Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Pax Coffea – the role of coffee in troubling times

    An essay very much worth the read from barista and coffee specialist Peter Giuliano: …how we can use coffee- which is after all the subject dearer to me than any other- as a tool in the fight for good and for… Continue reading

  • Is Nothing

    A stream of consciousness composition as I wandered around the University of North Texas. The morning of this composition I was just on the edge of detaching from a two week depression that had been filled with a few peaks… Continue reading

    Is Nothing
  • $20 Trillion Rock and Extraplanetary Capitalism

    Bill Gates, Google billionaires, James Cameron and Ross Perot Jr. have decided it is worth it to bet big on a future in space mining… To become the wealthiest company in the world, Planetary Resources [would] need only capture one… Continue reading

  • forgetful, forgotten control

    There are no first or third worlds. No developed or underdeveloped nations. There is only convergence to and divergence from the Society of Control. The Society of Control is a series of Alpha-Cities–New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Paris, etc.–interconnected… Continue reading

    forgetful, forgotten control
  • licking fingers, touching pages

    a civilization of fetishists not surprising really see how we treat the book as idol the paragraph the sentence the phrase the word and yet we wonder how could people commodify and even fuck clothing shoes cars but it is… Continue reading

    licking fingers, touching pages
  • impossible exchange

    born within the ground bourne upon the wind, every word is prophesy to the death and resurrection of our impossible exchange our loving struggle our communication Continue reading

    impossible exchange
  • Paralipomena to a Re-examination of Plato’s Category of the Image

    Originally posted on hyletic-discontinuity: The origin of drawing and painting in the West is often associated with the story of the potter Butades recounted by Pliny the Elder’s in his Natural History. Pliny reports how Butades’ daughter traced in sand, illuminated… Continue reading

  • Brick Lotus

    Slippers slipping off my feet Adjusting my new inserts Adjusting my old soul Stopping at the brick lotus Sitting in the Sun awhile Material conditions of Mindfulness Lower back pain Blurry eyes Big fat stomach Dry skin on my forehead… Continue reading

    Brick Lotus
  • red gold

    sunlight embraces face (gold red eyelid kisses) november wind   Continue reading

  • #atemporality for the Creative Artist

    This really changes the narrative, and the organized presentations of history in a way that history cannot recover from. This is the source of our gnawing discontent. It means the end of post-modernism. It means the end of the New… Continue reading

  • #atemporality

    Really great youtube channel to which the buddy-friend-guy introduced me. Continue reading

    #atemporality
  • The Estrangement of the #Lumpenprofessoriate

    With “Higher Education” among the last “factories” making “measurable” products near the main nodes of the Globalized Society of Control, information workers (researchers, teachers, etc) become more and more estranged from themselves and their surroundings even as they succeed in… Continue reading

  • #rationihilization

    When an otherwise reasonable person–who like all humans depends on comparative sense-making–reaches the limits of thinking where all comparisons fail and, rather than admitting “I don’t know”, declares that everything is meaningless. This requires him/her to ignore the performative irony that… Continue reading

    #rationihilization
  • this fork

    fingers extending metallic scraping against a plate grabbing bits of a food delivering to a mouth laying on a tongue flavor, sustenance then letting-go and forgotten chew chew clink clink rest Continue reading

    this fork
  • TRUDGERY in Academe

    With this semester, I have begun the official work toward a PhD. There is always more to learn. And classes provide a way of finding new dialogpartners. I am struggling to find a proper balance between ordering my Socratic desire and meeting… Continue reading

    TRUDGERY in Academe
  • Is College Worth It?

    In 2014, Gallup and Purdue University developed a student-focused approach for evaluating their experiences at institutions of higher education in the U.S. The idea was to rely not on the vague impressions of high school counselors and officials at peer universities, but… Continue reading

    Is College Worth It?