Keith “Maggie” Brown
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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Question-Knowing
none else can ever deconstruct the paint layered facades that hide reality thought concept belief singularity intertwining mist where I and not-I ever flow toward and away from each other and nothing thought concept belief All falls to one who stumbles in two which skitters… Continue reading
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Global Financial Capitalism’s Brutal Logic
A very interesting video interview with sociologist Saskia Sassen. Very well worth your 20 minutes. Continue reading
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Joel Cross “Shake it Off”
Joel Cross is a musician from here in Denton who got his degree in music from the University of North Texas. One of the best guitarists in the area. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him play many times. Wonderful guy… Continue reading
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The Big (Soul) University
The entire existential project behind Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University involves integrating a professor’s research with students’ search for their own selves. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself… Continue reading
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Aphorism 05Oct2015
Either I risk myself venturing into the world and beyond—or I never will have my ownmost Self as freedom Continue reading
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A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us but to find… Continue reading
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Corporations Should Practice Authentic Sympathy
Maybe Tim Cook is channeling the spirit of Adam Smith, whose moral philosophy–the backbone of his political economy–posits that the basis of all human interaction is sympathy which manifests as a personal quest for happiness with a conscience balanced against… Continue reading
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Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police
[Jens] Rushing says that during his time as an EMT for [a] small Texas city, police officers were dispatched with him on almost every call, sometimes becoming unnecessarily confrontational and problematic – especially, he said, on calls in which patients were… Continue reading
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McKinney Classic Film Festival
The McKinney Classic Film Festival begins Friday, September 11 at the McKinney Performing Arts Center at 111 N. Tennessee Street and runs through Sunday, September 13. A total of five classic films that span the 1930s to the 1960s, will be screened throughout the… Continue reading
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Neoliberalist Humanities
It is not the humanities per se that are under attack. It is learning: learning for its own sake, curiosity for its own sake, ideas for their own sake. It is the liberal arts, but understood in their true meaning,… Continue reading
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Philosophy Majors Out-Earn Other Humanities Grads
It’s been said in many places before: A degree in the humanities isn’t exactly marketable to employers (less kind critics have called those degrees “useless”). But there’s one humanities major whose graduates are doing quite well in the job market—and… Continue reading
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