessed with racial purity… Continue reading
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#YallQaeda and the Limits of Liberal Laughs | Al Jazeera America
#YallQaeda jokes barter in redneck stereotyping and ignore the more pernicious underpinnings of the patriot movement. “How fucking weird is it that armed militia group in the early stages of what might become a standoff is being laughed at by… Continue reading
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Callicott to receive life-time achievement award
Wonderful news concerning my teacher, colleague, and friend J. Baird Callicott. I am very proud to report that the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture announced that they are awarding J. Baird Callicott their first Lifetime… Continue reading
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Saartjie Baartman and colonial capitalist obsession
Baartman’s story is a tragic tale of colonialism, and one of the more egregious examples of the West’s exploitation of black women’s bodies. Her body had value because it was considered exotic, like any other animal housed in a cage at the… Continue reading
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The Pretense of Accident: Yearning, Not Gripping, for Happiness | On Being
When we are in a state of delusion, we are disconnected from how things actually are in the present moment. We don’t know where we are; we don’t have a sense of where we are coming from, nor where we’re… Continue reading
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Slowing Down the Perception of Time
Wherein our intrepid Camera Master, Randall Collis, converses with a theoretical physicist. Talk about mindwalking! “It is sad, we get older and our brain becomes efficient because we are boring!” she laughs. “Without adventure, life will fly right on by.”Her eyes… Continue reading
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Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life
I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s… Continue reading
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the fab anthropocene
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liberté sécurité
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Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?
An update of a post I made two years ago before I decided to go all in and get my MA and PhD: Lunch time and my thoughts turn to all of my friends who are independent scholars. Many of… Continue reading
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Chaos Counseling
Of course I practice Chaos Magick–what do you think AnarchoCynicism is other than the socio-political expression of something that is a profound F*CK YOU to all institutional power? The fact that I have a nihilistic character that dresses like a… Continue reading
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